Victorian Stories

When Violet Tennison, a young girl living in a small town in Victorian England, witnesses a tragic event, her family is never the same again. Her family is torn apart, and she is thrust deeper into poverty. Violet goes to the Workhouse, a cruel institution, for the lowest of the low. However, when a figure from her past comes back ot haunt her and take her away, she discovers something that will change her life forever.

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)

Aurora and her older sister, Francesca, have different perspectives on their current life. One wants to find love, and the other wants to escape the social spotlight for good. Will their conflicting desires cause drama between the sisters and the kingdom? Or will they make a compromise and solve this? {Inspired lightly by Bridgerton}

Not all inheritance are fortunes. Some are curses. I was only searching for my mother, who had disappeared, but my path kept crossing with him. I didn't want it to happen, but somehow I always managed to find Tom. He needed help. He needed 𝐦𝐲 help.

After a devastating defeat, humanity was forced to give up their land and relocate to two isolated continents that were labeled as impossible to live on. After hundreds of years while the rest of the world focuses on agricultural and living conditions. Humanity had focused on its weapons and military. As years of isolation were broken and tensions rise, the fate of the world is left uncertain.

Ink Comyet, a son of an artist and the royal advisor. One day, he goes into the forest at night which is said to be dangerous. There he meets a boy around his age, named Error. This boy is annoying but strangely nice to Ink. However Error's life is that of a mysterious. Despite all of this, Ink feels himself slowly fall in love with the annoying boy in the forest.

Born in 1885 in a smoky mill town of Lancashire, Eleanor Whitford grew up in a world ruled by the long shadow of Queen Victoria. And yet, she watches the world shift in small, astonishing ways: from horse-drawn carriages to motorcars, from waltzes to music that dares break every rule. . . While her mother, Marianne, clings to the ordered propriety of the old century, Eleanor begins to wonder: why must girls remain still and proper when the world itself is racing forward? From her first memory of a gloved hand guiding her through Victorian streets to the restless years just before the guns of 1914, Eleanor's story is one of small rebellions, family bonds, and the slow, unstoppable pull of tomorrow. ❀❀❀❀❀❀❀❀❀❀ Book One in the "A New Century" Quadrilogy, an intimate saga of one woman's long life across two centuries that bring change she could have never dreamed of. STARTED: 12/04/26 FINISHED: 00/00/00 ❀❀❀❀❀❀❀❀❀❀ ALL CHARACTERS BELONG TO ME

Summer 1890, London. Sherlock Holmes and his faithful companion Dr. Watson are on a new case, one unlike any other that they had ever investigated. A daring master thief has entered the London scene. As the valuables of many disappear, Holmes works furiously to find this shadow with only one clue, the thief's calling card, a single iridescent feather of a magpie. This story is based of of the original adventures of Sherlock Holmes written by Sir. Arthur Conan Doyle. I own none of the characters except for Magpie and her briefly mentioned family(parents). This is my first time writing publicly so I ask for your kind patience. Thank you and enjoy.

"The honour of work is a truth no one can deprive you of!" Grown up in a world ruled by overlords, dearth and recession, Ciarán Kane knew exactly what kind of advice he wanted to give his sons. One last gift to take along, as he consigned them to a better fate. Years went on alongside his vagrant life as a pedlary blacksmith, driven by the desire to change his family's life for the better. But reassuring security for his children and their future warrants change, a change that will ultimately affect everything he ever cared about ...

Kathrine, the only daughter of the Zaren family, lives in the Kingdom of Therevas, hoping to attend Victoria Therevas National School, the dream of the children there who are competing for the throne of the great Victoria. Was she truly chosen? And what was her life story during her 12 years of schooling there? What is the history and mystery behind the truth about Victoria?

This is one heck of a Victorian-style fantasy novel. Add a spoonful of steam engines to make that darned technology tree come alive! Add a spoonful of love and hatred, so everyone has good reasons to brawl! Add a spoonful of madness to lighten up this gloomy world, and finally, add a spoonful of natural disasters to play the main boss... and so on! Phew, that's a lot! ... Year 931 in the Engerwick Calendar. The city I reside in has been hailed as the most advanced in the West. The main reasons? The world-shaking steam technology, emerging technologies, and the wellspring of chaos. Can't deny it, but the fact remains that people keep flocking here to live. This city always gives you a glimmer of hope, whether it's lies or illusions, but it's so close, within arm's reach, making you risk life and limb. A city of hallucinations. I am one of those dream-chasers.

After years of thievery, Jack Dawkins has finally built a quiet life in the small town of Port Victoria, working as one of the town's surgeons. But the streets he left behind are never far away. When Jack's old father figure, Fagin, arrives unexpectedly, Jack takes him in as his convicted servant, keeping him close and his mouth shut. Jack has worked too hard to build his new life to let the past ruin it now. Lady Clara Fox, the middle sister of Belle and Fanny Fox, is the daughter often forgotten. With Lady Jane's attention fixed on Belle and desperate to marry her off, and Fanny desperately trying to find love herself, Clara is left to fade quietly into the background. Clara shares the same interest in medicine as her sister, though on a much smaller scale. She has no desire to become the first female surgeon like Belle. All she wants is to help. But for the past few months, Clara has been experiencing strange and painful episodes. Prof believes it to be an ulcer, yet after her own research through every one of Belle's medical books, Clara fears something far worse, an aortic aneurysm. After weeks of trying every remedy she can find, nothing helps. In every book she reads, the ending is always the same. Death. Unwilling to waste what little time she may have left, Clara begins secretly helping the less fortunate people of Port Victoria. These are the ones turned away from the hospital, or too poor and sick to reach it. She even ventures as far as the Devil's Elbow. With none of her family aware of her condition or her whereabouts, Clara spends her days helping those who need it most. Until one tragic and hectic day changes everything. After performing a surgery never before attempted in her own home with two thieves among those helping, Clara suffers another violent episode. This time Jack Dawkins is there to help her. But Clara already knows his secret. And instead of thanking him, she blackmails him in return for her silence.

In the shadows of a grand 19th-century London theater, Clara Fernwell is the ultimate prize-a celebrated actress whose life is being sold by her own parents to settle a family debt. Bound to the sadistic Lord Alton, Clara finds her only sanctuary in the rafters with Julian, a lowly stagehand who sees the woman behind the "Ice Queen" mask. When a twenty-one-day reprieve leads to a brutal betrayal, the "Star" and the "Rat" must risk everything to sabotage a wedding that has become a death sentence. To find freedom, they'll have to burn down the only world they've ever known.

A progeny of daughters--Evaline the diplomat, Valerie the idealist, Lavinia the charlatan, and Charity the innocent--are left a fortune by their parents with a most diabolical clause--the most notoriously unruly sister, Lavinia, must remain unmarried for as many Seasons as is deemed plausible. If she marries before that time, the entire fortune goes to their nauseously, dreadfully loathsome progeny next door, the Throckmortons, so Lavinia becomes the "Scandal of the Ton" on purpose to secure the fortune, and so that no respectable gentleman will ever propose. However, where society sees Lavinia as a disgrace, an austere, callous, but noble duke sees her as the only entertaining individual in London--and he seems determined to understand her motives...

Celia Jones can talk to the dead, but getting on with them is a different story. She always has at least three spirits following her around, complaining about their relatives, or the inadequacy of their funeral arrangements. The latest is a murdered actress, Maude Domby, but she's less interested in denouncing her killer than in accusing the understudy of stealing her favourite pearls. When the charming but utterly fraudulent medium Stanley Winter holds a séance to contact Maude, Maude insists she and Celia should attend, to see people mourning her 'properly'. But the séance ends up implicating an innocent woman, and now Stanley Winter is banging on Celia's door, begging her to help him find Maude's real killer. Unfortunately, helping Stanley Winter could lead Celia to confront her other power - the one that's both lighter and infinitely darker than talking to the dead. ONC Prompt: 72. A real necromancer sits in on a fake séance.

" Ignite the night , let our love set fire." ❦ I don't like how i left somethings so changing quite a lot of details.

Under the cruel watch of the Wilson family, orphans Anne, James, and William endured relentless abuse and hardship. Upon reaching their breaking point, the three make a desperate choice to escape, risking everything for freedom. Driven by Anne's unwavering hope of reuniting with her mother, the trio flee the only life they had ever known and sneak aboard a ship bound for the Americas. As they faced the perils of the open sea and the uncertainties of a new world, their courage and determination were tested in ways they had never imagined. The Wanderers is a heart-pounding tale of survival, hope, and the unbreakable bonds of family.

Semua orang pernah dengar namanya. Tiada siapa pernah benar-benar melihatnya. Laira. Namanya muncul dalam bisik-bisik di pelabuhan, dalam fail yang hilang, dan dalam kes yang tidak pernah selesai. Apabila Steven Edward Hart menemui simbol misteri bertanda O.K., dia menyangka ia hanyalah satu kes biasa-sehingga setiap jejak yang ditinggalkan membawa kepada sesuatu yang tidak sepatutnya wujud. Nama-nama mula hilang dari rekod. Orang yang bercakap mula diam. Dan kebenaran mula disimpan di tempat yang tidak boleh disentuh. Kemudian, seorang perempuan muncul. Tenang. Dingin. Seolah-olah dia sudah tahu jawapan kepada semua persoalan. Dia memperkenalkan dirinya sebagai Alya. Dia memberi petunjuk yang tepat- kemudian hilang tanpa jejak. Di lorong gelap dan dermaga sunyi, satu nama lain masih beredar- Laira. Hart percaya pada bukti. Namun kali ini, sesuatu bergerak lebih dahulu daripada dirinya. Dan apabila dia sedar, dia bukan lagi pemerhati. Dia sudah menjadi sebahagian daripada permainan itu.

London, 1890s. Elias Thorne is a consulting detective with a mind like a scalpel. Dr. Webb is his closest friend-a surgeon with secrets of his own. Together, they crack the cases Scotland Yard won't touch. But when a bizarre red-headed society appears on their doorstep, they uncover a plot far darker than a simple con. From a ghostly society to a trail of deadly chalk drawings, Thorne and Webb must stop a shadow syndicate known as The Board before it consumes London. A Victorian mystery reimagined for the modern thriller fan.