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Summer, 1936. 14 year old Alex Dixon's life is one of idyllic adventure. His father owns a small aviation consultancy and the seasons air race events are getting under way. In a few years Alex hopes to be part of it all, flying his own machine against the great pilots of the world. In Europe, however, the storm-clouds of war are growing, and although no-one knows it yet, Britain will soon be pulled into the turmoil of the Second World War. For some, that titanic clash between nations will begin much earlier than anyone could have expected. Kidnap, treason and mortal peril descend suddenly upon Alex's life, and only his courage and wits will help him find his missing father, save his family, and uncover a plot to weaken Britain before the start of the next World War. First in the series of 'V for Victory' stories.

Seti, a humble civil servant at the Office of Information, is selected for an important mission to retrieve a cluster of 'fallen stars' with very special, and very secret, properties. But why has he -- ambitionless and without influence as he is -- been chosen? And just who wants these particular stars at all costs? As Seti becomes more and more involved in the machinations of shadowy figures, he realises he has his own personal mission to fulfil, and it has nothing to do with the one he was selected for. Distantly Falling Stars is punk genre thriller set in ancient Egypt following the 2019 Open Novella II prompt #2. (Wicked Meteors) Cover by FlavoredWolf ⭐️ Placed 2nd in the 2nd round of the ONC. ⭐️ Grand winner of the ONC 2019 ⭐️ 2nd place in The Historical Award 2019 (Historical Fiction profile)

It takes only two months for the young and disgruntled Abi to realize that pursuing a PhD was not meant for her. With a strong desire to research an obscure figure named Cain Edwards, and a supervisor who hates all of her ideas, Abi is moments away from abandoning her dreams when a mysterious figure approaches her during witching hour. Turns out, Abi's research is far more significant than she ever imagined, with a reach that extends back through time and intertwines with the life of the alleged pirate and witch protector, Luca Veturi. -NANOWRIMO STORY! COMING DECEMBER 2018-

In the era of slave trade, Nana Kwame, a young prince in Ayinda Kingdom in West Africa, sold into slavery, faced the most horrible treatment. He suffered throughout his days in a cage, a dungeon and in a ship; up until the day the slave ship that held him captive docked at a harbour in South Carolina. His life took a new turn and he was promised to be returned to his homeland. But will that be possible? Note: This story is based on the time period of slavery and some parts may contain elements of slavery abuse and sufferings. However it's not about racism. I'm not a supporter of racism. It's about living together at peace with all men, as well as loving them. Book cover made by @jettmanas ©All rights reserved

Lara Croft is a hunter. Mina Stoker is her ward, her father one of the creatures that Lara and her family hunt. The two girls are friends, in spite of their backgrounds. When Mina meets and falls in love with a ringmaster of a cursed circus, whose mother has a history of her own with Mina's mother, and Lara reunites with her brother in law, whom she has secretly loved ever since she was a child, the two girls must find a way to make their happily ever afters come true.

She was young, reserved and a complete book lover. A rather curvy girl with hazel eyes. He was strange with an always bored look but had an unnatural glint. You could say he was inhumanly beautiful with a perfect set of blue eyes. . . . "I'm not interested in whatever pledge father had with the Gregory's. I will not marry that girl mother" He barks angrily as he stomps toward the foyer. "Besides I heard she has the most boring set of hazel eyes" He adds as he mentally face palms at such a weak excuse. "Alex you have to do this, not for yourself but for your father.. - the kingdom" his mother pleads as she tries to catch up with him. "How would the kingdom look at a king who cannot honour a pledge" she says. He groans furiously this was a waste of time. Alexander freezes midway as a foreign memory flashes through his mind. He wasn't even interested in hazel eyes

EVERYTHING IS RUBBLE and ash in the Soviet city of Stalingrad. The year is 1941, and Vaska Khovsankya- a 19-year-old civilian- is stranded in the midst of a brutal, bloody battle she never wanted to be a part of. Her thoughts on how ruthless war is shift drastically as she is exposed to the atrocities that continue to be committed in her city and across the continent of Europe. It's not long before she realizes Stalingrad has become its own hell, and that her chances of survival all depend on whether or not she can escape it. But with hostile soldiers from both sides waiting to kill her; how can she do it alone? Completed January 2018 ✓ 2019 Historical Awards Top 30 [12.1.18] all rights reserved © 2018

// A Wattpad Military Fiction Featured book \\ The year is 1916, and war rages across Europe. Death walks among men, and he favours no one. Violence haunts the young boys in the trenches. There is no glory to be found in the wasteland along the western front, only suffering.

England 1847-1852. Born to an English gentleman and a common French dancer, Adrian Blackford is a mischevious yet ambitious painter. He adamantly chooses to constantly clash with high society and refuses to make the least effort to live by its rules. He was cursed with an itch to stir up trouble and to trifle with the feelings of every woman loved by another man. The abandonment of the only true love he had known since childhood forces him to try to take hold of his life, but, instead, he falls prey to the vindictive scheme of a powerful trader and finds himself thrown into extreme poverty and deserted by his family. His journey to find liberty and fulfillment leads him to the realization that the women in his life had the power to either break or make him. *** Copyright © 2018 by Anan Tello Cover by José Manuel Bethencourt Suaréz www.jmbeth.com *** * The story has made the top 10 in Wattpad's Historical Awards * Highest Ranks Achieved: #1 out of 25 in SETBACKS #2 out of 57 in HAMPSHIRE #312 out of 1.65K in ENGLAND #20 out of 134 in DISAPPOINTMENTS *** All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means, including but not limited to: photocopying, scanning, recording or information storage and retrieval, without permission in writing from the author. *** P.S. Kindly note that this is the first, unedited draft of this story.

Arius is the Prince of Egypt and the future Pharaoh: Pharaoh Atumankhkare. Everyone knows how great of a young man he is and he is respected by all of Egypt. However, his claim to the throne is compromised when his noble father dies young and his cruel and power-hungry uncle takes his place. Chione is a peasant with nothing more than a loving father and the wonderful skill to treat the ill and assist in childbirth. However, she is forced to leave everything in order to work at the Pharaoh's palace so she can afford a treatment to help her sickly father. Fate will lead these two very different people to come together and fall in love. And when they do, it doesn't take them very long to realize that they are breaking Egyptian laws and putting both their lives in danger.

Inspired by the non-fictional, historical lives of Sir Joseph Banks, Nicolas Baudin, Captain William Bligh, Matthew Flinders and John Macarthur, this 'coming of age' story is set at the dawn of the nineteenth century. It describes Charlotte, an English orphan, being saved from unimaginable misery by a young Irish Catholic priest, Reverend Sean Simmons. Charlotte cannot dream that she is about to embark on a fantastic journey that will take her from the manored estates of gentrified England to the brutal convict settlement on Terra Australis. Navigating the mire of desperate circumstances and characters she encounters along the way will test her mettle and spirit. Yet, meeting the strange and enigmatic Charlotte will also test every person who encounters her on the journey in unpredictable and uniquely different ways. Charlotte, it appears, brings change; nothing is the same again - least of all, the future Australian colony she longs to call home.

A girl befriends a spirit boy. His compelling story drawing her in and taking its claim on her soul. She exists in 2018, he remains stuck in the 1800s. Yet, while his story corrupts their once bittersweet memories, turning them only into history. Hope has trouble believing his story and her important role in it. She was a lost soul, reincarnated from a girl with family secrets. While her life dances with love itself and the terrifying truth of her family in the summer of 1843. She has to juggle life as an Engineer's daughter and dodge the silent threats and rumours thrown aimlessly by strangers and her grandmother. And shall perfection only be of importance to her grandmother, the one with the deepest secrets? While love blinds her and the dangers of falling in love with one of her father's sustenance boys, a series of events take place in order to rid her of the mistakes she had made. Only in 2018 will she realise the things she had done were worth every second, even if it meant the death of someone she loved dearly.

Danger...Deception...Death Can she ever escape the vicious cycle? "The moment I was born, my father walked outside and screamed to the heavens for the mere reason that I was a girl. When he came back, he took me in his arms, looked straight into my innocent eyes, and told me, 'Hush now, child. For this day you are my son, and no son of mine will bawl like a girl.'" Sixteen-year-old Amachi Junichi is the only one still alive who knows that she's a woman. Struggling to hide her secret to preserve her family's name along with the clan she leads becomes harder with each passing year. It doesn't help when her general Igarashi Ryuu seems to know there isn't something quite right about her. However, when the Amachi clan is threatened by those both within and without, can Jun risk her secret to save those she's sworn to protect? Book One of the Kakureta Hana series Cover: GodGirl91 All Rights Reserved.

An exploration of the impact of the First World War on Canadian women explored through letters. "I am a believer in women, in their ability to do things and in their influence and power. Women set the standards for the world, and it is for us, women in Canada, to set the standards high." Nellie McClung, 1910

(**Highest rank: #63 in #flashfiction as of 5/11/18**) Written for the #ASnapshotInTime contest hosted by the @HistoricalFiction community. Won 1st Place in Short Story in the Victory Awards (2018) and in the Rosie Awards (2019). Providence is a colonial horse who was taken by the Redcoats from his owner Joey and from his home in Lexington during the Thanksgiving of 1774. When he returns to his hometown during the Spring of 1775, he becomes a witness to the beginning of the War for Independence, during this first skirmish -- from where it would escalate into war. Copyright ©2018 by CalebRyanWriter

::: Ranked #10 (AlternateHistory) [31-Mar-2019] ::: What If Independent India had Netaji as the first Prime Minister with the longest tenure ever ! What could have caused it ? What would be the outcome ? A person of covert ops walks through an alternate history. Find out what comes next in this twisted fiction of breadcrumbs.

France, 1937. It only takes a single snowstorm for Lina Fontaine's family to fall apart. When an accident in the snow kills her brother and renders her speechless, Lina and her family move to Marseilles, France in order to escape the painful memories. Disillusioned and disgusted with her new reality, Lina yearns to hide away from the world. Yet when her father abandons them and threatens to take her beloved sister with him, Lina realizes she can no longer ignore her own struggles. It is only when Lina meets Luka Fuhrmann, a German-Jewish pianist with a mysterious past, that she begins to have hope again. At the same bookstore she encounters him, she receives a book with a letter tucked between the pages, written by a father pleading for help to find his missing daughter. When she learns there is a monetary reward, Lina realizes this may be the key to saving her own family. Yet as Lina becomes obsessed with finding the missing girl and spends more and more time with Luka, she finds her frequent absences may only be destroying her crumbling family further. And when Lina's plan ends up endangering her sister as well as Luka, Lina is forced to decipher what is most important: her family, the boy she loves, or her own desires.

• Long Listed for the 2018 Wattys • A Wattpad Featured Story • Top 30 in the first ever Historical Awards [ A "GREAT EXPECTATIONS" RETELLING ] GENRE: historical fiction London, 1884 "Sometimes, even messiahs can't bring back the dead." Instead of earning the reputation of a modest doctor, Matthew Knightley seems to be earning one of a raven chasing rebel amongst his peers. Taking a side turn from the family business and fighting a cold war with your father doesn't help either. Still, he does not let such inconvenices steer his ship into the wrong direction. Though, the raven Matthew keeps seeing leads him again and again to a woman with more half-truths than lies. She may not say so herself, but Mathilda Penrose may be one of those secrets that Matthew never bargained for. Hints and glimpses of a carefully structured past follow him. They all point to a past that the newer generation of the Knightleys and Penroses barely know of. Instead of abolishing that cold war with his father, Matthew finds the very base of his own Eden shattering into a thousand rays of scorching light. || Cover by @elzarion || | #33 in Historical Fiction on 26-8-18 | || UPDATED WEEKLY ||

1523. King Henry VIII is in desperate need of a male heir. Mistress Katherine Champernowne, a young maiden of noble blood, has been sent from France to the English court. Her mother believes she can produce a male heir for the English King. New to English politics, Katherine finds herself entangled in a war for the King's affections. She is playing a dangerous game of courtly love, while all the time trying to hide her un-catholic background. Her task in place, she becomes friends with the competition, enemies with her family and in love with someone other than the King. When things get too heated, will she be able to survive a court where everyone is out to make a profit, no matter the cost? A Twist. Although I use a lot of Tudor truths and background work, I also use false characters, intertwined with real people. *************** A massive thank you to @Pasionforbooks who is currently editing this story! She has managed to make everything so much smoother and run so much more perfected while keeping my own voice! Highly recommend can't wait to see the rest! xx

When the young and intelligent village girl named Seetha catches the eye of the powerful Warrior Prince Aaryaraavanan, the two of them soon convince themselves that they were meant to be together. Ignoring the despicable nature of Aaryan's mother, she is won over by his words and sees all her dreams come true right before her very eyes. Not only does she marry the love of her life but she is given riches, all the luxuries she had never asked for, and a potential future that was too good to be true. Of course, it was just that... too good to be true. Because as the time of war fast approaches, betrayal and distrust fill the hearts of all those within this mighty kingdom. And Seetha soon realizes that her deep and unconditional love had blinded her to the evil that is forming within the heart of the man of her dreams.