A redheaded girl of sixteen becomes a mail order bride. She is met at the train in Nebraska by her fiancé and they quickly marry. She becomes frustrated when she learns that she is unable to bare children.
A Jacqueline de Belleville Story 1817. Jacqueline and the other 31 young women captives held at Wadi Halaf settle into the demands of harem life while negotiations are held for payment of their ransoms. But both sides of the negotiations are suspicious of the other, and the intermediaries are no more trustworthy. It's a recipe for trouble which could see the young women spend the rest of their lives as harem slaves entertaining their lusty overlords.
Fourteen-year-old, androgynously beautiful Damian Stanton is pulled from his boys’ school in England in 1914 for fear that the older boys at school will do him as both they and his tutor have already done him. He is taken to the family’s rubber plantation in Malay, where all the men also want to do him. While the plantation men jockey for Damian, they do each other.
Enoch is proud of his service in the War of Independence, in which he helped to make America a land of Freedom, Opportunity and Democracy. But there are limits to the new Liberty. The rights enshrined in the new constitution do not extend to all. Least of all to the slaves on Enoch's farm who have yet to taste any of this bravely won Freedom in the New World, but so badly want a share of it.
A Historical-Firsts Story Charlotte had a mad pash for Rev. Daniel Osborne, and she couldn't tell anybody -- least of all him. What was worse, he was about to leave her town forever.