Summary:

Colonel William Tavington is known as the "Butcher" but what happens

when both his brother and sister-in-law die leaving his niece in his care? Will they clash or will their problems with the social outlook bring them closer?

Hey ppl - here is a really short prologue.... Enjoy!!!!!!!! R&R PLEEEZ! (I only own Rebecca sighs unhappily phooey......)

She stumbled out of the now empty home in Shrewsbury, England as tears streamed down her face. I'm alone she thought to herself and collapsed to the ground, exhausted from the night's evil doings and succumbing to the lasting memory of what just happened.

------------------4 hours later----------------------------------------

She awoke to faces hovering above her and worried stares of neighbors and doctors.

" Is she going to be okay?" one woman asked. She groaned as she tried to sit up but the pain in her ribs wouldn't let her rise just yet. She collapsed again giving up on trying to rise to a sitting position.

" What happened?" were the only words that managed to escape her lips.

" Your father and your poor mother - oh my dear - I'm so sorry - they're dead." a man to her left said as a woman let out a small cry.

" Where will she go?" another man whispered.

" You have an uncle - don't you dear? Isn't he now in America - fighting that bloody Revolutionary War?" the woman to her left said.

" Yes, but you honestly wouldn't think of sending me off to America? To stay with a man I barely even know? He's related to my father - if he's anything like my father he'll - " she couldn't finish, she just started crying as a memory surfaced from earlier - a horrid memory that changed her life without warning and catapulting her future into the hands of a man so horrid that the life of Rebecca Anna Tavington would never be the same.

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