Synopsis:
Lord Gregory Stockton is a powerful and respected businessman
embracing the modern era of the Victorian industrial revolution. He owns a
grand and beautiful manor complete with a repertoire of servants and a charming
attractive young wife. The only thing he lacks and desires is an heir to the
family estate.
Lord Gregory knows he can never produce a child, for he is a
vampire, and his wife and servants know nothing of his secrets. However, there
may be other ways to provide an heir for his estate. Lord Gregory notices the
subtle growing romantic attraction between his wife and the handsome young
stable hand Marcus Scott resulting in the humans becoming unwitting pawns in a
vampire’s game of lust, love and control.
Genres - Romance/Paranormal, Romance/Vampire, Romance/Victorian. Romance/Historical
Publisher - Chances Press
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Excerpt
Chapter One
The
air in her bedroom was cool and sent a chill up and down her slender
body. She had grown familiar with the almost icy atmosphere in her
husband’s home during the two years they had been married. Indeed
the very mood inside these rooms seemed to reflect his often-volatile personality. He
had never consciously hurt her, not in any real sense, but there was always
that potential, lying beneath his calm exterior, as though he were a serpent
waiting to strike. She could not complain about him, for Lord Gregory
Stockton was a most attentive husband, and Sarah was extremely lucky to have
secured his affections. He was a very affable gentleman in many
ways, but he confused her.
Sarah
found herself pacing the room like a caged animal, desperate to be released
into the wild. Her pretty blue taffeta day dress was tight, stiff,
and restricting; yet it fit her petite body in all the right places,
accentuating her small bosom and curving gracefully over her hips to drape
softly on the floor. The dress was specially made by the finest designers,
along with the rest of her wardrobe. Her husband had been determined
that his young wife would be the perfect showpiece for his estate and his
reputation. She wore her soft golden curls pinned up in a diamante
hair clip, and would shortly add her matching blue hat ready for her morning
horse ride around the grounds.
Thinking
about her daily exercise brought her mind back to young Marcus Scott, the
stable lad. Well, he wasn’t really a lad at all; he was a young man
of around twenty-five years, older than Sarah herself. She was only
twenty-three, and becoming painfully aware of her lack of child bearing during
her marriage. This fact was further accentuated every time she
visited her mother on the neighbouring estate, and Sarah was increasingly irritated
and upset at the admonitions that it was her own fault. Lord
Stockton certainly did not seem affected by his lack of
heirs. Indeed he never broached the subject, and Sarah knew that it
was nothing to do with his being embarrassed or awkward about
it. Far from it. He was a most attentive lover, and that
was another area where she could not fault her husband.
But
it wasn’t her husband that she was thinking about on this fine spring morning,
with the sun shining through her windows and offering to warm her cool
body. She found herself drifting over to look out at the garden, and
her view of the green shrubs and trees, the flowers that were now starting to
bloom in the warmer weather, and the distant lake upon which the sun sparkled
and which would be the focus for her horse ride with her beloved pet
Penelope. Again her thoughts returned to Marcus, as she pictured him
gently stroking Penelope’s flanks with long, firm strokes of the grooming
brush. He was truly at one with the Stockton horses, and each animal
seemed to respond to him with love and gentility.
Sarah’s
heart lurched in her chest as she spied Marcus walking across the gardens
towards the lake. His dark blonde hair was slightly long and tucked
behind his ears, where it fell in soft waves to his neck, always inviting her
to run her fingers through it. He was already tanned from working
outdoors, despite the fact that it was only April, and his simple white shirt,
brown corduroy trousers, and leather waistcoat, together with the serviceable
black boots he wore, seemed only to accentuate the curves and muscles of his
very masculine physique. Her mind wandered as she imagined what kind
of a lover he could be, so wild and passionate, yet so gentle at the same time…
Author of adult paranormal romance series The
Redcliffe Novels, Catherine Green was raised
on books from a young age, and has happy memories of Saturday mornings spent in her
small local library, devouring the contents of the shelves. Aside from the Redcliffe novels,
Catherine has short stories published in YA anthologies Devils, Demons and Werewolves,
and The Mirador Fantasmagoria, and she writes articles for websites including
Write and Share UK. Catherine is also a freelance copywriter and copy editor.
Catherine has always been fascinated by the supernatural world, and it feels natural for her to write about vampires, werewolves, witches and other mystical creatures in her stories. She is a shaman in training and a mother of two (plus dog), with an interest in crafts and social history. Catherine practises Law of Attraction and truly believes that everyone can achieve their dreams if they can step beyond the fear of social conformity.
You can find Catherine on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/CatherineGreenAuthor
Her blog is http://www.catherinegreenauthor.blogspot.co.uk/
And her Twitter page is: https://twitter.com/SpookyMrsGreen
Catherine has always been fascinated by the supernatural world, and it feels natural for her to write about vampires, werewolves, witches and other mystical creatures in her stories. She is a shaman in training and a mother of two (plus dog), with an interest in crafts and social history. Catherine practises Law of Attraction and truly believes that everyone can achieve their dreams if they can step beyond the fear of social conformity.
You can find Catherine on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/CatherineGreenAuthor
Her blog is http://www.catherinegreenauthor.blogspot.co.uk/
And her Twitter page is: https://twitter.com/SpookyMrsGreen
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