Flower Historical Fiction

Japan, 1825: Low-ranking samurai Uchida Tomonosuke is a devotee of the way of manly love, but he has never pledged himself to another man. Until one day he accidentally crosses paths with Ichi, a beautiful blind masseur who challenges everything he thought he knew about love between men. Ichi is independent and confident, but his blindness means he is considered a non-person in the rigid social hierarchy.

Esa es la maldición que persigue a su familia desde hace generaciones, por lo que Lily Wadlow, al enterarse de que su hermana Daisy está embarazada de un inglés, viaja hasta Escocia para encontrar una manera de romper el maleficio. Allí, contará con la ayuda de Drustan MacAuley, un noble guerrero dispuesto a todo por ella.

En el medioevo, los cátaros predican su credo en Francia. Sostienen ideas que, para la Iglesia Católica, resultan amenazantes: igualdad entre el hombre y la mujer, libertad para el amor, negación del infierno y recelo al materialismo. Entonces la Iglesia promueve una Cruzada para exterminarlos. Ramiro es un caballero cristiano que se dedica a la guerra y a las damas de la corte: territorios en los que la conquista le está asegurada. Recibe la misión de trasladar una reliquia a una abadía francesa.

Die hübsche amerikanische Erbin Lillian Bowman soll auf Wunsch ihrer Mutter einen englischen Adligen heiraten. Doch Lillian eckt mit ihrer direkten Art in der vornehmen britischen Gesellschaft immer wieder an. Keiner der wohlerzogenen Herren scheint ihr gewachsen, allenfalls der mächtige und arrogante Earl of Westcliff kann es mit ihr aufnehmen. Marcus ist berüchtigt für seine kalte, herablassende Art – und für sein märchenhaftes Vermögen. Lillian verachtet ihn, und doch bringt niemand sie so aus der Fassung wie Lord Westcliff.

Having defeated the sorcerer god Smoking Mirror and reclaimed her throne, Quetzalpetlatl and her brother Topiltzin set out to found Quetzalcoatl's new holy city and end human sacrifice throughout the Toltec world. But Smoking Mirror hasn't abandoned his own ambitions for power; with his allies - mortal and divine - threatening war among the gods, he's shifted his focus to Quetzalpetlatl and her budding magical powers.

This collection includes The Blushing Harlot, The Cheeky Minx, and The Clever Strumpet.

Millie Sloan and her family have spent their lives toiling at the hands of others. When she and her brother, Buck, get an opportunity to start a new life in Wyoming Territory, they head west to the vast and open frontier. They arrive only to discover that someone from Millie's past is waiting there for her. This time, Millie vows not to allow her heart to be torn in two.

A hero's journey of a Jewish-American growing up in the last half of the 20th century who learns to see things from a Palestinian perspective and flowers into becoming a citizen of the world.

Raven Eagle, compromised by a white agent invading her village, is sent to live in England with her mother's people. Separated from her siblings, she boards a ship owned by the Lord of Limerick, going to Ireland instead. To save her from the threat of the Sea Patrol, the lord agrees to an arranged marriage. Braiton Shannon, suffering from an inherited illness forbidding intimacy, becomes tormented by his heart's desire to love Raven. Her courage in the face of danger saves him from death, risking her own life to release him from his curse.

After receiving a note that bore hurtful words from a suitor during the previous London season, wallflower Miss Lydia Fortescue fears her third season will be as disastrous as the previous two. Given the choice, she never set foot in town again. Her father, however, has grown tired of her spinster status and demands that either she find a husband or he will find one for her. William Montgomery, seventh duke of Bennington, has been enthralled with Miss Fortescue since he first set eyes upon her.

Alexander Markby, the sixth Earl of Derby, is her brother's closest friend and is positively rife with roguishness. Too much money, too much time, and much too well-endowed...with good looks (obviously). He's the perfect cover to help Rose infiltrate his world. He has just one rule. In the name of "protecting" her, she must pose as his mistress. The very idea!

Roma, Madrid, Berlín, la Guerra Civil, la Guerra Fría y el Pazo de Meirás. El Pasatempo, la Fábrica de Curtidos, los masones y unos libros misteriosos. ¿Qué tienen que ver entre ellos? Paola Gómez y su equipo intentarán desentrañar los hilos que unen cada una de las aristas de esta historia, escrita entre asesinatos, misterios, enigmas y tiempos históricos conectados entre sí.

Mississippi, 1964. John Turner, a young Black man canvassing for votes in the Delta is pulled over by local police on a rural dusty road. After carrying out what they believed was their duty, the Klansmen felt they'd gotten away with what they did to John. But they didn't know the powers residing in those dark Delta woods.

Wealthy and ruthless, Gabriel Duke clawed his way from the lowliest slums to the pinnacle of high society - and now he wants to get even. Loyal and passionate, Lady Penelope Campion never met a lost or wounded creature she wouldn’t take into her home and her heart. When her imposing - and attractive - new neighbour demands she clear out the rescued animals, Penny sets him a challenge. She will part with her precious charges, if he can find them loving homes.

Selling flowers on the London streets is the only way Gracie Woods can help her father earn enough money to keep a roof over their heads. But when illness comes to claim him, she’s left orphaned and alone, with no one to turn to for help. Saved only by one man’s kindness, Gracie is thrust into a new life as a housemaid for the Reeves family, where she becomes firm friends with the young and charming Charley. Outcast once more with nothing but her wits to protect her from the harsh London winter, Gracie must now find her own way in the world, or die trying.

Unwilling to be sold as brood mare in an arranged marriage, Lady Juliana Sinclair decides her own future, and runs. But disaster strikes, leaving her at the mercy of the first man that finds her. Leonard Notley is tortured by his past and living in hiding with a young ward that he knows is better off without him. While hunting in the woods, he comes across a lost woman and feels compelled to help her.

For Kate Drake, her family has brought her peace after years of uncertainty. Now, watching her own children grow up, it seems the world is a no less complicated place. But when a secret from the past casts its shadow across four generations of the family, a stubbornly independent woman opens herself to love whilst an older one rediscovers it, and a young boy begins to understand the complexities of adult life.

—ABOUT THE BOOK: How can a Christmas Eve house fire in New York City have a profound effect on a corner of the mid-American prairie? Not only that, but the profundity of it all extended into WWI in Belgium, where the bloodiest battles of the war were fought in hand-to-hand combat. Prairie Flowers—Book 2 in The Sheltering Stones series—continues the story of sweeping change in the Oklahoma territory and the world, and the lives of the first graduates of Ms. Josie’s school under the ledge. Opportunity was great, but life was hard, and responsibility came early. Yet hardship, when ...

When Caroline Williams wakes up in a hospital bed in Paris with no memory of her past, she finds that returning to the life she has forgotten is harder than she thought. Especially as her feet seem to know where to go and her cavernous apartment seems devoid of any memories...Taking her mind off her foggy past is the discovery of a stack of World War Two love letters written by a young mother named Celine to her beloved, Luc, found in a box in the spare room.

Fiercely independent Keelan Grey thinks nothing can be more difficult than plotting to avoid a marriage of “inconvenience” until a deathbed confession from a loved one plunges her into a dark plot of deception and revenge. Rakishly handsome and equally exasperating, Landon Hart not only plays the part of a wealthy merchant ship’s captain with ease, but also carefully protects his own dangerous secrets. When he discovers a sword-wielding, fiery-haired temptress named Keelan, he isn’t prepared for the impact she has on his tightly guarded heart...nor the trouble she manages to attract.