Historical Fiction Victorian Era Novels & Stories

In the glamorous world of Chicago's elite, Ava Reed, a shy bookworm on scholarship, finds herself entangled in a dangerous game of power and desire. When she crosses paths with Max Blackwood, the city's most eligible bachelor, their worlds collide in a whirlwind of secrets and deceit. Desperate to escape her hometown and protect herself from a menacing admirer, Ava strikes a precarious deal with Max, the billionaire CEO of America's newest investment firm. But their contract marriage is just the beginning of a tumultuous journey filled with passion, jealousy, and betrayal. As they navigate the treacherous waters of high society, Ava and Max must confront their demons and face the ultimate question: is their love worth risking everything for?

Eric Brandford, multibillionaire CEO of Brandford Inc. needs a nanny for his daughter. Blake Harper, a college student applies for the job. She falls in love with seven-year-old Sydney Brandford, heiress to the Brandford Empire, but doesn't get along with Eric. He seems to be trying to control her, but will his control issues break her. They do not get along at all, but will they learn they have more in common than what they thought. Can they overcome their issues for Sydney or will it destroy them.

She and he were originally two people who had never met but were forced to marry for the sake of the two families. Clinton Rory hates Vivian Letitia, thinking that she caused him to break up with his lover, Louisa Eira, so he hates her. Always using every means to torture her cruelly. The first day of marriage forced her to sign a marriage contract, agreeing to divorce after a year. Vivian Letitia is heartbroken but she can't resist, as her entire family relies on Clinton Rory's help. If he wasn't happy, he would definitely make her family's Zane Group fall into trouble. Vivian Letitia patiently endured all suffering. He hates her, but he also doesn't know that she also has someone she loves, because marrying him she has to part with Lionel Alan in pain. But this she had to endure alone, also had to endure the torture of Clinton Rory towards her. But then when David Rory appeared, Clinton Rory saw her brother care about Vivian Letitia so much, and then got jealous. He discovers that he is in love with Vivian Letitia, but he refuses to admit it. Between her and him, it is clear that they have been together for a long time, but they both love each other, but no one will admit it. Clinton Rory really loved her, he accepted to let Vivian Letitia be by his side as his wife, wanted to love her. But now Louisa Eira whom he once loved so much has returned, so many turbulent things have come. One misunderstanding after another caused Clinton Rory to once again hate Vivian Letitia. He took revenge for Louisa Eira, causing the Zane corporation to go bankrupt.

Seraphine Vale is betrayed on her twentieth birthday, not celebrated. Drugged and abandoned by the family that despises her, she awakens in a luxury hotel suite beside Lucian Ardent, a powerful and untouchable billionaire feared across elite society. Their meeting is accidental and the result of a conspiracy, but by dawn, her life is already falling apart. When Seraphine gets back to her house, judgment takes the place of protection. Weeks later, her pregnancy is exposed at the family dinner table. She is locked up, forced into premature labor, and deceived into thinking her newborn child has died in the aftermath of calculated cruelty. She is exiled out of the country and pursued, narrowly avoiding being killed, and she then vanishes outside of its borders. She is ignored by everyone. She will never be seen again by her foes. She returns six years later. Seraphine re-enters high society transformed, no longer fragile but elegant, powerful, and emotionally untouchable. With mastery in medicine, a rising fashion empire, and alliances among the elite, she begins reclaiming what was stolen from her. Her presence disrupts the carefully constructed life of Lydia, the stepsister who stole her place, her identity, and her child. Lucian Ardent continues to look for the mysterious woman from that night despite the fact that he is unaware that she now appears before him under a different name and with different powers. Rivalry, suspicion, and an inexplicable pull that neither can ignore cross their paths. A brilliant young boy stands in the middle of them, drawn to the woman who thinks her child is dead. As deception unravels and buried truths surface, love and revenge converge in a world where reputation is power and identity is a weapon. Seraphine did not return for forgiveness but for the truth and revenge.

Enamored with her professor, freshman college student Alex, couldn't deny the shift in the air when she finally saw the renowned professor Zane Orion in the flesh. This illicit attraction had a history, as she was already familiar with his literary works, him being the object of her fantasies and before being accepted into NYU. Secretly, she had chosen NYU over her hometown of Boston, leaving behind her family and all that was familiar, just to attend his class in New York. Fifteen years, her senior, Zane, was a divorced father and also her professor and mentor. Despite the college's strict rules against student-teacher relationships, their forbidden connection could not be ignored, not in his class and when they were alone in a room. His dark, piercing gaze would make her heart race and her legs tremble, drenched and desperate for his touch, his mouth on her, to teach her more than just in class. Oh. There's something about Alex that snap something within professor Zane, the way his body reacts furiously at the sight of her, his possessive and feral nature about to be exposed, the moment Alex had walked into his class, Professor Zane knew she's going to be more than just his student, he would break down her already well crafted wall the moment he finds himself buried deeply in between her legs.

“Now take your bastard daughter and get out of my sight! If you ever step foot into this mansion again, you will die!” Elsa Boseman’s thunderous voice sounded all over the room. Her lips quivered as the tears streamed down her cheek freely. “No..mother in-law, please! I’m innocent!” She cried from the floor where she was kneeling before Elsa Boseman. “Leave, you slut! Take this bastard and get out of this place!” She heard Mrs Taiwo’s voice and her tears increased. “Guards! Guards! Take her out!” Dotun's provoking voice sounded all over the room. “No..I’m innocent, please don’t throw me out! Mother in-law!” She cried as she rushed over to Elsa Boseman. “No.. mother, I have nowhere to go!” She cried as she knelt before the two women. She was pulled up by the guards along with her daughter who was still crying uncontrollably. As she struggled with the men, she took a glance at Daren who was sitting dejectedly on the long couch with his head bowed. “My love, I'm innocent! Please don’t let them throw me out! Daren!” She shouted with her full strength but he remained silent and didn’t look in her direction. ** The rumbling of thunder could be heard as the rain continued to pour down mercilessly. Her lips continued to quiver and her body trembled as she wrapped her one year old daughter in her bosom. She thought of everything happening in her life at the moment. She had been accused, betrayed and rejected by the family she had worshiped all through the years. She looked at her daughter who was now sleeping peacefully in her arms and she sighed. “I will make them pay,” she said as flashes of lightning appeared in the sky.

His deep blue eyes were everything. The only striking detail I could recognize from his mask-covered face as he turned my life upside down. But would I really have stopped his fingers from exploring my body or rejected his tempting lips setting my skin on fire if I had known who he was? Ruggerio Capoletti. The only man that was off limits for me in the entire world. The heir of the family that has rivaled mine for decades.

Elena believed that her life was simple. She had a career she loved. A boyfriend she could trust and a future that felt safe. Not until she met Valeria Moretti. Cold, powerful and dangerous. A billionaire queen who ruled from the shadows, where money bought loyalty and betrayal was paid in blood. When her boyfriend, Marcus made a deal he couldn’t afford to keep. Elena became the collateral he never expected to lose. Taken into Valeria’s world of steel dominance and threats, Elena found herself trapped in a cage where luxury had teeth. Valeria claimed she wanted only what she was owed, but that was far from the truth. Her gaze lingered, her words cut too precisely and the line between punishment and desire began to blur. Elena had never questioned her heart. She never questioned her sexuality. Until Valeria began to dismantle her certainty, slowly and deliberately, without laying a hand on her skin. Because to Valeria, she didn’t need to conquer with force. She conquered with presence. As danger and intimacy coil together, Elena must face the truth she had never truly allowed herself to see: some forms of captivity felt like freedom, and some queens didn’t ask for loyalty; they claimed it. In a world of ruled silk temptation, steel authority and sinfully forbidden desire, love may be the most dangerous debt of all. This story contains themes, including power imbalance, captivity, psychological manipulation, emotional intensity and morally grey characters. Reader's discretion is advised. When power demands surrender, and desire refuses to be denied, how far would you fall before you stop fighting it?

Alistair Andrews is a CEO of a company engaged in the hotel and resort sector, he is engaged to Ivy, the daughter of a conglomerate in New York However, before they got married Ivy broke up with Alistair for some reason. Some time later, a friend invited him to attend a painting exhibition he was holding in another city. Alistair did not refuse the invitation, he went to Chicago with his secretary. Before they arrived in Chicago, the plane that was taking them there suddenly swerved and quickly plunged sharply into the sea. Alistair and Scarlett sank to the bottom of the ocean with the other passengers, their souls transmigrating into the bodies of prince and princess in the Emerald Kingdom. At that time Prince Nicholas and Princess Georgia were unconscious because someone had poisoned them. That person was Empress Grazia who hated Empress Cecilia's son and daughter who was exiled to a village far from the royal capital. Empress Grazia is Empress Cecilia's cousin who is obsessed with Emperor Edmund and desperately wanted to rule the kingdom in various ways including getting rid of Empress Cecilia's children.

She's a Mafia, She's a Luna, She's a Queen. . . Kara Rogers thought she had died after being betrayed by her loyal guard and killed by her rival in the Mafia world, only to wake up in the Victorian era where she was supposed to marry the infamous, most-feared and supposedly cold-hearted king of Vermont, Alpha Arthur Vermont.