The wait for a new take on werewolf romances is over. It is said that werewolves roam the woods around Wolfram Castle--but Elizabeth Stanwycke, newly arrived tutor to the Count's niece, is not a child to be frightened by bedtime stories. Of more pressing concern is her attraction to the mysterio...
Anne said, pacing in her room. Irusan sat on her bed and watched her, his green eyes fixed on her face. “Something is not right about this whole mess, and yet I cannot make Pamela listen to me.” “Aye, that’s what I fear. She’s trusting folks you have no reason to trust. But you must not risk your...
How many breaths did he have left, and what would become of that last, sweet draught? Edgar Lankin lay on his bed by the window overlooking his beloved London. Dark clouds gathered, shadowing the city in a premature twilight, as coal smoke obscured the cityscape, blurring the shapes of chimneys a...
John the Baptist’s feast day. The second stage of her plan must now begin.They were all sedately going to town in the barouche, children dressed immaculately, Theresa for once not driving. This was no time to emphasize her unseemly independence. She needed to draw on all the dignity of her positi...
Her ankles trembled, and she had to keep one hand on the wall at all times, for every step down felt as if it would bring her tumbling to the bottom. The thought, once it had invaded, left her quivering. Who would find her body if she fell to her death? The door, latched from the outside, would i...
Her humor was no better than in the moments before her collapse, nor was she in a mood to be dismissed without an explanation. But while she was being fussed over by the marquess’s female servants, who had brought smelling salts, a basin of water and a glass of brandy, Darkefell at least had a ch...
She was far too disappointed. "I cannot imagine," Arabella said, faintly. "Well I can," Lady Cynthia said, her lovely eyes wide and her expression concerned. "It is rumored—just rumored, you understand—that he is to wed a country squire's daughter, ...