About Judith Merkle Riley: Judith Merkle Riley was an American writer, teacher and academic who wrote six historical romance novels.
He didn't want to puff her up. Puffed-up women are one of the original sources of trouble in the world. If anyone knew that, it was he. He counted it as one of his duties to mankind to keep women from puffing themselves up, though it had been a most ...
Why the Romans, Father?" I asked him one afternoon. "Because, my child, they teach us how to bear suffering in a world of injustice where all faith is dead," he answered.
I could feel something cold stalking my heart. It was fear. They all begin this way, I thought, with pledges of love.
