Part 3: Unawakened

Scottish Lowlands, 1807

"Does everyone have everything?" Augusta MacLeish stood beside the wagon that held her four younger siblings and studied their faces. "It's a long way to make poor Thomas come back if you've forgotten your favorite hair ribbons." She stared hard at thirteen-year old Alberta at that. Bertie was forever forgetting things. Thomas McArdle, their lone male servant winked at her from the driver's box.

"You checked my ...