Victorian Stories

When the arrogant stranger Bess is forced to marry unexpectedly becomes a duke, she'll find herself at odds with her growing feelings as he hunts for a killer. ***** Sharp-tongued Elizabeth 'Bess' Jones is perfectly content living on her lonesome in a tiny village south of Derbyshire. She works as a nurse, owns a small home, and finds the label of 'spinster' an agreeable trade for her independence. But when her entire life is uprooted in an instant, she only has one person to blame: her new husband, Emmett Wilde, who was caught in a compromising situation with her. And now, despite his promise to fake a death certificate after their wedding--to free her of any duty to him or their marriage bed--he sends for her in the dead of night with startling news: his father has been murdered, and he is now the Duke of Ascot with a wife he can no longer deny... [[Word Count: 60,000-70,000 words]] [[Cover designed by Ren Tachibana]]

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 sister, Charlotte Wilde. However, Nate's rakish ways, their ten-year age difference, and his best friend's objections soon make it very clear that a marriage could never take place. So Nate does the only thing he could: he travels to America and tries to forget about the woman he loves. But after two years in the New World, forgetting Charlotte proves to be impossible, and he's quickly pulled back to England after hearing of her engagement to another man. Determined to make up for past mistakes, Nate swears to stop the impending wedding and win back Charlotte's heart at any cost. But is he too late to show her the truth he's known all along -- that they're meant to be together, forever? [[Word count: 70,000-80,000 words]] Cover designed by Ashley Bandy

After a disastrous first season in London, Rose Wilde finds herself torn between two men who love her -- but who both hide secrets that could ruin her. ***** Rose Wilde has always considered herself plain, especially when compared to her beautiful older sister Charlotte, and has practically given up on the idea of being romanced. But when American hotelier Derek Montgomery comes to revolutionise her little, sleepy English village of Ascot, Rose starts to revisit the idea of falling in love. However, Derek brings with him many secrets and obligations, some that might prohibit him from pursuing Rose -- and push her into the arms of her friend, Michael Cornell, the Marquess of Juniper. Will fate allow Rose and Derek to marry for love? Or will she indeed become the reluctant marchioness? [[Word count: 70,000 - 80,000 words]] Cover designed by Ashley Bandy (The Reluctant Marchioness is the sequel to The Coveted Countess, but can also be read as a standalone)

Most girls in the 1850s get sent to finishing school. Anne Le Mae gets sent to a frozen mountain ridge with fifty pounds of brass equipment and an arrogant engineer named Will who desperately needs a reality check.Her parents thought her "brilliant, observant mind" needed a bigger canvas than their cozy valley farm. Translation: she was ruining their sketchbooks, so they shipped her off to become a surveyor's apprentice in a wilderness that actively wants to kill her. Turns out, trading soft charcoal pencils for heavy iron chains is a great way to get callouses, frostbite, and an accidental master's degree in survival. Anne learns the hard way that a single degree of math error can collapse a bridge or drop a crew down a jagged limestone cliff.But the real test isn't surviving the wild-it's surviving her homecoming.When a catastrophic wildfire decides to crash her family reunion, screaming down the peaks in a terrifying display of neon orange, the village completely loses its collective mind. While the men are busy praying for rain or packing their bags, Anne looks at the inferno through the beautiful lens of physics. She has a plan to save them all, but it requires a surgical back-burn at the bluffs that looks an awful lot like absolute madness to the locals. Now, she has to command a desperate crew of terrified farmers and stand her ground against a literal wall of flame to prove that the girl they sent away has returned as the only woman capable of engineering their survival.No pressure, right?

Love can survive death. The question is: what price are you willing to pay for it? When Astor is killed by a stray bullet during a hunting trip, Vivien's world shatters. Before a week of mourning has even passed, her family is already arranging a marriage to a man she could never love. But Vivien hears whispers of an ancient legend hidden among the Yaris Mountains. They say that beside a cursed lake lives the Forgotten One-a mysterious being who strikes bargains with those unable to let go of their grief. Some claim he can bring the dead back to life. Others warn that no one ever returns from him unchanged. Desperate and determined, Vivien sets out on a journey, unaware that the enigmatic guardian carries wounds of his own-and that every wish comes at a price. Because death never gives anything away for free.

[Jack Dawkins+ fem!oc] 𝗛𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝗳𝘁 𝗟𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘀𝗮𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱𝗯𝘆𝗲. 𝗦𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗻 𝗼𝗰𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗶𝗺 𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻 Stubborn, fiercely intelligent and determined to prove she belongs in an operating theatre, 𝙇𝙔𝘿𝙄𝘼 𝙃𝙄𝙇𝙇 leaves London after the death of her mother and begins a new life at Port Victory Hospital. The last person she expects to find there is 𝙅𝘼𝘾𝙆 𝘿𝘼𝙒𝙆𝙄𝙉𝙎-brilliant, arrogant, quick-witted and far too good at hiding everything he feels. At first, neither recognises the other. But the longer they work side by side, the harder it becomes to ignore the strange familiarity between them. Soon, memories of St Hope's begin falling into place-and so do the feelings they never confessed before Jack disappeared without a goodbye Lydia refuses to make things easy for him, Jack wouldn't even know what to do with easy anyway 𝗦𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗳𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘆 𝗯𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗱

In the Kingdom of Auremont, humans and Nocturnals have lived alongside each other for centuries. For Silas Voss and his closest friends, life is mostly about school, family, friendships, romance and spending their evenings at Voss Estate. But things start to change when anonymous letters and strange photographs begin appearing, all signed with the same initials: - T.H. Someone is watching them, and the more they try to figure out who The Harbinger is, the more they uncover about the Blood Order, their families, and secrets that have been buried for generations. What starts as a mystery soon becomes something much more personal, because The Harbinger isn't just watching them. He's playing a game, and they may already be losing.

​Pierre is a fixer. Living in the grim, fog-choked streets of the lower district, he can repair almost anything-except his family's empty pockets and his mother's failing health. Desperate to keep her alive, he takes a terrifying gamble: he puts on a dress, applies white face powder, and sneaks into the royal palace as "Petra," the newest maid in the dangerous West Wing. ​But playing a servant among the nobility is a tightrope walk, and things get complicated when he catches the eye of the untouchable Crown Prince Aleric. ​Up close, Pierre's sharp eyes notice things that don't add up. The golden-blonde prince has mannerisms, heavy sighs, and an intense, furnace-like warmth that feel achingly familiar-connecting him to a completely different part of Pierre's life outside the palace walls. ​Suddenly, Pierre finds himself tangled in a web of missing royal gold, a suspicious info-broker who knows way too much, and the suffocating fear of coming dangerously close to losing the only true friend he has left. Surrounded by secrets on all sides, Pierre has to play a high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse to solve the riddles of the palace before his own disguise falls apart. ​Because in a court built on lies, one wrong step won't just get Pierre fired-it will get him killed. (e.g.,updates every Friday!)

You're a college student and as you're enjoying your winter break, some strange things go down. You enjoy walking through the woods; you've been doing it for years. One sleepless night, you decide to take a walk in the woods near your apartment you shared with your roommate and as you're walking, you find an old pocket watch. You pick it up and that's when unusual things start to occur. NOTE: This story does contain the reader being insecure and daydreaming constantly! also, I post chapters every weekend! DISCLAIMER- not everything in this story about the Victorian era may be accurate. I tried my best to make it accurate but still trying to add romance into it (which seems impossible). Please do not repost!! please enjoy reading !

Young female workaholic dies a simple death, only to be reincarnated as a Dukes Daughter. She must work through the troubles of society, finding an eligible suitor, and figuring out the dark secrets of her family home.

In the blistering heat of colonial Karachi, Lord William Ashbourne, a decorated British officer and the heir to an aristocratic family in London, is sent to "restore order" after whispers of rebellion reach the colonial government. Hardened by war and loyal to the Crown, William sees the land as nothing but chaos to be tamed. Then he meets Zahra Naqvi, the fiercely intelligent daughter of a respected Muslim scholar and reformist secretly connected to the local resistance. Zahra despises everything William represents - his empire, his arrogance, his uniform. But when her family is implicated in seditious activity, and William is ordered to oversee their fate, their worlds collide. Duty wars with desire. Religion and empire clash against forbidden tenderness. And as Karachi trembles on the edge of revolt, their hearts become the battlefield no one foresaw. He fell first - and he fell harder. She fought longer - and she fought wiser. But in an empire built on power, love itself is treason.

"ငါတခြားဘာမှမလိုချင်ဘူး... ငါလိုချင်တာတစ်ခုပဲရှိတယ်" "မောင်" အဲဒီစကားလေးတစ်ခွန်းနဲ့တင် မာတင်ရဲ့နှလုံးသားလေးရပ်သွားသလိုပင်။ "ထပ်ခေါ်ပါဉီးဂျူ" မာတင့်အသံက အရင်ကထက် ပိုနူးညံ့နေသည်။ ဂျူဟွန်းက မျက်တောင်လေးတွေချပြီး ရင်ခွင်ထဲမှာ ပိုမိုနီးကပ်လာသည်။ "မောင့်ကို...မောင့်ကိုပဲလိုချင်တာပါ"

[DE GERMAN WATTYS GRAND PRIZE WINNER & TOP 25 HISTORICAL AWARD 2023] *The perfect first mission for two inexperienced seekers: a small village in the middle of dark forests. Gruesome deaths and mysterious events. Kyle is a self-proclaimed Master of the Arcane Arts and his partner, Dr. Archer has a well-loaded revolver. So what could go wrong?* "Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur. The world wants to be deceived; so let it be deceived!" Credo of the Order of Seekers London 1898. Where the summoning of spirits has become as normal as cricket and tennis, the boundaries between fantasy and reality are blurred. In high society, Occultism and membership in 'secret' lodges are the most fashionable thing in the world. A very exclusive group of this kind is the Order of the Seekers, which is dedicated to researching, concealing, and disguising the occurrences of the mysterious. Kyle Crowford and Dr. Benjamin Archer are newcomers to the Order, recent graduates of the initiation rite, and eager to embark on their first mission... until they find out that it will take them to the remote backlands in the middle of Dartmoor. In a world beyond the obvious, where magic can bend reality and nightmares can become true, the agents must face the mysteries surrounding the gruesome deaths in Dartmoor - ideally without becoming the next victims themselves. Because, alongside their secrets, there are unexpectedly dark abysses lurking in St. George. *** READING SAMPLE/EXCERPT - German Version is being published soon by VALMIS VERLAG *** GERMAN WATTYS 2022 GRAND PRIZE WINNER EDITORS PICK DE APRIL 2023 TOP 23 WATTPAD HISTORICAL AWARDS 18 x FEATURED ON OFFICIAL WATTPAD PROFILES**

Silvester and Nemo are partway through rewriting their interpretation of a popular new opera when Nemo falls ill. While he spends his days taking care of them, Silvester stews in his anxieties, hoping not only that Nemo survives but he doesn't ruin the friendship they already have.

In Selestia's empire, the greatest of the continent, where the four great ducal families reign alongside the emperor , is the princess Jade Selestine . this world where magic was given by the goddess Selest as a gift for what happened thousands of years ago, and where dragons, mythical creatures, and extraordinary events aren't that uncommon, is the princess who finds herself trapped in a story of destiny, boys who are obssesed with her, and things she never wished for... *go read my story if you wanna know what ! * please read my story ! I'm 14 years old and very new to Wattpad , wrote only two fanfictions and this is my first time writing a fantasy and romancy!

Despite his best efforts, young Bennet Pinkton is in love with a married woman. His friend's wife, to be exact. As his infatuation grows, he breaks just about every moral code he has ever known. Honesty. Loyalty. Doing no harm. And when his friend asks him to ensure that the woman he is in love with ends up in an asylum, he's put to the test: Keep his career and reputation while an innocent woman gets locked up? Or tell the truth and lose everything? He chooses wrong. ***** Trinket Jardin is not quite normal, but that has never bothered her a bit. Just because she does not feel things the way that others feel things does not mean that she is lesser. She just never suspected that her abnormality might end with her locked away and forgotten. But then, Trinket has never found herself in a pinch she could not wiggle out of. ***** TW's: Discussion of mental health and childhood trauma Compulsive lying from a main character Depictions of single motherhood in an unforgiving era Mentions of prostitution Cheating (MMC is other man)

"𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅𝒏'𝒕 𝒍𝒊𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒆" "𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒅𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕" - - - In which he returns to Basilwether to face her; his oldest friend, closest companion, greatest regret, and handmaid. - - - Inspired by Little Women - - -

"Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares." - Hebrews 13:2 In which a wheelchair-bound noble lady is never left alone, and the angel assigned to her learns that devotion can become indistinguishable from sin. Yandere Black Butler x GN! Angel Reader x Yandere! OC Artist Cred: @mihxk__o_o on twitter (Cover) bishubitu on ig

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. This man wants her for a wife, it's everything she dreamed of but seems impossible. Thomas Darren, Earl of Lindon wanted change. His life overseas gave him a perspective of how the world was. He was tired of the life that was planned for him, he wanted something more. Then he meets her, and she changed his whole life. She was what he wanted and he was going to do whatever it took to be with her. Can they overcome the rules of their society? Can they find a way to be together?

Watson is kidnapped after a nefarious package arrives at his home in London. Mary Morstan realizes the only person who can save her husband is Sherlock Holmes. Soon, both Holmes brothers are embroiled in a far-flung scandal involving age-old aristocracy, money, and murder.