19th Century
A Tale of Gold
If you want to know about the Alaskan Gold Rush and digging for gold, this is the book to read.…
Booth’s Daughter
This book is about family relationships, posing the question about just how much responsibility and sacrifice can reasonably be expected…
The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes: The Life and Times of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
As the first biographer to gain access to Arthur Conan Doyle’s newly released personal archive, Andrew Lycett draws a captivating…
The Last Cavalier
During his lifetime, Alexandre Dumas planned to write a series of novels that would include all of French history from…
A Different Kind of Honor
In 1879, Lt. Commander Peter Wake of the United States Navy is sent on special assignment to observe the forthcoming…
Letters From Pemberley: The First Year
Having married Fitzwilliam Darcy and settled on his estate of Pemberley, a slightly homesick Elizabeth Bennet begins writing letters to…
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…
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