Restoration
The Westminster Poisoner
Setting The Westminster Poisoner during the festivities of Christmas and Twelfth Night of 1663-1664 gives Gregory ample opportunity to…
Frenchman’s Creek
Society in Restoration London frustrates and bores Lady Dona St. Columb. In an effort to escape, she takes her…
Fire At Midnight
Rachael Penrose has been confined to Bedlam by her wicked uncle Victor, who frames her in order to steal her…
The Queen’s Devotion
The Queen’s Devotion, a novel in Plaidy’s Queens of England series, is a reprint of the previously published William’s Wife,…
The Merry Monarch’s Wife
The Merry Monarch’s Wife is the re-release of Jean Plaidy’s 1991 biographical novel (originally titled The Pleasures of Love) about…
Conceit
The Great Fire of London is the framing device for Mary Novik’s insightful portrait of famous and obscure 17th-century Londoners.…
The Painted Lady
This is Restoration comedy, the eighth whodunit in the popular Redmayne series. Christopher Redmayne, the young architect, is making his…
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…
Devil Water
Through a youthful misalliance, Charles Radcliffe, brother to the Earl of Derwentwater, is forced to marry a pregnant Northumbrian lass.…
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