The Old Rose Garden ~ Victorian Romance and Erotica

Summary:
There is an old rose garden across the fields behind Halifax manor in Yorkshire where no one ever comes. Abandoned for years, moss and climbing ivy vines have long ago claimed the wooden pergolas and overgrown the white marble statues around the forgotten pond in the middle of the garden.

No one ever comes there except Georgina; a young woman who everyone thinks is a little bit peculiar ever since that strange accident.

But when her brother hires a couple of workers and a new gardener from the village to help clear up the gardens around the estate, everything will change...

An extract from the story:
“Did you not know that it is forbidden to run in the rose garden?” he mumbled and kissed my hair softly.
“You made that up,” I accused him and tried to move away from him; however, he would not let me get away. Instead, he pulled me closer, and kissed and gently nibbled my earlobe. It tickled a little, but I also found it rather exciting, something that I knew he was perfectly aware of. I shivered despite the warm summer day.
“There is a punishment for running in my garden,” he continued and left a trail of soft kisses along my throat. I felt his grip around my waist increase slightly, and one of his hands travelled downwards and stroked my lower back. My heart beat faster, which was not entirely a result of having been running.
“There is not.” I giggled in protest. “Besides, technically it is my garden and not yours! The old rose garden belongs to my family’s estate, after all.”
“No one can own a garden, you silly girl. It belongs to the person who takes care of it, of course. Everyone knows that...”

Keywords:
Love story, roses, lighting storm, longing, sensual erotica.

Details:
Category: Victorian Romance and Erotica
Format: eBook
Written and published: 2013
Length: Afternoon Delight (~7000 words)
Proofread by Pauline Nolet
Publisher: My Secret Quill

About the author:
Lady T. L. Jennings is a shy writer who loves the Victorian era and afternoon tea. She lives on the outskirts of Oxford in England, and writes Victorian erotica and romance with a dash of gothic mystique in longhand with a fountain pen.
She collects books, corsets, and lovers (all with varying levels of success).

Also by Lady T. L. Jennings:

Victorian Romance and Erotica short story collections

~ Lust and Lace ~
a Victorian Romance and Erotic short story collection. Vol. I.

~ Corsets and Cravings ~
a Victorian Romance and Erotic short story collection. Vol. II.

~ Secrets and Seduction ~
a Victorian Romance and Erotic short story collection. Vol. III.

Gay Victorian Romance and Erotica

~ Different Desire ~
a Gay Victorian Romance and Erotic Novelette Collection. Vol. I.

~ Forbidden Feelings ~
a Gay Victorian Romance and Erotic Novelette Collection. Vol. II.

~ Complicated Affairs ~
a Gay Victorian Romance and Erotic Novella

~ Blackmail ~
a Gay Victorian Romance and Erotic Novella