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A Whisper to the North by AbigaelOfAgartha
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Damsels aren't supposed to wield swords, especially ancient swords that will have the blood of thousands spilled across it. ✵✵✵✵✵ Deep in the mountains of Cambria, there lives a legendary queen of unparalleled beauty, benevolence and brutality. She seeks only to avenge her family, but it is easier said than done. She must travel far into the formidable lands of Northumbria to find the king who killed her father. With the help of an assassin turned friend, queen Una sees that nothing can get in her way, except a secret that will shatter her reality forever. ✵✵✵✵✵ EXCERPT ✵✵✵✵✵ "I can understand what it must be like for you, trapped in the walls of the north mountains. While Christian Bryttania grew, your pagan roots began to rot as your people lay waste to the invasions of the Danes and Vikings. A millennia ago, most lived and died within the short distance of which they were born. Their existence was bounded by the wilderness in the unyielding darkness of ancient woods, by the ice shown peaks of impenetrable mountains. This old truth is your reality, is it not?" ✵✵✵✵ WARNING CONTAINS ✵✵✵✵ Disturbing Images Strong Sexual Content Strong Violence Pervasive Language ✵✵✵✵✵✵ Word Count ✵✵✵✵✵✵ Number of words: 191,554 Number of pages in book: 734
The Rose of Lancaster  |  The White Queen by wildroses05
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-𝑂𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑖𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑙- It's the year 1466 and King Edward IV is on the throne of England. His wife and Queen ,Elizabeth Woodville, has just given birth to her first daughter ,Lizzie, but not all is well... 12 year old Marian of Lancaster is the only surviving daughter of Margaret of Anjou and King Henry VI, twin sister of Edward of Lancaster. When she is captured by the Earl of Warwick, along with her father, she is brought to the English court at Westminster Palace and is made one of Queen Elizabeth's laides is waiting. It is at court that Marian will encounter friends and enemies alike and shall have to wade through blood to survive. Will this Lancastrian Princess ever find peace and perhaps even love during the turbulent years of The Wars of The Roses? Or will terror, grief and betrayal rule her life like it has done to so many others... I DO NOT OWN ANY CHARACTERS OR DIALOGUE FROM THE WHITE QUEEN I ONLY OWN THE CHARACTERS AND DIALOGUE THAT I HAVE CREATED MYSELF *NOT HISTORICALLY ACCURATE*
𝐸𝑑𝑔𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐷𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑟𝑒 || 𝑇𝐻𝐸 𝑊𝐻𝐼𝑇𝐸 𝑄𝑈𝐸𝐸𝑁 by teaandcrumpets05
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- 𝐹𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑚𝑎𝑦 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑟𝑒𝑖𝑔𝑛 - It's the year 1464 and Eleanor Woodville lives at Grafton Manor as one of the younger daughters of Jacquetta and Sir Richard Woodville. At 11 years old, her worries are little and her joys great but her ordered life is thrown into disarray when her older sister, Elizabeth, marries the Yorkist King Edward IV. Born and raised a staunch Lancastrian, Eleanor is resolved to remain so until she is taken to court with her family and finds she cannot resist the extravagance and charm of the Yorkists, even becoming friend's with one of the King's younger brothers. When a rebellion is started in 1469 by the powerful and formidable Earl of Warwick, Eleanor finds herself caught up in a plot orchestrated by King Edward which will change her life forever.... Throughout the turbulent Wars of the Roses, Eleanor must overcome the obstacles hurled her way, sometimes wading through blood in order to protect herself and her family, something which could eventually lead her to occupy the highest position in the land... 𝑇𝐻𝐸 𝑊𝐻𝐼𝑇𝐸 𝑄𝑈𝐸𝐸𝑁 {BOOK 1 IN THE PRICE OF POWER SERIES} *this book is not historically accurate*
𝙪𝙣𝙗𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙙 | 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘦𝘯 by allmyheroes
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The year is 1464. The War of the Roses rages on; a great showdown between Lancaster and York. Yet, asleep in her bed, fiery-haired Melissa Woodville dreams of splintered shields, broken swords, and the resounding screams of wounded men in the Battle of Bosworth. • In which the loyalty of one slip of a girl can change the fate of the most historic battle known in English history. • ❝ First book in the 𝙪𝙣𝙗𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙙,𝙪𝙣𝙗𝙚𝙣𝙩,𝙪𝙣𝙗𝙧𝙤𝙠𝙚𝙣 trilogy ❞ ⌠𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙞𝙩𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙚𝙣 ⌡ * historical liberties will be taken; this is historical 𝙛𝙞𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 *
The Heir and the General by druidrose
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Forced into an engagement with a man she doesn't love, Reyna must ignore her bond with her father's general in order to avoid a war and save her throne. ***** As the first female heir to one of the great Northern Kingdoms, Reyna panics when her claim to the throne is threatened by the discovery that her father's general is her soulbound partner. She forces herself to ignore their connection, determined to be more than a general's wife, only for her father to manipulate her into a political engagement with a man she could never love. So to forge her own path forward, keep her throne, and confront her feelings for the general who owns her heart, Reyna must find a way to refuse this arranged marriage without destroying her kingdom in the process. [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]] ---------- Cover designed by Ren Tachibana