Lady Elizabeth is Lady in Waiting to Queen Catherine of Aragon, the first wife to the infamous Henry VIII. She is a favorite at court and has captured the wandering eye of the King's best friend, Charles Brandon. However, in the Court of Henry VIII things can always change. Once Elizabeth meets the notorious Anne Boleyn her world is flipped upside down. Anne befriends Elizabeth and she watches as the most famous point in British History is acted out before her. But with things going wrong in her world, she has to choose. To remain the watcher or to go.

Lizzie is about to find out what life has in store for her and her brother Luke. They had lost everything they knew in just a few days,after a yellow fever epidemic took so much from them. They are being shipped off to a Grandmother they never met, who lived in a sleepy little town in Virginia. Things start out rough for her, til she arrives and meets Jake. He turns her life upside down, she wasn't expecting to find love. His brother and him lived on a farm across from her grandmother. But she soon finds out that someone else has her sights on Jake. Lizzie has already fought for her life, now she has to fight for love. So what is in store for Lizzie? Will her grandmother be kind and sweet like her mother was? Will they be accepted in this little town?

When Christmas comes to the sleepy town of Hillbury, so does a love letter for Holly Ambrose - a love letter from a secret admirer. Amidst the yuletide balls and Christmas cheer of Victorian England, Holly vows to uncover the source of the letter, but will the self-avowed intellectual fall in love in the process? This Yuletide novella is twelve chapters long, with a chapter posted each day until Christmas beginning on Sunday the 14th. It's just a little christmas present to all my wonderful Wattpad friends.

**CURRENTLY A FEATURED STORY** highest ranking: #11 in Science fiction ❝true happiness is only achieved without freedom. There is a girl who wakes to a world that she was supposed to protect. Instead, she fights it. There is a man who is cursed with the ability to dream. A glass city is their cage, a city filled to the brim with unanimity and order, a paradise on an earth laid to waste by an artificial snowstorm. Sunlight filters through the glass buildings and through glass walls, pierces glass floors. It illuminates the city square when it is strongest at noon, surrounded by a huddled mass of citizens, all as perfect as the city they inhabit. And they all think: everything is as it should be. And it is. Or, it was. -- long live perfection.❞ (c)sarahgaier2016 #diverselit | #LoveEqualsLove | #helpfightcliches | #freethelgbtq | #badassreads check out my Science Fiction novella, Sector-33, here! https://www.wattpad.com/story/62174094-sector-33

**A Blue Beard retelling** Based on Charles Perrault's fairytale, this YA Historical Fantasy short story set in Victorian England mixes romance, magic and mystery. After agreeing to an arranged marriage to escape her greedy relatives, 18-year-old heiress Amelia moves into her husband's manor determined to start a new life. But the gothic mansion's forbidding surroundings, the servants' strange demeanour and her husband's mysterious past soon awaken her suspicions. If Amelia truly wants to become the lady of the house, she'll have to discover what secrets lie beyond closed doors and unravel the mystery of the old house's forbidden room. But sometimes secrets are kept for a good reason... HIGHEST RANKING IN HISTORICAL FICTION # 44 Copyright © 2017. All works posted here are the property of EM Castellan. Please do not use without permission. Any duplication or reproduction of all or part of the work without explicit permission by the author is illegal. Cover artist: @seventhstar

1806, England - When Katherine Wentworth, trained killer known as the Silver Sword, is called to the service of Princess Caroline in London she is apprehensive. Years of training and foreign missions means she has had little experience of society and when she is thrown into the bustling London society of balls and card games in the guise of a lady-in-waiting, she is out of her depth. Adding to her troubles is the charming Mr James Willoughby, who seems to spot Katherine even when she thinks she is hidden. But these are dark times. The assassins are getting closer and enemies are everywhere. Any mistake could cost the life of the Princess. And Katherine will not let that happen.

HIGHEST RANKING #1 in historical fiction. Rosalyn is living her life. She's reckless, stubborn, unladylike and all the other things a Lady isn't supposed to be. In short, she's the bane of her brother, the Earl of Morley's existence. Theo is more than satisfied with life. Women fawn over him, he's rich and he isn't aimless like most of the gentlemen of his acquaintance. He loves horses and so does she. He needs to marry and so does she. But do they want to marry each other? Not so much. Read more to find out what happens when a consummate rake-Lord Theodore Fortescue and an adventurous hoyden-Lady Rosalyn Orford find themselves entangled in a not so ordinary friendship topped off with an inconvenient attraction towards each other. Will they find love or will their circumstances tear them apart? If you're goofy, unladylike and reckless, I'm sure you will be able to relate to Rosalyn :D Cover by @00Athena00

The man who was feared on land and seas King Koll Vikarsson was finally captured by his biggest enemy; the Danish earl Jörgen. Many nights did he thought that he would be stuck in that black pit.. Her home, her freedom and her luck was all taken away from lady Astrid Karldóttir. She swore for revenge on the man who captured her. Revenge has a bittersweet taste.. The wiseman who said that was surely not a Viking.. *** Book 1 in the daughters of the Sea. Copyright 2014 © by Amethyst Young

Anne Boleyn Queen of England, we only really hear the bad things about her, so we believe her to be the evil queen who took the thrown from Catherine. But what if there is more to Anne then people know? She was once just a daughter of an Earl, she had no real chance of becoming queen yet she caused King Henry to fall for her charms and take her as his Queen. Many see this act as malicious, and yes maybe it is but it also shows how powerful our dear Anne is, and how she can become Queen from being the simple daughter of an Earl. Have you ever wondered what kind of relationship Anne Boleyn had with the women who would destroy her and strip her of her crown, this women was Jane Seymour. They had never spoken a word until Jane was sent to court and became one of the Queen's ladies. What if there was something more between them, something the history books don't tell us?... This is not historically correct, the idea just sprung to me and I thought I might just do it! If you have a problem you can just STOP and read something else! Anyways read on if you're interested I hope you like it!