19th Century
The Scent of Sake
Lebra’s debut is a biographical novel of Rie, the sole heir of the House of Omura, a sake-brewing family in…
The DeVere Papers
The De Vere Papers is set in 1868, at a fictional college in Cambridge. The papers in question throw doubt…
The Baltic Gambit
The Royal Navy’s incorrigible Alan Lewrie has been outsmarting and outfighting Britain’s enemies while simultaneously practicing adultery on a Herculean…
Etta
Very little is known about Etta Place, the lover of the Sundance Kid. In this warm, deftly plotted novel, Gerald…
Texas Sunrise: Two Novels of the Texas Republic
Love and hate drive Massacre at Goliad, the first novel in this two-novel collection depicting the Texas Revolution in the…
The Empty Mirror: A Viennese Mystery
A young country girl, model and lover of painter Gustav Klimt, is viciously murdered in 1898 Vienna. Klimt, the bête…
The Sins of Lord Easterbrook
Soon after arriving in England from her home in Macao, Leona Montgomery meets up with the one man she can’t…
Where Serpents Sleep
Editors' choice
Set in a grim version of Regency London, this fourth outing for Sebastian St. Cyr has him teamed up, almost…
The Bride Bargain
In 1855 in Nebraska Territory (modern Wyoming), Clara Field and her Aunt Doreen are abandoned by the leader of their…
Whirlwind
Millicent Fairweather pours her energy and life into the two young girls under her care in London of 1892, only…
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