Ty, a young man riding the rails is swept up in the events of the Great Depression. He has seen many hardships, like most of that era, and has survived them. But he is about to encounter something even more disturbing when he arrives in Calgary. McConnell house is almost as old as the young city, but with a much darker past. Will Ty be able to survive such a place, when he has gone through so many ordeals? Or will he descend into madness as so many before him? This story is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously.

January, 1915 Kings Lynn, Norfolk, England In the midst of the first world war, lives 17 year old heiress Elsie Kingston, who is at her first soiree. What she doesn’t know is that night, German aeroplanes will invade the town. And the accident will change her life forever. Now, her father is determined to see her wedded and bedded to secure a male heir. He is unaware that Elsie definitely has other ideas, and that a ghost from the past will do anything to get their sweet satisfaction… © Sweet Satisfaction Copyright starz00 For more information on the contest I won, please click this link http://www.wattpad.com/64157290-the-undiscovered-gems-competition-ugc-2014

Phoebe has been encumbered with a task: finding a husband. Of course, it was a rather common expectation for a young woman of the early 1800s. However, Phoebe's husband-to-be had additional requirements. First, the man should be willing to give his name to a woman who decorated her conversations with stutters. Secondly, the husband-to-be would have to sacrifice his previous pursuits and instead continue her father's plantation. Thirdly, the said-husband must be of liberal-mind and use the plantation as a ruse to free slaves. Surprisingly, this task may not be as herculean to a visiting English-man.

Not much ever seems to happen in the Appalachian coal-mining town where Ginny lives with her family. That all changes at the start of the summer of 1940, when a letter addressed to her mother shows up in the mailbox. Prompted by news in the letter, her mother announces that she will be taking care of family matters elsewhere - and leaving conniving tomboy Ginny and her introverted older brother Kody at home - while she does so. When Ginny finds herself consumed by the mystery surrounding a strange old house, she sets out to solve it once and for all. Little does she know what secrets it holds. And neither she, nor Kody, is prepared for how much the summer will change them, or for what they will discover.

The World is at War. While rifle fire and the screams of terror are emerging in the Pacific and Europe, the home-front stands in peace. It as if everybody at home is holding there breath, awaiting any news that they can grasp onto for some shred of hope that the War will come to an end. A small town in Northern Iowa is home to one of the biggest War Bond selling cooperation's in America. As hope is dying for the soldiers overseas, the business is faulting and all resources are being executed in order to provide for them. It seems that illustrated posters are no longer helping. That's when a girl named Mary comes into the picture. She is a photographer, born and raised. Orphaned at 12 Mary thrives on photography as it is connection to her late parents. She is now under the care of Helen, a major player in the War Bond business. Helen only has one wish, for Mary to find a suitor to polish her own image. When Mary finds a boy, with a special trait, who is all wrong for her, will she risk losing everything for him or stay true to her first love? Join Mary in her struggles on the Home-Front of WW2.

Danny arrives in France and is forced onto the brutal battle ground far from the ones he loves. He never imagined that saving the life of Black Jack, an out of control stallion, would lead him into the most dangerous journey. What they witness will haunt them till their dying breath. With their friends dying around them, the question that hangs in the balance is, will their newfound friendship survive where everything else perishes? - - - - - - - - - - - - - Cover by weeknder Historical Fiction #63 / Short Story #478

In the year 1863, a rich and well-bred lady fell in love with an impecunious farm boy. After courting for three years, at the ripe age of nineteen, John asked an eighteen year old Charlotte to marry him; but nothing good ever lasts. They were to be married until an unsuspected heart attack ravages John’s life, leaving a very heart broken Charlotte in its wake. With her heart being thoroughly soaked in morose and her parents scrambling to get an arranged marriage; Charlotte’s life seems bleak. Until, John comes back – temporarily – with a mission in mind.

❝Weak.❞ ❝Useless.❞ ❝Pushover.❞ These are the words that are used to describe Princess Skylet le'a Xenlisa, third princess of the Queendom of Nyvalia. She is an abnormality in a family of women renown for being brave, headstrong, and reckless. Everyone expects her to become like her sisters or her mother, Queen Xenlisa, the brave warrior queen who managed to unite the countries and bring peace to the continent for the first time in a hundred years. But Skylet finds that she'd much rather feed the geese, watch bread rising in the kitchen, or take care of her garden than rule a queendom or take up a position of leadership. After all, she doesn't expect to be chosen as Crown Heiress, being the youngest daughter. But when misfortune strikes, everything that Skylet knew and hoped for shatters. The peace that her mother struggled so valiantly to achieve was tenuous and vague -- and it came with a price. Haunted by her own weakness, and surrounded on all sides by enemies and political machinations, Skylet is forced learn to navigate the treacherous Nyvalian court and unravel the conspiracy coalescing around her. If she fails, the only thing she'll be next in line for...is the morgue. -� WATTYS2014 WINNER // #264 in Historical Fiction