From ancient Dacia to old Transylvania superstition endures. Rituals, omens, and whispered charms bind humanity - and fiction - to a need for meaning and control.
Patricia Furstenberg
Mother. 🖋Writer. Former MD. Flâneuse interested historical fiction, folklore, legends, myths, castles.🏰 Romanian living in South Africa.
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She's a healer, not a sorceress. But in a world where women with knowledge are feared, survival demands more than skill-it takes courage.
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In 15th-century Transylvania, a woman could heal by day and burn by night, revered as a savior, condemned as a witch with a single whisper.
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The drama of Wolf Hall meets the haunting romance of Jane Eyre.
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Humor has always been part of survival. In the harshest of times. It doesn’t trivialize fear. It grounds it. It makes emotion believable, action lifelike, and humanizes history.
You might like: Threads of Identity: Embroidery, Costume, and Women's
Storytelling
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Beyond secrets, puzzles and codes, Dan Brown explores the fragility of truth, weight of history, clash of faith and doubt. The deepest mysteries lie in... the human heart.
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Across the century, shoes carried the weight of survival, the signals of status, and the marks of culture, blending practicality with spectacle at every step.
When Kate saves a mother and her newborn, she never suspects it will be the start of her undoing.
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10 Historical Fiction Doorstopper Books (over 450 pages) by Women Writers You’ll Love Getting Lost In for Top Ten Tuesday hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, TTT.
Truth in Historical Fiction, Why Readers Ask and Why It Matters
Does When Secrets Bloom holds truth in its historical fiction setting, story line, secrets? Does it stay true to history? Ask my readers. Here's why these questions matter.
https://alluringcreations.co.za/wp/truth-in-historical-fiction-why-readers-ask-and-why-it-matters/
The tone is a tacit agreement between author and reader. A promise: you will not be spared. And in historical fiction, when time is both distance and mirror, that promise is what keeps the story alive long after the last page is turned.
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