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The Saint

By Madeline Hunter - Published 2003

Genres:

Vergil Duclairc is the frustrated guardian of Bianca Kenwood, unwilling to follow the rules of English society. The young American dreams not of ...Read Review

Murder in the Pleasure Gardens

By Rosemary Stevens - Published 2003

Genres:

Mystery/Crime Romance

An engaging premise – Regency dandy Beau Brummell as amateur sleuth – appears slightly tarnished and tired in this latest installment of Stevens’ mystery series. ...Read Review

I’ll Tell You What: The Life of Elizabeth Inchbald

By Annibel Jenkins - Published 2003

Genres:

Biographical Fiction Inspirational

In this comprehensive biography of the late 18th-early 19th century literary luminary, Jenkins charts Inchbald’s transformation from married actress, to widowed playwright ...Read Review

Almost a Princess

By Elizabeth Thornton - Published 2003

Genres:

Romance

This Regency-era romance is thick with plot, flimsy in characterization and period flair, and sprinkled with anachronism. Case Devere, Lord Castleton, assists the ...Read Review

The Private Revolution of Geoffrey Frost

By J.E. Fender - Published 2002

Genres:

Adventure Nautical

Fans of Patrick O’Brian and C.S. Forester will find much to admire in this historical novel, set in 1776 on the coast ...Read Review

Beyond Sunrise

By Candace Proctor - Published 2003

Genres:

Adventure Romance

This romantic adventure set among tropical islands in the Coral Sea features Scots spinster India McKnight, intrepid travel authoress, and solitary Australian Jack ...Read Review

Oblivion’s Altar

By David Marion Wilkinson - Published 2002

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

This fictional biography of Ridge Walker, a mixed-blood Cherokee leader, unflinchingly depicts his Nation’s travails from the years of the American Revolution ...Read Review

Prairie Moon

By Maggie Osborne - Published 2002

Genres:

Romance Western

Civil War widow Della Ward has found a refuge of sorts on a Texas farm. Determined to eke out an existence, she gamely ...Read Review

Domino

By Ross King - Published 2002

Genres:

Literary

In his novel of masquerades and the blurring of gender characteristics, Ross King does an admirable job of recreating the idiom and the ...Read Review

Earrings: Baden-Baden, 1883

By Erich Bloch - Published 2002

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In attempting to create a novel around the experience his jeweller grandfather had in Baden-Baden, the author embellishes the historical account. He would ...Read Review