Historical Fiction
21 stories
The Vikings Payment by War_Goddess_Nae
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I was no longer safe in my own I no longer have a home, I am nothing but payment to these monster to protect my old home. I will never give him my heart I will lock it up and let it die before I give it away.
The Long Journey Home by caffrey1974
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Andrew Dwight "Dewy" Montgomery is headed back to Texas. A survivor among few, the last battle has been fought, and he is headed home. But, he doesn't have a home to return to. His father disowned him when he left and his fiancee broke their engagement. Three years later, this boy turned man arrives back in his hometown. What will he find when he gets there, and who will be left to welcome the hero home?
Thalassa by almarie220
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In the times of Ancient Greece, marrying off young girls was hardly unusual. So why does Thea know it's wrong? Forced to conform to rules, responsibilities and expectations, a life of boredom that would be Thea's description of a wife. And when her parents announce that she shall marry her best friend Mikalis, Thea decides it's time to run.
Viking, me. by Misachan6
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A tender aged Irish girl lived a quiet life with her grandmother on the farm her parents built, when tragedy befalls her and the town she has to react! Usually a quiet and contemplative and respectful girl, one of which nothing bad should ever happen, she is stolen from where she belongs and is thrown into a new way of life. She has to obey her strict and aggressive master, as time goes by she tries to forage a life for her self but one thing after another and she is lead down a different path, While she becomes a new person she misses the change going on in her master, a young man who slowly changes. Secrets from her past are revealed and Saoirse's master has been intertwined with her life for far longer than she's known him. As she spends more time with him she realises he is more, knows more and gives more than she could have possibly expected.
Under His Watch {16th Century Valois-Orléans-Angoulême Romance] by MeepyM
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Mistress Jacqueline DeWhite is married off to Lord Dominic DeFleur. She is not told anything and is expected to obey her husband without question. It starts negatively as most religious marriages do, and his cold demeanour and sexist views strain their relationship. The swordsman and personal favourite, of King Francis the First, Dominic has a lifestyle both lavish but lonely and as both as stubborn as they are can they become the couple they both wished they were? Rough Draft. Feedback is appreciated. Will edit Summer 2016.
Of Beauties And Beasts by gingerbread250
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Highest Rating: #1 in Historical Fiction. Currently #1 under Historical Romance Lady Ginny Sherman is forced into an arranged marriage to Lord Stephen Knightly when her parents leave her and her sister alone and destitute after they die in a stagecoach accident. Ginny's life is completely flipped upside down. This man is vile and cold and wants nothing to do with her. And neither does his ex-fiancee. What she doesn't know is that Stephen has some dark secrets of his own. His past has torn him apart, and Ginny might be just the girl to mend his broken heart. It's a tale as old as time. Book Cover Copyright- © 2016 by Addietay
New Beginnings by auntkambam
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After Anna's town is attacked and destroyed she makes it out as the only survivor. Saved by a man that she doesn't know Anna is forced into an arranged marriage and then taken away from her desolate town to a new land. The new land is full of challenges and new opportunities that she has never experienced before. Book #1
1968 by ElenaSenecal
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*Book Two of the Soldier Series* Lorelei and Jacob Horowitz, twins and the youngest children of Jack and Hilda Horowitz, the war heroes. Both children, now eighteen, join their parents to fight in Vietnam in 1968. Mihn Láhn is a young Vietnamese soldier just trying to survive the war. He's just as scared as everyone else, but he doesn't say a word, because he has a secret no one can know, ensuring his death if anyone found out. Lorelei and Mihn cross paths while caught in a fight. Almost instantaneously, Mihn falls in love with the resilient American girl. For once, someone doesn't think he's an enemy. Will Lorelei and Mihn make it through this terrible war, like her parents years before? Or will they crash and burn in a violent, thrashing explosion? *Sequel to the first book 1943*
The Lady's Highlands by CherishTheStorm
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Lady Scarlette is not a Lady like any other. She is wild and easier found running the grounds with her common-folk childhood friends from the "heathen" country to the north. When Scarlette's sister's betrothal to the Lord of the northernmost Duchy in the country, they both travel to attend the wedding. Once there, the Lady Scarlette finds that the Northlands of her country and the Highlands of the "heathen" country are not on the best of terms. During a skirmish that she happens upon during one of her explorations of the Highlands to the north of her sister's fiance's keep, Scarlette meets Clan Laird Evrett Hogarth, a man who is as intrigued by her as she is by him, and from there sparks a passionate relationship that both parties must keep secret from Scarlette's new Northland home.
The Black Death (A Medieval Action/Romance) by Tall_Girl_818
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The year is 1338 and England is in a time of peril as raiders pillage the land and, with no one to challenge them, their actions begin to grow like wildfire. At the height of their terror, eight year old Isadora watches her mother and sister be raped and murdered by an army of mercenaries before her village is scorched to the ground. Promising to avenge her family, Izzie grows up to become the most feared warrior in the country. * * * 10 years later and a new King sits on the throne. The raiders have scattered to the east and peace seems to have returned to England but it is short lived as a new evil has come to England. A horrible disease starts to plague the country and the king orders villages to be purged as sacrifices to appease the Lord. Now, Izzie is called upon to help the King's subjects survive his soldiers with her unique set of skills. But the warrior with no alligences may just discover something so dreadful that could change her view on King, God and Country forever.