Historical
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-01-01 | Author:Ariana Franklin [Franklin, Ariana]

Nine BOTH COWSHED AND COTTAGE were put to the flame. “Like you fucking Cathars when we get where we’re going,” the leader of their captors assured them. “We are not ...
( Category: Murder March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-01-08 | Author:Gregory, Philippa

CHAPTER 20 NEXT MORNING MEHURU TAPPED on the parlor door. Frances was sitting at the round walnut table, another chair placed opposite her. A bowl of hyacinths stood in the ...
( Category: Literary March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1989-01-01 | Author:Jean Plaidy [Plaidy, Jean]

I went into the wardrobe room. Owen was sitting at a table writing. “Have you heard the news about the King of Scotland?” I asked. Owen said he had not. ...
( Category: Biographical Historical Fiction March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-12-31 | Author:Elizabeth Fremantle [Fremantle, Elizabeth]

GREENWICH PALACE, KENT, JUNE 1545 ‘What’s the racket? It’s bedlam in here,’ says Katherine, as she enters her privy chamber with Cat Brandon. Rig is barking manically at François the ...
( Category: Biographical March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1971-01-01 | Author:Jean Plaidy [Plaidy, Jean]

Margot and Henriette, wrapped in their cloaks, slipped out of the Louvre to the house at the corner of the Rue de la Vannerie and the Rue Monton. They took ...
( Category: Biographical March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Freda Lightfoot [Lightfoot, Freda]

But it was not the last. When this letter elicited no response Henry wrote again, in a softer, more persuasive tone, suggesting that she may stay at the house at ...
( Category: Historical March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1994-09-01 | Author:Barbara Kyle [Kyle, Barbara]

20 Speedwell “Boat off starboard bow!” the bosun shouted. Richard Thornleigh looked up from his charts spread out in the sterncastle cabin of his new ship. He pushed away from ...
( Category: Family Saga March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-11-27 | Author:Michelle Diener [Diener, Michelle]

There was a subtle sense of relief at Fairlands, Geoffrey’s country seat in Kent. Edward felt it in the light steps of the staff, the extra effort of the cooks, ...
( Category: Women's Fiction March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1989-12-31 | Author:Jo Beverley [Beverley, Jo]

Sophie went quickly to her bedchamber and checked her appearance. Though her jaw felt bruised and her lips stung, she could see no sign of it. She washed her face ...
( Category: Victorian March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:Ariana Franklin [Franklin, Ariana]

“Babies?” Will smirked. “Babies. Oh, there was carryin’s-on with women in the old days, so they say, for all them monks was supposed to be virgins, an one of ‘em ...
( Category: Murder March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1950-12-31 | Author:Jean Plaidy [Plaidy, Jean]

THE HOLE IN THE FLOOR IT WAS APRIL at Fontainebleau. In her beautiful bed with its rich hangings of brocade and wonderfully woven tapestry, lay the Dauphine. Her eyes were ...
( Category: Biographical March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1976-01-01 | Author:Jean Plaidy [Plaidy, Jean]

The tiring day was over. Lucrezia’s women clustered about her to help her undress. They removed the mulberry and gold gown and the jeweled headdress; they combed the long golden ...
( Category: Renaissance March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Gregory, Philippa [Gregory, Philippa]

We go west, through surly countryside where the people cannot earn enough to pay their taxes and who see the coming of our spendthrift court as an added burden, and ...
( Category: Biographical March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1998-01-01 | Author:Forbidden Magic [Magic, Forbidden]

Chapter 12 Meg put that aside—it would be easily sorted out—and bustled Laura into her own boudoir. “Why are you doing this?” Laura asked, wide-eyed. “What’s the matter?” “Sir Arthur.” ...
( Category: Regency March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-05-04 | Author:Weir, Alison [Weir, Alison]

Later, when the rest have gone, Dorset and I share a flask of hippocras before the dying fire. “I know what people say about me,” I muse. “That I am ...
( Category: Biographical March 26,2014 )