In Chained, the first in a trilogy by Elise Marion, Caden Maignart and Gwendolyn Toustain are children of two of the highest families in the kingdom of Alemere. Alemere has only been united for thirty years and before that the two once royal houses were...

Cinders by V.M. Sawh is a short story included in the series Good Tales for Bad Dreams. Rella works in a house of ill-repute for the villainous “Stepmother.” All of the girls there were rescued off the street and are held in the house, subjected...

Crimes of a Guilty Land by Brooke Stewart follows two families - the Harts and Beauchamps - through the years of the 19th century. We first start with them in 1825 with Robert Hart. Years down the line, just before the Civil War breaks out,...

Jo Beverley has given us another wonderful historical romance in Christmas Angel. Lord Leander Knollis is one of a company of rogues who wants to settle down in the family mansion. He is ready for a wife and children, with one stipulation: he does not...

Catherine Barrett arrives in Virginia as a foreigner to her closest kin and secretly engaged to the one man her grandmother would frown upon — her seafaring grandfather’s apprentice Nathaniel. Add to her troubles the rich and intriguing older brother of her secret betrothed, Dawson...

In "Cliff of the Ruin", Bonnie McKernan paints a picture of New York and New Jersey in the late 19th century. Mae Kendrick, an artist and orphan in her late twenties, lives with her aunt, uncle and cousins on a farm in Stillwater, New Jersey....

The year is 1866 and Thomas and Hallie Wells are ready to head west. They have sold their farm, and almost everything they have in anticipation of moving to the Willamette Valley in Oregon. When Tom is killed just about a month before the five...

Brigitte Goldstein has created in "Court of Miracles" a story version of the Greek myth of Pygmalion and Galatea. And as Lerner and Lowe did with the musical "My Fair Lady", she has formed a brilliant story based upon the theme of a sculptor who...

Button, Button who’s got the button is an old game but in this cat and mouse game its Tiara, Tiara who is the real one and who is the impostor, in fact 4 impostors. Two families lay claim to the famous Tiara, the Holland’s and...

In book 2 of "The Bliss Society" "Courting Scandal" we find Amanda Hayworth, still writing her gossip column. She takes great pleasure in destroying others with her words. She refers to Isabel Lawrence as a klutzy, babbling young lady that has caught the eye of...