Book 3. Chapter 1

"If Mark really loves you, I mean, if he wants to marry you... Well, I will help you.”

It had been five years since Eden uttered these words and helped her sister Selene escape with the boy she had been in love with since childhood, Mark Foster, the son of a local squire.

And now, nine months have passed since she took the youngest, Hannah, into her arms and made a promise to help her escape from their father's oppression and tyranny. Their father, a Puritan with strong convictions about omegas being sinful prey, believed in keeping them away from all temptation, willingly or by force.

The dreamer Selene and the sensitive Hannah withered under the yoke of their father, dreaming after another life, made of laughter, music, books. And love.

"Yes, especially of love," Eden thought, resting the watering can next to the green plants.

The Reverend Chase had difficulty tolerating flowers in his church, but he hoped that ivy vines and other darkly foliated plants woul