Historical
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-04-28 | Author:Lady of Quality

CHAPTER 10 It was considerably past noon when Miss Wychwood re-entered her house, and there were unmistakable signs that her uninvited guests had arrived, and were partaking of a late ...
( Category: Historical April 11,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-03-28 | Author:Jean M. Auel

Chapter 22 The Seventh led the two women along the path up toward the sacred cave. Some torches had been stuck in the ground beside the path to help guide ...
( Category: Historical April 11,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-19 | Author:Steven Saylor

XI The fifth time I saw Cassandra was late in the month of Maius. Almost a month had passed since the attempted arrest of Marcus Caelius and his hairbreadth escape, ...
( Category: Historical April 11,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-05-12 | Author:Lindsey Davis

19 Domitian became more cruel. Commentators, writing afterwards, assigned this to the year of the Saturninus Revolt and the Dacian treaty, either a bad reaction to Domitian’s betrayal by the ...
( Category: Historical Mystery April 11,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-17 | Author:Simon Scarrow

Cato set the tablet down and drew a deep breath. The report was as good as a death warrant and he felt a moment of icy fear gnawing at his ...
( Category: War April 11,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2008-09-02 | Author:Lindsey Davis

I managed a grin, then followed it with a compromise: 'I need you! You've been summing up my job for me pretty accurately. How about being poked on to a ...
( Category: Historical April 11,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-26 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

I wrote Alfred a letter. I have always hated writing, and it has been years since I last used a quill. My wife’s priests now scratch letters for me, but ...
( Category: Family Saga April 11,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-06-30 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

PART TWO Fugitive It rained all night. It was a pelting rain driven by a cold wind that snatched the leaves from the oaks and chestnuts and swirled spite fully ...
( Category: Military April 11,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf | | 2009-12-23 | Author:Jeff Shaara

Meade stopped abruptly, had crossed a line. Grant said nothing, knew it was still a sore point with Meade, Burnside's Ninth under Grant's direct control, not a part of Meade's ...
( Category: Military April 11,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1955-08-15 | Author:Jean Plaidy

A September haze hung in the air. Pinto was in one of the attics looking out over the countryside. How quiet it seemed! Yesterday she had watched the Fair people ...
( Category: Renaissance April 11,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-03-28 | Author:Alison Weir

“Lord save us, the Duchess of Somerset is here!” Kat whimpered, bursting into the bedchamber. “Am I discovered, then?” Elizabeth whispered, thinking the worst. “I think not, mercifully,” Kat replied, ...
( Category: Family Saga April 11,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-22 | Author:Maurice Druon

Never could he have believed that his judge would appear in the marriage chamber in the form of so beautiful a woman, her hair trailing behind her like a comet. ...
( Category: Historical April 11,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2006-05-15 | Author:Lindsey Davis

XXXIV Next morning we all trooped out to Portus with Aelianus and saw him board the Spes. The last time the Camillus brothers went abroad, they had come with us ...
( Category: Historical Mystery April 11,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-05-23 | Author:Bernard Cornwell

A mounted man-​at-​arms, wearing the Earl of Warwick's badge of a bear and ragged staff, shouted at the archers to retreat. The Earl himself was in the city now, sent ...
( Category: Military April 11,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-04-30 | Author:Steven Saylor

The next morning I rose early and put on a red tunic, as the ransom letter had specified. Before I went downstairs to the tavern I told Belbo to find ...
( Category: Anthologies April 11,2014 )