You are the duke’s elder daughter, safe and untouchable behind the walls of Harrowgate. Your younger sister has the suitors. You have Ser Tobias, the captain of the guard, who chose to stand one step behind you himself. The night before the tournament, he takes your ribbon. From that night on, any man who comes near you is in danger – and every step deeper is one you choose.
⚠️ Content warnings: obsessive stalking; possessive behaviour; being cornered and pinned against a wall; a threat of violence against a rival; sexual touching and kissing; theft of a personal item.

The tournament dawns bright and cruel, and your blue ribbon is nowhere to be found. The knights of Brennholt ride up to your father’s box to beg a favour – Lord Fairleigh among them, a fresh bruise on his cheek. Ser Tobias rides last, and by sundown the whole realm will be waiting to see what you do.
⚠️ Content warnings: graphic violence; on-page death of a character (a killing disguised as a jousting accident); blood; complicity through silence; public humiliation of a sibling; sexual tension.

Lord Fairleigh lies dead on the lists, and the champion’s crown of white roses sits on your head. While the castle reels, you slip away to Ser Tobias’s pavilion with an accusation burning on your tongue. But your father saw what you did before half the realm – and he has yet to decide what it will cost you.
⚠️ Content warnings: aftermath of a violent death; a blood-stained keepsake; a slap; family favouritism and verbal humiliation (“old maid”); a forced betrothal; a man made to court someone against his will; jealousy; covert touching under a table.

For three days, Tobias walks your sister through the rose garden and doesn’t say a word to you. Then Lord Ellery arrives – kind, patient and nothing like you feared – and kisses your hand by the fountain. Someone is watching from the shadow of the yew hedge, and tonight your chamber is dark when you return to it.
⚠️ Content warnings: a calm discussion of murdering a rival; threats of violence; possessive biting; sexual touching; explicit language; stated intent to impregnate and publicly ruin the reader (which she welcomes); breaking into her chamber.

Every kindness from Lord Ellery cuts a little deeper – a tile of blue glass, a man who actually waits for your answer, contracts to be signed in four days. And every night, leather creaks just outside your bedchamber door. Sleepless in the dark, you have to decide how much you dare to want.
⚠️ Content warnings: explicit sexual content; oral sex (receiving); masturbation and ejaculation onto the body; restraint (wrists pinned); an implied threat against a betrothed; possessive behaviour; consent is given throughout.

A ride along the coast is Lord Ellery’s idea, and the captain of the guard will ride escort. You go down to the stables early, unable to sit still, and find you’re not the first one there. High on the cliff road, a single word from you could change everything.
⚠️ Content warnings: sabotage and an attempted murder; a man thrown over a cliff edge and left hanging; peril; complicity through silence; threats of future violence.

Lord Ellery came home from the cliff road alive, and Tobias has promised that next time you won’t be watching. Two mornings later, the steward walks into breakfast grey-faced and goes straight to your father. Somewhere in the castle waits one small thing no one else has noticed – and what you do with it can’t be undone.
⚠️ Content warnings: death of a character by poisoning (off-page); a body laid out; the reader destroys evidence; rumours of a curse; grief and guilt; heavy kissing.

Two suitors are dead, the servants whisper that you’re cursed, and your father still believes you’re his to give away. On the evening of the burial, Tobias murmurs a place and an hour as he passes you on the chapel steps. Your sister hasn’t taken her eyes off you – and tonight, he means for there to be no going back.
⚠️ Content warnings: explicit sexual content; loss of virginity; rough sex with pain; creampie; consensual but deliberately public sex intended to be discovered; discovery by family members and staff; humiliation; possessive behaviour.

Caught in Tobias’s arms on your father’s desk, you’re marched back to your rooms through a castle that has climbed out of its beds to watch. By noon, the duke will pass judgement on his ruined daughter. Tobias has asked for your hand – and the answer he gets may be the most dangerous thing yet.
⚠️ Content warnings: public shaming; imprisonment in her room; a sentence to a convent; a threat against a possible unborn child; a forced-marriage ultimatum; hints that the knight will take matters into his own hands; family estrangement.

Wyndmoor waits – a convent on a bare grey rock above the sea, and the rest of your life behind its walls. Near midnight, the bar on your door lifts, and Tobias comes to you with a plan and, for the first time, a question only you can answer. How far are you willing to follow him now?
⚠️ Content warnings: the reader consents to her father’s murder; murder (off-page, a fall down stairs); a secret wedding performed by a coerced priest; blackmail of a priest and steward; forged records.

They bury your father in the vault beneath the chapel, and you stand at the head of the mourners with your husband at your side. Now the crown’s magistrate is riding in to settle the succession, and a hall full of people heard every word your father said. Secrets must be kept – and one last choice waits for your hand.
⚠️ Content warnings: a cover-up of murders; killing of witnesses (off-page, framed as banditry); bribery and intimidation; the reader sends her sister to a convent; explicit sexual content (tender); implied pregnancy.