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Dark Prince

Eve Silver · Dark Gothic

310 pagesgothic romance
(2k)Steamy

Sold to a brooding Cornish smuggler, Jane must decide if he's her dark prince or a monster.

Content Warnings
violence/gore

Description

Innkeeper’s daughter Jane Heatherington is sold into indentured servitude to cover her father’s debts, sold to Aidan Warrick, a man whose handsome face and form mock the rumors that skulk in his shadow, rumors that paint him a smuggler, a pirate...and worse.On the rainswept Cornish coast, Aidan’s business is carried out in the darkest hours of moonless nights, his secrets are many, and death follows in his wake. Isolated and alone, Jane's only companion is the man she dare not trust, the man who looks at her with heated desire that she both fears and craves.As she finds herself ensnared in the twisted schemes carried out within the walls of Aidan’s looming estate, Jane must decide if Aidan Warrick is the dark prince of her dreams or a monster preying on the innocent...Note: All books in the Dark Gothic series can be read as stand-alone novels.

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