Historical · Romance
Eight Years at Sea
Bath, 1814. The captain your family refused eight years ago has taken the house next door.
Meet Edmund Penwarden, 39
You’re part of this story. Keep reading, or choose what you say and do.
A peek inside
You are reading by the window of your narrow house on Sallowfield Crescent in Bath when a carriage stops at the empty house next door. It is the autumn of 1814, and the war at sea is over.
All characters are adults aged 25 or older. Your choices set the pace.
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