‘For fans of Wuthering Heights, Crimson Peak, and Beauty and the Beast comes a dark, steamy gothic fantasy of a maiden haunted by visions of fate and foresight. When a beast begins hunting the townsfolk of Oxford, her path crosses with his—and she discovers, to her horror, that she has far more in common with the monster than with the people around her.’
In Victorian Oxford, Amelia Warburton has spent her life confined: by her father's ambitions, by visions she cannot control, and by a sickness that seems to consume her very sanity.
Consumed by dreams of a fuller life, she flees the manor of her father, Mayor Henry Warburton, wrapped in the red cloak that will soon become her namesake—only to be drawn into the orbit of Hadrian Bane, the reclusive Lord of Ravensmoor, a man rumored to carry a beast beneath his own skin.
But to her surprise, Hadrian is not evil.
He is kind. Patient. And he is loving…
Quickly she begins to wonder if another life might be waiting beyond the one she was destined for.
There is, however, one problem.
A cursed beast haunts the townsfolk of Oxford, and its appetite shows no sign of abating.
Only when she crosses the threshold of Hadrian's ancestral past does she understand what he truly is: a thousand-year-cursed werewolf, bound to a grief he has never forgiven himself for. But his curse is not the only secret stalking them—an old debt, decades in the making, has finally come to collect.
As full moons rise, something feral awakens beneath the cursed lord's skin, and Amelia must decide whether their forbidden love can survive what the past has set in motion—or whether, like everything before it, it is destined to be consumed.
This is a dark romance intended for mature readers. Please review all trigger & content warnings before reading. This story does not end with a HEA.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
In Victorian Oxford, Amelia Warburton has spent her life confined: by her father's ambitions, by visions she cannot control, and by a sickness that seems to consume her very sanity.
Consumed by dreams of a fuller life, she flees the manor of her father, Mayor Henry Warburton, wrapped in the red cloak that will soon become her namesake—only to be drawn into the orbit of Hadrian Bane, the reclusive Lord of Ravensmoor, a man rumored to carry a beast beneath his own skin.
But to her surprise, Hadrian is not evil.
He is kind. Patient. And he is loving…
Quickly she begins to wonder if another life might be waiting beyond the one she was destined for.
There is, however, one problem.
A cursed beast haunts the townsfolk of Oxford, and its appetite shows no sign of abating.
Only when she crosses the threshold of Hadrian's ancestral past does she understand what he truly is: a thousand-year-cursed werewolf, bound to a grief he has never forgiven himself for. But his curse is not the only secret stalking them—an old debt, decades in the making, has finally come to collect.
As full moons rise, something feral awakens beneath the cursed lord's skin, and Amelia must decide whether their forbidden love can survive what the past has set in motion—or whether, like everything before it, it is destined to be consumed.
This is a dark romance intended for mature readers. Please review all trigger & content warnings before reading. This story does not end with a HEA.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
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