Summer's End

by V.R. Christensen

A short story from the author of Of Moths and Butterflies and Cry of the Peacock.

Myra Thorpe is not mad, and in order to escape being confined to an asylum, she runs away. Finding shelter with an old woman and her grown son in an out of the way village, she finds herself with the unique opportunity of examining her history. What happened to her mother? What will become of herself? And what is she to make of the strange visions she sees through the spectacles she finds in an ancient graveyard?

Summers' End is part of the Sixteen Seasons collection, and can be purchased in one volume at a discounted price.

45 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 16, 2013

About the author

V.R. Christensen writes classically inspired romantic historical fiction and steampunk dystopian novels of depth and sensitivity. V.R.’s historical romances have been multiple-time bestsellers and have been compared to Jane Austen and Charles Dickens (a literary lovechild, perhaps?) V.R. is half English and resides in the United States, though she spends a majority of her time immersed in late-Victorian classic literature and costume dramas. Her work has been described as “masterful for its genre” and “gorgeous”—“like a river flowing through a beautiful landscape that is sometimes light, sometimes dark and threatening.”