Historical Romance

There is a particular pleasure in watching a controlled man lose his composure — one degree at a time, almost […]

There is a particular kind of hope that people carry after they have decided they are finished with it —

Wanting someone your whole life has told you is wrong — and wanting them anyway — is a specific form

Loving someone who holds themselves responsible for you — who has placed themselves in the category of guardian, protector, the

There is an experience specific to invisibility — not the invisibility of absence but the invisibility of presence. Being in

There is a strange power in a promise made long ago — the way it waits for you in a

There is a specific magic to the person everyone overlooked turning out to be the most extraordinary person in the

There is a particular danger in performing love with someone you might actually love. You can play at tenderness for

There is a nostalgia specific to a certain kind of historical romance — big, dramatic, emotionally excessive in the best

Believing in someone the rest of the world has already written off — not naively, not without full knowledge of