In the Bronze Age, Jen is studying to be a healer, resigned to a life of quietness in his tribe. Though that may change when Jaret, leader of a barbarian horde, gallops into his life.*
William is not entirely certain how this happened, how he became a veritable magnet for downtrodden orphans, but he’s going to blame John.*
Denied his betrothed and deemed a traitor to the crown, Heero is sent into hiding and thought to be dead. But he comes back to claim his bride, only instead of the sweet maiden he expected, he finds his hands full of a feisty Duo. His friend, Wufei, offers to take the burden off his hands, but Heero is already falling whether he likes it or not.*
In which Miss Samantha Winchester, in order to escape an unwanted suitor and reunite with her beloved brother (who has been at sea fighting Napoleon for the past four years), travels to London in the company of Mrs. Ellen Harvelle and her daughter Jo, and has a number of adventures.*
Bella has been a vampire for centuries by the time Twilight starts. Carlisle and Bella have been friends for 200 years, but she hasn’t seen or spoken to him since Edward was changed. Carlisle has been lying to Edward about his human life and change.*
“Kriiiiis!” Allison came sailing down the stairs and nearly knocked him right back into the coach before he had even managed to get both feet on the ground. Kris steadied himself with one hand and hugged her with the other, grinning ruefully: and he’d worried that he’d find her turned into too much of a proper young lady. The black dress made her look older than her seventeen years, and technically you could say her hair was up, but half of it had come spilling down in back. *
Kristopher d’Alleyne is a young knight who is the heir to his father’s lands and betrothed to the beautiful Lady Katherine of Connell, but on an impulse, he follows Richard the Lionhearted to the Holy Land for the Third Crusade. When chance crosses his path with that of a Jewish warrior/spy on a secret mission that could have implications for both the Christian and Muslim forces in the area, Kris finds that his life is changed forever.
Adam Lambeorht had been given by his parents at a young age to serve a secret cabal of powerful Jewish nobles based in Spain. When King Richard of England persuades other European monarchs to join his Third Crusade, Adam’s masters send him to the Holy Land on a mission crucial to Jewish interests. He is trained in the arts of war and usually works alone and in secret, but when Adam encounters Kristopher d’Alleyne, he can’t walk away from the injured knight, no matter what it might cost him.*
After a score of resoundingly dull society suitors, Kris Allen still longs for only one man: the dashing scoundrel who kidnapped him two years ago. Adam Lambert has a secret: he’s the one Kris seeks – it is his kiss he still yearns for. Confessing to his abduction would bring disaster and scandal upon them both. But how can he convince Kris to forsake his pursuit of his dream lover when all he dreams of is holding him in his arms again?* Harlequin challenge.
It is a risk, everything is, but Kris can see his master’s hand and it is nearly impossible to beat.*