The Tormentor
I should have killed the old man years ago. I should've pressed a pillow over his sleeping, drooling face—smothered him until he turned cold—and made it look like it was natural to claim my inheritance. Yet, something stopped my hand every single time. Perhaps it was the echo of my younger brothers' voices ringing in my mind. Perhaps it was the unsettling truth that his blood runs through my veins.
But now the cruel old bastard has delivered a final, devastating blow: he announced he's marrying again...
to the widow of the man who murdered our mother.
A debt paid.
A new stepsister.
Stalk the waif in the gardens. Haunt her in the halls. Chase her in the forest. Whatever it takes so the widow and her plain daughter never receive a cent of the inheritance owed to us.
Genre: Historical Romance
I should have killed the old man years ago. I should've pressed a pillow over his sleeping, drooling face—smothered him until he turned cold—and made it look like it was natural to claim my inheritance. Yet, something stopped my hand every single time. Perhaps it was the echo of my younger brothers' voices ringing in my mind. Perhaps it was the unsettling truth that his blood runs through my veins.
But now the cruel old bastard has delivered a final, devastating blow: he announced he's marrying again...
to the widow of the man who murdered our mother.
A debt paid.
A new stepsister.
Stalk the waif in the gardens. Haunt her in the halls. Chase her in the forest. Whatever it takes so the widow and her plain daughter never receive a cent of the inheritance owed to us.
Genre: Historical Romance