After Li Meixing is executed by her lover alongside her family, she wakes up four years earlier and searches for a way to survive the coming conflict. ***** Li Meixing is living the perfect life. Her father is a powerful politician in the Qi Kingdom, and she is engaged to the charismatic new Emperor, Huang Siming. But at the Emperor's coronation, Li and her family are framed as traitors by and ruthlessly executed. When Meixing wakes up, she finds that she has returned to the day when she first met Huang Siming. Now no longer naive and knowing what is to come, Meixing must dive into the world of politics that she has always avoided in order to save her family from their terrible fate. If she fails, she won't have a third chance.

Li Xiang is the Priestess of the Moon, she can see read the stars and fortune as well as misfortune to her people. However, the life of a Priestess consists of nothing but loneliness: she can neither leave the palace nor meet with anyone but the Emperor and his advisors. One day a mysterious servant boy named Rui sneaks into her room, daring her to go outside if he wins against her in a game. Upon meeting him, she also befriends a female warrior and a scholar, and realizes life is much more than the palace. When the day comes she can either choose to go down the road her heart truly desires but bring ruin to the kingdom, or ignore the one chance she will ever have to leave this life? *** "My fate has been decided for me." "There's no such thing as that," he said. "We all make our own fate." "But the stars tell me--" I stopped talking when he holds my face in his hands, warm hands cupping my cheeks, brown eyes looking into my eyes. "Then stop looking at the stars. Look at me." A love story about fate, finding one's identity, stepping out of your comfort zone, and, most of all, choosing between your happiness or the happiness of others... [[Word Count: 80,000-90,000]] Wattys Fantasy Winner 2021

Amazing cover by ONYXVIXEN I didn't choose this, Destiny chose me I wanted a simple, quiet life, but fate had other plans. Working for an artifact collector brought me admittedly joy. I had a thing for history and relics too, but never could i imagine it would lead me here; to the past Stuck in ancient Japan I am ill equipped to survive in a time ravaged by war and unwelcoming to anything foreign Still i find myself enraptured by the general and his formidable presence While devising a plan to escape back home, i start to wonder if it is something i truly desire The general is married and i am to be the emperors newest concubine yet our yearning for one another defies all logic and supersedes all notions of duty How can we possibly find a way to be together when we are dragged down by obligations and everything and everyone is against us

Book 1 of the Empress Zima Series. Zima was just a nobody, who had no idea where her life was going when her parents allowed her to be forcefully married to a Japanese Emperor. She was forced to leave her native African village and adjust to a whole different life at The Village of Grace. The new, young, and scary Emperor of The Village of Grace, Emperor Aki is given a arrange marriage with the foreign dark skinned, black women Zima. Emperor Aki is seen as cold, frightening, and emotionless, he has a dark and painful past and no friends. He claims his marriage with Zima has no love behind it but later on he discovers love and affection from his strange foreign wife. Even though Zima was scared about her forced marriage she later on, finds comfort and love in her new home, friends, and husband. As Zima settles in she develops an interest in combat and is amazed by the combat skills from the samurai and ninja's in The Village of Grace. It inspires her become a strong ninja and learn samurai fighting skills, but in the ninja world not everything is what it seems and death, secrets, and danger is everywhere. Power, evil, and wealth are what dominates the ninja and samurai world. Zima knows that there are enemies everywhere and becoming a ninja could cost Zima her life but Zima is determined to become strong, protect the village at all cost, protect her friends, and protect Aki. Warning: This story does contain moments violently graphics. Along with mature, serious themes, and sexual content.

"Our heart is like a bracelet, it can be gifted or stolen, shown or hidden, scattered or together, kept or thrown away, preserved or destroyed..." he said while walking with each word rhythmically fitting his steps. "You should have just been specific, my heart is like a bracelet, it can be gifted or stolen, shown or hidden, scattered or together, kept or thrown away, preserved or destroyed... Your's entirely..... Yeong Su. " "So what are you going to do with it? " his eyes fixed on his mansion a few feet away. "I was thinking about throwing it away but I think I'd rather display it since it was gifted.... " I clung to him as my legs depended on it. "Stolen... " he whispered enough for me to hear "What?! " I looked at him not knowing what to say. "You stole it" he looked at my face for a moment like I was the greatest achievement before kissing my temple with happiness so visible in his eyes . . . Editing each chapter... So read with love.

"I was born Peasant, but will I die like a Peasant too?" Royal Thief SYNOPSIS :/Historical:/Romance:/Drama:/ This story takes in the Joseon period where there's a young woman born on the Streets and survived the hardship of living alone. Thus always treated as a street rat by stealing sums of money and food from civils. A nimble and fast thief who helped the other poor, orphans and bums who were abandoned in the streets. But her daily routines were ruined after stealing something precious from a strange man at the bar who enjoyed watching Gisaeng's performance. Her life as a thief who always breakthrough the walls has been trapped by a bigger and tough wall where she can't escape. •|MLS Club|• Writer: Ansheyuki28 Proofreader: Anshe Artist: Tricia (Cover) Anshe (Editor) Typesetter: Del Text Editor: Anshe Teaser Video Editor: Anshe

A long time later, I began to understand the value of love. Love isn't powerless, just I am ! People says that greedy person can not feel this love .... am I greedy for your love ? Maybe I am ... so what ? Can't I have this right as your wife to have few expectations from the man to whom I devoted my whole life ! But it's true. The man whom I love , isn't for myself only. He is the husband of his concubines too and I'm just his worthless legitimate wife ... and I realised this quite lately. Let them say , I'm worthless... but I want to know it from your eyes as long as you love me , I'll do anything to stand by your side. Maybe I'm seeking for his attention. But I never dared to imagine that at the end of my every patience... I became just an empress in name , who has no dignity, no respect and no love. Is it now my fault that I devoted my whole life to you ... your highness? ▪[ORIGINAL NOVEL ] ▪[Update : every Saturday or Sunday] [ This book is not translated. It is the original work of mine. There might be few coincidental resembles to the other ancient themed books written before "ON THE BANK OF THE RIVER ". But every plot and story is my own creativity. ] [ As this book is unedited one so there might be few grammatical mistakes and plot holes.] [Cover page is not mine. Source - Internet and credit goes to the original painter."]

WATTYS 2021 Historical Fiction winner | Writers Of The Past Series. 4000 years ago, in an empire where women were little more than flowers on the wall, one princess cemented her story in history and changed the art of writing for centuries to come. *** Based on the real-life Akkadian princess and high-priestess Enheduanna, this novel explores the life of history's first author. An outspoken visionary with a talent for writing down her deepest emotions, Enheduanna's life is turned upside-down when the god Nanna chooses her to become the high priestess of Ur. As her power in the city of Ur grows, so does her list of enemies. But her own safety is the least of her worries when thousands depend on her to keep the vengeful gods happy, and their land safe. Either way, Enheduanna is not willing to go down without a fight. One way or another, she will carve her own path, and nobody is going to erase her from the pages of history. - part 1 of the Writers Of The Past Series -

Lucy, a 17-year old slave girl, was born on the plantation, works on the plantation, and will most likely die on the plantation. She knows little of the world past the plantation, but that doesn't keep her from wondering about it. With the rare abilities to read and write, she knows there's a better life out there for her; it's just a matter of where. Deciding to find her better life, she runs away to the north, hoping to make a living for herself. But, on her way to freedom, Lucy encounters Koi, the 21-year old son of an Indian tribe's chief. He welcomes her into his tribe, showing her the ways of the world and the heart. At Koi's side, Lucy ventures beyond the cotton fields.

Eydis was captured in Africa by the Norseman. Bound to serve as a slave, until she captures the attention of King Meili Highest Ranking!! #62 in #romancestories, #45 in #vikings - November 08 2019 #39 in #romancestories, 14 in #Vikings Nov 15, 2019 #3 in #historicalromance January 20, 2020