Romance
Why Mermaids Sing
In Regency-era England, wealthy, aristocratic young men are being murdered, and the bodies are mutilated in grisly ways that seem…
A Passion Most Pure
In 1916, the Great War is raging overseas, and a smaller war is brewing in the Boston O’Connor household. Two…
On Wings of the Morning
Georgia Carter and Morgan Glennon have something in common: both grew up as out-of-wedlock children. They have another thing in…
Fancy Pants
Newly arrived in the United States in 1890, Lady Sydney Hathwell cannot bring herself to enter into a loveless marriage…
The Golden Tulip
Love is in full bloom in this Laker reprint, set against the rich backdrop of 17th-century Holland. Francesca Visser is…
Life Class
In early 1914, Paul Tarrant and Elinor Brooke are students at the Slade School of Art’s life-drawing class run by…
The Tailor’s Daughter
The titular character is Veda Grenfell, daughter of a famed Victorian Savile Row tailor. Veda has inherited her father’s passion…
The Principessa
Editors' choice
We first met the Firemaster, Francis Quoynt, embroiled in the Gunpowder Plot in the pages of The Firemaster’s Mistress. As…
The Seduction of the Crimson Rose
Fourth in Willig’s mystery series featuring the exploits of English spies in the Napoleonic era, The Seduction of the Crimson…
Her Secret Fantasy
This romance begins in 1818 at the funeral for Lily Balfour’s grandfather, Viscount Balfour. Lily’s inheritance, the dilapidated Balfour Manor,…
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