Renaissance Stories

Sometimes you just might have to die to live again. ***** When art historian Reine Baldwin meets Gabe Moran, a charming journalist, she has no idea their blossoming love will shatter her comfortable life. But a series of clues lead Reine to discover that she's not alone in knowing that she was born centuries ago and-worse yet-there are many things she apparently doesn't even remember. Reine has to face a forgotten past and a forgotten ex-husband (the handsome billionaire Max Baldovini), who-like her-is immortal and cannot truly die. Should she trade her ordinary life with Gabe for the love of Max, a man who's worshipped her for half a millennium? The choice should be easy, until Reine starts to remember things that Max is desperate to make her forget. [[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]

Some kingdoms are built by blood. Others are saved by love. Princess Scarlett has spent her life healing the broken, serving the forgotten, and carrying the burden of being the king's illegitimate daughter. When a ruthless prince named Valric kidnaps her and her brother, Scarlett believes all hope is lost. But salvation comes from the last person she ever expected. Tristan, the mysterious King of Taslanor, is feared as a monster-a cursed Vampyr haunted by centuries of war, loss, and the darkness within his own soul. Yet behind the terrifying legends is a king willing to sacrifice everything to protect those who cannot protect themselves. As kingdoms stand on the brink of war, an unlikely alliance begins to form between humans, werewolves, and the Nizhara. Together they must face an enemy determined to destroy any hope of peace. But as Scarlett and Tristan grow closer, they discover that the greatest battle is not against armies-it is against fear, prejudice, and the wounds of the past. Filled with unforgettable characters, breathtaking romance, epic battles, and a message of hope, Everlight is a sweeping bright fantasy about redemption, sacrifice, and a love powerful enough to break even the darkest curse. Sometimes the greatest miracle isn't defeating evil... it's choosing to love in spite of it.

Soo-ah en est persuadée : elle est morte. Pourtant, lorsqu'elle parvient enfin à ouvrir les yeux, elle se retrouve entourée de parfaits inconnus, à des kilomètres du lieu de l'accident. Mais la jeune femme d'affaires coréenne n'est pas au bout de ses surprises. Lorsqu'elle découvre son reflet, le choc est encore plus brutal : elle possède désormais un visage complètement différent. Plus aucun trait asiatique. Son corps est plus musclé, ses cheveux sont bruns et ondulés. Même sa personnalité semble avoir changé. La seule chose identique à avant, ce sont ses yeux. Soo-ah croit d'abord rêver, surtout lorsqu'elle reconnaît ceux de son pire ennemi chez son voisin de chambre d'hôpital. Seo-jun est là lui aussi. Coincée dans une autre dimension avec la personne qu'elle déteste le plus, Soo-ah comprend rapidement que leur accident ne les a pas seulement tués. Il les a renvoyés ailleurs. Le cauchemar prend une tournure encore plus folle lorsqu'ils découvrent qu'ils se sont réveillés dans ce qui semble être leurs vies précédentes... au jour exact de leur naissance. En 1995.

Guinevere has spent years feeling like she's living someone else's life. Stuck in a cycle of retail management and a relationship that feels more like a habit than a choice, she finally snaps the tether and follows a sudden, inexplicable pull toward a new career at a local distillery. She expected to learn the art of the craft; she didn't expect Elizabeth. Elizabeth is sharp, disciplined, and seemingly untouchable. Yet, every time their hands brush over a copper still or their eyes meet across the warehouse, the air thrums with a familiarity neither can explain. It's more than just workplace tension, it's the feeling of a frayed connection finally being knit back together. In the heat of the distillery, they'll discover that while they only just met, their souls have been looking for each other for a lifetime. Playlist being made for this book. :)

*Entered for Wattys 2026* He is a phantom trapped in a castle of bones and silver roses. She is a flower girl fighting the winter of a cruel city. They have never spoken face-to-face... but a single letter is about to change the rhythm of the world. For fifteen winters, Darian Bianca Castiglione has lived as a ghost. Bound to a decaying estate by the dark legacy of a mother branded a sorceress, he watches the world pass by from behind heavy velvet curtains. He is a man of forbidden science, a brilliant polymath who has resigned his soul to the shadows, until a fierce, gentle flower girl steps through his forgotten, broken wall. Ersilia spends her days in the suffocating dust of the city markets, carrying the weight of her young siblings' survival on her tired shoulders. When she stumbles upon the secluded mansion, she doesn't find a monster. Instead, she finds a silent sanctuary of freshly baked bread, handmade gifts, and rare, silver-edged blossoms left just for her. What begins as silent offerings soon evolves into a breathtaking exchange of handwritten letters. Sheltered by the stone alcove, paper becomes their courtyard. With every stroke of ink, Darian's frozen defenses melt, and he pours his razor-sharp intellect into a singular, obsessive goal: engineering an impossible, miraculous bloom so rare it will buy Ersilia her permanent freedom. But outside the forest walls, a devastating shadow is creeping through the city. The Black Death has arrived. When the grasses fall silent, and the letters stop, Darian is forced to face a terrifying reality. To save the woman he loves, he must break his fifteen-year isolation and face a town consumed by panic and superstition, a town that views his forbidden medicine not as a miracle, but as witchcraft. In a breathtaking tale of devotion, sacrifice, and the dangerous geometry of hope, can an impossible flower bloom in a world ruled by frost?

FLORENCE, 1475. When the celebrated artist Sandro Botticelli is commissioned to paint the most beautiful woman in Florence, he expects another commission. Instead, he meets Simonetta Vespucci. Admired by poets, envied by noblewomen, and trapped within a marriage governed by duty and reputation, Simonetta lives beneath the constant gaze of a city that has made her an icon. When her husband is imprisoned in Rome, the distance between obligation and desire begins to narrow. What begins in the artist's studio soon becomes a dangerous affair hidden behind locked doors, whispered lies, and stolen hours. Yet Florence is a city that feeds on secrets, and powerful families have long memories. As suspicion spreads, a love that once seemed impossible becomes increasingly perilous. What started as a hidden romance threatens reputations, alliances, and lives, drawing everyone around them into its consequences. In a world where beauty inspires devotion and scandal invites ruin, Sandro and Simonetta must decide how much they are willing to risk for one another-and whether love can survive when secrecy turns deadly.

(note: Story cover has been updated May 2023 :) New chapter covers will be added slowly too) Catherine Wolfe didn't know why she was chosen, or if she was at all. She only knew she'd been pulled through time to help a family involved in a war she'd never thought to exist, and that it was her only way back home. What she didn't expect, though, was the young man with whom her fate became inexplicably entwined. Ezio/OC Slow burn -- #1 in assassin's creed, #6 Ezioauditore 12/15/2019!!! I've been a fan of Assassin's Creed for a long time (not quite as long as Transformers), and I've always loved Ezio's games. I actually had this idea for a long time, but my previous Transformers fanfic and school took up all my time. Thanks to a friend, though, I have my inspiration, and expect this story to go places. For those who've read my other story, you're going to recognize the OC, and you've found me out: she's my go-to gall. I love using her in my fandoms, so if you enjoyed watching her grow in her first fic, I guarantee you'll love watching her in this one, too.  This time around, though, she's facing something perhaps far more dangerous. Whether or not she makes it... well, only time will tell and you'll have to keep reading her newest adventure to find out! As usual, if you see any mistakes, please let me know! Editing is never 100% full proof, so I appreciate the help. And don't be afraid to comment or share your opinion! I love hearing from you all and will do my best to reply to all your comments. :) Updates will be whenever I finish a new chapter, so hopefully on a weekly bases! And with that all said, enjoy Assassin's Creed: Chronos!

Olympe de Lignières is everything the court admires and mistrusts in equal measure. Celebrated across France for her beauty, immortalised in paintings that adorn the walls of noble houses, she has been raised not merely to be admired but to think intelligently. As the daughter of a powerful patron of the arts, Olympe is drawn to the hidden logic behind great creations like a certain king. As Olympe is drawn deeper into court life, her quiet intelligence begins to shape more than the education of the young Dauphin. Her ideas ripple outward but with the King's attention comes risk, and with influence comes scrutiny. Versailles fanfiction OC x Louis XIV

For a thousand years from behind. A remarkable war came to commandeer lives who withstand. A desolated God who descend into tenderness to a mortal and the unmistakable mortal that perished in the arms of the comparable God. Arkanas lived hundreds of years in serenity isolation, awaiting for her beloved's reincarnation. She no lenghtly remember her beloved's name but she memorizes the impression. Arkanas who veered around her reputation to Arvirgus to secrete her truest individualism to harmonize in with the mortals for she is learned as a folklore. And ever since then on she began sculpting her lover's beginning for then she would thrive notoriety. She accomplishes no respect for her notoriety, she throughly dreams to encounter her beloved - in a reincarnated ethusiast once likewise. Nevertheless shall Foreordian disparity its goal?

Une route de campagne déserte. Une nuit sans étoiles. Un choc. Au bord de l'asphalte humide, une jeune femme contemple le corps qu'elle vient de renverser. Entre sidération et indifférence, elle cherche en elle la culpabilité qu'elle devrait ressentir, mais ne trouve qu'un vide ancien, installé depuis longtemps. Tandis que le vent murmure dans les arbres et que les souvenirs d'un amour perdu refont surface, la frontière entre le réel et l'obscurité semble peu à peu se dissoudre. Sur cette route oubliée, au cœur d'une nuit où les ombres déforment tout, une seule certitude demeure : certains accidents bouleversent une vie. D'autres révèlent ce qui était déjà brisé depuis longtemps.

On the continent of Keltic in the land of Ielos, a young man, born in the burning madness of the world, will wake up each morning to face a new challenge as he wonders what his place in the world is. Along the way, he will make friends and enemies. Forming connections that will only serve to help him grow as he learns what it means to stand tall when walking down the path that many try to take only to fall or turn back. This is my own original work Can he handle the journey and the troubles it brings as he walks into the fire or will he be crushed by the weight of the world as he tries to live up to the stories he adores? -When it comes to the art yes, it is ai (bing app), so not every detail is correct in the image I tried to use the ones that came out the closest. Lore 1 runix = 10$ USD

" History has been written by those favoured by God, the victims have been silenced by a blade..." Diary of Mary I: a recounting of unfortunate events. P.S: This is purely works of fiction, these events didn't actually take place(allegedly). This my first book, so DON'T BE HARSH. Anyways, enjoy the book.

The Red Garden of Queen Carmina | Chapters Every Other Saturday Composed, elegant, and the standard of all ladies. Queen Carmina, the wife of the respected monarch of Firuzeh, swallowed the truth of being infertile. The king swore utmost loyalty and true love to his partner, but the queen's soul decayed when she saw the king let a mistress in the royal court. On one boisterous event, the queen escaped the palace as crestfallen as she can be, seeking her personal time alone. A village she had come across. Queen Carmina was afraid, yet more determined to be unchaperoned. The more she wandered the hamlet village, the more she became curious. She became even more interested in the place when she saw a farmer working in the middle of the night, that shared the same mysteriousness like no other.

The Road to Ageless Mortality is a historical, low-fantasy tale that takes place in Italy during the early renaissance. The story covers a young woman, Giulia, journeying to find the Tree of Life, its fruits granting ageless immortality, in order to save her old father from certain death. Illustrator: Jr Korpa

At court, he is the fool. She is the crown. Their clandestine love is the most magnificent treason of all. Each night, Princess Élodie escapes the suffocating walls of the palace disguised beneath the veil and plain dress of a maid. Beyond the reach of watchful nobles and whispered expectations, she meets a stranger in the moonlit gardens, a man whose laughter feels more honest than anything within the royal court. Laurent knows her only as a veiled servant girl. Élodie knows him only as a man who sees her as something more than a future queen. But the illusion cannot last forever. For Laurent is the court's jester, hidden behind painted smiles and mocking bells, while the woman he has fallen for is the very Princess seated above him at court. Even after the truth is unveiled, neither can abandon the dangerous bond forged between them in secret. As their forbidden relationship deepens, Élodie's loyal servant Sabine is forced to conceal the Princess's nightly disappearances by taking her place within the royal chambers. Yet the deception grows perilous when King Auguste arrives at court and mistakes Sabine for his future bride. Now the palace is tangled in secrets: a king falling for the wrong woman, a servant mistaken for royalty, a princess slipping through shadows, and a fool who dares to love the crown itself. In a kingdom built upon appearances, one wrong step could destroy them all. ✨ Official 2026 Watty Awards Entrant.

channeling the thoughts & soul of a lover scorned, who struggles to remove themselves from the reality of their situation by enduring the pain of their abusive counterpart. which ultimately leads to their demise. themes of love, pain, wonder, & more...

Elle était connue pour sa douceur, sa foi et sa droiture. Mais au fil du temps, de nouvelles fréquentations ont changé sa vision, ses priorités, et peu à peu, elle s'est éloignée du chemin qu'elle connaissait. Entre illusions, influences et perte de repères, elle pensait avoir trouvé la liberté... jusqu'au jour où un rappel inattendu est venu toucher son cœur. À travers une rencontre, des paroles sincères et une prise de conscience, elle va comprendre que s'égarer n'est pas une fin, mais parfois le début d'un retour.

Parfois, on ne se perd pas en un jour. On se perd doucement, à travers des choix, des blessures, des relations et des silences qu'on ne comprend pas toujours. Awa avait treize ans quand tout a commencé. Entre rêves, pression familiale, changements d'écoles et relations qui l'ont façonnée autant qu'elles l'ont détruite, elle s'est retrouvée face à la question la plus difficile de sa vie : Qui suis-je vraiment ? Ce récit est celui d'une jeune fille qui a traversé la confusion, la dépendance émotionnelle, les déceptions et le vide intérieur... avant de commencer, pas à pas, à se reconstruire. Une histoire inspirée de faits réels, entre douleur, prise de conscience et renaissance.

A collection of short stories each one unique to the next fortelling their love, triumph and most tragic endings...