2005
On Her Way Home
In On Her Way Home, six years have passed since Frieda first moved to the Arizona-Sonora border. Now the mother…
The Reformer’s Apprentice: A Novel of Old San Francisco
Rochlin’s Desert Dwellers Trilogy begins with The Reformer’s Apprentice. Seventeen-year-old Frieda Levie has lived a charmed life north of Market…
Sea Dust
Sea Dust is the tale of Emma Quinlan, a woman living with a cruel husband. Her life is a sad…
Odyssey of an Etruscan Noblewoman
With a confident tone and sense of historical context, Burgundy takes us back to the sixth century BCE into an…
Last Seen in Massilia
This seventh installment of the Roma Sub Rosa series finds Gordianus the Finder bound for Massilia, an independent city-state under…
The Nonesuch
Georgette Heyer has been called the queen of Regency romance and rightly so. Her substantial research and attention to detail…
The Talisman Ring
Miss Thane, the sensible female in Georgette Heyer’s The Talisman Ring, sums up the problem for her rather thick brother,…
Cotillion
This story, by the woman credited with establishing the Regency romance subgenre, was originally published in 1953. Young Kitty Charing…
The Book of Loss
This novel is presented in diary format, making it reminiscent of historical works such as Sei Shonagon’s Pillow Book. Set…
Kiss Me, Annabel
The Essex sisters, beautiful Scottish orphans, are the toast of Regency London. The second sister, Annabel, intends to use the…
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