My breath froze in my chest as I bolted from the safety of the warm cab into a rainy English night. Rosehaven Downs was silent and bathed in the pitch darkness of the wee hours as I scurried across the small but neatly kept, snow-coated lawn. I was soaked and shivering by the time I reached the porch of my mother’s slightly dilapidated Victorian home and picked my way up the worn steps, trying to avoid the creaky spots. I shook ice out of my coal-black waves as I pounded on the aged, peeling, . . .

My breath froze in my chest as I bolted from the safety of the warm cab into a rainy English night. Rosehaven Downs was silent and bathed in the pitch darkness of the wee hours as I scurried across the small but neatly kept, snow-coated lawn. I was soaked and shivering by the time I reached the porch of my mother’s slightly dilapidated Victorian home and picked my way up the worn steps, trying to avoid the creaky spots. I shook ice out of my coal-black waves as I pounded on the aged, peeling, . . .