'Intoxicated as I am by my love for him, I am also afraid . . . What wickedness lurks within me, struggling to emerge?' 1838: In a quiet, English village, eighteen-year-old Eloise Morton yearns to experience love. The arrival of a handsome and aristocratic stranger fills her with hope, but their romantic courtship quickly descends into a maze of psychological games and strange, erotic encounters. Eloise finds herself suddenly alone, and transformed in ways that she cannot understand. But what has she become? Are the dark appetites that now compel her human, or otherwise? Is she victim, predator – or both? Eloise sets off on a perilous journey to the other side of the world to reunite with the man who haunts her heart – and to discover the shocking truth about herself. Sexy, dark and thrilling, Haunted Heart is a breathtaking gothic novel about losing oneself to the heart's darkest desires.
