Victoria is the eldest daughter of a powerful politician with a blind ambitions to marry off his daughter to the former Prime Minister's son.

Fearful of an impending marriage, it creates an even greater friction in the Reeds household. One day when walking home, Victoria meets a stranger at Brownhurt's Park, a short distance from her estate, and it is there that she speaks for the first time to a mysterious man with a strong Irish brogue. She knows that speaking to him is beneath her, especially if he is not a part of  London's high society, but there is something alluring about this stranger with his dazzling "azure blue" eyes.

Returning to the main point of this blog post, the inspiration behind this story was based off a few Gothic novels that I have read and loved. To name a few popular reads that inspired me were: The Vampyre, Dracula, and Arthur Conan Doyle's detective series "Sherlock Holmes." Gothic literature is my favourite genre to date, mostly because it combines suspense, horror, and dark romance. A rather apt description for "Far from Home" series, if I may say so myself. Victoria Reeds at the beginning of the novel resembles the stereotypical naive character that is regularly featured in Gothic literature, but suddenly her personality shifts, it is a dark, twisted form, barely recognizable to the one that was once worshipped in London high society. What influence does McVeigh have on this young girl? Why was she so desperate to run away from home, and where could she possibly go next?

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