For the past two mornings, thunder roused me out of sleep. Rain! It’s wonderful to have rain in July. St. Swithin’s Day is tomorrow. What does an ancient saint have to do with the weather? His is an intriguing story, if you’d like to look him up. It has to do with rain and July. Hence, the rhyme:
If on St. Swithin’s Day, ye do rain
for forty days, it will remain.
If on St. Swithin’s Day, it be fair
For forty days, t’will rain no more.
Darcy Campbell and her mother Flora experienced an extremely rainy July. If Darcy had been writing a rhyme about rain in July, it might have gone something like this:
If July brings rain so the river rises
It may mean danger and secret surprises.
What kind of surprises? Well, they bring a lot of trouble for this mother and daughter team. In the end, despite floods and being chased by a murderer, Darcy discovers new and hidden information about her own family that is as alarming as the weather. You can read about it all in Grave Heritage.
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