Historical Stories

Before London had really started swinging, before the Summer of Love, there was rural England — where duty mattered, marriages endured, and women were expected not to ask for too much. But in the summer of 1964, one lonely shopkeeper begins to wonder if life has passed her by. Then, during one extraordinary afternoon, a pop group, a Mars Bar, and a tub of petroleum jelly alter a wife and mother’s life forever.

When Shanghai lawyer Wang Bao tore the virginity of half-English, half-Chinese fourteen-year-old orphan Ryan Hathaway from the boy when his parents' vessel capsized on the Yangtze River and then seized the boy's inheritance as well and sold him to a Chinese brothel, he thought he had covered all of his bases. Little did he know what could come back to bite him hard.

Set in the unforgiving American frontier, Love at Second Sight is a tale of loss, endurance, and longing. When a young woman marked by tragedy crosses paths again and again with a man consumed by vengeance, their lives become bound by unspoken needs and quiet sacrifices. As the wilderness tests both body and spirit, they must each confront what it truly means to survive—and whether love can exist where pain has taken root.

Lieutenant Theo Stevenson is serving in the trenches on the Western Front in the hope of bringing glory to the British Empire and of earning a medal or two. He didn't expect that the Great War would also facilitate him with the pleasures offered so willingly by the Brickworks Lane Pals who'd also answered Kitchener's call.

Constable Joanna Parrish was new to the 'Uniform Branch' at Sunbury - the twenty-five year old brunette determined to make a nice for herself within the Victoria Police. But what she hadn't quite taken into account, was the notorious former prostitute now living on the Goonewarra Estate. Nor had she quite realised just how Constable Maggie Doyle and the other Policewomen at Sunbury would react to 'The Cunt' either...?

England 1958: Margo is a woman of breeding who still has to cope with the aftermath of wartime. She finds this also includes the absence of sex. How long can she hold out before her sanity is threatened? But then something exciting happens - and the swinging sixties are just around the corner.

Fourteen-year-old Dirk is indentured to a tavern brothel in fifteenth-century Germany, where his virginity is bid on by nobility and church alike.