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Molly Boys by Vawn Cassidy
London Underside, Book 1
London 1883:
For Lord Everett Stanley, escaping his fate seemed impossible. As the second son, he’s destined for ordination and the life of a priest, but he’s hiding a dangerous secret. The laws punishing homosexuality by hanging may have been repealed but he and others of his kind are far from safe. Given no other choice, they take solace in the underground molly houses of London. Now that fragile world is threatened when the East End is rocked by a series of gruesome murders.
Inspector Archibald Franklin worked hard to overcome his working-class roots, making a name for himself as a respected inspector of Whitechapel’s H Division, but when he begins to investigate the deaths of several beautiful young men, fate throws him into the path of the handsome and enigmatic Lord Stanley. His gut instinct tells him the young lord knows more about the murders than he lets on, but the closer he gets, the more Everett calls to him in a way he’s tried to deny his whole life.
As a reign of terror grips London, they are drawn together in order to stop a monster, but for Archie, the growing feelings he has for Everett are a betrayal of the very laws he has sworn to uphold. And as the killer closes in, the two men find themselves bound together by a passion that may be their ultimate salvation or their utter destruction…
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For someone so clearly intoxicated, Lord Stanley certainly was fast, Archie thought to himself as he burst out of the red door and into the heavily shrouded night. The man was nowhere to be seen as another bank of fog rolled across the cobbles in front of Archie.
His whole body went cold. Everything in his gut screamed at him to find the blonde man. He couldn’t say why, he just knew he had to or something bad would happen.
Praying he was headed in the right direction, Archie ran, his boots slipping on the thin layer of slush and snow smeared over the cobbles.
“Lord Stanley?” he called out into the mist. “Lord Stanley?”
His heart pounded. Something was wrong, so very wrong. A sense of urgency gripped him by the throat and seized his lungs. His panic was a living, breathing thing as he skidded to a halt and turned circles in the fog.
He had to be somewhere, he couldn’t have got very far this quickly. Archie’s panting was the only sound on the quiet street. Trying to calm his breathing, he listened, straining to hear even the slightest sound.
Suddenly he heard a muffled cry and the scuffle of boots against the cobbles. Instinct guided him and he followed the faint noise. The fog shifted to reveal the entrance to an alley and just beyond it, spotlighted in the streetlight’s pale light, was the most monstrous sight he’d ever seen.
The man was a giant, huge just like the boy had described him, and while it may have been a trick of the light, his eyes glowed in the darkness.
The enormous man held something in his arms. It took a second for Archie to realise it was Lord Stanley. The giant’s arms wrapped around him as he held a cloth over his mouth.
“STOP! POLICE!” Archie didn’t think, didn’t stop, his frantic mind unable to comprehend that a man that size could’ve crushed Archie’s head without effort. He rushed at the two men.
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About the Author:
Vawn Cassidy is the MM pen name of British author Wendy Saunders, as Vawn she writes contemporary and paranormal MM romance. She has a deep love of history and the supernatural. Inspired by the Victorian era and classic gothic literature, it has been a real labor of love for her to create an LGBTQ+ gothic romance series.
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