Taming His Willful Ward: a Guardian-ward & Ageplay Victorian Novella Ladybirds – Book

“If you climax from my touch, then I shall know you as a wanton witch, set on this earth to tempt men.” His fingers glided lower. “Consider it your second test.”At nineteen years of age, heiress Adelene Lovejoy knows all too well how to weaponize her own powerlessness. She expects her new guardian to succumb as easily as his predecessors. But he is a man in his prime: powerful, commanding, and utterly unmoved by her wiles.Lord Endicott Meirion, Earl of Griffiths, comes with a singular purpose: to break his ward’s wild spirit and remake her into a proper woman. Her father’s memory demands nothing less. He begins by locking her in a tower room, but an intimate inspection staggers them both.Yet as he applies steady discipline, unexpected tenderness forms a bridge. She unravels. First her secrets spill forth, and then her surrender blooms.At first a contest of wills, guardian and ward discover that reform reveals deeper wounds, inflicted by a cruel world. And the solution is not harsh dominance alone, but protection tempered with love.Taming His Willful Ward is a spicy 29,000-word Victorian novella about being truly seen and accepted for the first time. Features an age-gap guardian-ward dynamic, “just the tip,” and a defiant ward who orchestrates her own deflowering.