La Casa di Segreti – The House of Secrets

Genre: Sensual Romance Anthology / Victorian Era / paranormal

Contributing Authors:
R.L. Stuemke
Colleen Love
Brigit Aine                                       
Denysé Bridger

Publisher/Release Date: pending

Enter the world of Victorianna Mezzanotte, the mysterious lady who owns La Casa di Segreti - The House of Secrets. The house is a very exclusive, whispered about brothel in the heart of London. What makes it different is that this is a place catering to the whims of women, not men. There is nothing ordinary about the House of Secrets, its clients, and its residents, who just happen to include the ghost of a dead pirate, and a mysterious Phantom singer who has captivated the Mistress of the House and stolen her heart though she has never seen him…

Join us… be enchanted… intrigued… and forever charmed by the limitless possibilities waiting to be discovered within the rooms of La Casa di Segreti… A place where love is redefined by imagination, passion, and hope...

Daemon Lover's Secret
by R.L. Stuemke

Seeking redemption after centuries of serving Lucifer along with the rest of the fallen angels, Jeriel has been sent to La Casa di Segreti by the archangel Raphael, to live among humans at their level, as Jeremy, one of Victorianna's higher ranked 'escorts'.  He thinks that the best he can ultimately hope for is oblivion, but Raphael has other ideas including some that involve the specific experience that made Jeriel turn away from Lucifer’s service.

Raphael uses his influence to pair Jeremy with Sybella, a sad, betrayed widow, still suffering from her late husband's physical abuse and also from society's rejection.  Her mother wants Sybella to realize that life still holds wonderful things for her.  Raphael knows the scarred woman needs a special level of care. 

So, these two are brought together under Victorianna's watchful guidance.  They both have something very important to learn, in order to find salvation.  Will the right choices be made, or will they both lose everything?

Whispered Secrets
by Colleen Love

Camellia Northbrook is daughter and only heir to the aristocratic Northbrook Estate. Raised single handed by her father among the stables and horses, she grows to be a strong, poised, beautiful woman who can run the barns as well as any man.

Sam is a man of mystery, to both himself and those around him. The only thing he knows of himself is his name written on a slip of paper, found in his pocket. Victorianna shows kindness, knowing a lost soul when she sees one, and lets him work for her.

Fate works her clever hand, drawing the two desperate people together, joining them with love’s soft, strength. Not even whispered secrets can unravel.

Secrets of Fate
by Brigit Aine

Claire has created the perfect “getaway” computer game that allows the user to put a personalized avatar into any situation.  She herself has a favorite scenario, Victorian London and a brothel that caters to women.  She only wished she still wasn’t going to bed with her computer tucked up next to her at night.

Stephan knew the ghost of the woman he was seeing couldn’t really be a ghost.  She talked to him and those around him as if it was truly a part of their lives.  He wished he knew where she came from and if she was real.

With a little help from the Fates Claire finds herself in Stephan’s world and the two meet with nothing between them.  But can a 21st century Claire stay in 19th Century London or will she need to convince Stephan to try and come home with her? 

La Casa di Segreti
by Denysé Bridger

Victorianna is something of a mystery. She has been haunted for several years, by a beautiful voice that invades her dreams… She has been searching for him for a long time, and that is part of the reason for the existence of the House of Secrets. Those who work for her have never been certain who or what she is, but speculation abounds. Some say she is a seer, others call her a living ghost, to some she is hope in the form of a woman with extraordinary vision.... At La Casa di Segreti, she is the power that determines Fate for her chosen clients.

Only one person within the House knows her deepest secrets, and he is a ghost, the pirate Captain Jack Stanton, a man wronged and reviled almost 200 years earlier. Jack is also searching - for his lost love. Unknown to Victorianna, he has the answer to her mysterious singer’s identity, but until their work is done, he holds that truth close to his own undead heart – only when they've matched the right people, and cleared his name will he reveal his secret - the name of the man whose voice she is in love with, and that their next move is to Venice… where her dream may yet come true in the arms of a man as lonely as she has been…