Chiara Prezzavento
His Dark Lady
Lucy Morgan, an exotic beauty of African descent and the ward of a spy in Sir Francis Walsingham’s employ, is…
Love for a Soldier
Spring 1918. Crash-landed in German-occupied France after an aerial duel with the Red Baron, wounded and desperate for escape, Captain…
A Sea of Troubles
It is 1794, and Britannia is doing its best to rule the waves to the detriment of Revolutionary France. John…
The Time Keeper
“Long ago, at the dawn of man’s history”, somewhere in ancient Mesopotamia, Dor is the first man on earth to…
Mistress of the Sea
Editors' choice
It is 1570, and in the thriving port town of Plymouth, Ellyn Cooksley is a wealthy merchant’s only daughter, expected…
The Splintered Kingdom
Editors' choice
After distinguishing himself at the battles of Hæstings and Eoferwic (York), Tancred a Dinant, who doesn’t know too well whether…
The Merry Devils
Legend has it that once, during a performance of Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, a real devil appeared onstage, to the terror…
You Are My Sunshine
In wartime England you are supposed to grow up fast and do your bit, and this is how lovely Kay,…
Little Bones
Jane Stretch is fifteen and crippled when her questionable parents and pretty older sister abandon her at the mercy of…
The Courtesan’s Lover
Naples, 1564: beautiful and smart Francesca Felizzi strives to acquire wealthy patrons in her quest to become a cortigiana honesta,…
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