The Handmaid

Time in Bellville passes unnoticed. How long am I here? Two years? And sometimes it feels like an entire eternity to me. The estate of the Arnos is lost deep in the Diamond Mountains, in a land of perpetual rain and a gloomy, low sky. But dampness is not the worst thing waiting for the inhabitants of Bellville.

“ The master is coming back!”—in the early spring morning, this sentence overturned not only the usual life of a gloomy castle, but my own as well. Now I don’t know what to expect from fate and which way the wheel of Rayna, the Creator of all that exists, will turn.