Part 2: Georgie And The Dragon

Summer, 1814

"We're going to have to sell the sword."

Three identical gasps filled the room.

Georgiana Burns looked into the shocked eyes of her younger brother and sisters and shrugged. "I'm sorry. But Papa's replacement will be here in a week, so we have to vacate the vicarage. We've nowhere else to go, and grandfather's sword is the only thing we have of sufficient value to sustain us."

Mama's few pieces of ...