Luna, with her fragile body and hair lost to aggressive treatments, was but a shadow. She spent her days staring out the window into a gray nothingness, silent and unsmiling, disconnected from a world that had offered her only pain. Richard had hired the best specialists, renowned therapists, musicians, and artists to try to spark a flicker of life in his daughter’s eyes, but it had all been in vain. The girl simply existed, waiting for the end.
Then came Julia.
The Arrival of a Guardian
Julia Bennet was neither a specialized nurse nor a renowned therapist. She was a simple woman seeking domestic work to flee her own ghosts. Just a few months prior, Julia had lost her own newborn baby—a tragedy that had left her heart raw and her soul filled with a deafening silence. When she saw the advertisement for the Wakefield mansion, she felt an invisible tug. She didn’t know that destiny was calling.