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Midnight scandals
268 pages
A moonlit collection of secret trysts and second chances where the quietest hours of the night reveal the deepest desires.
What it feels like
Reading this collection feels like stepping into a secluded English garden just as the clock strikes twelve. It is an intensely atmospheric and emotionally charged experience, driven by the brisk, satisfying pacing inherent to the novella format. The prose is elegant and precise, capturing the heavy weight of societal expectations and the breathless thrill of breaking them. Each story wraps the reader in a moonlit mood of yearning and hidden desires, exploring the tension between duty and passion. It is a perfect fit for historical romance readers who love deep emotional stakes, intelligent heroines, and the delicious angst of second chances and forbidden love, all delivered with the lush intimacy of a midnight confession.
- Mood
- intimate
- moonlit
- emotionally charged
- atmospheric
- Tone
- romantic
- yearning
- earnest
- sensual
- Pace
- brisk
- Themes
- second chances · hidden desires · midnight confessions · social constraints · forbidden love
- The writing
- Elegant and emotionally precise, weaving lush historical atmosphere with sharp, character-driven intimacy.
- The arc
- Moves from the heavy burden of repressed longing and societal duty to the breathless relief of midnight confessions and hard-won devotion.
- Who it's for
- Historical romance readers who crave emotionally complex, character-driven stories packed into the intense, fast-paced vessel of a novella.
Content notes
- financial ruin
- class inequality
- sexual content
About the book
Welcome to Doyle's Grange, a charming house near the hills of Exmoor, where the garden is beautiful in every season, and the residents are respectable year-round. Except when the clock strikes midnight... One Starlit Night: Ten years away from Doyle's Grange isn't quite long enough for Viscount Northword to forget Portia Temple, or their passionate adolescent affair. Portia, however, is about to marry another man. Northword tells himself it is wrong to interfere in her life at this late hour, but interfere he cannot help, with his words, his body, and the truths of his heart. What Happened at Midnight: Fleeing the consequences of her father's embezzlement, Mary Chartley takes a position as a lady's companion, only to find herself a virtual prisoner at Doyle's Grange, her employer's house. And then the nightmare truly begins: the man she loves, who also happens to be the man from whom her father stole, shows up at her door seeking recompense. And not merely in pound...
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