"Don't look so amused. I will kill you next time." He chuckles and his eyes have a dark look that I can't quite make out. I narrow my eyes at him and he says, "You've said that for the last 8 years Vivi." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Slow Burn. Background info: Takes place during the Victorian Era. This was around th...
Adelia Davies was the daughter of Viscount but was born in a world where she would be shunned. She was hidden from the world because of her beauty, a beauty so rare because she was a mulatto. Her whole life was a confinement until she met...him. This man who treats her with respect, this man who wants her for her. Th...
Your friend Zeke has sent you a letter, you have been invited to a Victorian Ball at a Victorian Mansion. You must appear in an outfit reminiscent of the era. But strange things start to happen and you begin to feel as if you are in danger. Solve the clues, win the challenges, and escape the night. And remember, not e...
The Masquerade only had two rules: You had to be invited to order to attend, and you must dress in the outfit assigned to you. This was my first year being invited to the Masquerade. The first year I might get the answer to the question I've been asking myself for years: Why do I feel this way? Maybe something or som...
Ever since people could remember only men were allowed to enter the House of Beardsley, but for the first time four young girls with nothing in common have been hired to work in the mansion as live-in housekeepers. Shuyan, a Chinese orphan living in Victorian England, has always had a hard time finding a job, so she...
From The Raven to The Tell Tale Heart, Poe's grim and gruesome greatest hits. ---- Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 to October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, critic and editor best known for evocative short stories and poems that captured the imagination and interest of readers around the world. His imaginati...
Lady Eliza Winter has one friend in the world and she happens to go missing. And when Eliza goes to report the disappearance to the police they won't hear a word from Crazy Eliza Winters. Determined to find her friend Penelope, Eliza reaches out to the new detective in town, Lord Colin Bradshaw, but in order to find...
[1885; England] Lecia Harper can hardly accept her fate: marriage. When her father seemingly pawns her off to a Duke, horror and abandonment are only half of what she feels. She had been able to dismiss nearly every suitor before, but now she's bound to one man for ever. Freedom was all she wanted, but what happens wh...
London, 1857. Tea merchant Sir Brooks grew strong feelings for the reckless soldier and lady in disguise Miss Taylor and yet, lustful whims of the élite and thirst for blood hindered his tender affection, jeopardizing the lives of the ones he loved. Furthermore, a mutiny found its roots in the colony of India due to f...
Leonard Fox, the Duke of Montrose-handsome as the very devil and a physician by profession was very content with his less than normal life. But then his best friend dies, leaving his four year old daughter under Leo's guardianship. Leo loves the girl, no doubt. But that didn't mean he knew how to raise her. So he ends...
{WATTY'S 2020 WINNER & EDITOR'S PICK.} Hopeless romantic and aspiring writer Mare Atwood has fallen madly in love with her childhood correspondent. There's only one catch-she doesn't know who he is. When the beaus of Star's Crossing return from boarding school to begin the courting season, Mare is determined to uncov...
WARNING: Terrible ML and ending. This is the normal cliché but with lots of plot twists and secrets. And if you have read GONE and here no more, you know that I am full of them. In the 19th century, every father is working or enjoying his money, every mother is searching for the perfect rich match for her daughter, e...
"Well then, there must be a reason why you aren't able to keep your eyes off me in the market today, Miss Wellesley." He whispered in my ear, sending shivers down my back. "Don't flatter yourself," I took a step back, "it's just that you're the first person I think the word 'ugly' stands for." "Deny all you want, swee...
Two years after Nathaniel Swift left for America to forget the woman he loved, he learns she's engaged to another man -- and returns to England to win her back. ***** Lord Nathaniel 'Nate' Swift is hopelessly in love with his best friend's younger s...