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To Wear a Heart so White: An Anthology of Historical Short Stories About Crime and Punishment

The Historical Writers’ Forum proudly presents seven stories of Crime and Punishment, from across the ages. From an anchoress to a war hero; from Italy to Missouri; this anthology has a story for everyone.

“A Dangerous Road”
Joseph Walker simply cannot understand why his community must build a road right through his property. His nephews call it progress. He knows better. Not only will the road will bring crime right to his door, it will destroy his farm—and his favorite thinking tree. Joseph will do whatever it takes to prevent the road from being built, legal or otherwise, but he doesn’t know how dearly this quest will cost him and his family.

Hotel Vanity

As seen in the historical anthology, Hauntings!

"I found myself further enthralled, giddy and often audibly giggling at the interactions amongst the characters."
S. Johnson

Humphrey struggles to sell his failing hotel, but its permanent residents don't share his enthusiasm. An older gentleman with his ghostly nose stuck in an old book; a painfully crude lady with a passion for whiskey and playing with cigarette lighters; and Humphrey's own wife, who is stuck in the mirrors.

When a perspective buyer reveals a decades-long mystery involving the hotel and its inhabitants, the group must face their own fears—and each other.

Hauntings

FEAR IS AS OLD AS TIME ITSELF
Chilling Tales that will take you through a labyrinth of historical horror.
You will encounter a tormented Roman general.
A Norse woman who must confront her terrifying destiny.
Meet a troubled Saxon brother, searching for his twin's murderer.
A young nurse tries to solve the mysteries of an asylum for the insane.

Down the passages of time to the Tudor age, Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn wander through a haunted garden and elsewhere, a lost slave girl is the soul survivor of a mass slaughter.

These are just a few of the eerie tales which ensure that Hauntings is not for the faint-hearted. Join us as 10 talented authors relate their historical horrors in this ghostly collection with a foreword by the eminent author of histories of medieval women Sharon Bennett Connolly.