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Love, Madness, and Scandal: The Life of Frances Coke Villiers, Viscountess Purbeck
This is that rare thing—a learned biography, which entertains and impresses. Love, Madness, and Scandal achieves for fans of Stuart-era…
The Body in the Ice
It is an exceptionally cold winter at St Mary in the Marsh on Romney Marsh. On Christmas Eve 1796 a body is discovered encased…
Casanova’s Secret Wife
Barbara Lynn-Davis’ debut novel is a delicious delight, a feast for the senses. Setting her work in romantic Venice, and…
The Highland Commander
Magdalen, the illegitimate daughter of a Scottish earl, runs a hospital for women ravaged by red-coated Dragoons infesting northern Scotland…
The Dolocher
1756, English-ruled Ireland, and its largest city, Dublin, is experiencing its own version of the murderous rampage of London’s Jack…
The Lioness of Morocco
In 1835, Sibylla is rescued from a near-drowning accident at the London docks by Benjamin, a conniving clerk in her…
The Hidden Thread
Anna Butterfield leaves her father’s Suffolk parsonage for the home of her uncle, a wealthy mercer in Spitalfields, the centre…
The Hidden Thread
This quiet novel centers on a gentle romance set against the backdrop of the silk industry in 1760s London. Inspired by the unknown early…
Fool Me Twice
Driven by desperate financial circumstances, Caro Worth lives a double life, as a respectable young woman of Georgian society by…
An Uncommon Courtship
1796: Lord Trent Hawthorne and Lady Adelaide Bell are thrown together by fate, and the honorable Trent feels he must…
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