Dramatic-irony Stories

Every family has a room no one talks about. The Dyson mansion has several. Moonlight is the one everyone thinks they know - pink glasses, curly hair, a dog who never leaves his side, a glasshouse full of roses he lets no one else into. Soft. Easy to underestimate. Which is, as it turns out, rather the point. Noah has never made that easy for him. Eighteen years under the same roof, and not once has he looked at his stepbrother like family. He doesn't know why he can't stand him. Not really. He's never let himself ask. Both of them are lying to everyone in that house. Neither of them knows the other one is too. Ten days before Christmas, something is about to make that impossible to keep up. UNDER MOONLIGHT'S SPELL Some secrets aren't kept from strangers. They're kept from the people at your own dinner table.

Friendship. Desire. Betrayal. At Ashcroft Manor, Lady Beatrice's heart becomes the battlefield between loyalty and longing-and one secret could change everything.