Metamorphoses: Of Moths and Butterflies/Cry of the Peacock/Gods and Monsters/Bonus Material: Late Victorian Historical Fiction Box Set

V.R. Christensen, B. Lloyd


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Metamorphoses: Of Moths and Butterflies/Cry of the Peacock/Gods and Monsters/Bonus Material: Late Victorian Historical Fiction Box Set by V.R. Christensen, B. Lloyd
This is a bundled collection of three of V.R. Christensen's bestselling works of Historical Fiction: Of Moths and Butterflies, Cry of the Peacock (unabridged and including its original beginning chapters), and Gods and Monsters. Also included are four short stories related to the novels.

Of Moths and Butterflies
Archer Hamilton is a collector of rare and beautiful insects. Gina Shaw is a servant in his uncle’s house. Out of place in the position in which she has been discovered, she becomes a source of fascination…and curiosity. A girl with a blighted past and a fortune she deems a curse, Gina has lowered herself in order to find escape from her family and their scheming designs. But when she is found, the stakes suddenly become dire. All Gina wants is the freedom to live her life as she would wish. All her aunts want is the money that comes with her. But there is more than one way to trap an insect. An arranged marriage might turn out profitable for more parties than one. Mr. Hamilton is about to make the acquisition of a lifetime. But will the price be worth it? Can a woman captured and acquired learn to love the man who has bought her?

Cry of the Peacock
What is the price of a woman’s heart?

When Abbie’s father, the overseer of a large country estate, dies, her landlords invite her to live at Holdaway Hall. But as Abbie soon learns, there is a great mystery at the heart of their extraordinary offer. Everything she has ever dreamt of might be hers for the taking, but is the price worth it?

An illustrious marriage, a fortune, a position of wealth and influence. These are the dreams and ambitions of any Victorian woman of sense. Or are they?

Gods and Monsters
As a widower, Nathanial Durham has the responsibility of finding suitable husbands for his two daughters. Flirtatious and changeable Bethany might have nearly anyone, but she seems determined to toss her suitors away almost the moment they appear. Laynie, on the other hand, far behind her sister in looks and charm, is of especial concern to her father. And so, when Harold Vaughn returns home to inherit, it seems the problem, at least for one of his daughters, is solved. Only which daughter will it be?

Meanwhile, Mr. Durham, lonely for intelligent companionship, hires a gentleman to read with him several nights a week, but Mr. Holbrook is off limits to his coquettish girls. With varying degrees of reluctance, they honor the agreement. But when accident prone Laynie falls from a horse, it sets in motion a series of events that expose Mr. Holbrook as a man of questionable integrity. Is it possible Mr. Durham’s hired companion is capable of the wrongs laid at his door? Is it possible Laynie has been mistaken in esteeming him as a man to whom she might entrust with her heart?

Between the manufactured innocence of a young woman and the championed exploits of every man, what happens when the two opposing doctrines collide?

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