When the Empress appoints Irina's father as the new Governor of Transylvania, the young Duchess is swept away from her glamorous life at court in Vienna to the mysterious "land beyond the forest" where danger lurks and superstition reigns.When a peasant girl is attacked, Irina is drawn into the hunt for the monster responsible, all the while fighting feelings for the mysterious masked man who threatens to unravel her reputation...…
"I'm a wild garden. I'm tangled, unyielding and thorny."London. 1883. Sally Askew is a lady, born into a world of privilege - of silk petticoats, parlour games and proposals - raised under the purist, severe gaze of her father, Lord Askew.Ivy Stunner is a freak. Every night she performs in The Distinguished Dr Harland Featherstone's Exhibition of Human Absurdities in a dark corner of Whitechapel, shedding her petticoats and displaying her painted skin to the crowd.Two lives, one woman; The Painted Lady.WARNING: Dark, adult themes.…
The Empress' Grand Master of the Hunt always catches his prey. As winter returns to St Petersburg, wolves prowl the streets - as does Count Kuritsa, who has his eye on seducing a shy yet alluring new arrival at court...…
When struggling writer, Walter Thripp, is invited to join an old school friend at his summer home in southern Italy on the eve of the first world war, illicit romances blossom, old rivalries run deep and a family secret threatens to destroy the idyll.…
A collection of short(ish) stories about love and seduction from different times and places.…