Four stories set in the Dark Ages. Each is complete on its own but all are linked. Based on actual historical events, The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles are how I would like it to have been!
The first and second parts are basically adventure stories, part 3 is a 'tale with a moral' and part 4 a bit of a 'whodunnit'.
In South Carolina in 1839, Robert James MacKenzie was a strapping lad of sixteen who today became betrothed to a beautiful young woman and received the gift of two slave girls. In the blink of an eye, he became a man. / (Reviews)
Mid-18th century North America is a hotbed of unrest between many feuding Native American tribes. By this time, most of the Kiowa bands have been pushed west by the Lakota. However, one small Kiowa band is determined to stay in their homeland. Sky Dancer, a beautiful Kiowa widow, and proud Lakota warrior, Dark Horse, are forced to marry in order to create an alliance between their peoples. Can they overcome their hatred to find love or will distrust keep them from the reward they both crave? / (Reviews)
The story follows Dieter Pfeiffer and Gisela Fischer, two teens in 1938 Nazi Germany, as they attend the Nazi Party Rally in Nuremberg. The Hitlerjugend forces to two teens together prematurely. This story follows as the two have a baby, fall in love, survive the chaos of a world war and then marry.
A Poacher's Progress Story (7) The Royal Progress is curtailed, but the threat to Jack's family remains. A series of domestic and family arrangements takes place in Grantham, and closer links are forged with Kensington Palace. To maintain the domestic bliss he now enjoys Jack knows eventually he will have to locate and kill Eloise de La Zouche. A trip to Paris uncovers a hidden talent in Mimi, and a summons to the Foreign Office places Jack in charge of an academic endeavour. More travelling ensues.
A Story in the This Bed of Rose's Universe
Dutch Moffat is alone in the world - scorned by the town. Rejected by everyone else he finds solace in the arm's and bed of Rose. She teaches him to be a man but is there anyone to love Dutch?