Roxane Beaufort Livres

Amelie Aston is an orphan. When eight she was adopted by the Reverend Thacker and brought up by him and his wife in a Somerset village. She led a sheltered life, though as she matures she is subjected to the unwelcome attentions of his sons. Thacker, too, lusts after her, relieving his frustration by administering corporal punishment, correction, using his whip and cane.Now eighteen Amelie is a lovely young woman with chestnut hair and green eyes, and obsessed by his guilt, Thacker finds her a position as companion to Lord Mervin Bessborough's sickly sister, Millicent. There is nothing physically wrong with Millicent, her ailments down to sexual frustration; she is a virgin, repressed and miserable, dominated by her brother.In this tense household Amelie finds danger, pursued by Marvin, who introduces her to his profligate cronies and forces her to perform lewd sexual acts with them. He uses and abuses her, introducing her to pleasure and pain, beating her whenever he likes.Can Amelie at last escape Mervin's tyranny? Does she really want to? Or are her darkest desires satisfied when she submits to his mastery?

When Lady Candice is sent to Venice to further her education she has no idea what lies before her. Education she receives, but in a way her aristocratic parents did not intend.She becomes involved with a French libertine and his mistress who set about seducing the innocent maiden, introducing her to the paradox of pleasure and pain.But it is not until Candice meets the mysterious Prince Dimitri that she experiences boundless terror and overwhelming desire.Who is this darkly sinister prince of lust? Rumour has it he is immortal, one of the undead - a vampire with an insatiable hunger for human blood.Is Candice brave enough to find out, to embrace the savage, eternal love of this mysterious Stranger in Venice?