Immerse and indulge yourself in tales of sex and romance, set amid a backdrop of rich historical detail.
Mingle with the upper echelons of society at a Venetian masked ball, witness the gluttony and debauchery of ancient Rome, or experience the shocking scandal of a Victorian high-society love affair.
This category is exclusively for stories set in a historical time period.
Summer 1946. It was another hot day. Timmy’s tie was still in his pocket, and his dress shirt was untucked and unbuttoned, with the sleeves rolled up. His bare chest glistened with sweat. This neighborhood of East Los Angeles didn’t help. The houses fille...
London, April 1901 The Earl of Culligan was enjoying the spring sunshine in St James’s Park in central London. Even though he had only arrived from Dublin a few days earlier, he had established a very pleasant afternoon routine encompassing a circuit of t...
Adataneses didn't love her husband until she realised he had saved her life. Life and politics had brought them together, and they'd lived as man and wife and they'd known what it was to lie together. Then the flood came. At first, it seemed like just an...
Sophia, twenty-two years old, and Phoebe, two years younger, were waiting for the Mississippi steamboat at the St. Louis dock in the Summer of 1836. They knew that some of the male passengers would be interested in what they had to sell. The girls were se...
The courting had been brief, the marriage swift, Donna had cried but left with one of the bridesmaids in her carriage and so in the end all were content. About a month after the wedding, Lord Grey and Kitty were on the edge of his uncle's grounds in a kin...
Long, long ago in the wilds of Scotland there lived a nobleman who had a wife named Safire, and a daughter named Ailith who had just turned nineteen and was as lovely and temperate as an April day on the glen. Of her mother Safire, named for her long lock...
Lady Donna and Kitty had spent most of the morning at Donna’s lawyers finalizing the transfer of Kitty’s inheritance and after getting back home, they were in Donna’s bedroom with Donna asking Kitty to undo her dress, sighing theatrically. Donna lay back...
On April 1st, 1848, Glenda Hutchins and Louise Grantham stepped out of their boarding house on the New York City waterfront where they had spent the night, like they had just about every night for the past two years, entertaining sailors who came through...
Do you know what it’s like to ache for something you’ve never experienced? To want a love, a passion you’ve only read about? A freedom that may not even be possible, but you want it, you want it, you want it. ~~~ Anne’s body ached from bumping around in t...
Lady Dona liked the idea of shocking but she also wanted to retain access to society to seduce new debutantes every year and so didn't want to upset polite society to the point where she was banished. So she compromised. This Sunday morning the compromise...
It was June 23, 1913, twenty years to the day since my daughter had disappeared while riding for the New Pony Express in New Mexico. I was reading an obscure memoir of an American Indian visionary in the blue room of the San Francisco library when his des...
It was a few days after the ball and Kitty had spent most of the day gardening while Lady Dona was away visiting the maid school she ran with Lord Grey. It was now early evening and she was relaxing in a bubble bath being washed by one of the maids when t...
After her initiation into Dona's harem, things changed at Dona's house. Now that Dona was no longer concerned about Kitty wanting to please her solely out of gratitude for the divorce, she didn't feel the need to take the girls out for shenanigans and ins...
A woman stood on a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below. The woman’s hands were tied behind her, her wrists tightly bound with a cord. A noose encircled her neck and was attached to a timber near her lef...
Kitty lay in bed. After spying on Dona with the debutante she'd cried off both lunch and dinner claiming sickness, embarrassed at the thought of sitting around the table with the others after watching them in the hysteria room but now she was wriggling, l...
