Victorian Stories

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

Lady Evelyn Ashbourne was meant to become the perfect noble wife. Instead, she awakened in the body of a man. In the kingdom of Vaelmora, noble houses survive on reputation, arranged marriages, and whispered scandals. Now hidden behind a false identity, while society believes Lady Ashbourne has fallen mysteriously ill. Evelyn suddenly finds herself walking through freedoms she was never meant to possess. Moonlit streets. Noble courts. Dangerous secrets. And a life she was never supposed to live. But in Vaelmora, rumours spread faster than war. And someone is beginning to suspect that Lady Evelyn Ashbourne may not be as absent as the world believes. ✦ New Chapters Daily

It's 1893, and Kitty's eleven cousins - her adoptive siblings - have all moved out. She only has Sherlock Holmes for company, until Cousin Joey returns from America alongside his dashing benefactor, Benedict Hawkins. Scotland Yard Inspector Tobias Thackery has spent a decade looking for his runaway sister. New clues on her trail point to an anarchist plot, and Kitty won't be left out as Tobias recruits family members into a spy network. The risks are real, and more personal than Kitty expects, on her whirlwind quest to self-fulfilment. * ONC2023 shortlister! Prompt 51: The problem with red flags is that I'm attracted to them. * To be completed on July 1st, ~40k words. Cover by @cxmern

She committed suicide and died. That should be the end. "Welcome host." The system comes online. "Failure to survive your life. Host has been sent to Survival Realm 468. Objective: Find fragmented pieces of a remote control to exit Survival Realm 468 within 730 days. If failed to collect all fragment pieces, failed to survive until 730 days, or failed to collect all fragment pieces before time limit, you get sent to Hell Realm." Reborn in a brutal Victorian world where power is everything and the weak are devoured, she is given one command: Survive for 730 days. Or be sent to Hell. No name. No identity. No one to rely on. Only a system... and a scavenger hunt for pieces of a mysterious device that could set her free. But every piece is held by the most dangerous men in the world-nobles, princes, and tyrants. To reach them, she must become whatever they desire. A servant. A daughter. A lover. A lie. Trust is a luxury she cannot afford. Love is a weakness she cannot survive. Yet the deeper she dives into power, seduction, and deception... the more she begins to change. Because this time- she's not the one being used. She's the one pulling the strings. But when the men she manipulates begin to fall for her...And one of them starts to see through everything- Will she escape this world? Or finally understand why she was never meant to survive it?

Mycroft believes his brother is safe in Newton's academy. But when Sherlock finds his intellectual match: safety is no longer on his mind. After all, who would expect a teacher to be your life-long archenemy? Deep within the walls of Newton's Academy is an emperor of crimes, looming in the shadows! One mistake done out of curiosity is all it takes for Sherlock to get expelled and disgraced. But the greatest danger is not in the school! Waiting outside the gate is a man Sherlock thought to be dead: Syrus Holmes. During a race for survival, Sherlock is forced to learn the bitter truth: even a criminal mastermind has a mentor, and the roots of evil runs deeper than blood. The game is afoot for Sherlock Holmes!

𝐷𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑠. 𝑁𝑜 𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒 . 𝐹𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢 _ She's been dreaming of him for weeks. He's been looking for her for seventeen lifetimes. Selene Ashwood thinks the boy in her dreams isn't real. Then Adrian Virel walks through her school doors and looks at her like he already knows every secret she's never told a soul. Because he does. He remembers everything - every lifetime, every almost, every goodbye that was never supposed to be the last one. She remembers nothing. Until now. Because buried beneath the war between their families is a truth so dangerous that an ancient coalition has spent three hundred years making sure it never saw the light. A truth that lives in their blood. A truth that only unlocks when both of them choose each other - freely, consciously, knowing exactly what it costs. The necklace is a key. The old woman has been waiting three centuries. And the walls between what Selene remembers and what she's been told to forget are coming down faster than anyone expected. Enemies first. Always this. One last chance to choose differently. But the coalition is already moving. [ENEMIES TO LOVERS | PAST LIVES | SLOW BURN | DARK ROMANCE | FANTASY] Updates every day 🖤

He died in early spring. Holding a watch that wasn't his. Loving someone he was never allowed to say it to. Now he is Callum Voss, twenty-eight, ordinary life, no ghosts. Until a boy with autumn eyes opens a door - and every wall Caelum spent eleven years building comes down at once. A crown for no one. A love for every lifetime. ❝ Would it have been easier, if I were commonborn? My beloved. ❞ - A Victorian BL reincarnation story about guilt, second chances, and the terrifying truth that some loves don't need a throne to survive. They only need courage. Updates weekly ✦

" You think you're so posh, don't you? FAGGOT!!" She bullied. A Sequel to " Ruby Locket:Midnight's Ball". Lyanna returns with an overflowing and fuming spirit of vengeance. Secrets are revealed and worlds are turned upside down. Suddenly, happily ever after is a nightmare.

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 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.

[Book II of Gilmore Legacy Series] Life has never been easy for Elizabeth Stanford. Mistreated by her over-controlling mother, she craves nothing but happiness. When her childhood sweetheart, Garrett Blackbourne, suddenly returns after a mysterious departure years ago, she believes that she might have found her happily ever after. Sadly, life takes an unforeseen twist when she discovers that her parents have promised her to a powerful nobleman, against her wishes. Will she ever get the happy ending she desires, or is she doomed to a life of misery? Find out in Love & Second Chances. Photo by Kenny Luo on Unsplash

Eric Voss Ardenmont III, the young Duke of Avylon, finds himself navigating a world of jagged politics and industrialized war. Bound by his father's dying wish to protect the lands he once cherished, Eric must carry on the late Duke's legacy with Gerant, his most trusted knight and only confidant at his side. But to save his allies in Cecilion from his own kingdom's foolish ambitions, Eric is forced to play a dangerous decisions: sacrificing his reputation and his honor to protect and cherish those he cared the most.

[DE GERMAN WATTYS GRAND PRIZE WINNER & TOP 25 HISTORICAL AWARD 2023] *The perfect first mission for two inexperienced seekers: a small village in the middle of dark forests. Gruesome deaths and mysterious events. Kyle is a self-proclaimed Master of the Arcane Arts and his partner, Dr. Archer has a well-loaded revolver. So what could go wrong?* "Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur. The world wants to be deceived; so let it be deceived!" Credo of the Order of Seekers London 1898. Where the summoning of spirits has become as normal as cricket and tennis, the boundaries between fantasy and reality are blurred. In high society, Occultism and membership in 'secret' lodges are the most fashionable thing in the world. A very exclusive group of this kind is the Order of the Seekers, which is dedicated to researching, concealing, and disguising the occurrences of the mysterious. Kyle Crowford and Dr. Benjamin Archer are newcomers to the Order, recent graduates of the initiation rite, and eager to embark on their first mission... until they find out that it will take them to the remote backlands in the middle of Dartmoor. In a world beyond the obvious, where magic can bend reality and nightmares can become true, the agents must face the mysteries surrounding the gruesome deaths in Dartmoor - ideally without becoming the next victims themselves. Because, alongside their secrets, there are unexpectedly dark abysses lurking in St. George. *** GERMAN WATTYS 2022 GRAND PRIZE WINNER EDITORS PICK DE APRIL 2023 TOP 23 WATTPAD HISTORICAL AWARDS 18 x FEATURED ON OFFICIAL WATTPAD PROFILES** 🥇1st End of the Year Award 2022 Paranormal Moonly Awards Mystery Bungou Grand Prix Mystery Sweet Waffle Awards Mystery Pink Cloud Award Mystery Pacific Awards - Mystery Blurb WSP&Hibiscus Award Fighting Scene Hibiscus&Auctor Award Antagonist Auctor Award Protagonist Pawesome Award Cover&Best Opening Chapter Lion Awards

Under summer skies and quiet duty, love lingers... and shifts into something she never expected

The Valtheron's had ruled over Valnoriafolk ises for centuries, Klaudin Valtheron had been suddenly struck by illness, he had no male heir only three young daughters, will the Valtherons let their power contuse to slip, secretes being exposed to the masses or will a girl be able to save the empire. This is story set in the mid 1800s, this story is multiple pov!

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 which Robin De Noir mistakes Olive Heliotrope for the Moon Princess, and the two star-crossed enemies must work together to break a curse. ❝ Oh, I can't Stop you putting roots in my dreamland My house of stone, your ivy grows And now I'm covered in you ❞ Started: April 2022 Status: Ongoing Highest Rankings #1 in THESECRETOFMOONACRE #1 in SECRETOFMOONACRE #1 in ROBINDENOIR #1 in DENOIR #1 in LOVEDAY #1 in MARIAMERRYWEATHER #1 in MOONPRINCESS #1 in MOONACRE #4 in GOTHIC #3 in VICTORIAN #11 in FAIRYTALE Inspired by The Secret of Moonacre Fem OC x Robin De Noir

In the glittering heart of Mayfair, six young debutantes prepare for their first ball-each with dreams as bright as the chandeliers above them. Amid laughter, rivalry, and whispered secrets, Duchess Catherine of Woodford and her spirited companions discover that friendship may be the truest dance of all. As the music begins, the court of hopeful ladies steps into a world where every waltz could change their lives forever.

London, 1900. Detective Sergeant Ned Kelly is suspended, restless, and hiding a dangerous secret. When the enigmatic James St Clair crashes into his life with talk of stolen magic and a kill list, Ned is dragged into a world he never believed existed. Witches are being murdered across the city, their powers ripped away. Ned's mysterious immunity to magic makes him the only man who can protect Jamie. But in a time when wanting another man is a crime, the greatest danger might not be the killer hunting them, but each other.