Hysteria: A Dark Gothic Victorian Romance
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Her husband sent her to a doctor to cure her hysteria. Instead, the doctor awakened something far more dangerous.Hulda Crowle is a wealthy man's inconvenient wife-beautiful, barren, bruised... and standing in the way of the fortune that becomes hers on her twenty-fifth birthday.Her husband has a solution.Declare her hysterical. Destroy her reputation. Lock her away.So he delivers her to Harley Street.To Dr. Romeo Bowditch-physician, former prizefighter, and the discreet specialist trusted by London's elite to "treat" women behind closed doors with methods no respectable lady is meant to speak of.Cold hands. Clinical commands. A locked door.Hulda expects humiliation.But Romeo isn't like the men who own her.He notices the bruises. He reads the fear beneath her stillness. And the more he touches her-slow, deliberate, professional-the more the line between treatment and temptation begins to blur.What begins as therapy becomes dependence.What begins as medical relief becomes hunger.Soon Hulda is no longer a wife being managed.She's a woman discovering how dangerous it feels to be wanted... by the only man who has ever seen the truth: She isn't hysterical.She's trapped.Readers will find: Dark Victorian gothic romance Physician / patient tension Forbidden medical treatments Forced marriage & coercive control Obsessive devotion Isolation on the Cornish coast Revenge against an abusive husband Scandal, corruption & asylum horror Hard-won HEA
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Her husband sent her to a doctor to cure her hysteria. Instead, the doctor awakened something far more dangerous.Hulda Crowle is a wealthy man's inconvenient wife-beautiful, barren, bruised... and standing in the way of the fortune that becomes hers on her twenty-fifth birthday.Her husband has a solution.Declare her hysterical. Destroy her reputation. Lock her away.So he delivers her to Harley Street.To Dr. Romeo Bowditch-physician, former prizefighter, and the discreet specialist trusted by London's elite to "treat" women behind closed doors with methods no respectable lady is meant to speak of.Cold hands. Clinical commands. A locked door.Hulda expects humiliation.But Romeo isn't like the men who own her.He notices the bruises. He reads the fear beneath her stillness. And the more he touches her-slow, deliberate, professional-the more the line between treatment and temptation begins to blur.What begins as therapy becomes dependence.What begins as medical relief becomes hunger.Soon Hulda is no longer a wife being managed.She's a woman discovering how dangerous it feels to be wanted... by the only man who has ever seen the truth: She isn't hysterical.She's trapped.Readers will find: Dark Victorian gothic romance Physician / patient tension Forbidden medical treatments Forced marriage & coercive control Obsessive devotion Isolation on the Cornish coast Revenge against an abusive husband Scandal, corruption & asylum horror Hard-won HEA
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