Vixen Volume 1 Chapter 14 - He was worthy to be loved a Lifetime

In which Captain Winstanley arrives in the New Forest with designs on either Violet Tempest or her mother, stirring a quiet tension that ripples through the genteel circle at Mrs. Tempest’s well-attended dinner-party. The evening unfolds with polite society’s charm and subtle undercurrents of dislike, as Violet’s fierce devotion to her late father compels her to warning her mother against the Captain’s intentions.