epub |eng | 2022-06-10 | Author:Kelso, William [Kelso, William]

Chapter Fourteen - Command March 207 BCE - Apulia, in the far south east of Italy The headquarters of the praetor Caius Hostilius Tubulus was sparsely furnished - the three ...

epub |eng | 2021-06-29 | Author:Deborah Swift [Swift, Deborah]

The three women crammed into a crowded wherry to take them up the Tiber towards the city. Giulia was overwhelmed, both with the parting from the sisters and with the ...

epub |eng | 2023-08-24 | Author:Neil Denby [Denby, Neil]

XXII: OMNES There was another palpable silence, spreading like smoke from a wet wood fire in a shuttered room, filling the space between them. It was oppressive and both knew ...

epub |eng | 2021-09-09 | Author:Natalie Meg Evans [Evans, Natalie Meg]

19 In a series of splintering cracks, the kitchen door gave way. Carmela got up slowly. The gate had rammed her knee but pain took second place to horror. Shouts ...

epub |eng | 2023-02-25 | Author:Ilan Bahar [Bahar, Ilan]

Chapter 40 A New State for the Jews The soldiers and the mother superior saw how torn Liliana was, and agreed that she should think over what she wants to ...

epub |eng | 2022-03-15 | Author:Angela Petch [Petch, Angela]

Still feeling delicate – and knickerless beneath her jeans as she hadn’t the courage to knock on the downstairs flat to retrieve them – Susannah sat on the restaurant terrace ...

epub |eng | 2022-09-05 | Author:Pearson, Garrett [Pearson, Garrett]

Chapter Thirteen Across the field Carthaginian trumpets and horns blared three short blasts to recall troops. There was no immediate cease in the fighting, as always, with bloodlust up and ...

epub |eng | 2023-06-06 | Author:Terrance Williamson [Williamson, Terrance]

Chapter Thirteen: The Stained Rose “If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn’t thinking.” General George Patton “What the hell are you doing?!” Ezio berated Armando, more from shock than actual ...

epub |eng | 2023-12-03 | Author:Barbara Josselsohn [Josselsohn, Barbara]

EIGHTEEN MAY 2019 Tuesday With nearly five hours to go before she would meet Emilio, Tori set out to discover more about the Parissis, her ancestors. She went back up ...

epub |eng | 2022-10-29 | Author:Martin, S.J. [Martin, S.J. ]

Chapter Fourteen Early the next day, Edvard led Chatillon down to the cells of the Papal guards. It was a maze of cold stone corridors in the bowels of the ...

epub |eng | | Author:M. A. Mclaughlin

CHAPTER 6 CHRISTINA “‘I, if I perish, perish’ Esther spake And bride of life or death she made her fair In all the luster of her perfumed hair …” (Monna ...

epub |eng | 2024-01-23 | Author:Jeanne Mackin [Mackin, Jeanne]

* * * — It was two days before Gerald was returning to Antibes, to me and the children. He had telegraphed to say that he and Cole had made ...

epub |eng | 2023-11-01 | Author:Kate Bristow [Bristow, Kate]

Chapter Twenty-Two Early the next morning, just before dawn, two farmhands arrived at Signor Bruni’s farm to find the old man’s body hanging from a tree in front of his ...

epub |eng | 2022-11-24 | Author:Deborah Swift [Swift, Deborah]

Chapter 24 Earlier That day It had taken Mia only a half hour to let herself out and get a boat to Bravaggio’s. Let Giulia come back and find me ...

epub |eng | 2023-04-18 | Author:Angela Petch [Petch, Angela]

Devora hurried through the rest of her rounds, tending to a woman with pre-eclampsia, changing dressings on a burnt toddler’s legs. He had fallen into a campfire his mother had ...