History Stories

Kelly just wants her business to succeed, and getting involved with a bodyguard is not part of her plan - but he is the only one who can keep her safe... ***** Kelly Harris is determined to make her antiques business a success. She won't let Tanner, a bodyguard who likes first edition poetry books, interfere with her life. But winning a mystery box at an auction changes everything. With Tanner working alongside her, they decipher the code in a forgotten journal, uncovering a young girl's journey to freedom and a powerful family's secret. Working for a high-profile security company, Tanner has seen the worst that humanity can do. He doesn't believe in love. But when disaster strikes, he finds himself doing everything he can to keep Kelly safe - even if that means letting her into the most vulnerable part of who he is. Leeanna Morgan is a USA Today Bestselling Author.

In 1942, James 'Jamie' Ross's life seems perfect-he has a promising career, an approved engagement to a beautiful woman, and his parents' blessings. However, after a fight leaves him injured, he finds himself under the care of Olivia Townsend, a nurse at the only colored hospital in their small Alabama town. Despite societal norms, Jamie and Olivia form a deep connection that transcends racial boundaries. As their friendship blossoms into a forbidden romance, both must confront the prejudices of their time and decide whether their love is worth risking everything they've ever known for.

Two years after Nathaniel Swift left for America to forget the woman he loved, he learns she's engaged to another man -- and returns to England to win her back. ***** Lord Nathaniel 'Nate' Swift is hopelessly in love with his best friend's younger sister, Charlotte Wilde. However, Nate's rakish ways, their ten-year age difference, and his best friend's objections soon make it very clear that a marriage could never take place. So Nate does the only thing he could: he travels to America and tries to forget about the woman he loves. But after two years in the New World, forgetting Charlotte proves to be impossible, and he's quickly pulled back to England after hearing of her engagement to another man. Determined to make up for past mistakes, Nate swears to stop the impending wedding and win back Charlotte's heart at any cost. But is he too late to show her the truth he's known all along -- that they're meant to be together, forever? [[Word count: 70,000-80,000 words]] Cover designed by Ashley Bandy

WATTPAD ORIGINAL EDITION In 1955, mixed-race Ethan Harper leaves his progressive hometown for a summer in Alabama where he's not welcome, except by resident free spirit, Juniper Jones. ***** After getting himself into a bout of trouble, 16-year-old Ethan Harper's parents send him to Ellison, Alabama, to live with his aunt and uncle for the summer. But the year is 1955, and Alabama is a far cry from his beloved home of Arcadia, Washington. As much as it's hotter in temperature, it's colder in every other way, and Ethan learns the hard way that people see his mere existence as a threat. Amidst all the mayhem, a fiery, free-spirited, oddball walks into Ethan's life. Her name is Juniper Jones. She is the first person in Ellison who seems unfazed by their racial differences, and she promises to give Ethan a summer he will always remember, filled with endless adventure and discovery. With Juniper, Ethan can breathe, he can be, despite the incessant attention and bullying their newly formed friendship attracts. Can the two survive the summer, run in the light and block out the noise of the outside world? [Published version comes out June 16, 2020 with Wattpad Books!] [[word count: 70,000-80,000 words]]

[This story is now FREE] Florette moves to Versailles, only to discover a group of Fae are destroying France. Allying with the battled-scarred Destan, she has to save the kingdom. ***** Florette, a painter's apprentice, is finally welcomed to the palace of Versailles. Ready to work, she notices that several of the courtiers are too beautiful to be human. Soon a battle-scarred warrior, Destan, tells her the truth: a faction of Fae have left the faerie and are slowly destroying the French monarchy. Determined that France must not fall, Florette is forced to use her skill to smuggle messages about the Fae inside her own paintings. Can she trust the rugged warrior at her side? And can Florette save France from creatures beyond mortal control?

After a disastrous first season in London, Rose Wilde finds herself torn between two men who love her -- but who both hide secrets that could ruin her. ***** Rose Wilde has always considered herself plain, especially when compared to her beautiful older sister Charlotte, and has practically given up on the idea of being romanced. But when American hotelier Derek Montgomery comes to revolutionise her little, sleepy English village of Ascot, Rose starts to revisit the idea of falling in love. However, Derek brings with him many secrets and obligations, some that might prohibit him from pursuing Rose -- and push her into the arms of her friend, Michael Cornell, the Marquess of Juniper. Will fate allow Rose and Derek to marry for love? Or will she indeed become the reluctant marchioness? [[Word count: 70,000 - 80,000 words]] Cover designed by Ashley Bandy (The Reluctant Marchioness is the sequel to The Coveted Countess, but can also be read as a standalone)

Eve Taylor has escaped the jaws of slavery and must work to keep her secret safe. But what do you do when the one person who finds out is the one person you can't go to for protection because they're...forbidden?

Born a slave, made an heiress, Annabelle must battle a society unwilling to accept her and a love that threatens to ruin her in order to keep her freedom. ***** Born a slave, Annabelle soon finds that fate has other plans when she's purchased by a man named Elijah Finley, who not only rescues her from an abusive master, but also gives her her freedom. However, her new life comes at the cost of another: Elijah has made Annabelle the heiress to his estate, in spite of having a son. So Henry Finley, unwilling to accept his father's will, is determined to regain his rightful fortune at any cost -- even if that means seducing his father's former slave... Content and/or Trigger Warning: This story contains some racist and sexist language that reflects the historical time period when it's set. [[word count: 80,000-90,000 words]]

There were not many things that I knew much about but pain... Pain I knew. I understood it and its various types. Emotional pain as time dragged by, physical pain I felt when my mate had sex with another woman, when different men had come, nightly beatings, mental pain when he played tricks, when I realized no one from my pack was looking for me. Worse pain... knowing that I was here paying for another person's actions and my children were paying too. Yeah... I knew pain.

❝𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐦𝐢𝐝𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧❞ ᴀꜱʜᴡᴀᴛᴛʜᴀᴍᴀ ♡ ᴋᴀᴜꜱʜɪᴋɪ 𝑨 𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒘𝒐 𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒔, 𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒚. ˙⋆ ᥫ᭡ ⋆˙ 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒃𝒐𝒕𝒉 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒂𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒕, 𝒚𝒆𝒕 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒈𝒓𝒖𝒎𝒑𝒚 𝒈𝒊𝒓𝒂𝒇𝒇𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒙 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓. 𖡼.𖤣𖥧𖡼.𖤣𖥧 He was born a Brahmin, destined to uphold the sacred wisdom of the scriptures, yet fate carved a different path for him. A son of the revered Guru Dronacharya, he mastered the art of war, becoming a warrior unparalleled in skill and ferocity. Turning him into a paradox, as he was both a seeker of knowledge and a harbinger of destruction. While she was Drupad's niece, the sunshine princess of Panchal, a vision of warmth and grace, her presence as radiant as the first light of dawn. She was a dreamer, who carried herself with an effortless charm, her laughter like the tinkling of wind chimes, bringing joy to all who heard it. Happy Reading!

[COMPLETED] "We lock eyes and even at this distance I see the fire burning within, his power radiating outwards sending fear into the hearts of those opposing him. His jaw is taut but his motions are as fluid as a cat playing with its prey. The scarred knight is very much alive." The year is 1350. The Middle Ages. Novella, a young women, flees her castle home to escape an arranged marriage. To keep her freedom, Ell is forced to go undercover as a male and take on the plague infected land. Killian, a knight scarred from battles in France, is returning home at last. He never expected to come across a rather strange pair of stable hands journeying across the countryside, but who would? A chance encounter brings these two together. Will Novella manage to keep her identity hidden, or will Killian discover the truth? Gather your swords and dive into a novel filled with adventure, action, and of course, romance! Highest Rankings: 06/05/21 - #1 in Historical Fiction! 13/10/21 - #2 in Historicalromance

Everyone is born with a matching tattoo to their soulmate, but not everyone can feel their soulmate's emotions. Harley LaCarrubba is a freshman attending Marshall college to one day be an archeologist with her passion for history. Lucky for her, she is being taught by none other than the famous Indiana Jones, the school heartthrob. She can feel her soulmate's emotions but never met him in real life, making her feel guilty about having a crush on her professor.

The world was bound tight by conservatism and religious beliefs, where every step felt watched and every choice judged, witchcraft was a rumor yet close enough that even innocence felt dangerous. "No matter how many times my mind was erased, find me a way to get closer to Ruby Jane." It was the last thing she remembered-spoken in a voice that had defied fate far too many times. Lalice. Cursed by the weight of her own sins, she is doomed to lose Ruby Jane in every lifetime. No matter how the story begins, it always ends the same-with heartbreak, with silence, with loss. Time will resets as her memories fade. But the pain remains like a never ending cycle. Not until she finds the courage to right the wrongs of her past. Because love cannot truly be rewritten... until the truth is faced. "They say that sun and moon are deeply in love from each other, but because of their different rotation they never meet. In God's goodness, he created eclipse to prove that distance doesn't matter, but patience and trust does."

As a tomboy in the French countryside (1900's), life was cruel to Manon. "It's unruly of a girl to play in the mud", and "How could god steer us wrong" haunting her childhood. Even in adulthood, she lost everything worth anything to her, forever her soul untethered from any love.

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Adam, a physics student, stumbles upon a forgotten project called Chronos in his faculty's archives - an experiment that was supposed to be lost to time. Old files, cryptic notes, and a single name: Eliška Matoušková. When inexplicable things begin to happen and Adam hears his own name on a tape recorded in 1942, he sets off on an investigation that pulls him into the darkest depths of the past - and perhaps beyond.

This story is based on the tiktok trend of the princess x knight. It's about a princess, Elara, in a castle falling in love with the castle's guard, Rowan. The King doesn't want her to choose who she loves, so he sets up an arranged marriage with a prince from a nearby kingdom. Elara hates this and rebels, will they end up together? Filled with drama, romance, mystery, smut, passion, action, betrayal, tension, suspense, adventure, loyalty, emotion, jealousy, rage, temptation, lust, and power. This is all written by me, any and all copyright will be held accountable and I will take action against. This is very unfinished but please feel free to make suggestions to me! Enjoy.

Prince Balaur lives with his father King Char and the last of his litter yet to pass the Scorching; Prince Eribus, Prince Wyn and Prince Heren. Being the weakest of the litter he is almost completely sure he will die in the Scorching. However something changes as he finds an intruder in the castle, who is unlike any dragon he'd ever seen. As he is gifted the chance to earn one more moon of training, he begins to see there is more to the strange dragon then he previously thought. There is no time to look further however, as something has come to invade Auranth, Kingdom of Fyr. Will he escape with his new intruder friend, or will he stay loyal and protect his kingdom?

Seora has always obsessed over old kingdoms and forgotten rulers, happily nerding out over dusty books while living her painfully normal life. But when one impossible moment drops her straight into the very era she used to analyze from the outside, she's forced to survive the history she once romanticized. Every choice she makes could rewrite the past she thought she understood, and the life she never planned to live suddenly becomes the one she can't escape. And the truth about the past that no one wanted the future to know.

Vivianne Lockwood never pictured her life looking like this. Going outside? Swamped by paparazzi. Going shopping? No need, there are workers for that. A private life? Real funny. Sometimes she truly feels like her life is a sitcom, things go wrong so often she has learned not to question it. But one thing she did picture was Michael Jackson being her husband, and boy did she manifest it. No matter what obstacles life throws at her (promptly followed by a well-timed laugh track), so long as the shy boy next door is there, Vivianne will be just fine. Inspired by sitcoms - F.R.I.E.N.D.S, The Nanny, Modern Family, Golden Girls, 2 Broke Girls etc.