Romance Stories

Grey Wethers

In the English village of King's Avon, across the downs from Marlborough, young Clare 
Warrener lives in the big manor house with her gentleman father. But she is increasingly 
drawn out to the downs where young Nicholas Lovel spends his days tending sheep. Though 
Nicholas is handsome and capable, his family is the subject of suspicion around town. Few 
have been inside the cottage where his mother is housebound, and his brother Olver is 
known to be simple.

Joan of the Sword Hand

Loud rang the laughter in the hall of the men-at-arms at Castle Kernsberg. There had come 
an embassy from the hereditary Princess of Plassenburg, recently established upon the 
throne of her ancestors, to the Duchess Joan of Hohenstein, ruler of that cluster of hill 
statelets which is called collectively Masurenland, and which includes, besides Hohenstein 
the original Eagle's Eyrie, Kernsberg also, and Marienfield.

All for Love 

The story begins with John Dryden's dedication of the play to an aristocratic patron, 
Thomas Osborne. He praises Osborne for his loyalty to the crown during the English Civil 
War. This praise leads Dryden to a larger consideration of the merits of the English 
constitutional monarchy, which he calls the best form of government in the world.