Historical Fiction
epub |eng | 2013-07-15 | Author:Timothee de Fombelle [Fombelle, Timothee de]

They ordered dinner. Their time together passed very enjoyably. They talked about engineering, clouds, the difference between Scottish and German cabbages, and above all about their memories of that voyage ...
( Category: Historical Fiction October 22,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-06-26 | Author:Sandra Gulland

* * * — Eugène and Christophe were sitting on the bench outside the General’s study, sharpening sabers. I became aware of my foolishness, my impossible dream. Christophe—Colonel Duroc—was a ...
( Category: Romance October 22,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-05-29 | Author:Merrie Destefano [Destefano, Merrie]

Nine It was a long night and more horrible than any nightmare. We gathered together in the parlor, while a fierce battle raged outside our walls. The screaming of the ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy October 22,2018 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-11-04 | Author:Robin LaFevers

Chapter Twenty-Nine WHEN THE COUNCIL DISPERSES, THE duchess requests that Ismae attend her, and Sybella excuses herself so she can check on her sisters at Saint Brigantia’s convent to see ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction October 19,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-05-10 | Author:Kim Foster

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE “‘We must not look at goblin men, We must not buy their fruits: Who knows upon what soil they fed Their hungry thirsty roots?’” —Christina Rossetti, “The Goblin ...
( Category: Romance October 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-10-11 | Author:Laura Wood

Part Two “There was music from my neighbor’s house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction October 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-07-23 | Author:Oliver Pötzsch [Pötzsch, Oliver]

XVI When they finally returned to the tavern, long after midnight, Lukas couldn’t fall asleep. Too much had happened up there at the castle, and the scratch he’d gotten from ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy October 12,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Christian McKay Heidicker

One crisp February afternoon when I was thirteen, I was walking back to the motel from the pictures in Sunrise Valley when I passed two girls who whispered, “Daughter of ...
( Category: Historical Fiction October 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-10-10 | Author:Lawrence Goldstone [Goldstone, Lawrence]

NO MATTER HOW HORRIBLE the events at Colfax, obtaining justice for the victims was going to be extremely difficult. Grant Parish was in a remote area, with no permanent army ...
( Category: Historical Fiction October 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-08-09 | Author:Heidi Heilig

Chapter Eighteen I can smell the midden long before I see it. At first it is just a hint of rot, the touch of decay—though still far too familiar after ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction October 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-08-14 | Author:Pam McGaffin [McGaffin, Pam]

THE gray light of morning brings the ferry’s janitors, then families with young children, followed by families with older children. Finally the couples and groups of friends in their late ...
( Category: Historical Fiction October 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-08-28 | Author:Caroline Leech

Fifteen It was almost dark by the time Maisie returned to camp. She stumbled as she went in through the door because she was trying to wipe the burn-bank mud ...
( Category: Romance October 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-10 | Author:Shannon Gibney

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE A SMALL BRICK HOUSE nestled between two colored churches. I have never been there, but everyone says that it is the most hospitable and clean-looking house in the ...
( Category: Historical Fiction October 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-03 | Author:J. Keller Ford [Ford, J. Keller]

*** David David climbed the steps to find Charlotte sitting cross-legged on the bed, her head hung, her hands buried in her hair. Eric dragged an old wooden chair across ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction October 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-10-02 | Author:Anna Godbersen [Godbersen, Anna]

Sixteen ’Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone; No flower of her kindred, No rosebud is nigh, To reflect back ...
( Category: Historical Fiction October 4,2018 )