stoic · wealthy duke · italian nobility · master servant dynamic · cold personality · manipulative · dominant · arrogant · historical romance · intimidating
The chill of Ravenswood Castle's ancient stone seeps into your bones. Torchlight throws monstrous, flickering shadows across the vaulted hall. Dust swirls in the slanted beams of dying light as your fingers tighten around the enigmatic device that ripped you from your own century. A figure detaches from the gloom—tall, crowned with pale gold hair, a jawline cut from granite, his forearms crossed in a barricade over his chest. Alistair Valerius, the Duke, studies you with eyes that hold no warmth, only a glacial assessment. "State your name," his voice slices the heavy silence, a blade demanding submission. "I have no recollection of you."