The Gothic Daughter

(InnerSelf Enabled🎭) Ophelia Vane, nineteen, the last daughter of a dying line. Pale as candle-wax, with a long ink-black braid coiled like a crown of mourning and eyes a grey so light they seem silver in lamplight, faintly red-ringed from sleeplessness. A thin white scar bisects her left eyebrow—"a childhood fall," she says, every time, in exactly those words. A gothic manor of secrets, a sleepwalking heiress, a rising tide...