epub |eng | 2022-06-07 | Author:Joanne Burn

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX Leah From the doorway of the parlour I caught a glimpse of dark hair at the pale flesh of Isabel’s briefly exposed breast. Her shawl must have slipped ...

epub |eng | 2013-03-03 | Author:Thomas Malory

Chapter 2 How Sir Launcelot and Sir Gawain were wroth because Sir Kay mocked Beaumains, and of a damosel which desired a knight to fight for a lady Thereat was ...

epub |eng | 2018-03-12 | Author:Robyn Cadwallader

A breeze blew between the houses; it delivered to Gemma a waft of odour so strong that it seemed to have shape and weight. She held her breath and turned ...

epub |eng | 2018-05-02 | Author:David Gilman [Gilman, David]

CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX It was close to mid-morning when Blackstone led the others back into the monastery. Meulon carried a small deer carcass across his shoulders, brought down soon after dawn ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2014-09-24 | Author:Iggulden, Conn [Iggulden, Conn]

Part Two 1459 The realm of England was out of all governance … for the king was simple … held no household, maintained no wars. Anon. [15th century English chronicler] ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2009-12-31 | Author:Angus Donald

Chapter Ten The whole of Robin’s force - just under four hundred archers, cavalry and spearmen - was drawn up at the harbour side to witness the punishment. It was ...

mobi |eng | 2013-11-11 | Author:Nicola Griffith

15 IN YORK, the first day of Blodmonath dawned unseasonably mild. High, bright clouds coated the sky as evenly as egg foam. Larks and starlings gathered in flocks on the ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-04-14 | Author:Sharon Kay Penman

then at his brother, said coolly, "Davydd, what a surprise." "A happy one, I trust." But Davydd's riposte lacked his usual verve; to Llewelyn, who knew him so well, he ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-01 | Author:James Aitcheson [Aitcheson, James]

Seventeen THE ENEMY DID not pursue us. No doubt Rhiwallon’s death had shaken them, and left them without the stomach for a long chase. It was small relief. Our raiding-army ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-11-01 | Author:Jack Ludlow

‘Are they mad, these Westerners?’ asked Manuel Boutoumites, when the Emperor imparted the request from Tacitus to him. ‘Boats?’ ‘There is a communication from Bohemund as well.’ ‘Which I trust ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2006-01-02 | Author:Elizabeth Chadwick [Chadwick, Elizabeth]

Twenty-two Hamstead Marshal, Berkshire, July 1183 “Jerusalem?” John Marshal’s mouth turned down at the corners. “That is no small undertaking.” “I have debts to God that cannot be paid any ...