The Complete Historic Trilogy

Three different settings. Three crucibles of survival and desire. Three couples who find love in the margins of history. Three couples who strip away everything but the truth. The Wine HarvestA village is starving. The wine has died in the vats, and the Elders demand an ancient ritual: the King and Queen of the Harvest must tread the grape naked, until their sweat and their seed awaken the fermentation.
William is a blacksmith's apprentice; Alice is the magistrate's daughter. They have never spoken. By dawn, they will be bound by blood and juice. A story of sacrifice, duty, and the fire that grows from the mud of the vat. King's GoldMartha Castle has inherited her father's goldsmith workshop, but as a woman, she cannot hold the licence. James is her father's senior journeyman, newly made Master, but without capital to buy a shop.
Their contract marriage is cold logic: shared profits, separate beds. Then a historic heatwave strips them of their armour, a jar of gold dust spills, and the only way to recover the King's weight is to remove every last barrier. A story of shimmering gold, naked labour, and a love forged on the anvil. Severn CrossingThe English Civil War has left a Royalist officer hiding in a ferry woman's hayloft.
When four Parliament troopers are billeted to her house, Margaret needs a shield... a husband, or the likeness of one. He takes her father's name. She takes the risk. But the corporal is a scout, and he listens at the knotholes. When the pretence is no longer enough, the ferry house burns, and the only way out is across the water. A story of deception, war, and the love that survives a falling kingdom.
Includes: Explicit verbal and non-verbal consent, immersive period detail, neurodivergent-friendly sensory grounding, forced proximity, contract marriage (King's Gold), and three very different happy endings. The world breaks, but the hearth holds. 57, 440 words