Governess Stories

Description: In the shadows of Riverforth Manor, a forbidden love ignites between governess Lyra Skylen and her brooding master, Mr. Charles Fredrick Jefferson. As Lyra unravels the mysteries of the manor, she's drawn to Charles's dark allure, but a hidden secret in a forbidden room threatens to destroy everything. Will their love survive the secrets that bind them?. Prompt from the Open novella contest (78: You begin to realize that nothing is quite what it seems ).

As the train carried Ewalina Laurance through the 'ōhi'a-covered hills of the Hāmākua Coast, she could not help feeling a deep sense of foreboding. For a young woman of penurious circumstances, serving as a governess was the prescribed formula. Even if said work was far from her home of Honolulu, on a plantation in the heyday of Hawaiʻi's sugarcane industry. But Ewa was high-spirited and not unattractive, and she hated the idea of it--especially when she learned of the strange mysteries that shrouded her new home of the Keʻalohilani Plantation. Her anxiety grew when she first saw that barren, isolated coast, and the manor house brooding high on the cliffs. And what of her arrogant employer, Kupuʻeu Judd and his precocious, resentful young daughter, Victoria? And why have the three previous governesses left the eerie mansion? Neighbors and servants hint at strange accidents, infidelity, and death. It was only her growing love for the troubled Victoria, still mourning the death of her mother, that quickened Ewa's resolve to stay on, and try to unravel the mysteries which encompassed their lives--a determination that was to put her own life in danger.

Victoria Winters, the new Governess at Collinwood Manor, struggles to deal with the Vampires of Collinsport, lead by Barnabas Collins. When she protects David Collins from his abusive father, Roger Collins, Elizabeth Collins Stoddard, and her daughter, Caroline Stoddard, attempt to hold their ground...while Sam and Maggie Evans...as well as Burke Devlin...and Willie Loomis, all plan to take over the Manor...as well as the historical fishing ports. The scary sequel to Collinsport by Robert Helliger. Warning: It is rated PG-13 for strong, bloody violence, sex references, supernatural horror themes, some coarse language, and adult themes. You must be 13 years and over to read it.

love story of a widower king and a common maid... he has a daughter...she has two brother and sister to take care of... Did their romance blossom after all hurdles? Do their family accept their love?? Keep reading to know....

Ella Marchand has been at the mercy of her stepmother for over a decade. True, she can escape anytime she wishes, if it were not for the disgraceful secret keeping her hostage as a servant in her late father's household. At twenty-eight she had long ago given up on any dreams of romance or adventure, that is until a forgotten childhood friend resurfaces into her life and thereby threatens her guarded heart and the very secret she keeps. Will she have the strength to keep up her numbing facade or will her past, as well as the kingdom, crumble around her in ashes with the truth?

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River is an ordinary run of the mill girl living in a small country town in Western Queensland. River is working for her dad as an apprentice carpenter. Until one day she has an argument with him and makes a hasty decision to become a governess on a cattle station up north. River has never strayed far from her parents before. She hates change and not being in control over EVERYTHING. She brought the house over the back fence to her parents. Could you possible be any closer to your mum and dad? Will River enjoy her adventure of a life time and find love? Or will she go running home to her parents for a safe life. Reed has big shoes to fill on the station after his grandfather passed away in a tragic accident. He is continually trying to prove to his father that he can run the station on his own. He doesn't have time for living the life of a young ringer. Neither does he have time for romances. When his cousins new governess arrives for the last term of school he is drawn to her. He tries everything to stay away and concentrate on the station and making his dad proud. Can Reed juggle a new romance and running the station? Will love prevail or be the undoing of Nettle Creek.

When Rebecca lost her job in a company, she was offered to work as a governess for little girl Sarah, a daughter of a widower. Little did she know, the father of little Sarah was none other than her ex-boyfriend, Ehab. Will they able to settle their differences now that they're older and wiser? And perhaps...pick up where they left off?

Hey everyone I wanted to let you all know this is only the first draft currently, I'm open to here critiques to better my writing when it is in the editing process. Have a great day! ......... I never thought I'd be at this point in life, running through hallways with no escape, your only way to get out is through a window. Once you connect with it and that glass shatters for only a moment you feel weightless, your breath seems to hitch in your throat and the world slows down for just a moment. You feel suspended in gravity defying all logic in place, but when that moment passes, everything comes rushing back no matter what it is. Losing your memories tends to feel like that. It's a weightlessness. I never wanted that feeling but I wasn't given a choice on what they took from me. The world is at its breaking point, society is crashing and there are only a few of us who can stop it. The tyrant known as Crimson and his minions run everything from our most southern borders to the waters in the north. Nobody has tried to stop them for over 3 decades now. But that will change. A new dawn is on the horizon brought with a new hope from one who many thought was lost years ago. My name is Cyra and I am the lost princess of this war.

In the Regency Era, Lady Eleanor Somerset finds herself ensnared by the schemes of her guardian, Jonathan Covington, who plans to marry her off to secure her substantial inheritance. Determined to evade this fate, Eleanor takes a daring step: she disguises herself as a governess and flees to the estate of the reclusive Duke of Hawthorne, known for his artistic talent and aloof demeanor.

Cover Art by Viire Viire's socials: -Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/viiree/?hl=en -Twitter: https://twitter.com/VeryBerryViiree Olivia is a young inexperienced Governess assigned to Estelle Manor. Her troubles have only begun as she has her hands full with the Duke's three daughters that aren't fans of noble etiquette.

It is 1790s in England and for Midge Everlee, as for many girls, dreams of acceptance are commonplace. Therefore, taking the position of governess for the Waldens is an opportunity she cannot deny. When the Waldens summer in Bath, she quickly falls into a connection with a young lower class man. However, with her new position comes a pressure which pushes her towards another man and another life which can offer her much more, whereupon she is confronted by a dilemma between the world she knows and the world she wants.

Rachel Warren was an ordinary maiden leading an ordinary yet secure life, until an unforeseen misfortune forces her to take up a post as governess to two young girls. Follow her as she travels the paths of her life where she gets her first job, falls in love and finds herself in the middle of adventures she had never dreamed of.

Mister James Rotherforth is a wealthy widower pressured into remarrying by his influential uncle, Amos Munn. Trapped in an engagement with a woman he does not love, everything changes when he meets his daughter's new governess, Miss Beatrice Carroll...

I may be one of the only people I know who had a governess. Her name was Suzanne and she came from a small town in Brittany. At the time she came to live with us, I knew nothing about her story -- only that she was there to teach me French. I was five years old. We had just moved into a large and, to me, very ugly house in Sands Point, a peninsula sticking into the Long Island Sound. Suzanne was beautiful, soft, kind, gentle. Her English was good, but heavily accented. She was twenty-nine years old. She would remain in our household for the next twenty-two years until my parents gave her away in marriage to a prominent doctor. When I was sixteen we moved into the city, and I began to learn some of Suzanne's secrets.

A cyclops wrecks Maisey's life. Years later she finally builds it back up. After stowing away on a ship, she makes it to London and finds the biggest surprise she has had since the attack.

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When Clara's family is tragically killed after her high school graduation, she takes a journey from West Virginia to rural Wyoming to begin a new life as a nanny for three children. Her boss, Ray, a thirty year old farmer, is a distant man with a hardened heart. Will they fall in love or will their complicated pasts get in the way?