Luan Gaines

The Queen’s Dollmaker

By Christine Trent - Published 2009

Genres:

Romance

Trent marries the story of a talented dollmaker to the fate of the French queen, Marie Antoinette, who will eventually lose her head ...Read Review

The Edge of Eden

By Helen Benedict - Published 2009

Genres:

Saga

The Edge of Eden is rich in contrasts: the Seychelles Islands and fog-shrouded London; well-to-do British colonists and the poverty of natives; religious ...Read Review

The Murdered House

By Pierre Magnan - Published 2003Published 2009

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

This dense novel bears the weight of tragedy, from the shocking murder of a family in remote upper Provence, France in 1896 to the ...Read Review

What Remains of Heaven

By C.S. Harris - Published 2009

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Regency London is stunned by the murder of the bishop, Sir Francis Prescott. Responding to the request of his aunt and the Archbishop ...Read Review

A Christmas Promise

By Anne Perry - Published 2009

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

This Dickensian tale begins in 1895 London, a poor young girl of eight anxiously searching for Charlie, her uncle’s donkey. Uncle Alf, a ...Read Review

The Tudor Rose

By Margaret Campbell Barnes - Published 2009

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

“It is strange how many want to sit in the king’s seat even though it’s so uncomfortable.” From the mouths of ...Read Review

Early’s Fall

By Jerry Peterson - Published 2009

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Sheriff James Early is an old-fashioned lawman in late 1940s Kansas confronted with a gruesome murder and a daylight bank robbery that leads ...Read Review

The Glassblower of Murano

By Marina Fiorato - Published 2008Published 2009

Genres:

In a tale of genius and tragedy, Leonora Manin is inspired to travel to Murano, Italy, from Hampstead, England, the home of her 17...Read Review

Sacred Hearts

By Sarah Dunant - Published 2009

Genres:

Literary

In Renaissance Italy the Council of Trent moves to purge convent life of the contamination of the outside world, the Counter-Reformation imposing further ...Read Review

The Ingenious Edgar Jones

By Elizabeth Garner - Published 2008Published 2009

Genres:

Literary

Picture this: A meteorite spills a shower of stars into the sky one cold February night in 1847 Oxford, England. That same night, Edgar ...Read Review