Historical Fiction
epub |eng | 2022-06-18 | Author:Adrienne Dillard

Joan and I set about dressing the queen for the day. As we finished attaching her sleeves, a servant arrived with a tray of food. Her Grace picked at the ...
( Category: Biographical December 16,2022 )
epub |eng | 2020-12-15 | Author:John Cribb

CHAPTER 29 LATE SUMMER 1862 The great battle they had all been expecting broke out along the stream called Bull Run near Manassas, Virginia, where the first big fight of ...
( Category: Biographical December 16,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:Wilson Harris

IV Magda almost swooned. She caught herself just in time. After all she was a strong woman, she told herself. Her body and limbs looked like dark resolute stone (Abram ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage December 16,2022 )
epub |eng | 2022-10-27 | Author:J. C. Briggs [Briggs, J. C.]

Elizabeth Jones was sitting with Eleanor Brim by the fire, waiting for news — Eleanor who could not sleep in her bed, but who, at last, was asleep on the ...
( Category: British December 16,2022 )
epub |eng | 2021-12-15 | Author:Geraint Jones

* * * I watched with disgust as Ziva fled the battlefield. I thought about chasing him down and putting a blade between his shoulders, but that would do nothing ...
( Category: Ancient December 16,2022 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-15 | Author:Barbara Stark-Nemon

20 1942 Kläre lost count of the trains, the days, the schedule of her hunger. She knew from the path of the sun that she occasionally glimpsed through a crack ...
( Category: Jewish December 16,2022 )
epub |eng | 2020-04-12 | Author:Samantha Holt

Chapter Thirteen “Goodness, he has grown handsome!” Augusta looked up from her embroidery, having been entirely unaware that her mother was in the parlor room until her squeaky exclamation. Hands ...
( Category: Regency December 15,2022 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2017-10-17 | Author:Gianna Thomas [Thomas, Gianna]

Chapter X The day of the wedding bode well as it was sunny, with not a cloud in the sky, and the air was pleasantly cool. Janie, her mother, and ...
( Category: British December 15,2022 )
epub |eng | 2015-07-30 | Author:Terry Montague

12 The scream tore from Lisel’s throat. She jerked upright, wide-eyed. Her heart hammered inside her chest with such force she had to fight for each breath, dragging it in ...
( Category: German December 15,2022 )
epub |eng | 2020-11-05 | Author:Madison Kent [Kent, Madison]

Madeline stopped at Lottie’s suite first and gently knocked several times. When she did not answer, she proceeded to Hugh’s room. He came to the door so quickly; she assumed ...
( Category: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense December 15,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:Carol Windley

In January, a farmer—a neighbor of Reina’s parents—came to Anna’s house with a delivery of two dozen eggs and a large parcel of meat wrapped in butcher’s paper and tied ...
( Category: World War II December 15,2022 )
epub |eng | 2023-12-15 | Author:Sally Worboyes

As memories of those heady days came flooding back, she thought about her satin pouch containing her lipstick and powder, tucked away in one of her cupboards. Maybe she would ...
( Category: World War II December 15,2022 )
azw3 |eng | 2022-03-11 | Author:Jenny Hambly [Hambly, Jenny]

CHAPTER 15 Hugh glanced up when the door opened, and the rather grim line of his jaw relaxed. He had noticed that Mrs Sherborne had waited for Miss Harrington as ...
( Category: Regency December 15,2022 )
epub |eng | 1989-09-14 | Author:Raymond Williams [Raymond Williams]

GLYN TO ELIS: 5 ON THE ROUGH track to the road through the pass Glyn stumbled and almost fell. The full moon was high to the south, above the peak ...
( Category: Asian December 15,2022 )
epub |eng | 2021-03-09 | Author:Melanie Dobson [Dobson, Melanie]

25 HANNA “I have to visit the cobbler during lunch.” Hanna pointed at the heel on her laced oxfords, the leather square flapping against the sole. It had taken some ...
( Category: World War II December 15,2022 )