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The Queen’s Pleasure
This is the tale of the classic, often-imagined love triangle between Robert and Amy Dudley and Elizabeth Tudor. The story…
Imperial Scandal
In Brussels fresh from the intrigues of the Congress of Vienna, British agent Malcolm Rannoch and his wife Suzanne investigate…
The King’s Agent
No task is too difficult or dangerous for Battista della Palla, Florentine art dealer, handsome thief, and agent to François…
A Breath of Eyre
A Breath of Eyre, a young adult novel, opens with a sad sweet-sixteen party showing us Emma Townsend’s lack of…
The Seduction of Phaeton Black
Phaeton Black, paranormal investigator, operates in Victorian London. He is charming, clever, playful, ruthless when he needs to be —…
The Anatomist’s Apprentice
In 1781, when young Lord Crick dies of convulsions, his sister Lydia seeks the help of Dr. Silkstone to ascertain…
The Danger of Desire
If a reader is looking for a sexy romance that has more than a thin wash of 1799 realism in…
By the King’s Design
Annabelle Stirling (Belle) and her flighty, journal-writing brother Wesley own a draper’s shop in Yorkshire until a Luddite mob, unhappy…
Bridge of Scarlet Leaves
This wonderful World War II novel is written with a wealth of insight that, presumably, comes from the author’s own…
Mary and Elizabeth
When Henry VIII finally does the country a favour and burbles his way to a premature death, surrounded by the…
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