Morrow
Portrait of an Unknown Woman
Editors' choice
In this, journalist Vanora Bennett’s first novel, Meg Giggs, adopted daughter of Sir Thomas More, springs brilliantly to life. Surrounded…
A Poisoned Season
Garden parties, jewel thefts, romance, and murder—Lady Emily Ashton takes the 1889 London season in her stride. Young, lovely, and…
Pilate’s Wife
Young Claudia, distant relative of the emperor Tiberius and eventual wife of Pontius Pilate, is a dreamer prone to prophetic…
Kept: A Victorian Mystery
A young landowner is thrown from his horse and killed. His widow, already unbalanced from the loss of their child,…
Dawn of Empire
Editors' choice
On the eastern bank of the Tigris five thousand years ago, Orak grew into a rich and powerful village, settled…
The Lightning Rule
In Newark, 1967, Detective Martin Emmett has been consigned to the basement of his precinct, filing records as punishment for…
The Witchery
In the final book in James Reese’s Herculine trilogy, the title character roams the Florida territories, the Keys and Havana,…
The Taste of Innocence
In 1833, Charles Morwellan, 8th Earl of Meredith, returns home resigned to marry; it is time and it will please…
Back To Wando Passo
Ransom Hill is desperately hopeful that his problems will work out because he has made the decision to turn over…
Smonk
It’s 1911 in Alabama. The citizens of the small town of Old Texas have had enough of E.O. Smonk, a…
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