Victorian
The Winter Companion (Parish Orphans of Devon)
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1860. Unlike his three childhood companions, Neville Cross, the fourth of the Parish Orphans in this series, has little expectation of finding love and ...Read Review
A Map of the Damage
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Tobin has created a scintillating novel of smoke and mirrors set in the glass-loaded Mirrormakers Club in London. Two narratives weave around each ...Read Review
Deadly Curious
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Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime
July 1834. After receiving a desperate letter, Sophia Thompson rushes to her cousin Daphne’s side. One year prior, Daphne’s brother was murdered. ...Read Review
The Master’s New Governess (Harlequin Historical)
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1885. Employment prospects blighted by dismissal without references, governess Maud Wilmot goes in place of her recently married sister (also a governess) to a ...Read Review
The Figure in the Photograph
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The novel begins in Cuba at the end of the 19th century, during the war between America and Spain over the future of ...Read Review
Naked Truth: Or Equality, The Forbidden Fruit
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Hayes’ debut novel couldn’t have more captivating or exciting protagonists. Victoria Woodhull and her sister, Tennessee Claflin, led careers as spiritualists, aspiring ...Read Review
Brass Carriages and Glass Hearts
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Emmeline (Emme), an advocate for the rights of the Shifter community, is the newly elected spokeswoman for an upcoming summit meeting in Scotland. ...Read Review
The Woman in Red
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Historical fiction often allows writers and readers the opportunity to explore the lives of people whose names may be missing from history textbooks, ...Read Review
The Invention of Sophie Carter
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Identical red-headed twins Sophie and Mariah arrive in London in 1851, the year of the Great Exhibition. This is only important to Sophie, a ...Read Review
Proust’s Duchess: How Three Celebrated Women Captured the Imagination of Fin-de-Siècle Paris
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This delightful, richly detailed, and wonderfully sympathetic biography looks at the lives of three French mondaines – women of taste, influence, and intellect – who ...Read Review