Short stories occupy the space between flash and novella — long enough to develop the relationship from first encounter to final resolution, short enough to be read in one session. These are stories with room to breathe: side characters who matter, settings that accumulate atmosphere, and desire that builds across multiple scenes before it arrives.
— Format: Short Story —
Longer heat, same fire.
Stories in this collection
5 storiesThe Mending Season
Free historical romance short story — Cornwall, 1814. Wounded naval lieutenant Gideon Trevelyan returns to his family's estate to convalesce under the care of the village surgeon he half-remembers as a boy. Samuel Rundle's hands are steady, exact, and increasingly impossible to call by any professional name.
The Stone Hours
Free paranormal romance short story — conservation stonemason Wren Halloway has three weeks left on the Marchbank Institute. The guardian figure carved into its parapet in 1895 is sharper than she should be, and the mason who cut her left the binding one mark short — deliberately, for whoever came after.
The Laird's Winter
Free historical romance short story — Scottish Highlander, the Jacobite Highlands, 1746. Glasgow grain widow Ailsa Crae holds the coin that can carry a ruined clan through the winter; Lachlan of Invermoor holds everything else. They marry as a cold contract, and the season runs out of distance.
The Breeches Role
Free historical romance short story — Georgian London, 1780s. Player Kit Aldous performs both Sebastian and his disguised sister at the Coronet, and lives between the two off-stage as well. The company's new swordmaster, Tomas Reyes, is the first person who never asks which they really are.
The Cartographer's Forest
Cartographer Illyra Moss is hired to map a cursed forest. The fae knight assigned to keep her alive has been in the forest long enough to forget what he lost. She doesn't know what it took from him yet.