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Beast
A fairy-djinn changes Orasym into a lion and he finds a young Frenchwoman to break his enchantment by falling in love with him. Orasym is a Persian Prince who is eager to inherit the role of Shah of Persia from his father. On the day of the Feast of Sacrifices, he is slated to do the honors of sacrificing an animal. Because he sacrifices an animal that is imperfect (it is scarred from old wounds), he incurs the anger of a djinn-fairy, a creature that pun...
Bound
Xing Xing is a small child who is coping with the recent death of her kind-hearted potter father. Her mother died years ago from illness, which forced her to live with the stepmother her Father had married with her Half-Sister Wing-Pei.
The "Family" lives off selling what remains from Xing Xing's Father's collection of unsold pottery, Xing Xing fears she may be sold into slavery once the supply runs out as her step mother as threatened her with. Step Mo...
Daughter of Venice
Donata Mocenigo is a coming of age female ahead of her time. She leads a priviledged life in 16th Century Venice in which women like her live only for marriage, children and appearance.
She has bright propects, for a women, but Donata is unhappy. She would love nothing more than to throw off the constraints of her gender-biased society.
In Donata's world, women have very little access to education, even in the noble classes, but she craves this more...
Zel
Country girl Zel and a nobleman fall in love but their love is thwarted by her overprotective, jealous Mother who shuts Zel up in a tower to hide her away from the world. Zel is a young, innocent peasant girl who lives an idyllic countryside existence with her mother but is fast growing up into a beautiful young lady who will soon attract the attention of eligible men in her town. Zel goes to town only twice a year to help her mother buy produce - the re...
