Gilded Age
The Katie Dugan Case
Widower detective David Drummond has returned to his home and job in Wilmington, Delaware in October 1892, following two months…
Where We Belong
Editors' choice
Sisters Rebecca and Flora Hawes are marvelously atypical Victorian women in 1890s Chicago. They have grown up independent and thirsty…
Out of the Ordinary
In New York City in 1883, sensible but orphaned Gertrude Cadwalader and fashion-blind shipping magnate Harrison Sinclair already like each…
The Heart of an Agent
Second in Lyons’ Adirondack Pinkerton series and set in 1892, the book begins with Lily Handland turning in her resignation…
The English Wife
Willig’s clever romantic mystery opens with the death of Bayard Van Duyvil, a handsome American aristocrat, and the disappearance of…
Fanny Newcomb and the Irish Channel Ripper
Fanny Newcomb has come to New Orleans in 1889 to teach business courses at Wisdom Hall Settlement House. She has…
A Daring Arrangement
Part of a series of romances set in the Gilded Age in New York City, Shupe’s story follows Lady Honora…
Behind the Scenes
In this first in the Apart from the Crowd series, set in 1883, Miss Permilia Griswold is a perpetual wallflower,…
The Husband Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York
This book follows the late 19th and early 20th-century ‘invasion’ of Europe by an influx of wealthy Americans. Between 1874…
Serafina and the Splintered Heart
According to the author, this third book in the Serafina series is the last. Set at the glamorous Biltmore Estate…
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