Isabella is a handmaid to Princess Jessica, Daughter of King Aro. When a knight from a neighboring kingdom wins his choice of bride, Sir Edward bypasses the princess and claims the handmaid instead. Isabella suddenly finds herself married to a man she does not know, and is tossed into the middle of political plots and scheming nobles. Her life is further turned upside down when she is unable to give her husband the one thing he must have.

"This is the hour of Forks' revenge. Volterra will fall to us for Aro's actions against your Queen, and no one – no one – who fights for Volterra will survive. We will not stop until every wall, every tower, every single structure in all of Volterra has been razed."

Summary

No, this is not a vampire story, but supernatural all the same. It is the tale of a princess in peril and the mythical creature who saves her. They will love each other passionately but, as it is the case with other cross species mating, it will not be easy. The time? Oh, some 2,700 years ago.

Ἕλθε, Κύπρι,
Χπρυσίασιν ἐν κυλίκεσσιν ἄβραισ
συμμεμιγμένον θαλίαισι νέκταρ
     οἰνοχόεισα.

Come hither foam-born Cyprian goddess, come,
And in golden goblets pour richest nectar
All mixed in most ethereal perfection,
     Thus to delight us. (Sappho)

A reader asked if this is an Edward and Bella story. Of course it is. Only, he is not a vampire and they have Greek names with the same meaning...just saying

Christmas time in New York. What else could be more iconic, maybe a little love under the mistletoe? The gang all works at Cullen Department Store in NYC. Things are going well for Bella Swan until she starts getting mysterious gifts from her secret Santa. She wants to solve this mystery and everyone tries to figure out who Bella’s secret admirer is. However, will Bella still want to find out who her Santa is when she thinks she’s falling in love with someone else?

**ON HIATUS**

In Texas 1930, young school girl Bella Swan meets the prestigious, hardworking and interesting farmhand, young Edward Cullen, who arrives one morning to work at the Swan residence. An attraction develops into a passionate courtship.

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Isabella Swan learns that she's been traded like chattle by her own father. She's sent to England and married off to one Edward Cullen, asshole extraordinaire, but there's a reason for his temper problem and Bella's determined to break down his walls.

They told me on my eighteenth birthday, after Jacob had left. They told me that in a month I would be moving away, to live with a man a decade older, and run a household that I had never seen half the world away from home. I was given a blank manila envelope. It contained two pieces of paper; one was a contract, the other was a letter.

Mostly Bella POV, but other POV's are given periodically.

NC-17 for language, violence, and sexual themes in later chapters.