Avon
A Night to Surrender
In 1813, Susanna Finch is the only child of a world-renowned inventor of British weaponry. Susannah has made the village…
There’s Always Tomorrow
There’s Always Tomorrow is an excellent, very readable first novel from Pam Weaver which is set in Worthing, just after…
The Bride Wore Scarlet
In the opening of the novel, it is London, 1837. Anais de Rohan is at the knee of her great-grandmother,…
The September Queen
Jane Lane, daughter of an affluent Royalist family during Cromwell’s Commonwealth, longed for adventure over respectable marriage. This she found…
Mary and Elizabeth
When Henry VIII finally does the country a favour and burbles his way to a premature death, surrounded by the…
The Tudor Throne
Beginning with the two sisters sitting at King Henry VIII’s deathbed, Purdy writes a pas de deux between the maturing…
Secret of the Sands
In 1833, Lieutenant James Wellsted is an officer in the British Navy surveying the coast of the Arabian Peninsula as…
Tatiana and Alexander: A Love Story
Eighteen-year-old Tatiana has escaped from the Soviet Union, but the fate of her husband, Alexander, is unknown. Alexander, born in…
The Gentleman Poet: A Novel of Love, Danger, and Shakespeare’s The Tempest
After a violent storm separates their battered ship from a fleet carrying settlers and provisions to Jamestown Colony, the one…
Dracula, My Love: The Secret Journals of Mina Harker
James explores the story of Dracula, in 1890 England and Transylvania, from the viewpoint of Mina Harker, bringing an old…
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