HNR Issue 50 (November 2009)
A Christmas Promise
This Dickensian tale begins in 1895 London, a poor young girl of eight anxiously searching for Charlie, her uncle’s donkey.…
What Happens in London
Regency London thrives on scandal and the latest on-dit, so when Olivia Bevelstoke is told that her new neighbor may…
The Wildest Heart
Lady Rowena Dangerfield, the future Countess of Melchester, had a rather unconventional childhood. While still an infant, her parents divorced,…
Invasion
Commander Thomas Kydd, RN, is determined to once again sally forth to protect England from the threat of Napoleonic France.…
The Coral Thief
Young Daniel Connor travels on a career-expanding venture to the post-Napoleonic Paris of 1815. A medical student from Scotland, Daniel…
Whose Turn for the Stairs?
This debut novel (the author has previously published non-fiction) is set in Glasgow and covers the year 1949 in a…
The Harrowing
On the eve of joining his regiment in January 1916, William Redmond takes one last walk with his younger brother,…
Watching Gideon
Jubal Pickett is the loving, warmhearted father of Gideon, a 16-year-old boy who was born mute. Although he is unable…
The Missing
Sam Simoneaux arrived in France for the Great War just in time to clean up after the Germans. Not a…
Springtime in Burracombe
This is the fourth of Lilian Harry’s Burracombe novels. It opens in the spring of 1953 with an accident befalling…
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