Historical Drama

SHORTLISTED FOR 2021 READER'S FAVORITE AWARD FOR HISTORICAL FICTION Fazle Chowdhury's Never Among Equals is a compelling historical novel set in the early 20th century, focusing on Firoze Hazari, a young man navigating life in pre-World War I London. After graduating from Oxford, chooses to remain in London, defying his family's expectations to return and join the family business. He secures a position at an investment firm, but his career takes a downturn when he is dismissed after voicing concerns about the firm's risky investments related to the German Empire. Facing financial hardship ...

It wasn’t easy growing up the daughter of a traitor and Quintana Wade has struggled just to keep a roof over her head… so when the father who abandoned her to join the cause of American liberty sends an emissary to “fetch her home” Quintana launches her own full scale rebellion. Draper Boone is unlike any man Quintana has ever encountered. Devastatingly handsome, exotic, and wild, the militia captain is more than a match for her in every way. Sexual tension crackles between them, and Draper’s seductive ways are hard to resist. As hardheaded as her father, Quintana is not about to ...

A historic Canadian property becomes the canvas for a tale that spans generations. In 1914, a tragedy unfolded, leaving scars that linger far beyond the passage of time. In 1947, a visionary purchases the haunted remnants, seeking a new beginning for his family, but his young daughter senses a ghost from the far past. In the present, urban explorers unlock the secrets of the past while running a web design company. Photographs and sketches capture the essence of the property, documenting the whispers of spirits from another era. As the explorers navigate the abandoned corridors and ...

Das wohl berühmteste Drama von Anton Tschechow, das nach wie vor Dauergast in den Theaterhäusern ist. Konstantin Treplev will Schriftsteller werden. Doch Unterstützung erfährt er keine, weder von seiner Mutter noch von seiner Geliebten Nina. Als diese Treplev für den erfolgreichen Autoren Trigorin verlässt, nimmt das Unglück seinen Lauf.

It's 1922 at Far Cry Cannery, a quarter-mile of boardwalk and wooden buildings strung along the rocks of Rivers Inlet on the northwest coast of British Columbia. The time has come for Anders Viken, storekeeper and honorary uncle to the recently orphaned Kit, to give an account of his secret self—from his first home in Norway, another land of islands and fjords, to his escape from his family's loving grip, to his wide-open years of rough living and impossible love.

Single mother Sarah is guilt-ridden when an accident leaves her young daughter Melody seriously injured and their once music-filled lives silent. When she discovers her grandmother Rosalie's old war correspondence, she thinks she might have found a way to save her family, but it will require a leap of faith she isn't sure they are ready to take.

In 1933, after Hitler and the Nazi Party consolidated power in Germany, Immanuel Birnbaum, a German Jewish journalist based in Warsaw, is forbidden from writing for newspapers in his homeland. Six years later, just months before the German invasion of Poland that ignites World War II, Immanuel escapes to Sweden with his wife and two young sons.

1589. Scottish housemaid Geillis and Danish courtier Margareta lead opposite lives, but they both know one thing: when a man cries “witch”, no woman is safe. Yet when the marriage of King James VI and Princess Anna of Denmark brings Geillis and Margareta together, everything they supposed about good, evil, men, and women, is cast in a strange and brilliant new light. For the first time in history, could black magic – or rumours of it – be a very real tool for women’s political gain?

Seventeen-year-old Meg Oversby often dreams of a more exciting life than the dull existence she faces at her family’s farm deep in the Yorkshire Dales. Growing up, she’s always sensed her father’s disappointment at not having a son to help with the farm work. So when Meg dances all night at the local market hall with Sam Alderson, a lead miner from Swaledale, a new light enters her life. Sam and his brother Jack show Meg a side to life she didn’t know existed. But when her parents find out, she’s forbidden from ever seeing them again....

Quincy Ashford will fight for his family and community. The stakes have never been higher. The heat has never been hotter. Quincy Ashford and the resilient people of Boone County fight the evil they face. Moonshine and its brewers and runners are a part of the history and the landscape. So why is somebody killing them? The law still needs to put the pieces together. Quincy already has. That gut feeling is telling him the truth. When Quincy finds himself in the crosshairs of a killer, the heat turns up. Family, survival, and service drive Quincy Ashford to be a man of integrity. Ignorant, ...

Saroja and Kumaresan are in love. After a hasty wedding, they arrive in Kumaresan’s village, harboring a dangerous secret: Their marriage is an intercaste one, likely to upset the village elders should they get to know of it. Kumaresan is naively confident that all will be well. But nothing is further from the truth. Despite the strident denials of the young couple, the villagers strongly suspect that Saroja must belong to a different caste. It is only a matter of time before their suspicions harden into certainty and, outraged, they set about exacting their revenge.

Lisa blends the world of southern belles with English aristocracy, Welshmen, and Scottish villagers in her own unique style with the story of Victoria, Volume 3 in the Brides of Grace Hill series. Victoria has grown up on the Kentucky meadows and fields of Grace Hill and Sarah Rose Hall, surviving what Lincoln called the Great War. But her family emerges from the war unscathed, only to turn around and face severe hardship. She’s beautiful, vivacious, and swarmed by one beau after another. However, none have held her heart captive quite like Lieutenant Langford does for her sister, Rose. ...

In haunting and crystalline prose, The Train of Small Mercies follows six characters' intrepid search for hope among the debris of an American tragedy.In New York, a young black porter struggles through his first day on the job-a staggering assignment aboard Robert F. Kennedy's funeral train. In Pennsylvania, a woman creates a tangle of lies to sneak away from her disapproving husband and pay her respects to the slain senator, dragging her child with her.

It’s 1953 and the nation’s favourite street is preparing to celebrate Elizabeth II’s coronation. As the street swoons over the beautiful young queen and her handsome Prince, tensions simmer beneath the surface. Can the street put their troubles behind them and make Coronation Day a celebration to remember?

晚清至民国年间，家国剧变、民生疾苦、商业凋敝。一个从皇宫流落到晋商岳家大院的丫鬟，凭借自己的智慧、才干和悟性，一步步成为大院女主人和绝顶商人……晚清至民國年間，家國劇變、民生疾苦、商業凋敝。一個從皇宮流落到晉商岳家大院的丫鬟，憑藉自己的智慧、才幹和悟性，一步步成為大院女主人和絕頂商人……

Novela histórica repleta de intriga y suspense, de acción, de aventura, de amor y de drama, que amenaza al lector desde las primeras páginas. Demerik, joven de familia acomodada andaluza, debe huir perseguido por la justicia del rey Carlos III, siendo herido en su huida. Tras diferentes vicisitudes sufridas, casualmente se le ofrece la posibilidad de formar parte de uno de los grupos de habitantes de centro Europa traídos a España para repoblar zonas desérticas de Sierra Morena; con otra identidad, trabaja en la creación de estas nuevas poblaciones.

1959: Grace is a young mother with four children under four. All she ever wanted was to have a family of her own, but there are thoughts Grace cannot share with anyone in the months after childbirth. Instead she pours her deepest fears into the pages of a notebook, hiding them where she knows husband, Patrick, will never look. When Grace falls pregnant again, she turns to her sister, Maryanne, for help.

Three stolen princesses, a missing criminal king, and a princess who can’t help falling in love… Princess Kaylee doesn’t want to stay inside. Her parents, King Caleb and Queen Katherine insist she stay tucked away inside the castle in their kingdom of Arteria until the mystery of the kidnapped princesses is solved. When Kaylee defies their orders and ventures outside with a group of friends, it’s her cousin, Princess Jenna, who is taken. Now, Kaylee is in a race against time to find her cousin before something awful happens to her. If she can keep from getting killed herself. ...

A Spanish police inspector, just days from retirement, is ordered to find a missing boy and to catch whoever had taken him, but quickly discovers that there are secrets that must be kept, a history that cannot be told, and that evil hides in dark places. ________________________________________ Málaga province, Spain. 1970. Captain Jesus Garcia of the Spanish Guardia Civil had never entirely believed that he would live to reach his retirement. After three decades of experiencing the worst of humanity, a comfortable state pension is just days away for the man, affectionately known by the ...

Hotel Portofino has been open for only a few weeks, but already the problems are mounting for its owner Bella Ainsworth. Her high-class guests are demanding and hard to please. And she’s being targeted by a scheming and corrupt local politician, who threatens to drag her into the red-hot cauldron of Mussolini’s Italy. To make matters worse, her marriage is in trouble, and her children are still struggling to recover from the repercussions of the Great War.