Historical Stories

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.

The story of Samson and Delilah - as not told in the Bible.

In Merrie Olde England, a landed knight marries a young woman to get at her fourteen-year-old brother, but he doesn't leave her without comfort.

When fourteen-year-old American Brian visits his parents on U.S. diplomatic assignment to Bonn, Germany, over the summer school holidays not long after the end of World War Two, Brian is taken with--and taken and initiated and trained by--the mysterious, bitter ex-German soldier, Gerhard, who has become the family's handyman and gardener and who lives up a spiral staircase from the family's apartment.

Two girls want to learn how to act on stage. They pay a price for their curiosity. Family secrets are exposed. The two friends grow up quickly and find out about boy friends, the mystery of a mother's disappearance, and what lust is.