To Stay

When Eloise Somerset plunges into the icy depths of a river, she doesn't die.

She wakes up in 1840.

Disoriented and alone, she finds herself in a time she doesn't understand and a society that doesn't want her. Before she can grasp what's happened, she stumbles into the lives of four orphaned siblings barely clinging to survival. They don't trust her-but they need her. And somewhere between grief, desperation, and sheer will, Eloise decides she can't leave them.

Not yet.

To protect them, she agrees to an impossible bargain with the man who controls their fate-an earl with cold eyes, sharp words, and a dangerously magnetic presence. The arrangement is simple: her obedience, his protection. What begins as a deal born of necessity quickly transforms into a slow, aching unraveling neither of them can resist.

But Eloise is from a different world-a different century. And love, in Victorian England, is never simple. Her presence is a threat. Her story, a scandal waiting to explode. And the man she's come to care for? He belongs to a world that would destroy her without hesitation.

Still... he looks at her like she matters. Like she's more than the woman who fell from nowhere. Like she could belong.

As secrets unravel and passion ignites, Eloise is forced to choose between the life she left behind and the impossible future she's building in a world that doesn't forgive women like her.

Then, one night, the river calls again.

And with it, a choice:

Go back.

Forget everything.

Escape the pain.

Or stay.

And face a future carved out of sacrifice, scandal, and the kind of love that refuses to be forgotten.