Historical Stories

An alternate history of what might have happened to the fabled Lost Colony of Roanoke, narrated by teenaged colonist John Sampson.

A fugitive on the run enters her home and her life.

Taken as a slave to the city of Rome, she knew that her fate was to become a slave. Little did she know that she was to be so much more.

A Echoes from the past Story
Part of the Jim Priest universe
Young Jim meets the girl of his dreams but she’s not what she seems when she beats up the basketball team to save him from a beating.

A Historical-Firsts Story
Bertha was mad enough at the Federals who had invaded her state. But she was furious at the Yankee lieutenant who commanded the squadron occupying her family's plantation.

In the days of Kings a man needs a wife, so he takes ones. That doesn't mean she wants him as a husband but who cares right?

Bounty hunter Jacob Harding tracks down an escaped slave, fourteen-year-old Nat, from a Virginia plantation. He wonders why the plantation owner is offering such a high fee to get Nat back, but after Harding encounters the boy and finds out how he can be used, he doesn’t wonder anymore.

Astrid is only one of many wives on the Norse shore who are waiting for the longships to return from their regular spring expedition. She looks forward to her husband Thorvald's return, as much for the passion of his lovemaking as for the bounty the men return with. But as summer becomes winter, Astrid comes to fear that her husband may already have been called to Valhalla and that she has become a widow.

This is based upon true events that happened to aristocratic English who fled to Africa, escaping the terrors of World War II.