Bantam
The Anatomy of Deception
Editors' choice
Ephraim Carroll is a young physician in late 19th-century Philadelphia who counts himself lucky to be in the orbit of…
The Bone Garden
This story begins in present-day Boston, where Julia Hamill is newly divorced. While working in the overgrown garden of her…
Lessons of Desire
Phaedra Blair is the beautiful, eccentric heroine of this Regency romp. The illegitimate offspring of a woman whose philosophy espoused…
The Pleasure Trap
From childhood, Eve Dearing has been haunted by her mother’s death. She and her mother shared the gift of “sight,”…
Companions of Paradise
Continuing the saga of A Singular Hostage and A Beggar at the Gate, Englishwoman Mariana Givens has been separated from…
The White Marriage
Sunny Chantry is on the verge of adulthood when she crosses paths with the handsome and glamorous socialite, Gray Wyndham.…
The Terror
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In 1845, two ships of the Royal Navy, the HMS Terror and the HMS Erebus, led by Sir John Franklin,…
Man of War
In 1827 the Battle of Trafalgar is twenty years in the past and the everlasting peace in Europe, which was…
Nobody’s Child
Valerie Wood is very good at what she does, with a specific style which permeates all her books. Nobody’s Child…
Patriot Hearts: A Novel of the Founding Mothers
Patriot Hearts tells the stories of four women: Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Sally Hemings, and Dolley Madison. It opens in…
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