As Anne Boleyn forges her way into a married man's heart and onto England's throne, she convinces herself that the resulting bloodshed and religious upheaval is a necessary price for the country to pay. But how will she reconcile the letting of her brother's blood when he is accused with her of incest?
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A Norawest Smith story.
Any resemblance to C. L. Moore's Northwest Smith is completely intentional.
Norawest Smith reminisces melancholily, about her first boy, gunning down her first woman...
A Gender Switch Adventure. Views: 13
Trouble In Paradise... Katie Long was supposed to be undercover. She was just supposed to watch Deputy Prosecutor Eric Kimura at his ex's wedding and gather intel on his campaign for prosecutor. But he's a lot hotter in person, and the kind of intel they accidentally shared in the hotel bathroom might lose both of them their jobs. Especially since it seems to be a recurring incident. Is it possible for a one-night stand to last ten days? Kimura isn't usually the impulsive type. He's driven, he's ambitious, and he knows what he wants -- a respectable future in Hawaii politics. Which means wild half-public sex with a beautiful stranger in a short little caterer's skirt is just tabloid fodder waiting to happen. Conveniently, just as his campaign is coming under attack. Sabotage, media gossip, and an insatiable desire for a woman he just met? If he's not careful, Counselor Kimura might lose all control... Views: 13
Edward Mallandaine was there! To prove it he thrust himself into the historic photograph of the "Last Spike" being driven to mark the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Surrounded by the railway dignitaries of the time, his young face peers out amid their frosty beards. Edward had just turned eighteen when he left his home in Victoria, British Columbia, to join the Canadian militia to fight Louis Riel in the North-West Rebellion of 1885. Hired to ride dispatches over the unfinished stretch of railway in British Columbia, he meets highway men, high officials, men of the North-West Mounted Police, and the denizens of saloons hidden away in mountain passes. He survives the lawlessness of remote towns and railway camps, rubs shoulders with Chinese labourers struggling to blast a right-of-way through the towering peaks of Eagle Pass, and makes a freezing midnight ride by railway flatcar to reach the outpost of Craigellachie just in time. Views: 13
Ruso is back with a brand new mystery. And it doesn't take long before he fears for his life . . .Gaius Petreius Ruso and his newlywed wife Tilla have moved back to Britannia, where Ruso's old friend and colleague Valens has promised to help him find work. But it isn't the kind of work he'd had in mind -- Ruso's tasked to hunt down a missing tax man named Julius Asper.Of course there's something else missing: money. And the Council of the town of Verulamium is bickering over what's become of it. Compelled to delve deeper by a threat from his old sparring-partner Metellus, Ruso discovers that the good townsfolk may not be as loyal to Rome as they like to appear.While Tilla tries to comfort Asper's wife, an anonymous well-wisher warns the couple to flee before they get hurt. But it doesn't take long until Ruso and Tilla find themselves trapped at the heart of an increasingly treacherous conspiracy . . . Views: 13
On the first day that he did leave her loose in the house, with orders and supplies to have made dinner by the time he got home, Carolyn did what she felt she had to do. She had to make some sort of effort to escape. She couldn’t just accept what had happened to her. All she wanted was to get away from him – she hadn’t thought much further than that. She didn’t even know what direction to travel in, but figured that Shepherdstown was roughly due East of where she was.
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Nanny Sabrina West is on her way to a choice assignment as nanny to the twin daughters of the Prince of Savoy. She's always dreamed of visiting the lake country in Italy with its shimmering waters and mountains in the distance. Now is her chance to fulfill her dreams. But when she gets there she is stunned to find nobody wants her there, not the handsome, arrogant prince or the mischievous twins. But Sabrina can't leave without giving the job a chance no matter how cool her welcome is. All she can do is try to win them over. How hard can it be?. Views: 13
Puberty hit me hard and weird. While most girls can only complain about cramps and bloating when they get their first period, I, hypersensitive Heather Tildy, got an added feature. A ghost. I’m the middle child and already damaged. I didn’t need to fly my freak flag higher. Until that fateful day, the only person in our family who was weirder than me was my mom’s sister Geneva, an artist whose constant companion was—you guessed it—a ghost. Yeah, it’s genetic. So here I was having just turned fourteen, expecting a summer of Japanese beetle removal from row after row of scuppernong vines in the backyard (courtesy of my wannabe vintner dad), an occasional afternoon helping Mom with the craft classes she teaches (don’t get me started on her stupid message t-shirts), and the almost daily pleasure of watching Drew Blanton wield his lifeguard whistle at the neighborhood pool. He’s going to be a junior at Pecan Hills High this fall, and he has these icy blue eyes with long lashes. My objective was to get him to ask me out—or to at least remember my name. The very day my period arrived (at last!), a ghost, or haint as we sometimes refer to them in the South, appeared in the grapevines and just about made me pee in my pants. Our house and yard sit on land that used to be part of a family farm. Even though I’d had an imaginary friend named Amy when I was little, I didn’t connect her to the apparition who called herself Amy and told me that she used to live here. Once I got over the initial shock, I realized they were one and the same. She claimed she was looking for fun, (okay, more like whined for me to play with her, like I’m some kind of spectral babysitter), but I suspected there was more to her hanging around the backyard. Not that I cared all that much about her at the moment. I was more fixated on how interacting with a ghost was going to change my life. I knew it wouldn’t be for the better. Views: 13
Slocum rides with the legend...John Slocum has plenty of bad memories from the Civil War. Now, one of them has returned: Jesse James—who rode alongside Slocum under Bill Quantrill. Jesse and his gang have a big score, and they want Slocum to come in with them. But this time it's not gold or cash in their sights. This time, they're going to make their own damned country... Views: 13
