Deflowered By The Angry Duke: A Dark Captor and Captive Victorian Romance

She stole his secrets. He claimed her soul.

Julian St. John, the furious Duke of Ashcroft, is a man hollowed out by grief and ruled by absolute order. When the innocent vicar's daughter, Cecily Gable, sneaks into his private library and touches his deepest sorrow - his deceased mother's journal - Julian's icy composure shatters.

To punish her trespass and curiosity, he threatens to ruin her family, forcing her to stay and 'read to him' to pay her debt. In the suffocating confines of the manor, his initial cruelty twists into a fierce, obsessive need to possess her. He controls her dresses, her reading, and her every breath, crushing her rebellious spirit into perfect submission.

When a potential rival appears, Julian coldly annihilates the man's legacy as a deadly warning. To secure her forever, he offers Cecily's father a ransom: a grand endowment for his church in exchange for his daughter's hand. Cecily accepts the monstrous bargain, prepared to sacrifice her innocence and her freedom to the angry Duke's consuming will.

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Release date

Ebook: 30 November 2025