2009
Pryde and the Infernal Device
This novel continues the adventures of engineer, Matthew Pryde, which began in Pryde’s Rock (see HNR 39, Feb. 2007). In…
The Book of Unholy Mischief
In her highly anticipated debut, Elle Newmark faces a daunting task: produce a novel that lives up to the hype…
Signora Da Vinci
An imaginative speculation on the life of Caterina, Leonardo da Vinci’s mother, this first-person account begins in 1452, when a…
Dance With Wings
The book opens in 2006 in Florida with the character of Sarah, a successful career woman who has yet to…
The King’s Grace
Editors' choice
Grace Plantagenet is a bastard child of King Edward IV and, after his death, finds her way to the household…
Secret Bride
Damion Templeton, Viscount Woodhurst, is experiencing a problem all too common in Regency romance novels—to satisfy his dying grandmother he…
The Scent of Sake
Lebra’s debut is a biographical novel of Rie, the sole heir of the House of Omura, a sake-brewing family in…
The Baltic Gambit
The Royal Navy’s incorrigible Alan Lewrie has been outsmarting and outfighting Britain’s enemies while simultaneously practicing adultery on a Herculean…
Etta
Very little is known about Etta Place, the lover of the Sundance Kid. In this warm, deftly plotted novel, Gerald…
The Empty Mirror: A Viennese Mystery
A young country girl, model and lover of painter Gustav Klimt, is viciously murdered in 1898 Vienna. Klimt, the bête…
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