Book Title:  ONCE UPON A STORM by Kimberly Cates Character Name: Captain Simon Harcourt   How would you describe your family or your childhood? Happy enough until I was nine.  As an earl’s son, I had the run of Everdene estate, a stable that was pure magic for a horse-mad boy.  My older brother and two sisters filled the nursery with fun.  When my mother visited our tenants, the village was my playground, and the lads there my partners in mischief. My father was grim, but he came to Everdene less and less over the years, his temper fearful (not that I ever flinched from it).  But the year I turned nine all hell broke loose.  My mother fled Everdene, trying to take my sisters with her.  Of course, father caught them.  Cassandra and Jane were sent to aunts in Italy, and mother… well, she vanished. Lucien and I were left with my tyrannical father who beat me whenever I spoke her name.  In time, I quit asking where she was, and my heartbreak turned to bitterness.  As Lucien said, Mother had always planned to abandon the two of us.   What was your greatest talent? Getting into trouble, taking…