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Lace & Loyalty

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Lace and Loyalty is a Victorian romance about obsession, power, and forbidden desire. It follows Princess Adelaide Rosamund, a young woman trapped by courtly duty and suffocating expectations, and meets Sir Callum Whitmere — a dangerously devoted, cold, and calculating knight who seems to exist solely to guard her. From the moment he notices Adelaide, Callum becomes consumed by her, and even though she senses the danger in his obsession, she can’t fully escape his gaze. What begins as fear and resistance slowly evolves into a tense, intoxicating connection filled with control, psychological manipulation, and quiet, simmering power. Set against a gilded empire of political intrigue, gaslit courts, and shadowed alleyways, their relationship tests limits, blurs the lines between protection and possession, and proves that in a world of manners and smoke, devotion can be deadly.
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Chapter 1 - Lace & Loyalty

I could not but fall into solemn reflection and thus commune with my own restless heart: If she were wholly unacquainted with the lonely constancy of my regard, might it have rendered the trial less severe to behold her standing at the side of a gentleman whose affections for her were scarce greater than a mustard seed's humble portion?