Peruse Night Falls Too Soon Assembled By Francesca Chimenti Released As Ebook

young woman takes

a position as governess for a difficult child in a remote and sinister castle, I don't think there's much point in going any further than that,

Set in the's, this is a very drippy and fussilywritten gothic story, which smears period detail on with a trowel at every opportunity.
Sample text, describing the moment when the heroine hides in a corridor to listen to a conversation:

"I halted in a shadowed interstice, conveniently protected by a small replica of "the Winged Victory" on it's high taboret".


Thats just showing off, The whole book is like this, The author uses words like "escritoire", "appurtenances" and "bibelots" with glee, while the heroine gushes about everything, occasionally dropping into a very unconvincing Scottish accent in her narration such as: "Oh what a darlin' boy he was.
. . ".

If this is the "great romantic tradition", then leave me out of it, Gothic romance. Set in, a teacher of the mentally disabled goes to teach a child, .