The Ashbourne Secret

Lenora dialed Isolde's number while the others gathered around her, the archive room's chaos momentarily forgotten in the weight of what they were about to ask.

Isolde answered on the second ring, her voice carrying the particular warmth she'd developed over the past year, though something in her tone shifted the moment she heard Lenora's voice.

"You sound different," Isolde said immediately. "Wha