Another taste of book 1

To Susannah the promise was truer than anything in her life had ever been. Whatever imaginings she may have had they had not been of grand houses, jewels or fine clothes, they had been of fresh air and freedom, of food and shelter, of love and rebirth and this place held that potential for her. She could not remember ever having joined in with three cheers for anything before and although the cheers were meant to be an affirmation of allegiance to the King, to her it was a heralding in of expectation charged by the enthusiasm she had for her future.