Fallen from good fortune in the years following her mother's death and her father's recent and shocking imprisonment, Helen Stratford faces new acquaintances and a volatile future in her small, hostile town. With the rise of an unsavory suitor, and time running short in death row, step into the pages of Helen's life as she struggles under the increasing weight of social condemnation, scorn, misconception, and deception. **** Author's Note: (My focus is not for historical or geographical accuracy but to share a story inspired by many specific aspects of England's people and history and most specifically its Regency period. People, names, places, events, and customs will not be altogether accurate or congruent when studied as purely historical. Perhaps my story would better have fit the "fiction" genre, yet due to my drawing from many aspects of history nonetheless, I decidedly labeled "Unveiled" as historical fiction with the fiction taking more precedence than the historical.)

Pirates. Smelly, loud, obnoxious pirates. The last place Violante Cabral, daughter of one of the most prominent spice trade controllers in the world, ever expected to be was roaming free on the deck of a pirate ship. Wasn't she supposed to be a hostage; terrified and reeling with the desire to be released? Clearly, this crew of rowdy pirates has had no experience kidnapping someone before. Simón del Castillo was maybe the worst of the crew members - so proud, so arrogant, and so very, *very* handsome... By: Kady Grant, Darb Prynne, and Este Harkness

The Elders said it would never work. A hybrid slave and an Egyptian King -- their love would be like fire on fire, the kind of blaze that could only ever end in ashes. They were wrong, of course. Jezza knew it would end in Fury. ***** For Jezebel Virtua, the daughter of an Egyptian slave and a Greek soldier, the Exchange is only a distant nightmare. Every year, ten noble Greeks and ten noble Egyptians switch places, lives and courts, their lives linked through the magick of a soul tie. If one should die, their soul tied counterpart would die as well, so there could be no chance of foul play. As a hybrid slave, the Exchange isn't even a possibility for her. That is until Prince Calix of Sparta passes her off as a high born lady, and she is forced to take the place of the fierce warrior Adom, half brother to King Ramses himself, their connection sealed in blood. But between the threat of falling in love with Egypt's greatest tyrant and the horrible possibility of him finding out her true heritage, the soul tie looms ever greater. Because it is more than a simple guarantee of mutually assured destruction: it is ancient magick, the lifeline of the gods. She and Adom are now two halves of the same whole, destined to destroy each other in more ways than one. As madness and war loom on the horizon, Jezza and Adom must find their way back to each other if they are ever to sever the soul tie. For if they do not, they face a fate worse than death--chaos, pure and complete.

Trust no one. That was the one rule Daja Lee lived by. After her brother was killed, her life changed forever. Everyone's did. The murders only began with her brother. Six years later, nothing has changed and the city of San Andreas is an empty shell of the bustling port it used to be. When tragedy strikes close to home once again, Daja wonders if maybe the most important rule in her life isn't so important after all.