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The Moonlit Cage
In 1846, eleven-year-old Darya is on the brink of womanhood. Her dearest companion, her Circassian grandmother, regales Darya with tales…
We Shall Not Sleep
This is the fifth and final volume in Anne Perry’s series of World War I mysteries about the Reavley siblings:…
For Freedom
It is 1941 in Hong Kong, and the Japanese are gearing up for invasion. Four people, whose lives are intertwined,…
Last Stand at Majuba Hill
Inside John Wilcox is there a factual historian struggling to get out? In their fourth outing, Simon Fonthill and 352…
The Eagle’s Prophecy
The first US edition of the sixth novel in Scarrow’s epic series of the Roman army begins in Rome, in…
The Malice of Unnatural Death
Exeter, 1324. When the body of a local craftsman and a King’s Messenger are found murdered, Sir Baldwin de Furnshill,…
The Waxman Murders
In 1272 Henry III died with the new king, Edward I, in the Holy Land. Back in England there was…
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
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Iris Lockhart is a stubbornly independent young woman in modern Edinburgh. Her only real connections with the past are Kitty,…
A Christmas Secret
In December 1890, Clarice Corde accompanies her husband to the village of Cottisham, where he is to stand in while…
Symphony
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This stunning novel illuminates the passionate and stormy union of great Romantic composer, Hector Berlioz, and Anglo-Irish actress, Harriet Smithson,…
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