"02 Lady Dona. Kitty and Lord Grey - Dona's House"
After arriving in London, Kitty was picked up by Lady Dona's carriage where she sat up top with the driver to take in the sights with a map open on her lap. Lady Dona's house was close to the center...
"01 Lady Dona, Kitty and Lord Grey - A Train Journey"
Victorian England*Kitty shivered in anticipation. It was a warm summer's day but she was excited at the thought of going to London.Her mother looked sullen however."Please don't look so glum Mama."Her mother tried to smile but failed. "I am very...
A loud banging on the door, as if the world was ending, woke him from his slumber, staring confused out in the darkroom. The only light sources were the full moon shining behind the thin curtains and the small trace...
"She set fireworks off in his soul and then the real explosions started."
Bombs dropped from the London atmosphere like overripe apples falling from the trees in the orchard back home. Since the Blitz began last September, the London sky wasn't filled with clouds or stars; it was filled with explosive devices and...
St. Margaret’s Vicarage, Stratton-Over-Wye, Spring 1784What bliss, thought Lucy Whitmore as she listened to the birdsong in the slightly unkempt vicarage garden. Even if she racked her brains, she couldn’t remember the last time she had a quiet minute to...
"The gate was closing for the night. Miryam was on the proper side of the wall. Ivan was not."
Ivan rushed from the doorway where he had been concealed, jumping, turning halfway round, landing on his back in the thick, coarse straw piled behind the supply wagons.Not two strides behind, Miryam pounced, landing astride the young lad with a...
It was the summer of 1683 when Jean Riel arrived in Lachine. His long journey from Limrik, Ireland to New France had finally concluded.The son of a French soldier and an innocent Irish maid he had stayed in Ireland after his father returned to...
"Beauty and Beast make a passionate and powerful pair"
As Jutta entered the ballroom the party guests quieted in overlapping waves, like wheat in a windblown field. The crowd had never seen anything quite like the tall black-clad vision that swept through the room. She wore a midnight silk...
"Kelly learned some wild family history through a conversation with her mom."
It was sometime in the fall of 1985 and Kelly and I were both twenty-five. Kelly and her mom had always been close. Almost sister-like close, which struck me as odd since she had an older sister, although the age...
"Our young beauty continues her sensual journey in Venice"
Jutta was overwhelmed with feelings she did not understand. She was breathing so fast she became light-headed. She struggled her way down the ladder and then fled the library without thinking. Her silk robe was left crumpled on the wood...
