She defied an empire. * * * * Five months after Krista and her band of gladiators delivered a swift and humiliating defeat to the Roman army, Krista has become the leader of a slave rebellion that travels across Rome, freeing slaves from their chains and killing their masters. Their numbers are growing vast as people...
As if by fate or luck, or maybe the simple strangeness of an encounter, Ying Yun was bound; a simple contract with a simple clause to pretend to be a blind concubine. Yet despite the glimmering gold and the false adoration that defined her every step, the misgivings of intrigue could never be erased from her mind nor...
A young princess from Thebes. A Roman slave destined to serve his master for the rest of his life. Two people living completely opposite lives, on their own side of the world. But what happens when their worlds collide? [Highest rank: #33 in Historical Fiction]
A love spanning two cultures... I have lived on my family's homestead on the prairie all my nineteen years. It is all I have ever known, and it is Indian territory. My father told us that the Indians are savage, ruthless killers akin to wild animals. "They are not human," he said. But I did not feel that way at all...
Know your daughters. When young Lady Anne Macleod runs off with her true love, the handsome young falconer, Kirk Buchanan, she inadvertently sets off a chain of events that turns her young daughter, Cordaella, into a pawn between wealthy lords locked in a game of power, wealth, and greed. At age nine, Cordaella is for...
Rome's hunger for gladiatorial combat has never been greater. The passion for novelty in the arena has given rise to a range of warriors but none quite like Krista; sole survivor of her family's brutal murder, Krista is now the property of Commander Niclaus and is sent to train and fight in the arena for his pleasu...
The Duke of Marlborough has signed betrothal contracts on behalf of his daughter, Lady Arianna Kent. But Arianna is not the type to blindly follow her father's biddings. It is not long before Arianna has different plans for her life and as the wedding date draws near, she sets sail for the colonies. Life isn't as easy...
The last thing Hannah Roberts had planned for the summer was going to boring old Scotland for four weeks. Nothing but hills, and sky, and sheep. A lot of sheep. But after an accident Hannah finds herself in medieval Scotland during a time of feuding and war. She finds herself under the care of a brash young Highland L...
To save her family from financial ruin, Annaliese Dawson agrees to marry a stranger. She knows that the arrangement would probably never lead to love, but as the two begin to trust each other, could it be that they have a chance at true love? ***** Ma...
Aurelia, a Noble Roman woman, had heard of the savage British tribes, their mystic Celtic ways, and the battles the Roman army was fighting against them on their shores. The battles her soon-to-be Husband, Quintus Acquilla, was fighting in the name of the Eagle. But she could not have predicted that, when she crossed...
With eyes wide open I couldn't breathe let alone move. His hair was as black as the night, his skin golden from the sun, his body built like a gladiator. My heart started shaking and I suddenly couldn't stand the sun.
At the fall of Queen Cleopatra and Mark Antony in the Battle Actium, one man rises to meet the level of the Gods and he takes a Goddess' children with him. Two out of the three children of the greatest tragedy survive and live long enough to alter Augustus' world. Brought in chains, the twins of Egypt, Alexander Helio...
In 1528 Baldesar Castigolione published 'The Book of The Courtier' a fictionalized representation of the Court of Duke Guidobaldo, he essentially presented the 'dos and don'ts' of Renaissance court society. To this day his work is considered to be the most illuminating contemporary source on the period. For this reaso...
What would you do if your world was turned upside down in the blink of an eye? When Astrid's peaceful home is raided by the Vikings at only fifteen, she is taken as a slave for the Earl in Norway, where she grows into a fierce, independent young woman, who remains in bondage. In preparing to raid, the Earl calls for...
The palace is full of dark secrets and jealous court ladies. To be able to survive in such a jungle is to hold all the cards or prepare to live a life of misery or even death. Jang Eun Bi is a young, beautiful mute palace maid, who has served the Crown Prince since she was a child. She is mute due to a terrible in...
