HNR Issue 42 (November 2007)
The Courtesan’s Daughter
Caroline Trevelyan, daughter of Sophia, Countess of Dalby, finds fitting into London society in 1802 difficult at best. Much of…
The Keeper of Secrets
Editors' choice
This is certainly much more than a run-of-the-mill historical crime novel. A young and idealistic clergyman, the Reverend Tobias Campion,…
Out Of Shadows
This is the second novel in the Meryen series following Keeping Echoes. Intrigue, lust and passion run through this story…
Not Quite A Lady
In girlhood, bearing a child in secret was the price Lady Charlotte Hayward paid for her seduction by an unscrupulous…
High Crag Linn
This complex story is set in 15th-century England and shows human nature at its best and worst. Anna’s father is…
Never Deceive A Duke
Never Deceive a Duke is Carlyle’s second Neville family novel. Gareth Lloyd, part-owner of Neville Shipping, finds himself saddled with…
Louisiana’s Song
In the spring of 1963, 12-year-old Livy Two and her nine siblings eagerly await their father’s return to the home…
Old Friends and New Fancies
Subtitled An Imaginary Sequel to the Novels of Jane Austen, this book does exactly what it says on the cover:…
The Slave-Girl From Jerusalem
AD 80. In this, the thirteenth Roman Mystery, the four friends, Flavia, Nubia, Jonathan and Lupus are in the port…
Lady Beware
The Company of Rogues began when twelve schoolboys banded together for mutual protection. They grew up to fight Napoleon and…
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