2013
The Emperor of All Things
1758, London. Daniel Quare, bastard, and Journeyman of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers, is on a mission. His instructions are…
I Will Have Vengeance: The Winter of Commissario Ricciardi
Luigi Alfredo Ricciardi is the dapper commissario of police in Naples, Italy. It is March of 1931 when he is…
River of Dust
In northwestern China in 1910, the Reverend and his wife, Grace, both missionaries, are en route to a new summer…
The Morning Star
Katerina Alexandrovna is the most powerful necromancer in Russia, but she’d rather be studying medicine. Unfortunately, the tsar has banned…
A Dual Inheritance
Ed Cantrowitz is hot for the girls and doesn’t quite know how to handle them beyond the chase and sex.…
The Ambassador’s Daughter
Margot Rosenthal spent the majority of the war in England with her father, a professor. Now her father is one…
The Lass Wore Black
In 1862, following a dinner party in London, the life of Catriona, a glamorous socialite, takes a turn for the…
The Orpheus Descent
At first sight this is a conspiracy novel of a type familiar over the last ten years. An archaeologist/researcher-of-some-sort discovers…
Running Against the Tide
It is 1800, and Ginny Marcombe is the son her father, Josiah, never had. She works with him in his…
Roses Have Thorns
Elizabeth I is on the throne, and we see her from the point of view of young Elin von Snakenborg,…
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