Ain’t nothing too serious. Even death is a joke on the old devil, if we are living for the Lord.
Nancy B. BrewerTags: historical-fiction civil-war north-carolina kindle southern-fiction nook carolina-rain nancy-b-brewer
Just before he passed behind the hedge at the end of the drive, he turned to look back at Stoke Morrow and caught me spying on him. His shining eyes were so cruel, and before I could close the curtain, I saw the flash of an awful grin on his face. It was a grin that said he knew I'd come around. Sooner or later, I'd fall in line.
Adam McOmberTags: fantasy historical-fiction gothic-fiction
Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were. In her face were too sharply blended the delicate features of her mother, a Coast aristocrat of French descent, and the heavy ones of her florid Irish father. But it was an arresting face, pointed of chin, square of jaw. Her eyes were pale green without a touch of hazel, starred with bristly black lashes and slightly tilted at the ends. Above them, her thick black brows slanted upward, cutting a startling oblique line in her magnolia-white skin - that skin so prized by Southern women and so carefully guarded with bonnets, veils and mittens against hot Georgia suns.
Margaret MitchellTags: historical-fiction
Jennings is too tough and honest a writer to let anyone off her moral hook, even her hero.
Maureen JenningsTags: historical-fiction
There is no law that gods must be fair, Achilles,” Chiron said. “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone. Do you think?
Madeline MillerTags: historical-fiction
I been running up a bill with the devil ever since, and now he's come to collect on the debt.
Steven B. WeissmanTags: historical-fiction historical-romance
Every great day has a story and a song!
Faith Reese MartinTags: friendship animals courage fantasy historical-fiction mystery time-travel young-adult-fiction lost-colony underground-railroad
Through enjoyment we endure.
Florence DitlowTags: historical-fiction baking greatest-generation womens-history wwll
Naughty John, Naughty John, does his work with his apron on. Cuts your throat and takes your bones, sells 'em off for a coupla stones.
Libba BrayTags: historical-fiction horror libba-bray
Messages continued to arrive from the Earl of Warwick, urging Londoners to hold firm for King Harry. Marguerite d'Anjou and her son were expected to land at any time, while from St Albans, Edward sent word that Harry of Lancaster was to be considered a prisoner of state. At that, John Stockton, the Mayor of London, contracted a diplomatic virus and took to his bed.
Sharon Kay PenmanTags: historical-fiction
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