Romance
The Lost Diary of Don Juan
The Lost Diary of Don Juan is a fresh, new imagining of a legendary character. Don Juan is made for…
The Best of Sisters
Sagas, the comfy slippers of reading matter. Nothing demanding in style or content, but a good book for bedtime or…
The Belles Dames Club
A unmarried Miss—the frivolous Clarissa Wyckenham—does a markedly good deed in helping the dour Lord Alresford out of a vexing…
Bitter Inheritance
Sally Mason faces losing her farm home when her parents die leaving her penniless. In spite of her pleas her…
Peony in Love
Editors' choice
Enter the enticing world of the Peony Pavilion, a 16th-century Chinese opera now entwining the lives of three Hangzhou women…
The Dante Trap
In his cell in a noisome dungeon languishes The Black Orchid,Venice’s most dashing swordsman, secret agent and lover. But he…
Royal Harlot: A Novel of the Countess of Castlemaine and King Charles II
Editors' choice
Having previously provided a fictional memoir of Sarah, first Duchess of Marlborough (Duchess, an Editors’ Choice), Scott brings to vivid life another of the 17th…
Lady Merry’s Dashing Champion
A case of mistaken identity leads Meriel St. Thomas into a world of courtly intrigue and sensual delights she never…
Daughters of the Doge: A Novel of Renaissance Venice
This is the second in the Richard Stocker series, quickly following on from the first novel published in 2006, In…
The Thistle and the Rose
Plaidy’s eighth Tudor novel vividly reconstructs the dramatic life of Margaret Tudor, from the time of her early marriage to…
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