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Master and Maid: A Dark Victorian Gothic Romance
Paperback
Series: Victorian Gothic
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 3 2026
Pages: 174
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
She lost her voice the same day he lost his face.
London, 1856.
Six years ago, Bertie Tash was attacked in an alley and left bloodied, brutalized, and unable to speak. The carriage crash that frightened away her assailants destroyed another life that same afternoon.
Lord Isidore Barlowe, Earl of Wantelm, was once the most beautiful man in London-and cruel enough to know exactly what that beauty allowed him to take. Then shattered glass and twisted metal claimed one eye, carved his face from temple to jaw, and left his body slowly succumbing to infection.
Now Isidore lives behind the locked doors of his failing household, dependent on laudanum and determined to punish anyone who witnesses his weakness. Six nurses have already fled him.
Bertie intends to be the seventh.
She accepts the position because she needs the money, not because she believes the ruined earl can be saved. She does not pity him. She does not recoil from his scars. And when he tries to humiliate her with obscene demands, she answers with the one weapon he cannot defend against:
silence.
He hired her to bathe him.
She decides when he may be touched.
As Bertie takes control of his medicine, his body, and the neglected house crumbling around him, their daily rituals become something darker than care and far more intimate than service. Isidore begins to crave the hands of the only woman who refuses to fear him. Bertie discovers that surrender feels very different when it is freely chosen-and that the cruelest man in London may be the only one who understands the power of everything she does not say.
But desire cannot repair a bankrupt estate. To preserve his title and secure the future of those who depend on him, Isidore must marry a wealthy and respectable woman.
Bertie is neither.
Choosing his maid would mean scandal, poverty, and perhaps only a handful of years together. Choosing duty would mean sending away the woman who taught him how to live inside his ruined body.
Master & Maid is a dark, explicit Victorian Gothic romance about a scarred earl, a silent servant, forbidden intimacy, erotic power exchange, and two damaged people who must decide whether love is still worth choosing when it cannot promise them forever.
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