HNR Issue 42 (November 2007)
The Prayer Chest
Joseph Hutchinson and his wife, Miriam, are poor farmers scraping out a living on Long Island during the late 1800s.…
Lessons of Desire
Phaedra Blair is the beautiful, eccentric heroine of this Regency romp. The illegitimate offspring of a woman whose philosophy espoused…
Courting Trouble
Outgoing, good-natured, and fond of elaborate hats and bicycle riding, Essie Spreckelmeyer is well-liked in her hometown but seriously short…
Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade
Anyone wondering how to produce authentic fictional characters should pick up Diana Gabaldon’s novels and study closely. One of the…
A Matter Of Duty
Louisa Cherington’s brother dies in a duel but not before urging his friend, Lord Christopher Highclare, and impecunious sister to…
The Man Of Property
This is the first book in The Forsyte Saga, a series of nine novels and some short stories, which chronicle…
To Scotland With Love
Lord Gregor MacLean and Venetia Oglivie have been best friends since they were children, so when Venetia gets kidnapped by…
Femme Fatale: Love, Lies, and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari
Misperceptions about Mata Hari abound—many due to the persona that she herself promulgated with convenient lies. Though often thought to…
The Secret Life of Josephine
Lovely Rose of Martinique is sent to pre-revolutionary France to marry Viscount Alexandre de Beauharnais, but her arrogant new husband…
The Kingdom of Bones
Tom Sayers, a former boxer and a member of a British theater troupe, is accused of the serial murders of…
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