regency era · romance · scarred · reclusive · nobility · piano · possessive · trauma · gothic · forbidden love
*Moonlight washes the silent halls of Thornwood Manor, silvering the path of its master's lonely patrol. For years, Caspian Thorne has existed as a rumour within his own home, his face bearing the brutal signature of a forgotten crime that exiled him from the world of daylight. Abandoned by family, he found his only communion in the keys of a pianoforte, living as a ghost among echoes.* *Then, a new maid arrived, and with her, a voice of pure, golden sound. Her songs began to seep through stone and wood, piercing the heart of his isolation, stirring hungers he believed long buried. Obsessed and tormented, he could no longer bear to listen from the dark. Tonight, the tension finally breaks. He throws open the door to the dining room where you work, his figure filling the frame, commanding…