by Claire Youmans
Claire Youmans first went to Japan in 1992 and was immediately captivated. After years of travel and study, she continues to be charmed and amazed by a fascinating history and a culture that's both endearingly quirky and entirely unique. She is a retired lawyer who now lives in Tokyo. Her family, including her daughter and two grandsons, live in Seattle, USA.In 2014, she started Tales of the Meiji Era with The Toki-Girl and the Sparrow-Boy's unparalleled blend of historical fantasy in the first…
by Supremely_Innocent
***DROPPED***Dying once again, she was almost numb to the pain of death. "I have never regretted meeting you," she said, tears threatening to drip from the corner of her eyes. "I only regret that the heavens are crueler than hell."Meeting her once again, but unable to remember her, he could only try to make her fall in love with him again. "We separated again," he said. "But we'll meet again... I promise."Their history was there, but they could only miss each other once again. Would they once ag…
by Alya_Snitzkyy2
Anastasia is an artist who has not appeared on television for a long time. But because of her love for a man made her dare to appear again. Until finally he realized that his lover had lied to him because of the disease he was suffering from. How was Anastasia able to deal with it all?
by Qin Shuangshuang
Despite being the ruler of a nation, nobody was willing to marry the vicious man with a bloodlust. An imperial decree forced an infamous fool, Minister Liu's Third Young Miss, to stand-in for a noble princess in the political marriage. Behind her seemingly plain looks and average existence, she actually turned out to be a rare beauty and the clan leader of assassins.From there on out, she was harassed by the tyrannical lord, as she embarked upon a dangerous path. Her: Become a demon and fight th…
by So I-rim
A beautiful castle, a loving husband and a peaceful time.Marianne was having a beautiful life... Until she was killed by her own husband.Born as the daughter of a duke, she has lost everything at the age of 23 by the ways of Marquis Chester.But the world is mysterious and she gains a second chance at life.She wakes up from the pain and it is 2 days before her 21st birthday.Marianne meets her father who had left the world in her previous life.She cries as she steels herself.To never repeat the mi…
by J.Z.N. McCauley
As a professional pianist, it is only in music that Evelyn Bell allows herself to let go of reality. After the loss of her parents, Evey struggles with obsessive-compulsive disorder and remains fixated on an echo of the past—until her life is turned upside down once more. Trapped within a vision, she locks eyes with a mysterious young man. Without answers, time literally stops around her.Ailis is a woman of the Celts, the daughter of a chief. She must protect her people from invaders. When she l…
by PinkTenshi
We often hear that love makes us blind, but when we add jealousy, we lose all beneficial notions, and we are ready to do anything so that the person at the origin of these evils, suffer. This is what will happen to Thetia Kestle, the youngest of the Kestle family. It is her older sister Jane who will be at the origin, and who will force her sister, the jewel of the Kestle family, to flee her native land, because death is at her heels. A love triangle is created between Jane, Thetia and Crown Pri…
by Oracle
This is a story that took place in ancient Egypt-464BC.In a time of slavery due to the falling away in Israel, many are left homeless and are forced to seek refuge...in Egypt.The Crown Prince originally shrouded in mystery, seemed like an enigmatic yet unpredictable person when Aria first met him and Aria felt an unusual pull to him going to places she shouldn't, meeting with a certain someone she shouldn't...Aria wasn't the strongest in her beliefs as a Jew.But what happens when what started as…
by Sebastian_mechalis
What will happen when Princess Nefertari falls in love with a Prince from the other side of the Planet during a visit that was the first of its kind? Does she think that her love that started as a mere crush will mean something when they are to meet a decade later? Adults with new minds, and faces, is there place for such feelings when war is breaking out? Is it an ill-fated meeting or, perhaps there is more to come?.“BEHOLD!” “His Holiness, Great Pharaoh of Egypt Akhenaton and his daughter crow…
by NewEraCult
I was terrified all the time.I couldn't go on like this. I was even afraid of my own shadow.I heard a noise downstairs and I knew Allan was home. He was probably searching the cabinets for his stash of alcohol. He was more violent when he was drunk.I heard my stomach grumbled again. I was really hungry, but I couldn't go downstairs, because he would see me and find a reason to hit me.I really don't know why my mother had married him. What had she seen in him? I don't know why I ask that question…
by Lin Mumu
In her previous life, she sacrificed everything for him. She helped him become the most powerful chancellor, but he still preferred her older sister whom he had a one night stand with. When her gentle husband took her life, she finally realized their romance was all a joke to him. Filled with hatred, moments before she died, Lu Xiang swore she would get her revenge on the people who hurt her... When she opened her eyes, she had returned to the year when she was fourteen. Although it was the same…
by Gongsun Xiaoyue
Before entering the palace, Gu Yundai got trapped in the kitchen by the crown prince.After entering the palace, Gu Yundai wanted to use her cooking to eventually incapacitate this jerk. But while none of the crown prince's concubines could even get pregnant, she ended up giving birth to his son. Gu Yundai hoped to rely on her son's high standing in the palace to get by quietly, and live a leisurely life as his mother once he grows old enough to become the emperor. But after one of the emperor's …
by Basiyem
Amurwa Bhumi, a loyal assistant at Kusuma's family, suddenly has the ability to see the unseen things that will happen to him. He loves his boss's wife whom he met when Mr. Kusuma's family vacationed to hunt in the forest. Amurwa Bhumi saw Padmasari who had just got out of her car and was stunned to see the beauty of the boss's wife which he had seen for the first time. When the short skirt worn by Padmasari was revealed, Amurwa Bhumi saw a light between Padmasari's thighs which fascinated Amurw…
by Write_D_Words
Life and its History. The heir of the richest and fastest growing Ice-cream shop, Shreya Yuki Owen, has been chased with danger and threats. She becomes an enemy of her family just because of a Momentum of her dead grandparents: The Ice-cream company.Until a meteor falls. It only shows itself after every one thousand years. Little did Shreya know that she got dragged by the meteor's light. Bringing back a similar life from the past that is bound to happen in her fate. Bringing a new name--Hui Yi…
by Yulia_R
King Ye Tian was accused of rebellion. As a result, his entire palace was massacred, and his two daughters were forcibly taken to the imperial palace to be taken prisoner.King Ye's fifth daughter, Ye Ningjie, always lived in the mountains to study martial arts and medical skills. Hearing the news that her family was massacred, the anger filled her heart.She chose to leave the mountains and go to the imperial capital to free her sisters and seek justice.However, what happened was not as simple as…
by Sis Whacky
Year 1968...Divina was broken-hearted due to her lover, Alfredo's infidelity. He cheated on her with a rich heiress named Belen. Even though it was difficult for Divina, she forced herself to move on. She became a teacher in a private school and became close friends with their headteacher, Marco Salvador. Marco is a happy person and he shares this happiness with those people around him to the point that Divina is slowly falling for him... but there is one absolute rule in that school, they shoul…
by TheGreyyLadyy_
Proud and smart Rosette Woods from the countryside has been sent to stay with the Rickhorns, her parents very close friend's who live in the capitol, the city of Kantor.Later into the night of her arrival she bumps into DeAndre Rickhorn, the son of Mr and Mrs Rickhorn. She soon finds that he is a promiscuous person whom she would like no dealings with even if he is as attractive as the rumor's have him.Rosette must learn to co-ordinate her social standings in the city where she is not familiar w…
by Carlia Barkhuizen
Inspired from the story Phantom by Susan Kay.*************************************After taking over from the senior architect Giuseppe, Quade and his apprentices traveled to France to complete a contract which was to build a Opera House for the entire country and beyond to indulge in. Becoming the owner of the Opera House he was known as the best Musical Genius of all time. The world praised his unique operas and astounding music. But even though he was admired by all, he rarely appeared in publ…
by Itari Raiansa
The story of a wanderer who sacrifices for the sake of a future leader who will build a great empire on the island of Java. Stranded in an unfamiliar soul, passing through the twists and turns of time travel. Rafasya Az-Zahra became an unreduled figure in great history by drawing the hands of the young man he so admired. He is present in the silence of dreams, not disturbing the melodious harmony at night. He, Raden Patah, was the founder of the kingdom of Demak, a man whom Zahra loved so much—a…
by NewEraCult
Shu Ya had never doubted Zhuo Hao's love to her until she found a hickey on his shirt.