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Nefertiti: The Book of the Dead
Queen Nefertiti, wife of the heretic pharaoh Akhenaten, has disappeared right before the all-important Jubilee celebration. Theban detective Rai Rahotep…
Troy: Shield of Thunder
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Plain-faced Helen sits behind the walls of Troy, married to Paris but never to Menelaus; Andromache loves another but is…
Jane and the Barque of Frailty
Miss Jane Austen has left cozy Chawton for a month in London overseeing the printing of her first novel, Sense…
Mistress of the Art of Death
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Adelia, who has studied medicine in Salerno, Sicily, is selected by the King of Sicily to accompany Simon of Naples,…
The Alibi Club
It is the summer of 1940 in Paris, and the Germans are beginning their invasion. Sally King, an American model…
Queen of Swords
Sara Donati revives the sweeping, no-holds-barred historical sagas of the 1970s and 1980s in Queen of Swords, the fifth book…
In Distant Fields
This story follows a well-worn narrative path. The opening chapters are about a group of young people living the gilded…
The Assassins’ Gallery
It’s January 1, 1945. World War II is winding down, as the Allies have the upper hand. On a frigid,…
Act Of Love
On her first day at work as a cleaner at the Palace theatre, Swansea, Ella Burton meets Anthony Weatherby Nichols…
An Aristocratic Affair: The life of Georgiana’s Sister, Harriet Spencer, Countess of Bessborough
Harriet Spencer, Countess of Bessborough, had always been overshadowed by her more flamboyant sister, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire but she…
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