Results for "Heroine" in Historical

Au couvent de la Mansuétude, on forme des jeunes filles à devenir des tueuses. Certaines sont dotées du sang ancien, révélant des talents presque disparus depuis que les Anciens ont accosté sur Abeth. Mais les moniales ne mesurent pas ce dont elles ont hérité avec Nona, une enfant de...

Brought to you by Penguin. Three powerful heroines – a queen, a sorceress and woman made of flowers – plot revenge against the villain who wronged them. A gorgeously dark debut novel inspired by Celtic Britain’s first fantasy fiction. Man is cruel, but the flowers will take their revenge...

A sparkling, witchy reimagining of Pride and Prejudice, told from the perspective of the troublesome and - according to her - much-maligned youngest Bennet sister, Lydia. Miss Lydia Bennet may be the youngest, but what she lacks in maturity and responsibility, she more than makes up for in...

An utterly fantastical and undeniably queer melding of Pride and Prejudice and Frankenstein that recasts Mary Bennet as an insatiable scientist, one who creates a monster in an attempt to save herself from spinsterdom Awkward, plain, and overlooked, Mary Bennet has long been out of favor not...

The Kingdom of Lyonesse is absent of magic but not of rain. Magic is outlawed in the kingdom of Lyonesse. So when Niamh's forbidden witchcraft is exposed, she flees her village disguised as a man. But she never meant to end up on a battlefield. Mistakenly conscripted into a brutal war between a...