The Shadow and the Star (Victorian Hearts #2)
Laura Kinsale
Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars
3.72
· Steam/Spice level: 4 of 5
Explicit open door [?]
· 28 ratings · 464 pages · Published: 15 Sep 1991
Wealthy, powerful and majestically handsome, he is a man of dark secrets--a master of the ancient martial arts of an exotic distant land. Scarred by a childhood of shocking degradation, he has sworn to love chastely... but burns with the fires of unfulfilled passion.
THE STAR
Lovely, innocent and nearly destitute, she is drawn to him by a fevered yearning she could never deny -- following her enigmatic "shadow warrior" into a dangerous world of desire and righteous retribution.
Tagged as:
- virgin heroine 12
- historical 11
- tortured hero 11
- victorian 11
- virgin hero 11
- regency 10
- love triangle 10
- dark romance 5
- grumpy/cold hero 1
- boss & employee 1
- other man/woman 1
- east asian mc 1
- m-f romance 1
- Add topics
- content warnings
- abuse 11
- geography
- united kingdom 1
- europe 1
- england 1
- british isles 1
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The 'Victorian Hearts' series
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victorian · regency · virgin heroine · historical · length-medium · abuse · europe · explicit-open-door · england · tearjerkers · cold hero · dark · m-f · erotica · alpha male · love triangle · east-asian-mc · sweet-hero · secret child · other-man-woman
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