Ballantine
The German Bride
It’s Berlin, 1865, and Eva Frank, the romantic daughter of a Jewish banker, falls in love with a handsome painter…
Gentlemen of the Road
Pulitzer Prize-winning Michael Chabon has “gone in search of a little adventure” in this impressive genre-twisting tale set along the…
The Lady Elizabeth
Editors' choice
How does a Princess Elizabeth become a Lady Elizabeth within a matter of days, the four-year-old wants to know? Her…
Troy: Fall of Kings
David Gemmell’s untimely death in 2006 robbed the world of a master storyteller. His wife’s involvement in the Troy trilogy…
A Christmas Beginning
Superintendent Runcorn of the Metropolitan Police has come to Anglesey to escape the loneliness of the Christmas season and his…
Her Secret Fantasy
This romance begins in 1818 at the funeral for Lily Balfour’s grandfather, Viscount Balfour. Lily’s inheritance, the dilapidated Balfour Manor,…
The Chrysalis
Attorney Mara Coyne’s firm is hired by art-auction-house Beazley’s to defend the ownership of The Chrysalis, a 17th-century Dutch painting.…
The Bone Garden
This story begins in present-day Boston, where Julia Hamill is newly divorced. While working in the overgrown garden of her…
Jane Boleyn: The True Story of the Infamous Lady Rochford
I’ve always been fascinated by the shadowy Jane Boleyn, a court intriguer who went so far as to provide the…
The Last Nightingale
Think film noir with a twist of Stephen King and you have Anthony Flacco’s tale of a twelve-year-old boy’s hellish…
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