Tasteful Tales
by Juliet



Stories of Romance and Erotic Adventure from the Hornblower Universe

Lady and Horse

Stories that include characters from the Hornblower novels and television films (Granada/A&E).
No copyright infringement is intended.

Rated R/NC-17 for sex and language.





Beauty Ashore
    An HH3 "Loyalty" story. Horatio is attracted and intrigued by the very beautiful---and very young---mistress of Black Charlie Hammond. But how does she feel about Horatio? Is there more to her, and indeed, to the irascible Captain Hammond, than meets the eye?
 
Part One    Part Two    Part Three    Part Four    Part Five


Breakfast at Bracegirdle's
The adorable Mr. B. gets a sexy wake up call!


Love for Lunch
    Locked in the larder with a lovely lady? If the lady's your beautiful wife, and you're the insatiable Mr. Bracegirdle, there can be only one course of action---yum!


A Very Bracie Christmas
    Mr. Bracegirdle and his wife, Lizzie, along with Messrs. Hornblower and Kennedy, pay a holiday visit to the London home of Captain Sir Edward and Lady Pellew. Oh! That mistletoe is damned prickly stuff!
                                                              
                                                                  

Mr. Bracegirdle and the Legend of the Headless Helmsman
    It is nigh on the Eve of All Hallows, and a young Tony Bracegirdle returns from the sea to claim his true love. But romantic complications ensue in this playful romp inspired by a classic horror tale.
                                                                      
         Part One    Part Two    Part Three    Part Four    Part Five     
      
Fancy
    "Poor old Clayton" loves and loses in a rather angsty yarn that explores the melancholy soul of everyone's favorite foul-fated fiddler.

Part One    Part Two    Part Three    Part Four    Part Five    Part Six
                                                                                
 French Toast
    Parody. A French corvette with pink sails and a crew made up of nothing but, er, "ladies"? Sacre bleu! How will Horatio Hornblower handle this one?
                       
Irawadi, Like the River
    Kicking his heels in Calcutta, a widowed and wounded Lord Edrington struggles with regret and uncertainty about his future. India is won, with the last of France's allies defeated in the final battles of the Mahratta Wars. A renewed war in Europe beckons, but before he is called to duty once more, Edrington will find himself in need of solace, lest "idleness and abstinence together will drive him mad."
    Part One    Part Two    Part Three



Lord Oliphant's Heir
(A work in progress)

What did ever happen to Oldroyd?

Part One     Part Two    Part Three


Midnight At Muzillac

    A wife, a mistress, a scary bird! An ancient curse! Madness! Sex! From medieval Brittany to the halls of Versailles; from America to India to Muzillac; it's everything you never thought you wanted to know about the life and loves of the Marquis de Muzillac!

Prologue    Part One   
Part Two     Part Three  Part Four    Part Five    Part Six    Part Seven    Part Eight
Part Nine     Part Ten     Part Eleven    Epilogue


Spanking the Abbess
     On the eve of the battle for Muzillac, the Earl of Edrington has better things to do that deal with the fact that his sergeant-major has apparently been abducted by naughty French nuns. Somebody is about to find out just who is master!

Part One    Part Two    Part Three    Part Four    Part Five


The Theory of Relativity
co-authored with Suzanna

    It is perhaps not well known that the size of a naval officer's spyglass bears a direct relationship to "that part of a gentleman's anatomy which members of the fair sex find to be of most significance to themselves." And how does a lady assure that the object of her affection possesses a suitable telescope?  Why, by making him a gift, by interceding with his superiors, or, if all else fails, by way of a little coercion.  All is revealed in a series of very, well, revealing letters.

Part One    Part Two    Part Three


The Touchstone
A little of the luck of the Irish seems sure to rub off on Archie Kennedy when he pays a visit to his old friend George in Dublin on the Feast of St. Patrick, 1798, and in so doing, revisits his younger and far more innocent self.                            
                        

Part One    Part Two    Part Three    Part Four   Part Five    Part Six
Part Seven    Part Eight    Epilogue


Valentine
    In the year of The Hundred Days, 1815, destiny finally catches up with a war weary Colonel Andre Cotard and he discovers to his surprise that old soldiers don't always fade away---sometimes, they fall in love.                                                                                                                     
Prologue    Part One    Part Two    Part Three    Part Four
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