"I was deeply drawn into The Promise--the charm and complexity of the characters, the vibrancy of the settings, and the plot that gripped me from beginning to end." --Kathryn Lynn Davis, NY Times Bestselling Author of "Too Deep For Tears" **Please note: This has been re-titled, The Wrong Prince, under Drag...
[Book I of the Gilmore Legacy Series] When Jonathan Gilmore, a pessimistic and cynical young man from a powerful 19th century English family, meets Helene Hoffman, a golden haired immigrant girl from Germany, there's no way that either of them can know the effect they will one day have on one another.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented is a novel by Thomas Hardy. It initially appeared in a censored and serialised version, published by the British illustrated newspaper The Graphic in 1891 and in book form in 1892. Though now considered a major nineteenth-century English novel and possibly...
"You pierce my soul..." Fine words, to be sure, but when Anne and Frederick's attachment comes under pressure and scrutiny from his family as well as hers, will they falter at the first hurdle or prove that they have learnt history's lessons and this time will not be so easily persuaded to part?
Adapted into a Major Motion Picture (1995) and TV series (2007), this is the ebook version of Jane Austen's classic novel. Anne fell deeply in love with handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth at the age of nineteen. But with neither fortune nor rank to recommend him, Anne's family were against the match and...
I was challenged to write a creative piece in my Literature class based off the novel Persuasion by Jane Austen. This piece is an epilogue to the original story that hopefully brings to the readers mind ideas of why Charles Musgrove may have married Mary instead of pursuing Anne further. *MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS FOR THE...
Based on the televised adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's 'North & South'. When Margaret Hale moves from the South to a northern industrial town, her relationship with cotton mill owner John Thornton gets off to a shaky start but that changes over time, a little quicker in this short fanfic than in the actual story!
Margaret Hale had two choices that fateful day at the train station. Ten years later she is recently widowed and about to return to Milton for the first time in a decade. What & who awaits her and will she find a new love, or rediscover an old one?
More than eight years before the novel opens, Anne Elliot, then a lovely, thoughtful, warm-hearted 19 year old, accepted a proposal of marriage from the handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth. He was clever, confident, and ambitious, but poor and with no particular family connections to recommend him. Sir Wa...
The speculation of 1851. It was hailed as a sure prospect, every cotton mill owner who invested was sure to succeed, but what it it failed? The city of Milton was soon to find out as some of the most prominent mills closed their doors leaving hundreds out of work. Within all this seeming calamity was Marlborough Mills...
This is my North and South tribute. I have moved the setting to World War Two. Based on the book by Elizabeth Gaskell and the BBC TV series starring Richard Armitage
A twist on Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South, Somewhere in the World sets the characters in the North and South of the U.S. Civil War.
A short story about the last meeting of Mr. Bell and Mr. Thornton. Only this time Mr. Bell has a little better timing.
NORTH AND SOUTH FANFICTION: John Thornton, a rich factory owner in 19th century Milton, happens to stumble across a bleeding woman in a graveyard. When she wakes up, she cannot recall anything from her life, not even her name. Now in Milton, she has to find a way to keep herself afloat in the harsh factory town. Mr. T...
Mrs. Thornton awaits her son's return. With mills failed and house to be given up she expects nothing but more grief in the future. Mostly series based. Extrapolating the train scene on the subsequent behavior of Mr. Thornton and Miss Hale.
