Storms of Hawthorn Hill

<p><strong>Prologue</strong></p><p><strong>The Winds of Change</strong></p><p>The skies above Hawthorn Hill churned ominously dark clouds</p><p>swirling like the troubled thoughts that plagued Elena Hawthorne</p><p>as she stood at the edge of her ancestral estate. The ancient stone</p><p>walls loomed before her shrouded in mist and mystery their</p><p>shadows stretching across the grounds like specters of a forgotten</p><p>past.</p>