Gentleman Wolf by Joanna Chambers

Author:Joanna Chambers
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: scottish gay historical romance, mm historical romance, gay historical series, gay paranormal romance, historical paranormal romance, mm paranormal romance, scottish paranormal romance
Publisher: Joanna Chambers
Published: 2019-08-25T16:00:00+00:00

Lindsay read on.

It is four days since we came to this quiet border town and I can scarcely believe what has happened within such a short period, even after half a year in George Cargill’s company, witnessing sights I could never have imagined I would see.

When first we arrived, it seemed a good, respectable place with a civil populace, but Cargill was summoned here by a gentleman who had said all was not as it seemed, and that there was darkness beneath the peaceful appearance.

Cargill did not speak to me of the particulars mentioned in that summons—he never does—but on the way here, he read to me a passage from the work of the great John Knox regarding the influence of Women. The passage stated in the strongest of terms that women should not pretend superiority above men. It seems I am becoming used to Mr. Cargill’s ways as I discerned from this that he believed there to be women in this town who exercised an influence unbefitting to their status—and so it has proved to be.

On the day of our arrival, Cargill met with the town dignitaries, including the sheriff himself, and on the Sunday, went to the church where the minister invited him to speak to the congregation. He delivered there a sermon regarding God’s Sentence upon Women, beginning with the passage from Genesis, in which God pronounced that the will of woman would always be subject to that of man who would ever bear dominion over her.

At the end of his sermon, Cargill said to the congregation, “If you know a woman who defies this judgment of the Lord, who seeks power and influence, who dares to speak over men who are her acknowledged superiors, then hear this: This woman is a witch.” And he urged the people to come forward and report their suspicions to him.

The next day, they came. A dozen or more, every one of them reporting Mistress Geddes, a widow who had run the town’s inn since the death of her husband two decades before.

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