Berkley
The Lost Wife
Editors' choice
I struggled with a review that would do this gorgeous book justice. Richman takes what could be a sorrowful story…
Song of the Nile: A Novel of Cleopatra’s Daughter
As daughter of the legendary Queen Cleopatra, Cleopatra Selene has an impressive legacy behind her. In the second novel in…
Incognito
Usually creating suspense means making the reader wonder what will happen next, but in this story of New York circa…
Fire on Dark Water
Pirates, it seems, are in! The latest Pirates of the Caribbean film has just been released, a Pirates & Wenches…
The King’s Witch
Editors' choice
It’s hard these days to find a writer who doesn’t let you down. Who delivers, time and again, an exciting…
My Wife’s Affair
Peter, a financial writer and failed novelist, takes his wife and three sons from New Jersey to modern-day London…
Daughters of Rome
In 69 A.D., one of the most tumultuous years in the history of Rome, four women of the Cornelii family…
The Darling Strumpet
First-time author Bagwell’s presentation of a familiar and popular Restoration-era character brings to life the players, wits, wenches, and mistresses…
Lily of the Nile
After unwittingly helping her mother commit suicide, Cleopatra Selene, daughter of Egypt’s Queen Cleopatra and Mark Antony, is taken from…
Pale Rose of England
Sandra Worth’s Pale Rose of England focuses on one of British history’s more obscure heroines: Lady Catherine Gordon, the highborn…
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