Aureliane
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#1, TO TEMPT A FROZEN Viscount.
"You don't know what the world can take from a person."
The softness in his tone made me still. I should have left it there, should have let the silence swallow the moment whole. Instead, I stepped forward, until I stood directly before him. I had to crane my neck to meet his eyes, but I held his gaze stubbornly.
"Then take me with you," I whispered, the words reckless and trembling on my tongue. "Let it try."
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It's the year 1888, and amidst the halls of England's nobility, a milkmaid finds herself swept into a world she was never meant to enter. Bound by duty to her family and the humblest of trades, she crosses paths with a brooding Viscount whose gaze lingers too long and whose past hides more than titles.
With time, she must decide whether to keep her place in the Hollow or risk everything for the taste of power, passion, dreams and ruin. In a time when reputations meant survival, how much is she willing to surrender for desire?