One of the most overlooked families of the early modern period, the Courtenays played a critical role, and their story of love and loss, loyalty and betrayal, survival and ruin is played out at the courts of four Tudor monarchs.Katharine, Countess of Devon, was Edward IV's daughter. Her first proposed marriage would have made her Queen of Spain, but she was declared a bastard on the accession of her uncle Richard III. Legitimated under Henry VII, she eventually married Sir William ...

Born in 1473, Margaret Pole was the daughter of George, duke of Clarence, niece of both Edward IV and Richard III, and the only woman, apart from Anne Boleyn, to hold a peerage title in her own right during the sixteenth century. She was restored by Henry VIII to her executed brother's earldom of Salisbury in 1512. In the 1530s, however, her deep Catholic convictions became increasingly out of favour with Henry and she was executed on a charge of treason in 1541 aged sixty-seven. In 1886, ...

This collection brings together eighteen of the most memorable stories from the popular Exceptional Erotica publication on Medium: sharp, intimate, and unapologetically hot. Each tale is a wicked little miracle: compact bursts of desire, heat, and feeling, filthy and finely made.Stories by Megan Landon, Kat Vaughn, Crawford Hart, JK Mill, Paragonas Vaunt, Anton J. Pierce, Caffeline, Posy Churchgate, Polly Liticat, Aubrey Hawks, May Fellowbrook, D.A. Wright, Ryn Rehnard, Eli Casablan...