HNR Issue 52 (May 2010)
To Surrender to a Rogue
Italian noblewoman Lady Alessandra della Giamatti and her precocious daughter, Isabella, trade their native land for England, where Alessandra will…
The Darcy Cousins
Clarissa Darcy, cousin of the famous Mr. Darcy from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, has whirled into England from America…
The House of Rajani
In the late 19th century, Isaac Luminsky and his new wife, “Her Ladyship,” travel from Europe to Jaffa. They are…
The Other Mr. Darcy
This is yet another sequel to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. This one picks up after the wedding of Elizabeth…
Tommy’s World
Tommy Hopkins is born in the slums of Manchester in the late 19th century. Though the area is rough, he…
Coming Home
This is a tightly plotted story set during the Peninsular War, with a heroine recovering from a vicious rape, and…
Provocative in Pearls
In Madeline Hunter’s first novels, the vivid language, believable characters, and complex plots brought 14th-century England to life. By Arrangement,…
Gloryland
Born in 1863 of mixed black and Indian blood to a sharecropper’s family, Elijah Yancy of Spartanburg, South Carolina, lives…
The Silent Governess
In mid-19th century Britain, an imminent threat causes Olivia Keene to flee her home, separating her from the mother she…
The Making of a Duchess
Orphaned as an infant, Sarah Smith is happy with her job as a governess. She is not happy when her…
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