[From FictionDB] Impoverished but beautiful Salrina could hardly believe what she was hearing. A French plot to kill the prince regent! She must tell someone -- and her only choice seemed to be the cynical...

After losing everything in the Great Famine, Amelia and Connor emmigrated from Ireland to the United States of America in 1849 to find happiness and become rich in California during the Gold Rush period.

A metaphorical depiction of Japan's apprehension concerning the advance of western culture in the country during the period preceding the Meiji Era. Historical figures and psychedelic experiences are on the...

Serge Battour is the son of a French viscount and a Romani prostitute, and despite his kind nature and academic talent, is shunned by his family and his peers due to the color of his skin. He begins to attend...

[from fictiondb] To Wed for Duty? The seventh Earl of Sachse has only recently gained his title, but he already knows his duty: to wed one of the debutantes thrust under his nose at every turn. But he is...

The legendary woman Yae Niijima has been chosen to appear in the 2013 NHK Taiga Drama. It was also Yae whom the author had been interviewing to depict for Aizu. Yae is often referred to as the Jeanne d'Arc of...

ALWAYS A GENTLEMAN...Evelyn Dennsworth may not be entitled to use the word "Lady" in front of her name, but that doesn't stop her from behaving like one. Even a vicar's daughter turned Bond Street shop girl can...

From Storm in Heaven: This manga is something of a side story to the Playstation game of the same name, though you don't have to have played the game to understand it. London, 1899: A girl with special powers...

The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, moral rightness, education and marriage in her aristocratic society of early 19th century England...

Rocana Brunt helps her cousin Lady Caroline to meet secretly the man she loves. Then Caroline is told she is to marry the Marquis of Quorn who is in a tight corner over one of his many liaisons. Caroline is...

A woman of innocence and notoriety... The prisoner stood with an expression of defiance, leather shackles on her wrists. Adam Vickery, Marquess of Tannerton, was drawn to this woman, so dignified in her plight....

The Marquis of Stowe is on the verge of a dreadful scandal that threatens to ruin both him and the lovely, but married, Lady Burnham. Knowing that their secret is out and that her husband will be plotting...

It is the story of Torilla who is bid by her cousin to come and be her bridesmaid. On her way to her cousin's house, Torilla is saved by a kind man who she finds out is her cousin's intended husband! How both...

At her rich, look-alike cousin's pleading, impoverished Sacha Waverley undertakes a daring masquerade. She travels to Scotland posing as Lady Deirdre to care for her cousin's fiancé, the handsome, wealthy Duke...

Love, true Love! For the lovely, widowed Lady Sherington, it bloomed in her thirty-sixth year, when she was still ravishing enough to pass as the twin of her daughter Trina. But her gentle heart was racked with...