19th Century
The Deepest Waters
This poignant novel, inspired by the true story of a steamship that sank in a hurricane off the Carolinas in…
Madame Bovary’s Daughter
Picking up in 1852, a year after the shattering end of Flaubert’s famous novel, young Berthe is burying her father.…
Conquest
The Battle of Trafalgar has been won, but even before Nelson’s body has been interred, Captain Thomas Kydd finds himself…
A Hundred Little Lies
The quiet late 19th-century American Western town of Bodey, Colorado, is the setting for this gay romance. Widower Jack Tulle’s…
The Devilish Montague
Blake Montague is the brilliant, but socially challenged, third son of a wealthy aristocratic family. He wants to buy his…
Death at Pullman
In this third mystery in the series, set in Chicago in 1894, we find Emily Cabot working at Hull House…
The Dark Enquiry
Editors' choice
After her eldest brother, Viscount Bellmont, secretly visits her husband, Lady Julia Brisbane ponders why since the two don’t particularly…
The Long Hitch
If you want to know about managing mule trains in the Old West, this is the book for you. In…
The House of Women
The House of Women is a poignant, very readable novel of life in Victorian England, which is set in Leeds…
Perhaps Tomorrow
Life has not been easy for Mattie Maguire. Since her husband died, she has struggled to keep the family’s business…
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