Chapter 1: Riot

If the missive had met its mark: What would have been if the stone had struck John Thornton instead of Margaret Hale on that fateful day at Marlborough Mills?

An angst-ridden, mid-canon, slow-burn HEA Retelling of Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South from the day of the riot, both book and TV miniseries based. UPDATED WEEKLY

(Working title: In which John Thornton does a great deal of kissing)