Historical Fiction
epub |eng | 2023-09-25 | Author:Leonard Tourney [Tourney, Leonard]

THIRTY-ONE The next morning, he pulled Johane aside just as she was leaving the breakfast table. He told her they needed to talk. She had learned of Broderick’s role as ...
( Category: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense November 9,2023 )
epub |eng | 2023-11-15 | Author:Jennifer Sherman Roberts [Roberts, Jennifer Sherman]

Mary waited for the maid to send for her and then knocked on her door. Mrs. Chamberlen turned her head to the side when Mary entered the bedchamber. She lay ...
( Category: European November 9,2023 )
epub |eng | 2023-09-28 | Author:Patricia Haverton [Haverton, Patricia]

“The Boyle girl. She is here,” Theresa said. “Prudence?” Laura asked, and Theresa nodded. “Well, we can rest assured that she will make a scene out of it. Oh my,” ...
( Category: Regency November 9,2023 )
epub |eng | 2018-07-09 | Author:Matthew Turner [Turner, Matthew]

CHAPTER 19 Harper and Natsume arrived back from their walk just as it started to rain. No sooner had they dried themselves off than Natsume excused himself, explaining to Harper ...
( Category: Japanese November 9,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Audrey Chin

14 Each line with trepidation ALONE IN THE ANONYMOUS SERVICE APARTMENTS and hotel rooms you occupy up and down the western edge of the Pacific, you go back to reclaiming ...
( Category: Asian November 9,2023 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-28 | Author:Steven Lazaroff [Lazaroff, Steven]

Chapter 11 Nadeau was filling out the last of his reports when the Director stepped into his office. ‘Nadeau. I have a case I need you to look at.’ Nadeau ...
( Category: French November 9,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:David Loux

JEAN SAW THE MAJOR GO down and charged into the river, splashing through the water in a desperate attempt to reach him. A body floated face down in the river ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage November 9,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Anthea Lawson [Lawson, Anthea]

Chapter 11 Sara gazed into Tarek’s warm eyes, her emotions whirling as though some reckless child had set a top spinning inside her skull. The afternoon had become so peculiar, ...
( Category: Regency November 9,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Blaker

II SAMURAI CHAPTER I IT was as Hidetada had said it would be. Upon the low writing-desk before Ieyasu in the chamber lay a long-sword and a dirk. The hilts ...
( Category: Japanese November 9,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-05 | Author:Bryher [Bryher]

What a disappointment I was to my parents! All their friends had liked me as a child but here I was with the raw aggressiveness of a boy, clamoring to ...
( Category: Biographical November 9,2023 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-23 | Author:M. L. Bullock [Bullock, M. L.]

Chapter Ten—Arthur “Excalibur knows you are here, Guinevere. You hear it call you, don’t you?” I couldn’t hide the tinge of jealousy I felt, but I truly felt no malice ...
( Category: Medieval November 9,2023 )
epub |eng | 2020-02-19 | Author:S J Parris [Parris, S J]

SIXTEEN Joe led me back through a maze of streets towards the river. Along the way I attempted to ask him further questions about finding Clara, but he had clammed ...
( Category: Renaissance November 9,2023 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-31 | Author:Lynn Bryant [Bryant, Lynn]

*** It took two days after the signing of the formal surrender, for the French garrison to finally march out of Flushing. Katja had no idea what had caused the ...
( Category: Military November 9,2023 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-29 | Author:Vicki Hunt Budge [Budge, Vicki Hunt]

7 Two days later, Cora stopped at the neighbor’s home on the way into Clover Creek to clean for Mrs. Stribling. The sun, still low in the eastern sky, promised ...
( Category: United States November 9,2023 )
epub |eng | 2020-03-19 | Author:Shanessa Gluhm [Gluhm, Shanessa]

Chapter 18 Longview, Texas, 1991 Garrison dipped his feet into the pool. The water was only beginning to cool from a day spent under the merciless Texas sun. He wasn’t ...
( Category: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense November 8,2023 )