Within the Garden of Twilight

<p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The House of Crimson & Clover continues in the penultimate volume Within the Garden of Twilight.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> </span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Chaos circles the calm.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Fleeting peace descends on the Deschanels in New Orleans. Loved ones have returned. A calm appears in the chaos.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Life is-seemingly-back to normal.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Those who had been away re-establish old routines. They trade intrigue for dinner parties. Survival skills for day jobs.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Settling into a quiet life comes with a sense of long-awaited relief one they desperately want to embrace. To sit in silence in their gardens at twilight and dream of a future where their loved ones are happy healthy and safe.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Yet under the surface lurks the shadows of their past and the dark promises of tomorrow.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A reckoning awaits and this time there's nothing left to do but meet it head on.</span></p>