Hysteria: A Dark Gothic Victorian Romance
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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