Mary K. Bird-Guilliams
Tom Bedlam
The author has Charles Dickens among his favorite authors, but Tom Bedlam reminds me more of Henry Fielding, Tobias Smollett,…
Magic Man
Magic Man is the finale for a series of books which began with Merely Magic in 2000. All take place…
Whispers Of The Night
For all fans of the old Gothic novel, this is an author to consider: Lydia Joyce creates a brooding atmosphere…
Ticket To Tomorrow
This is Book One of a gentle new series set at the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893. The White City…
Never Seduce a Scoundrel
The novel opens at an English Regency ball, where two young ladies are bored with the same faces and…
The Night Angel
This is the fourth book in the Heirs to Acadia series, taking place in pre-Civil War America. The two main…
The Mantua Maker’s Beau
Clementina, a delightfully resilient, resourceful and realistic orphan who has made the most of her good fortune and forswears…
The Fatal Fashione
The continued popularity of Elizabethan England as a topic of interest and an attractive setting for novels is thoroughly substantiated…
The Lightning Keeper
The Lightning Keeper is the continuation of an earlier novel by Lawrence, Montenegro, which explains why the background of the…
Breath and Bones
This second novel by Ms. Cokal, following Mirabilis in 2002, has similarities to the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Travels of…
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