The Mystery of the Black Widow ~ a Gay Victorian Romance and Erotic Novella

“Do you believe in ghosts?”

Cedric Davidson, a young solicitor from London, does not believe in neither ghosts nor ghouls and goblins. However, both his strong conviction and moral principles are to be severely tested when he is sent to Lydford Hall to sort out the legal documents after the owner’s sudden mysterious death.

Lydford Hall is an estate located in the middle of the most desolate part of Dartmoor and it is said to be haunted by the Black Widow. There he meets Christopher Morgan, the gamekeeper, whom he is instantly and dangerously attracted to.

And suddenly nothing is what it seems to be…

Keywords: Gothic mystery, Dartmoor, gay romance, haunted mansion, desire.

An extract from the story:

I am an attorney sent here on an important legal case, for God’s sake! I reminded myself firmly and swallowed hard.

I forced myself to regain control and took a small step back away from him.

“Thank you, Mr Morgan,” I said in a perfectly steady voice and pronounced his family name with extra care. I will most certainly not call him by his given name! I thought, slightly shocked by the very idea. “I will be down momentarily, let me just arrange a couple of things.”

“Of course,” he said with a small, alluring smile, which told me that he had not been tricked or, unfortunately, put off by my cold behaviour. “I will be waiting for you, then.”

“Excellent,” I replied stiffly. “Capital.”

It felt like there was a hidden ambiguous message in his comment, and he remained by the door a couple of seconds longer than necessary. For a bewildering moment I thought that he would cross the threshold and enter my room, but instead he simply turned around and went down the stairs at the end of the corridor, leaving me equally disappointed and relieved. I quickly closed the door to my room and leaned hard against it, with a rapidly beating heart.

What in the Devil’s name just happened? I thought.

Product details:

Category: Gay Victorian Romance and Erotica

Format: Kindle eBook

Written and published: 2016

Length: Bedtime companion (~30000 words)

Proofread by Pauline Nolet

Publisher: My Secret Quill

About the author:

Lady T. L. Jennings is a shy writer who loves the Victorian era and afternoon tea. She lives on the outskirts of Oxford in England, and writes Victorian erotica and romance with a dash of Gothic mystique in longhand with a fountain pen.

She collects books, corsets, and lovers (all with varying levels of success).