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.

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]]

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)

[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?

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

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.

Thirteen Colonies loved his Father, but after the Sevens' Year War, he wasn't sure if his father felt the same way. His Father just needed to listen to him. If he didn't, well, Thirteen and his Father weren't going to be on the same page or part of the same empire. Because Thirteen could only take so much before he would take drastic action himself. Cover art is by @JMysty4.

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."

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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?

Four girls set out to undo a curse set upon their kingdom. Brought together by the Queen to make the ultimate team! Solving the twisted mystries behind this sinnister curse.

⚔️ The Wayward Company "He came from an age of gunpowder and discipline... and found himself in a world of magic and monsters." The year was 1785 when Silas Ward was born - a Virginian by birth, a soldier by blood. The son of a frontier rifleman and a veteran of the Revolution, Ward grew up in the lingering smoke of musket fire and the echoes of liberty's war drums. His father's stories were full of powder, honor, and men who carved a nation from wilderness. Ward became one of them - a United States Marine, a captain forged in the chaos of the War of 1812 and the Barbary Wars that followed. He knew the sting of salt air, the ring of sabres, and the thundering recoil of a musket - his father's old Charleville, a relic from another war. He knew discipline, courage, and the silence that comes after battle. He thought he knew the world. Until one night, the world changed. A storm unlike any other swallowed his ship whole - and when he awoke, the sea was gone. In its place stood a land of twin moons and crimson dawns, where men walked beside elves and devils bore human faces. A place where steel and sorcery shared the same battlefield. To its people, he was an enigma: a foreigner in a tattered blue coat, wielding a thunderous weapon no forge could craft and speaking of wars no bard had sung of. To himself, he was something worse - a ghost adrift in a world that was not his own. But fate has a strange sense of humor. In this new realm, Silas Ward would cross paths with others who carried their own scars: a half-elf devoted to divine justice, a young fighter chasing her worth, a brooding warlock haunted by the cost of power, and a tiefling bard whose charm hides a wounded heart. Together, they will become known as The Wayward Company - not by choice, but by destiny. Their story is one of exile and rediscovery, of loyalty born in the fires of difference. For while some heroes are made by gods, and others by magic... Silas Ward was made by war.

Fourteen-year-old Anna Keller, the daughter of a gentle German schoolteacher, lives in a city darkening under rising hatred. When she meets Levi Grünfeld, a fifteen-year-old Jewish boy outside her uncle's bookshop, a fragile, forbidden connection begins. A tale of courage of two young souls finding each other during the darkest chapter of history.

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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.

THE OFFICE meets THE ZONE OF INTEREST - a darkly funny, unsettling novel about ambition, order, and the seductions of excellence. Berlin, 1935. Eva Albrecht is too smart for every room she enters. She watches men take credit for her work, watches incompetence promoted over her capability, until she meets someone who actually sees what she can do. Adolf Eichmann is a man without confidence or direction-pale, narrow-shouldered, the kind of man people look through rather than at. Every failure has taught him to disappear. But through Eva's gaze, he realizes the man he could become, if he can only believe in himself. Together they'll build something unprecedented: an assembly line where every improvement means more suffering-and they will learn what it means to be essential to someone, even when what you're essential for is unforgivable. Equal parts satire and elegy, The Banality of Eva asks what happens when the habits that make us good workers make us evil people.

An 80 year old war between 2 sides in Southeast Asia with a number of characters.

For more than seven decades, Gaza has stood at the crossroads of conflict, diplomacy, and human endurance. Gaza: What Comes Next explores how one small stretch of land became the center of one of the world's most persistent struggles - and why lasting peace has proven so difficult to achieve. Written in a fair, journalistic tone, this book traces the region's history, the failures of past peace efforts, and the toll of war on both sides. From the Clinton-era proposals to modern diplomatic challenges, it examines why each attempt at resolution has faltered and what lessons the world can learn from those missed opportunities. Gaza: What Comes Next also gives voice to those most affected - the civilians who live through the consequences of politics and violence. Their stories remind us that beyond the headlines are ordinary people longing for safety, dignity, and understanding. This is not a book of blame. It is a call for reflection - and a reminder that peace, however distant, remains a possibility when dialogue, empathy, and courage replace division.

When after lucifer's rebellion an archangel fought with lucifer ultimately sacrificing himself to defeat lucifer and both fall from heaven, while lucifer fell to hell Ruriel fell to the earth unable to return to heaven and forced to wonder to the earth for 20,000 years, and finally accepting his life and adjusting and now with the forces of darkness attacking the earth and many realms, Ruriel is forced to defend everyone , can he defeat lucifer again ? let 's find out!