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]]

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)

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

'𝑺𝒐𝒄𝒊𝒆𝒕𝒚 𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂 𝒍𝒂𝒅𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒏𝒐𝒃𝒍𝒆, 𝒊𝒕 𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒏𝒆.' But not Casanna, the sole heir of the Duke of Rosemore. She refuses to be what society expects her to. She rejects its standards, defies its traditions and breaks every expectation placed upon her. She simply refuses to be dictated to. All she ever wanted was to live at her own pace, to honor her family's legacy while quietly fading into the background. 'Not just a rose with vivid petals and thorns but something far more.' However, peace always demands a price. What seemed like a simple dream becomes far more complicated when she meets someone who mirrors her own fire, someone who will challenge her heart and change her forever. Someone who has the same temperament as hers. PLAGIARISM IS A CRIME. ❁✿❀✾❃

13 years ago, a man sinks a ship in the Irish Sea. In the city of Bath, England, those who speak of his name seem to be beset with a curse. (Set in the 1880s) . . . . . Author's notes: This was based of a D&D campaign me and my friends did where I was the DM, hence the ensemble.

iːvəˈnɛs,ˌɛvəˈnɛs/ verbliterary pass out of sight, memory, or existence. "water moves among reeds, evanesces, shines" In Victorian London, Whittmore Manor loomed, full of secrets. Princess Evangeline, haunted by her mother's death and her father's cold grief, longed for freedom beyond its walls. Will she remain in the shadows of her past-or forge a destiny of her own?

A gothic romance of longing and fate, where love must battle distance, shadows, and the peril of awakening powers. Belle and William once shared everything-childhood secrets, laughter, and a dream to build a chocolate empire brimming with stories. But when William vanished without a word, Belle's world fractured. Six long years passed, each one echoing with silence, until her longing turned into resolve. Now, Belle sets out across shadows and seas to find him. What she discovers is no longer the boy she remembers, but a man cloaked in secrets, his gaze touched by darkness, his presence both magnetic and dangerous. Mysteries of blood and power have shaped William's path, while Belle's own lineage begins to unravel-her ancestry an unknown force, bound to a destiny she never imagined. Every step toward him pulls her deeper into a labyrinth of wonder and dread. Sweet memories blur with haunting revelations, and the bond they once cherished teeters between salvation and ruin. Can Belle and William rebuild the dream that first bound them together-or will the magic that now surrounds them tear their souls apart before their story even begins? Thank you, Nightenghale, for designing the cover and banners.

In a world governed by class and where women are bound by merciless laws, a newborn baby girl is abandoned and finds in the arms of a simple farmer the family she was denied. She grows up amidst poverty, finding refuge from the harshness of reality only in ballet, where her steps become a language through which she expresses her dreams of freedom. One night, the crown prince sees her for the first time. Captivated by her beauty and strength of spirit, he decides to approach her. But he is met with her repeated rejection. She sees him as the heir to a government that continues to perpetuate injustice and diminish women's rights, and she refuses to be part of that world, no matter the cost. Between a girl fighting for her freedom and a crown prince trying to prove that his heart is different from the throne he was born to inherit, a story begins where love intertwines with conflict, dignity with emotion, in a time when achieving happiness is no easy feat.

It's the first day of the Season on the utopian world of Nuevo Victoriana, and Bridget Claremont will meet her state-appointed betrothal candidates. Getting married is supposed to be every girl's dream, except Bridget doesn't want to get married. She wants to be the first female student at the Royal Cybernetics Academy. That, and to figure out why her attempt at creating Artificial Intelligence failed just before her Academy presentation. When Bridget is matched with the enigmatic Prince Kaseom d'Jorax, a secretive branch of the royal family that has never put forth a candidate before, she should be thrilled. He's the absolute catch of the Season. However, it's also possible his family knows why her AI crashed. As far as Bridget is concerned, she'd rather die than marry Kase. Worse, he's so arrogant and smug, she can't decide if she wants to kiss or strangle him. She'll go through the motions of the Season, but when it's over, she plans to get back to what really matters. But once Bridget and Kase are paired, Nuevo Victoriana's alien protectors, the Ragnari, take an intense interest in their courtship. Bridget finds herself drawn into a world of intrigue and royal machinations she can't begin to navigate on her own. And when her fledgling AI discovers the Ragnari are hiding a secret big enough to undermine all of Nuevo Victoriana, Bridget will need to work with Kase to stop them. Otherwise, the world as she knows it will no longer exist.

"I'll do anything you ask, anything you wish of me." I'm just as foolish as he is. I arose from my comfortable bed, and begrudgingly opened the window. "Miss me?" August grinned. "Hardly." I turned away from him before he could close the distance of the outdoors and my bedroom. "Such a shame, yet you seemed eager to let me in. As does your grandmother, she saw me and still allowed me." "I owe you." I use as an excuse for why I let him in. Although, it's not much of an excuse if it's true. "And that's all?" "Yes, August. That is all."

Elaris Thornfield, an archivist entrusted with preserving noble family records, arrives at the Phantomhive Manor after discovering a photograph hidden within the Bennett archives-a photograph that should never have existed. And what if the boy in it is someone who stole Ciel Phantomhive's childhood?

In the quiet hours before dawn, she writes-page after page, line after line-yet nothing she creates ever feels entirely her own. Within her manuscript lives Jaileen Liley, a young woman of privilege and promise, and at her side, the ever-faithful Giselle-whose heart remains bound across the sea to a man in Marseilles. But distance has a way of distorting truth, and when letters begin to deceive and a stranger steps forward under a borrowed name, certainty gives way to doubt. As affection falters and suspicion grows, the lives she has written begin to take on a will of their own-straying further from her control with every chapter. Caught between imitation and invention, between what is written and what is real, she must confront a question far more daunting than any story: Can one ever truly create something original... or are all lives, in the end, only drafts of something else?

Doreen and Vivian have been pitted against each other from birth, due to family feuds and secrets encrypted in signs and times the two girls struggle to decipher. But when they are strategically placed in the same school to continue their battles, the stakes become even deadlier. Golden Gate Senior High had been an environment Doreen had thrived in until Vivian arrived, leveling the playing field. Vivian is forced to restart her academic life at a new school and now faces the possibility of her sister's revenge. As the two sisters continue their childhood games for popularity, academic validation, racing for school prefectship, concealing a body, digging out family secrets, among other 'shenanigans', only when the board finally closes can we know the true end of the war. Copyright © 2026 by Lois Emma Ewuraesi Taylor All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted without the prior written permission of the author, except for brief quotations in reviews.

"See you next year" Every year, Theodore waits. Some years, Seraphina returns. Immortality was supposed to give them forever. Instead it scattered Seraphina and Theodore across centuries while an ancient god hunts the immortality they stole. Some stories are remembered forever, theirs is already being forgotten. BOOK 2 OF THE ETERNAL LOVE STORY OF SERAPHINA AND THEODORE

"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

✔ Ex-Friends to Lovers ✔ Victorian Era ✔ Slow Burn ✔ Forced Proximity ✔ Idyllic Countryside ✔ He falls first ≈≈≈ After a failed marriage, Roselyn Whitewood has no intention of giving her heart away again. Love, after all, is a dangerous game-one she's already lost once. But when fate brings Ignatius Clark back into her life, the infuriatingly charming doctor who's always been just out of reach, Roselyn finds herself questioning everything she thought she knew about second chances. Clark has been in love with Roselyn for as long as he can remember. He's watched her from afar, waited for the right moment-but now, he's done waiting. He knows she's been hurt before, but he also knows this: they belong together. And he'll do whatever it takes to prove it.

A young woman in 19th-century London becomes the object of affection for a reclusive yet ostentatious young man. But a murderer is terrorizing the streets, and all of London is in a panic. While the grisly crimes mystify some and terrorize others, plagued by demons of her own, Lavinia is forced to confront the dark mysteries that stain her city red. London society is riddled with secrets, some of them bloody.

Thirty-five mysteries. One family secret. A conspiracy that spans the world. Edinburgh, 1893. Three years after their father's mysterious death shattered the Blackwood fortune, twins Isla and Duncan Blackwood are barely keeping their crumbling townhouse-and their family name-alive. When a corpse is discovered inside a sealed alley with no possible killer, the siblings are pulled into a case that should be impossible. But solving it uncovers something far more dangerous: a trail leading straight back to their father's forgotten shipping empire. Every mystery reveals another secret. A vanished lighthouse keeper. A deadly séance. Forged manifests. Missing heirs. Poisoned whisky. Hidden ledgers. Smugglers, diplomats, assassins, and thieves stretching from the misty Scottish Highlands to Cairo, Bombay, Istanbul, Venice, Paris, Shanghai, New York, and Cape Town. As enemies close in, the twins discover that Alistair Blackwood was far more than a wealthy shipping magnate. He left behind coded messages, dangerous allies... and a truth powerful enough to ignite an international scandal. Someone spent years ensuring that truth stayed buried. Now they're hunting the twins. To solve thirty-five impossible mysteries, Isla and Duncan must answer the greatest one of all- Who was their father... and did he really die?

Amelia Claymoore has been given everything a young aristocratic woman could want: wealth, education, and a future carefully chosen for her. Unfortunately, what Amelia wants is to become a scientist. The Halo Line, a colossal magical locomotive that circles the continent of Merona, has transformed the Victorian nation of Calliwick with the power it leaves behind. But the official numbers do not add up-and when Amelia asks why, the authorities declare her unsuitable. Determined to prove them wrong, Amelia sets out to observe the train herself. What she discovers will tear her from the safety of her birthright and reveal a secret capable of reshaping the world. COVER IS AI-GENERATED. I AM NOT A COVER ARTIST. I DO NOT CLAIM COPYRIGHT AND WILL REPLACE THE IMAGE IF NECESSARY.

One rebel prince. An innocent heiress. A kingdom built on secrets. In the opulent, glittering world of Norland, power is a game played behind closed doors and enforced by the rigid rules of the High Houses. For Prince Henry, the ultimate prize is freedom from his father's suffocating crown, even if he must burn the realm's delicate peace to achieve it. For Lady Rose, born into the protective warmth of Halberd Hall, the world is a tapestry of ancient legacies she is destined to inherit-or break. But as the sins of their parents catch up to the present, a forbidden, long-buried romance threatens to shatter the fragile alliance keeping the kingdom whole. As the old guard fights to maintain its grip, a new generation is thrust into the fire. From the sun-dappled orchards of childhood innocence to the ruthless machinations of the Gilded Quarter, Henry and Rose must navigate a web of loyalty, betrayal, and desire. When the dust settles, who will wear the crown, and who will be destroyed by the legacy they carry? A propulsive, multi-generational epic of royal intrigue, hidden passion, and the deadly cost of ambition