⚖️ Justice rides hard into Hawksmere — and not even the frost can hide the blood beneath the snow. In Chapter 16: “The Sheriff’s Shadow | Law, Lies & the Lost Nun of Hawksmere,” winter dawns on a battered castle and a lady haunted by ghosts of her own making. Sheriff de Furnival arrives to weigh the law against the lies, as Lady Alianor stands trial in her own hall — a widow turned warrior, holding her truth like a blade. Roland de Mowbray, bound and raging, faces the Crown’s justice at last, but his venom lingers, spreading through Hawksmere like a sickness. Testimonies are given, confessions taken, and the ring that damned a man returns to light — proof, perhaps, of God’s cruel sense of irony. Yet even as the Sheriff’s men march away with their prisoner, another shadow rises: Sister Margery, the vanished nun, carrying Hawksmere’s darkest secrets into the snow. And so the castle breathes again — wounded, starving, and unfree. For though law may bind one man, it cannot cage the rot he leaves behind. 🕯️ Listen as Lady Aurelia Ravenshade returns to whisper scandal, sin, and the strange mercy of vengeance beneath the Sheriff’s shadow. #TheScandalousHours #LadyAureliaRavenshade #MedievalMystery #GothicFiction #HistoricalDrama #LadyAlianor #Hawksmere #AudiobookSeries #DarkRomance #TwistedTales