Historical Fiction
epub |eng | 2022-06-08 | Author:Wagner, Alex [Wagner, Alex]

When we had exited Philippos' private chambers, Marcellus left me and went to check on his men. In the meantime, they had probably turned half the house upside down, but ...
( Category: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense July 12,2022 )
epub |eng | 2022-02-14 | Author:Kari Bovee [Bovee, Kari]

CHAPTER FIFTEEN To my disappointment, Miss Lange could not meet with me ’til the following day. I reconciled the minor setback with the surety of the more concrete lead I’d ...
( Category: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense July 12,2022 )
epub |eng | 2022-06-21 | Author:Jade Beer [Beer, Jade]

14 Alice NOVEMBER 1953, PARIS THE DEBUSSY The kiss is intense. Not the kind of kiss that should be seen by others. A kiss that is never going to stay ...
( Category: French July 12,2022 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:Becker, Steven

Chapter 24 I thought about our circumstances. Being swept into the cenote by the storm was an act of nature, but everything before and after seemed contrived. I had the ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American July 12,2022 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2015-12-14 | Author:Barbara Cleverly [Cleverly, Barbara]

9 Their tired horses walking in step, they rode gently side by side down the track by the burn. He seemed to be disposed to ride on in silence, and ...
( Category: Scottish July 12,2022 )
epub |eng | 2022-04-20 | Author:Amanda Geard

Chapter Twenty-Eight Dublin September 2019 Ellie shivered. She walked in shadow along Duke Street feeling hopelessly confused and a little woozy from the glass of wine she’d dumped on her ...
( Category: World War II July 12,2022 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-01 | Author:Alan Lawrence [Lawrence, Alan]

Tuesday 30th December 1823, 5 a.m., aboard the mistico ‘Will you take tea with me, Jason?’ Lord Byron asked. The two men had enjoyed the most cordial of conversation since ...
( Category: European July 12,2022 )
epub |eng | 2022-06-20 | Author:Jane Thornley [Thornley, Jane]

13 I lay on my back shivering. Somebody was wiping my face with a damp cloth. I blinked up at the stars overhead and all I could do was push ...
( Category: French July 12,2022 )
epub |eng | 2022-06-18 | Author:Olivia T. Bennet [T. Bennet, Olivia]

* * * Instead of having them confined to the colder, drafty attic, she had the servants take over the north wing. * * * “You are free to make ...
( Category: British July 12,2022 )
epub |eng | 2022-06-22 | Author:Jayne Castel [Castel, Jayne]

Fenella sat upon the couch, as stiff as a poker. The seat was comfortable—carved out of wood with a curved back and soft cushions—yet she couldn’t relax. Not with the ...
( Category: Ancient July 12,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ralf Rothmann

The times grew harder, and they who thought they had nothing left to lose, while famine persisted and pestilence laid people in the earth, lost even more. The author of ...
( Category: World War II July 12,2022 )
epub |eng | 2022-07-15 | Author:Walter Kappacher

Passion and rapt enthusiasm the primal source, as in Jean Paul. (Passion remains in the subject, instead of entering the figures as in Balzac.) Fear of passion, so that it ...
( Category: World War I July 12,2022 )
epub |eng | 2018-11-19 | Author:Victoria Cornwall [Cornwall, Victoria]

The bay was no more than seven miles from Wadebridge, but to Rose, who had no transport of her own, it may as well have been fifty. Nicholas parked his ...
( Category: World War I July 12,2022 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2019-09-24 | Author:Laura Beers & Laura Beers & The Lawkeepers [Beers, Laura]

Marianne awoke to a loud crash from above her, from her father’s bedchamber. She threw off her covers and reached for the dagger that she had stashed under her pillow. ...
( Category: Short Stories July 12,2022 )