Lightning in a Bottle

By Kim Knox

Rebecca Marwood is trapped in her guardian's house, but something in the night draws her to the fire and steel of his exotic menagerie. And there she finds freedom in the strangest of places...

 

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Kim Knox
• Release date: Jul 11, 2016
• ISBN: 9781536537444

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Lightning in a Bottle

Kim Knox

Kim Knox

Copyright © 2016 by Kim Knox

All rights reserved.

This story has been re-edited.

It is also published in its original form in the anthology

Dark Edge of Desire from Cleis Press. Edited by Mitzi Szereto

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Contents

Lightning in a Bottle

1. The Viscount’s Menagerie

About the Author

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Lightning in a Bottle

Rebecca Marwood is trapped in her guardian's house, but something in the night draws her to the fire and steel of his exotic menagerie. And there she finds freedom in the strangest of places...

The Viscount’s Menagerie

My guardian had always thought me ignorant of the goings on in his house.

A vapid girl, alone in the world, who never noticed the dark robed men arriving in the dead of night. Or one who never wondered at the hints of sage and frankincense that drifted through the passages of his London town house in the early mornings. I knew, had known for quite some years that Henry Bellasis, Viscount Fauconberg was a warlock. And that he now planned to draw me into his world by offering my virginity to a stranger.

I wrapped my fingers around the great brass key, the pitted metal warming against my skin as I stood in the shadowed passage that led to the cellar door. The place where my guardian had bound his great secret.