Once Upon a Midnight Dreary, (Paperback)

<p>Penniless, shunned by society, and marked forever by her mother's descent into madness, Lucy makes a desperate choice. She slips uninvited into London's most lavish masquerade ball, hiding behind a mask of desperation to secure the one thing she cannot survive without-marriage. </p><p>Champagne loosens her fear. Music blurs her judgment. And then she sees him. </p><p>The masked stranger that sends her heart racing. Seductive, watchful, and unsettlingly familiar, he draws Lucy into a dangerous dance that ends in public ruin... and a forced marriage neither of them can escape. </p><p>When the masks come off, the man who broke her heart years ago stands before her. </p><p>Sylum Deveroux, Duke of Blackthorn, vanished into scandal after a forced engagement to a woman who would never walk down the aisle. Tarnished by accusations of murder, he was never supposed to be in London... </p><p>Now she must risk it all to be with the man she never stopped loving. But once Lucy arrives at Blackthorn Manor, the true nightmare begins. </p><p>Footsteps echo outside her door. The servants watch her too closely. Sylum appears where he should not, says things he swears he never said, and a raven named Poe croons riddles about shadows, bones, and divided minds. </p><p>Is her new husband plotting her destruction?<br>Is the manor haunted by the ghost of his dead fiancée?<br>Or is Lucy unraveling exactly as everyone always feared she would? </p><p>Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, Once Upon A Midnight Dreary is a gothic psychological romance with a torturously slow descent into madness, steeped in obsession, and macabre desire. A fever-dream of a novel where truth fractures, love becomes dangerous, and the mind may be the most treacherous monster of all. </p><p>This book is a dark gothic romance intended for adult readers 18+</p>

• Once Upon a Midnight Dreary, (Paperback)
• Author: Cora Raven
• ISBN: 9798290794358
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-03-02
• Page Count: 398