Tag: romance novel
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Twenty-five-year-old Chicago socialite Starr Oakes knows her time to get marriage is growing short, and in order to avoid being an old childless maid, she returns a mail-ordered bride requests. A Mail-Order Bride Romance Novel Set During the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 Starr Oakes, twenty-five-year-old Chicago socialite, has spent five months corresponding with Rex…
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Pointing the bustle section toward the ground, Muriel held her full black skirt in her widespread hands. “Put as much fruit as you can in my skirt. You’re going to carry it back to our camp.” “Aha, haha. A man’s job.” “My skirt. That’s the price of my nakedness—you carrying the fruit back.” Muriel stood…
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© Copyright Cupideros, Tuesday, February 4, 2016 BOOK 4, CHAPTER 3 She stopped and glanced at the neatly stacked souls. At least these native people of Makta Island never ate Cook’s men. They killed them, sure; they gave them quick deaths, too. But the cannibals’ food lifestyle matched the English one, basically; they ate animals,…
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© Copyright Cupideros, Tuesday, February 4, 2016 BOOK 6, CHAPTER 3 When the moon started downward, Muriel left her camp. She guessed it was three o’clock in the morning—too late for Glen to be awake, even if he were reading his Bible. Nearing Camp One, wearing only her black skirt and her midriff-torn white blouse,…
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© Copyright Cupideros, Tuesday, February 4, 2016 BOOK 3, CHAPTER 3 Glen ducked a second spear. He rammed his shoulder into the cannibal and knocked him to the ground. Turning swiftly and swinging his spear outward, he blocked the spear toss of the fourth cannibal, then held his spear and ran it through him. One…