Historical
180 stories · Pre-1950s settings — Victorian, medieval, ancient worlds..
A drunken lord wakes to teasing servants who jape him with a tall tale of an amorous nighttime encounter.
Doug and Maria abandon plans to tour Pompeii for a secluded day together in her apartment.
A post-war British gentleman must choose between his fiancée Angela and his beloved 4½ litre Bentley, ultimately picking both her friend Kitty's charms and his classic car.
A Roman-era protagonist consolidates power through marriages and mistresses, impregnating multiple partners while running a brothel that doubles as a covert training ground for female warriors.
A muscular female knight known as the Lioness is summoned by the king, sharing playful banter and desire with her lover before answering the call to duty.
Set during the Napoleonic Wars, a young Amelia falls under the brutal control of her Uncle Rufus after her father's death, who threatens to send her to a whorehouse.
A woman's autobiographical recollection of her sexual awakening and first experience growing up in 1930s Fort Worth, Texas, during the eve of World War II.
A young orphanage survivor journeys into 1935 Appalachian Kentucky to serve as a valley nurse, finding love amid a harsh blizzard.
A young runaway girl is rescued by a kind woman and begins to discover unexpected feelings of desire as they grow closer.
A man marries a sickly heiress for her dowry in Edwardian London, discovering the arrangement is far more complicated than he anticipated.
During the 1941 London Blitz, a thirty-eight-year-old spinster discovers that the terror of Nazi bombings sends her into intense sexual ecstasy.
In 1815 Virginia, a spirited young woman defies her strict puritan parents by pursuing her attraction to the rebellious son of divorced parents, whom they consider beneath her station.
A 19th-century Kansas schoolteacher pens a sealed memoir revealing how she and the village women of Stony Creek behaved during a Confederate occupation along the Missouri.
A young English woman awaiting wartime factory work encounters American soldiers and worldly London women at a rural cottage, leading to a life-changing sexual awakening.
A terrified young bride is gently led by her new lord husband on a starlit ride before their wedding-night consummation.
A young male tutor in a historical household becomes increasingly drawn to the family's teenage maid, Lottie, leading to a hesitant and tension-filled seduction.
A married father, exhausted from work and suspicious glares from his wife, finds himself drawn back to Lottie at his brother's house despite his better judgment.