The Courtesan’s Secret
In the gilded salons of 18th-century Venice, a courtesan trades secrets and seductions – until one masked nobleman threatens to unravel everything. A 3,000-word historical romance. 18+.
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Crimson Patronage
The gallery opening was by invitation only, which in the art world of contemporary London meant that approximately four hundred people had been invited, of whom three hundred had come for the free champagne, ninety-seven had come to be seen, and exactly three had come for the art. Mira Castellano was one of the three….
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The Artist’s Muse of Florence
Renaissance Florence, 1497. With Savonarola burning art across the city, painter Marco needs a model for a dangerous commission. The widow who appears at his studio at midnight is not interested in being Venus — she wants to be herself. The painting that emerges will change both their lives and challenge everything the city believes about beauty.
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Letters from the Silk Road
Constantinople, 1203. A Byzantine scholar and a Damascus merchant begin exchanging letters about astronomy. Over two years and forty-seven letters, their correspondence grows from intellectual curiosity into the most honest relationship either has known — until the Fourth Crusade arrives, and ink on paper must become a real goodbye or a real beginning.
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The Highlander’s Oath
Scotland, 1746. After Culloden, a wounded Jacobite captain collapses at the garden gate of an English surgeon’s daughter. Eleanor risks everything to hide him in the cellar, and over four weeks of whispered conversation in candlelight, two people on opposite sides of a war discover that the space between enemies can become the only place that feels like home.
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The Samurai’s Garden
Edo Japan, 1680. A disgraced samurai tends a contemplative garden in a mountain village. When a travelling poet arrives in a rainstorm, their shared silence becomes the foundation for something neither expected: a love built not on passion or drama, but on the quiet, patient art of growing something beautiful together.
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