The Heiress he never met
"I think she's earned that, in her own complicated way. And Daniel. And Julian, though I suspect Isabella will have told him before either of us gets the chance."
"And Ruth. I want to call her myself, tonight if she's still awake, before she hears secondhand that her ring found its way onto my hand." Wren turned the ring gently in the studio's dim light, still faintly disbelieving of its weight, its history, the particular improbability of a small piece of jewelry surviving three generations of quiet dispersal only to return, finally, to exactly the branch of the family it had started in. "I keep thinking about how strange this all is. A year ago I didn't know Isabella had a sister's claim o