The Phrases

Victorious, the ice-gypsy may have retired from the intrusive glare of the camera at the height of her appeal, but the youngest member of the House of Vandersteine was still playing an ever fraudulent role for the glittering company she deliberately kept.

Loved from the intimate circles of London to the fashionable sets of New York, there wasn’t a darling more coveted than she, but like every soul of consequence there were literal demons buried in the murky foothills of her past.

All the same, the decade long pretence of emotional success has long since begun to wane for not even a jaded wit, or a refined taste for the extravagant, could fill the growing void of dissatisfaction within.

Yet fate has not yet had its fill of its last daughter - the old land can never be as easily forgotten as some misshapen events might choose to be.

Through binding promises made much before her time, for deeds beyond a mere mortal’s comprehension, it is finally the hour of her homecoming - willing, or not.