Gothic- Stories

In a quiet cobblestone town haunted by mysterious disappearances, a ruthless king reigns with blood-soaked traditions. His crown jewel: a pageant destined to end in carnage. Liana, a bright young woman with no desire to wear a crown or bleed for one, wants nothing to do with it. But when whispers of her mother's vanishing trace back to the palace, Liana finds herself tangled in a deadly game. What she uncovers may not only change her fate - it may awaken something darker within her.

After losing her father and nearly losing her life when their ship sank off the coast of Cornwall, Adelaide Hampton Parke is faced with a terrible dilemma. Her stepmother has demanded that they immediately set sail for New York but the very idea of stepping foot on board another ship and facing the uncertainty of a Transatlantic crossing leaves her paralyzed with fear. Not to mention that her relationship with her stepmother is contentious at best and she's been given only six months to return to New York and find herself a husband or be put out of the family's Park Avenue home to make her own way in the world. Salvation comes, unexpectedly, in the form of a telegram from Eldren Llewellyn a Welsh lord and the sole owner of a mining empire. He'd partnered with her father in multiple business ventures, and upon the man's death, proposed to Adelaide in order to spare her the ordeal of returning home in her stepmother's less than tender care. But as she travels to his remote estate in Snowdonia, Adelaide comes to realize that his ancestral home, Cysgod Lys, literally the Shadow Hall, is filled with secrets and dark things she cannot name. Fear is her constant companion and she begins to wonder if her new husband is her savior... or her doom. PLEASE NOTE: This work has been published at Amazon and is enrolled in Kindle Unlimited. Due to exclusivity restrictions with Kindle Unlimited, I could only leave a small sample of the story published elsewhere. If you'd like to continue reading it, please consider borrowing it from Amazon if you are a KU member or a Prime member. Thank you.