In Victorian London, a lovelorn fifty-three-year-old widow discovers she is the muse for a young artist.
Widowed, middle-class, and past her prime, Leonora Aldbury is unwelcome amongst Victorian England's upper crust and denied the opportunities society can bring including romantic attachments. She aches for sensual fulfillment, and fantasizes about a young artist who sketches in London's National Gallery. At a chance meeting, the artist offers Leonora an intriguing invitation. Will she risk respectability for a chance at love?
"The Invitation" is a short story of 3,946 words.
"The Invitation" is set in the same Victorian world as Regina's Art & Discipline series. The characters in "The Invitation", Leonora Aldbury and the artist Jasper Dawson, will be integrated into future Art & Discipline books.
Art & Discipline
Beneath prim and proper Victorian society lies a world of unconventional artistic endeavors and sensual pursuits.
Book 1: The Westerman Affair
Short story: "The Invitation"