epub |eng | 2019-10-08 | Author:Jae Waller

* * * The day before we sailed, a Sverbian woman with darting blue eyes came to the Knox Arms. I’d met Janekke when I went to Ingdanrad. She’d been ...

epub |eng | | Author:Kate Chenli [Chenli, Kate]

CHAPTER 21 The day of the Elite Hunt dawns bright and clear. King Reifeng and the princes lead the long procession out of the city to the hunting fields, joined ...

epub |eng | 2021-01-19 | Author:Angela Roquet

Chapter Eleven December 13th, 1916 – 10:45 a.m. Isla was relentless. Dorian was impressed, but more than that, he was annoyed. He dug a quarter out of his pocket and ...

epub |eng | 2023-03-02 | Author:Andrew Varga

The sun was a few hours past its highest point when Ceolwulf came riding along the side of the road, heading in the opposite direction from the huge convoy of ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Kate Callaghan [Callaghan, Kate]

Chapter Eight Two months later HÉLÈNE WAS BREAKING her fast alone, as she did most mornings. Gusteau had married her for her name and beauty, not for any want of ...

epub |eng | 2023-05-10 | Author:William Ritter

chapter seventeen When I was a young girl, my mother used to take me with her on her trips into London from time to time to try on itchy dresses ...

epub |eng | 2023-05-24 | Author:Constance Lopez [Lopez, Constance]

Chapter 27 Isa When Isa reached for the handle of the door to the carpenter shop the next day, it swung open before her fingers could close around the doorknob. ...

epub |eng | 2017-01-02 | Author:Ruth Nestvold

Chapter 8 In which Chiara visits a grave and finds an answer. The residents of the ghetto still addressed her respectfully as Maestra, even though most of them must now ...

epub |eng | | Author:S.E. Mattison

*** They’d been in there for a little over an hour, but Lucy was already slightly drained from the emotional highs and lows she experienced in such a short time. ...

epub |eng | 2022-11-22 | Author:Laura E. Weymouth

FIFTEEN The Touch of Wrath Anya had become nothing in life if not a master of avoiding conversations that might sting. Even in Weatherell, isolated and cut off from the ...

epub |eng | 2019-05-14 | Author:Barbara Howe

Cinders and Ashes Granny Mildred blinked at me. “Ask the Fire Warlock for help? Why?” “He can strong-arm the duke into doing the right thing by Doug and Jessie. It ...

epub |eng | 2022-06-12 | Author:R.V. Bowman [R. V. Bowman]

Chapter 25 It was close to noon, at least as near as Alice could tell from the way the sunlight had moved across the floor of her cell, when two ...

epub |eng | | Author:Christian Klaver [Klaver, Christian]

He jolted awake later with a shout that echoed off the stone walls. He sat gasping on the bench for a short time, then got painfully to his feet. His ...

epub |eng | | Author:Andi Cumbo-Floyd

* * * By the time Stephen finished telling us what he knew about the events of the past few months, I felt like someone had pulled my lungs out ...

epub |eng | | Author:Christian Klaver [Klaver, Christian]

12 A MOTHER’S LOVE We approached from the rear of the place, moving quickly and quietly, on the lookout for any other sentries. If there were any, the rain hid ...