Locked away in Blackthorn Asylum beneath the sobering skies of Victorian England, Evangeline Blackwood is condemned not for madness-but for hunger. Her crime is carnal vision; her sentence is silence. Yet inside stone walls, where agony masquerades as care and shadowy innovation cloaks cruelty, desire festers into revolution.
Beneath velvet drapes and behind iron bars, Evangeline finds fevered allies-women burned by the world, yet not broken. Together they unravel the institution's tapestry of medical horrors and forbidden pleasures, risking everything to kindle an uprising in body, mind, and myth.
A tale of erotic Gothic horror and audacious liberation, Velvet Prison shatters the boundary between pleasure and punishment. As conspiracy tangles with longing and the ghosts of suffering resurrect new kinships, Blackthorn becomes more than a prison. It becomes a sanctuary for those dangerous enough to survive-where the forbidden is claimed, memory is remade, and only the unrepentant can dare freedom.
Dare to cross the threshold. Some prisons do not end where the door swings open, but where longing blooms into revolution.