Historical Fiction
epub |eng | 2023-03-13 | Author:Richard Whitten Barnes

October 29, 1917 Near Decline Copse A COLD DRIZZLE FELL in the darkness. Jürgen pulled the tarp over Alfred and himself as they waited for the signal to go. The ...
( Category: Military November 7,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Tim Leach [Leach, Tim]

15 Upon the horizon, the flames burned brightly – the night sky above a bloom of red and gold, the stars hidden by smoke. All about Kai, the others gathered, ...
( Category: Ancient November 7,2023 )
epub |eng | 2023-09-13 | Author:Olivia Marwood [Marwood, Olivia]

ELKINGTON HOUSE, LONDON Lady Catherine Stewart lay face-down on her bed the following morning, crying in earnest. Last night had been, without a doubt, one of the worst nights of ...
( Category: British November 7,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Wendy J. Dunn

Is that surprising? She had already learnt that to reveal your real face at court risked death. Leaning her elbow on the table, she cupped her cheek in her hand ...
( Category: Renaissance November 7,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-03-22 | Author:Jacqueline Winspear

Chapter 12 Clambering over undergrowth, Maisie and Billy moved with as much speed as they could muster along the rough path back to the farm, but as Maisie watched her ...
( Category: Military November 7,2023 )
epub |eng | 2023-09-11 | Author:Vincent B. Davis II [Davis II, Vincent B.]

SCROLL XIII Arrea—Two days before the Kalends of Quintilis, 664 Ab Urbe Condita “Bring me another cup, and more spice this time,” Tullia ordered to any servus listening. Dining with ...
( Category: Ancient November 7,2023 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-31 | Author:A.J. Jarrett [Jarrett, A. J.]

* * * * I stood back to watch Seth wrestle with his brother's 93 Fate's Fortunate Mistake AJ Jarrett boyfriend on the floor, chuckling at the pair. I'd had ...
( Category: Norse & Icelandic November 7,2023 )
mobi |eng | 2007-03-01 | Author:Pam Jenoff

CHAPTER 14 That morning, I am reluctant to go to work. “I should stay home,” I say for what seems like the hundredth time. “My leaving will upset the child ...
( Category: World War II November 7,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Wilbur Smith

M yssa was awoken by her own shivering. She could see that the sun was rising. She knew that the heat of the day had not yet come and that ...
( Category: Ancient November 5,2023 )
epub |eng | 2023-08-17 | Author:Sara Swann [Swann, Sara]

CHAPTER TEN Sunday, December 18, 1938 Lancaster County, Pennsylvania “Not only does the Soviet leader, Joseph Stalin, turn sixty years old today, but there is an article here about Lady ...
( Category: Jewish November 3,2023 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:J.T. Maicke [Maicke, J.T.]

*** “What do you have for us today, ‘C,’” asked the Honorable J.E.B Seely. Seely had succeeded Richard Haldane as British Secretary of State for War the previous year. Prime ...
( Category: World War I October 31,2023 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-14 | Author:Paul Doherty (as C. L. Grace) [Doherty, Paul]

Chapter 7 Kathryn slept late the following morning, and when she got out of bed and pulled back the shutters of her window, she laughed. ‘Trust an Irishman!’ The sun ...
( Category: Medieval October 30,2023 )
epub |eng | 2021-04-30 | Author:Nellie H. Steele [Steele, Nellie H.]

Chapter 16 I stared down at the sleeping baby next to me on the bed. His soft rhythmic breathing soothed me. After his feeding, he had gone to sleep shortly ...
( Category: Scottish October 30,2023 )
epub |eng | 2023-06-07 | Author:Tessa Brookman [Brookman, Tessa]

He ripped it open, trying to ignore his disappointment that it wasn’t from her. ‘Your Grace, the Duke of Richmond, You and I must talk, Your Grace. We have stayed ...
( Category: Regency October 30,2023 )
epub |eng | 2010-10-15 | Author:Esteban Echeverria [Echeverría, Esteban]

APPENDIXES I Foreword to the 1871 Edition by Juan María Gutiérrez Originally published as a preface to the first printing of ‘El matadero’, in the Revista del Río de la ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American October 30,2023 )