Gentle Things

Gentle Things by Danielle Giles is historical fiction set in Restoration London, with a slow-building gothic edge that keeps the pages turning.

In 1668, Lucy North is newly fatherless, her mother buried in debt, and the future narrowing to one grim choice: accept the first marriage offer that might save their home.

When Thomas Ashwell, a charming young apothecary, offers both kindness and a proposal, Lucy reaches for the promise of love and security. But after an accident leaves her injured and confined, her world begins to slip sideways.

Thoughts arrive that don’t feel like her own, and the soothing certainty of Thomas’s remedies starts to look uncomfortably like control.

 Ideal for readers drawn to gothic suspense, psychological tension, and richly realised historical London—especially anyone who enjoys domestic unease and creeping doubt.

Add Gentle Things to your shelf and discover how easily salvation can turn into something darker.