There was disbelief, anger and even accusations of fraud. After a year of lawsuits the Will held up. I arrived at Mount Juniper on a tuesday in early ...spring. I unpacked my belonging from the back of my tiny U-Haul and headed inside. I didn't know what to expect as I opened the door, a decaying ruin or a shell picked over by vengeful family members. Pushing the large double door aside I found an altogether well kept Manor House. The grand foyer was majestic, a large crystal chandelier hovered. "Apparently, Mister Roberts blamed you for John ordering them out of the room." I looked at her strangely. "I know. If you remember, that's what he was yelling at you." I nodded slowly."Now, the doctors will tell you more but you are expected to make a full recovery but it will take a while. The bullet missed your heart but nicked your lung. You were bleeding internally. They had to cut you open to stop the bleeding. Jack, they almost lost you on the operating table!" She had tears pouring down. Baxter catching her in the act as the old man. The Williams's on the other side of her property were likely not home this time of day, but there was no guarantee. The mild feud between their husbands did not need stoking, so the bushes on that side were out of the question as well. There was a spot beside the house that held promise, now that Maddy looked in that direction.She'd looked at it for the first time in a year or more while mowing past it. An apple tree grew among the brush there, its. His parents, Hank and Nora, were still living -- a Baptist minister and his help mate who still weren't quite sure how to handle the success of their third child as a writer of bodice-rippers. His two older sisters, Grace and Hope, on the other hand, didn't care what he did, as long as he behaved himself and didn't end up in the gossip columns with a scandal that would bring disgrace on the family name. They enjoyed his success to the fullest, and, in their way, he knew his parents did, too.The.