epub |eng | 2023-08-15 | Author:Sophie Strand [Strand, Sophie]

Twenty-Nine They came for me just after sunrise: the women, young and old, my own kin and strangers, all loaded with armfuls of flowers so varied and lush that their ...

epub |eng | 2023-10-03 | Author:Tessa Afshar [Afshar, Tessa]

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Vengeance is mine, and recompense, for the time when their foot shall slip; for the day of their calamity is at hand, and their doom comes swiftly. Deuteronomy ...

epub |eng | 2023-05-25 | Author:Simon Scarrow [Scarrow, Simon]

CHAPTER TWENTY It was a clear autumn morning when we departed for the assembly at the sacred ring. A small crowd had gathered in front of the main gate to ...

epub |eng | 2021-05-28 | Author:B.K. Greenwood [Greenwood, B.K.]

The sun was just a memory by the time they docked at one of the many wooden piers located beneath the city's watchful eye. Marcus waited for the crew to ...

epub |eng | 2023-08-02 | Author:Megan Barnard [Barnard, Megan]

I had not yet told Ahab about Minta killing the man in the temple, and when I was shaken awake in the early hours before the sun rose, I was ...

epub |eng | 2023-06-21 | Author:Kate Quinn

YORATH “Someone is coming,” my escort announced, abruptly pulling the horse to a stop. I snapped awake from the half dreaming induced by the cart’s rhythm. And a deep chasm ...

epub |eng | 2022-05-24 | Author:Mesu Andrews [Andrews, Mesu]

TWENTY-TWO Better is open rebuke than hidden love. Proverbs 27:5 Zuleika Ahira silently applied my cosmetics. I didn’t mind. My thoughts drifted to the husband I’d met on the palace ...

epub |eng | 2023-06-08 | Author:Adrian Goldsworthy [Goldsworthy, Adrian]

XIX The morning, at the Roman camp PRISCUS ADVANCED BEFORE dawn, taking five cohorts of Legio II Augusta with him, the eagle at their head. They formed the centre of ...

epub |eng | 2011-05-19 | Author:Walter Wangerin [Wangerin, Walter]

III ISAIAH HAD CEASED to prophesy when King Ahaz refused to obey the commands of God. He wrote in a scroll all the prophecies he had uttered as a young ...

epub |eng | | Author:Steven Saylor

XXVII I had never met Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, our host. About him I knew only what most Romans would know. He was of patrician birth, about my age, and had ...

epub |eng | 2022-08-09 | Author:Emma Hooper [Hooper, Emma]

The next time was the town jail. The big town, the big jail. Sarah and the others had been waiting to do that one until they had more bodies, more ...

epub |eng | 2019-03-22 | Author:Peter Tremayne [Peter Tremayne]

TEN The rider turned out to be Ballgel, Fethmac’s wife. ‘My husband is delayed,’ she explained as she swung down from her horse. ‘A dispute in the village has required ...

epub |eng | | Author:Kathleen O'Neal Gear

Twenty-five Tsilu Crane tenderly picks up a pair of small moccasins. The predawn sky is shading from black to blue, but the footprints of the dead still sparkle across the ...

epub |eng | 2008-09-04 | Author:Kane, Ben [Kane, Ben]

Chapter XVII: The Brawl Late that night, they left the Thracians snoring in the cell. Creeping into the unlit training yard after Brennus, Romulus closed the door quietly. The ludus ...

epub |eng | 2020-07-14 | Author:Lee Martin

Day by day, autumn settled in. The Fall Festival took place in Lawrenceville on a glorious Indian summer weekend. A small carnival set up on the streets around the courthouse ...