The Nightingale and the Rose is an allegorical fable that delves into themes of love, sacrifice, and selfishness. As with all of Oscar Wilde's short stories, it embodies strong moral values and is told with an effervescence akin to that of The 1001 Nights.

It is the tale of a lovestruck student who must provide his lover with a red rose in order to win her heart. A nightingale, overhearing his lament from a solitary oak tree, is filled with sorrow and admiration all at once, and decides to help the poor young man.

She journeys through the night seeking the perfect red rose and finally comes across a rambling rose bush. Alas, the bush has no roses to offer her. However, there is a way to make a red rose, but it comes with grave consequences.

The nightingale must sing the sweetest song for the rose all night and sacrifice her life to produce the crimson rose. Seeing the student in tears, she carries out the ritual, impales herself on the rose-tree's thorn, and her heart's blood stains the rose.

The student takes the rose to the professor's daughter, but she rejects him, for another man has sent her jewels, and "everybody knows that jewels cost far more than flowers." The student angrily throws the rose into the gutter, returns to his study of metaphysics, and decides not to believe in true love anymore.

He is everything she wants to avoid...

For two years, Catherine Marks has been a paid companion to the Hathaway sisters—a pleasant position, with one caveat. Her charges' older brother, Leo Hathaway, is thoroughly exasperating. Cat can hardly believe that their constant arguing could mask a mutual attraction. But when one quarrel ends in a sudden kiss, Cat is shocked at her powerful response—and even more so when Leo proposes a dangerous liaison.

She is not at all what she seems...

Leo must marry and produce an heir within a year to save his family home. Catherine's respectable demeanor hides a secret that would utterly destroy her. But to Leo, Cat is intriguing and infernally tempting, even to a man resolved never to love again. The danger Cat tried to outrun is about to separate them forever—unless two wary lovers can find a way to banish the shadows and give in to their desires...

The Lottie Project is a captivating story about Charlotte Enright (Charlie), set in late 20th century England. Charlie is the most popular girl in her school. She assumes she will find history lessons boring, but then she sees a Victorian photo of a girl who looks exactly like her. From that moment on, she becomes fascinated with history.

Charlie decides to write her history project as the fictional diary of a Victorian servant girl named Lottie. The novel beautifully alternates between the narrative of events in Charlie's life and extracts from Lottie's diary, creating a delightful blend of past and present.