It was like an infected wound that seemed to get worse every time she thought about it. How could he shame her so? Maybe Phil was right. Maybe she was taking the easy path because the rest of her life had become so hard. Maybe accepting the crumbs a man, who so obviously and loudly proclaimed his...
And the sight of Carthago, with its mighty harbour, complete with special port facilities for merchant ships and the navy, was an awesome sight. Even by Rome’s standards, the fast growing Colonia Julia Carthago, built on the strategically located African promontory, was impressive. &n...
She had sent Maude away an hour or two ago, and Philomena, exasperated with her unwillingness to talk to her, had at last left her in peace. As she stared at her hands without seeing them, Fidelia wondered why she could not lift herself out of the misery she felt. It was l...
But the adrenalin surge that the strange howl had elicited, and the disquiet she felt from her last encounter with Byron Carstairs, meant that sleep was far away. She lay on the goose-down layered mattress, surrounded by fine linen sheets and warm woollen blankets, and couldn’t make her body rela...