Showing results for "Obsession" in Victorian

I made a vow to protect her when we were just kids. First, from the monsters hiding under the bed and then the ones roaming the world freely. My obsession with Dove wasn’t normal. It toed the line on psychotic, but my love for her overshadowed that. I’d killed, destroyed, and hurt those who had done her wrong. I’d watched her for years wanting to claim her but refusing to. I was both her guardian angel and a demon lurking in the shadows. She was mine, even though she didn’t know it yet.

It's 1862. In beautiful Hunters Hall, Harriet Edgerton is unable to produce the heir her husband, Brook, craves. She finds sympathy and friendship from Felicity Goodhall, an attractive young widow who lives nearby. Whilst Brook is far away in Jamaica on business, Harriet’s desire for a child leads to a life-changing decision when she is offered a two-week-old baby boy, unwanted by his mother. She passes him off as her own. When her secret is revealed, her marriage is in danger of falling apart.

Cruelty is his middle name, and I'm at his mercy. My father has kept me locked away in an ivory tower. I thought he wanted to protect me, but he only wanted to protect his asset. An untouched, sheltered mob princess is worth a lot of money to the right buyer. My father's greed means Sicily is no longer big enough for him. I'm shipped across the Atlantic to Boston to marry a man I've never met, whose reputation for cruelty reaches as far as the shores of Sicily.

The scion of a noble house brought low by a storm and the lady who nurses him back to health strive to unravel a web of deception that threatens her family and forces them to fight for what they hold most dear - family, each other, and love.  

From an early age, Sarah Cranshaw has exhibited an unladylike interest in scientific pursuits. Whether it's memorising train timetables or stargazing on her telescope, such pursuits have earned her the nickname of bluestocking in her Oxfordshire village. But behind the eccentric demeanour she presents to the world, there lies a secret. For years, Sarah has been obsessed with the handsome but roguish Mr Templeton. She knows, of course, that she has little hope of earning his affection in return, but still she yearns for him.

I spend my nights slinging drinks at Black Magic Bar or taking my clothes off at the local strip club. After my father passed, my stepmother gave me no other choice. But when I break free of the chains binding me to my family estate, I find myself with nowhere to go. Until Nero Voss, the youngest of the billionaire Voss brothers, offers me a room at Midnight Manor. Now, I’m under his watchful gaze and enjoying it more than I should.

A beguiling novel of Victorian theft and obsession from the Sunday Times bestselling author of CATHERINE: A RETELLING OF WUTHERING HEIGHTS Uprooted from her home in India, Alice is raised by her aunt, a spiritualist medium in Windsor. When the mysterious Mr Tilsbury enters their lives, Alice is...

In meinem Reich nehme ich mir, was ich will. Sogar sie.Ich bin ihr Beschützer – ihr Hüter.Ich sollte ihre Unschuld nicht begehren, sollte mich nicht danach sehnen, sie als die Meine zu markieren. Aber ich werde es tun, denn sie ist die Versuchung, der ich nicht länger widerstehen kann.In meiner Welt werden Regeln gebeugt und Grenzen überschritten. Sie sollte unantastbar sein, aber ich war noch nie jemand, der sich an Regeln hält. Ich bin ihr Beschützer, ihr Wächter, aber heute Abend sehe ich nur die Frau, zu der sie geworden ist - reif für die Entführung.

My village was burned to the ground by ruthless vampires, but they came for me. Dragged me to King Yakov's castle. He gave me a year to serve him and earn my keep. Foolishly I accepted, only for the first touch of his cold, cruel fingers to reveal that I'm his mate.