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The Forsaken by Irina Shapiro
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratings2014. When skeletal remains are unearthed at her husband’s ancestral home, Dr. Quinn Allenby must use her psychic gift to discover what led to Gabe's ancestor's secret burial in an unmarked grave... -
Every Hour Until Then by Gabrielle Meyer
Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsGifted with the ability to time-cross between Victorian-era London and World War II Washington, DC, Kathryn faces two lives fraught with danger. In 1938 amid the looming shadow of war, Kathryn is invited to the London Museum as a guest curator to create a groundbreaking exhibit on Jack the Ripper and his reign of terror...Categorized as:
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The Q by Beth Brower
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCAN QUINCY ST. CLAIRE KEEP THE Q?A dying man with a schemeA charming smuggler one step ahead of the lawA former foundling with a mangled handA family of kingmakersA printing tycoonA constable on the trail of justiceAn idealistic solicitor with secrets of his own&The genius at the center of it all, Quincy St...Categorized as:
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The Stalking Jack the Ripper Collection: Books 1-4 by Kerri Maniscalco
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDevour the complete #1 New York Times bestselling Stalking Jack the Ripper series: Stalking Jack the Ripper, Hunting Prince Dracula, Escaping from Houdini, Capturing the Devil, and a free novella are included in this thrilling new collection!Between social teas and silk dress fittings, Audrey Rose Wadsworth leads a secret life studying corpses in the gruesome practice of forensic medicine...Categorized as:
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Remember, Remember by Anna Elliott, Charles Veley
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA lovely American actress awakens in London on a cold morning in 1897 - lying face down on the concrete pavement outside the British Museum. She has no memories. She does not even know who she is, although she has a vague recollection of the name Sherlock Holmes. What she believes is that she has may have just killed someone, and that someone is definitely trying to kill her...Categorized as:
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Through Each Tomorrow by Gabrielle Meyer
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn 1883, Charles Hollingsworth is a poor farmer desperate to secure financial stability for his mother and sister, as he is unsure which of his time-crossing paths he will choose on his twenty-fifth birthday. Posing as the Earl of Norfolk, he enters the opulent circles of Newport's elite to assist a fellow time-crossing friend, Drew...Categorized as:
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If He's Daring by Hannah Howell
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn a dazzling new novel in the Wherlocke family saga, New York Times bestselling author Hannah Howell creates an unforgettable story of intrigue, jeopardy, and desire. . .Stealing a stranger's carriage is the second most reckless thing Lady Catrin Gryffin de Warrene has ever done. The first is succumbing to her powerful attraction to the carriage's owner... -
Child of the Phoenix by Barbara Erskine
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBorn in a burning castle in 1218, Princess Eleyne is brought up to support the Celtic cause against the English. She is taught to worship the old gods and to "scry" into the future and the past. Eleyne's second sight, however, involves her in the destinies of England, Scotland and Wales... -
Hunting Prince Dracula by Kerri Maniscalco
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 62 ratingsFollowing the grief and horror of her discovery of Jack the Ripper's true identity, Audrey Rose Wadsworth has no choice but to flee London and its memories. Together with the arrogant yet charming Thomas Cresswell, she journeys to the dark heart of Romania, home to one of Europe's best schools of forensic medicine..Categorized as:
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Inferno by Kat Ross
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the last volume of the Fourth Talisman series, the worlds of the living and the dead collide in a final confrontation that will leave Nocturne and Solis forever changed....Three talismans adrift.Two mad kings. One poisonous crown.As dark forces gather at the Rock of Ariamazes in Samarqand, Nazafareen discovers that there are worse places than the afterlife... -
Asperfell by Jamie Thomas
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOnly the darkest and most dangerous of Mages are sentenced to pass through the gate to Asperfell. Not one has ever returned.Never did Briony dream she might set foot in the otherworldly prison of Asperfell. She was, after all, neither Mage nor criminal...Categorized as:
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Haunted Ground by Irina Shapiro
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen American Lexi Maxwell buys a derelict mansion in a quaint English village and sets about turning it into a manor-house hotel, it's a dream come true... -
If He's Dangerous by Hannah Howell
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratings"New York Times" bestseller Hannah Howell's extraordinary Wherlocke family returns with the story of a passion that will heed no resistance, no matter how deadly...When Lorelei Sundun first finds Sir Argus Wherlocke in her garden, she's never heard of the mysterious Wherlocke clan-or their otherworldly abilities... -
When Twilight Burns by Colleen Gleason
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAfter narrowly escaping from Rome, Lady Victoria Gardella returns to London, where not even sunrise can stop a vampire's carnage...Ruining Victoria's homecoming, a vampire stalks the streets of London--during the daylight. Not only is Victoria unable to detect the vampire with her heightened senses, but she's being framed as the prime suspect behind the killings...Categorized as:
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The Apothecary Diaries (Light Novel): Volume 4 by Natsu Hyuuga
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThough her main duty is still looking after Consort Gyokuyou, Maomao finds time to help her friends and acquaintances in the rear palace, including Xiaolan, who will need a job after her term of service ends, and Consort Lishu, who’s convinced she’s seen a ghost! When complications arise with Gyokuyou’s pregnancy, however, Maomao knows she’s not skilled enough to handle a situation that could... -
Passage of Shadows by Chasity Bowlin
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDon’t miss the exciting conclusion to The Victorian Gothic Collection… The plots, schemes and machinations at Cysgod Lys, from both mortal and immortal sources, are coming to a head...Categorized as:
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Refuge for Masterminds by Kathleen Baldwin
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt’s 1814. Napoleon has escaped his imprisonment on Elba. Britain is at war on four fronts. And at Stranje House, a School for Unusual Girls, five young ladies are secretly being trained for a world of spies, diplomacy, and war…Napoleon’s invasion of England is underway and someone at Stranje House is sneaking information to his spies. Lady Jane Moore is determined to find out who it is... -
Primrose and the Dreadful Duke: A Baleful Godmother Novel by Emily Larkin
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn irrepressible duke, a bookish spinster, a devious murderer … Regency house parties have never been so hazardous!Oliver Dasenby is the most infuriating man Primrose Garland has ever known. He may be her brother’s best friend, but he has an atrocious sense of humor. Eight years in the cavalry hasn’t taught him solemnity, nor has the unexpected inheritance of a dukedom...Categorized as:
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Shard of Glass: A Cinderella Romance by Emily Deady
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOnce she was a noblewoman.Now she is a palace servant.Ashlin never pictured herself scrubbing floors. But with the family savings depleted and her stepmother crippled by grief, Ashlin selflessly takes a job at the royal palace. She can pursue her dreams of becoming a seamstress someday in the future...Categorized as:
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John Eyre: A Tale of Darkness and Shadow by Mimi Matthews
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom USA Today bestselling author Mimi Matthews comes a supernatural Victorian gothic retelling of Charlotte Brontë's timeless classic.Yorkshire, 1843. When disgraced former schoolmaster John Eyre arrives at Thornfield Hall to take up a position as tutor to two peculiar young boys, he enters a world unlike any he’s ever known... -
How to Climb a Lady's Tower by Bree Wolf
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn untamed lady...A stranger in the night...And a match made in heaven. Nothing but a pawn in her uncle’s game for title and station, Miss Rebecca Hawkins is forced to spend her days in the company of the most boring lord to ever cross her path, dreading the day he will finally work up the courage to ask for her hand. Her dreams of adventure are crushed by the duty laid upon her shoulders...Categorized as:
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Shadow Knights by Jennifer Anne Davis
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAs a member of the Knights of the Realm, Reid swore an oath to protect her king only to discover he harbors a traitorous agenda.Being a woman raised in a man’s world, Reid thought becoming a Knight would give her purpose and strength. So far, it has done nothing but give her trouble...Categorized as:
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The Secrets of Hawthorn Place by Jenni Keer
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTwo houses, hundreds of miles apart...yet connected always.When life throws Molly Butterfield a curveball, she decides to spend some time with her recently widowed granddad, Wally, at Hawthorn Place, his quirky Victorian house on the Dorset coast...Categorized as:
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Highland Sinner by Hannah Howell
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn her captivating new novel, " New York Times " bestselling author Hannah Howell returns to the stark majesty of medieval Scotland and the realm of the unforgettable Murray clan, as a seductive knight and a mysterious young woman unite to stop a murderous enemy. . . Sir Tormand Murray is certainly a rogue, but a callous killer? Never... -
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The Bachelor and the Bride by Sarah M. Eden
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLondon, 1866Dr. Barnabus Milligan has always felt called to help people, whether that means setting a broken bone or rescuing the impoverished women of London from their desperate lives on the streets as part of his work with the Dread Penny Society.Three years ago, he helped rescue Gemma Kincaid by secretly marrying her to protect her from her family of notorious grave robbers...Categorized as:
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The Highwayman of Tanglewood by Marcia Lynn McClure
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA chambermaid in the house of Tremeshton, Faris Shayhan well knew torment, despair and trepidation. To Faris it seemed the future stretched long and desolate before her--bleak and as dark as a lonesome midnight path. Still, the moon oft casts hopeful luminosity to light one's way...Categorized as:
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The Beautiful Pretender by Melanie Dickerson
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsWhat happens when a margrave realizes he’s fallen in love with a servant?The Margrave of Thornbeck has to find a bride, fast. He invites ten noble-born ladies from around the country to be his guests at Thornbeck Castle for two weeks, a time to test these ladies and reveal their true character...Categorized as:
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The Marriage Method by Mimi Matthews
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Academy always comes first . . . which makes marriage to its most formidable adversary an exceedingly inconvenient arrangement.Well removed from London’s more curious eyes, the Benevolent Academy for the Betterment of Young Ladies strives toward one clandestine to distract, disrupt, and discredit men in power who would seek to harm the advancement of women—by appropriate means, of course... -
Man of Shadow and Mist by Michelle Griep
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratings“The world seems full of good men—even if there are monsters in it.”–Bram Stoker, Dracula England, 1890 Vampires are alive and well in North Yorkshire, leastwise in the minds of the uneducated. Librarian Rosa Edwards intends to drive a stake through the heart of such superstitions. But gossip flies when the mysterious Sir James Morgan returns to his shadowy manor. The townsfolk say he is cursed...Categorized as:
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Disturbing the Dead by Kelley Armstrong
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsDisturbing the Dead is the latest in a unique series with one foot in the 1890s and the other in the present day. The A Rip Through Time crime novels are a genre-blending, atmospheric romp from New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong.Victorian Scotland is becoming less strange to modern-day homicide detective Mallory Atkinson...Categorized as:
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His Improper Lady by Candace Camp
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSome family secrets were never meant to be disturbed. It’s been a year since Tom Quick became a partner at the detective agency Moreland & Quick, which he operates with his lifelong friend Constantine Moreland. When he catches an intruder breaking in to the agency, obviously looking for something, it’s clear that a new case is afoot...Categorized as:
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The Hummingbird Heart by A.G. Howard
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSet 19 years after The Architect of Song.Shortly after escaping a circus tragedy, young Italian orphan, Willow Antoniette, seeks refuge at The Manor of Diversions—a holiday resort in England born of a ghost story. For eleven years, she’s raised alongside the children of the resort’s owners: Julian, his twin brother, Nick, and their younger sister Emilia... -
Harbor for the Nightingale by Kathleen Baldwin
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA girl’s spy school amid Jane Austen’s high society . . .London, 1814. Emperor Napoleon has forced Europe to its knees, and now he plots to seize control of Britain. Miss Maya Barrington, one of Miss Stranje’s unusual girls, must act as a double agent and rely upon her uncanny gift of persuasion to stop Napoleon.She brought the mystery of India with her . . .Maya is from two different worlds...Categorized as:
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A Death at the Dionysus Club by Melissa Scott, Amy Griswold
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the sequel to Lambda Literary Award-winning Death by Silver, metaphysician Ned Mathey and private detective Julian Lynes again challenge magical and murderous threats in a Victorian London not quite the city in our history books. Mathey is recruited by Scotland Yard to assist the new Metaphysical Crimes Squad in the case of a literally heartless corpse...Categorized as:
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Curse of the Gypsy (Lady Anne Addison Mysteries) by Victoria Hamilton
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFans of the Lady Julia Grey Mysteries will love these Georgian historical mysteries. Finally home in Kent after her recent adventures in Yorkshire and Cornwall, Lady Anne Addison is shocked to spy her erstwhile suitor, the Marquess of Darkefell, skulking around the gypsy camps near her property...Categorized as:
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Veil of Shadows by Chasity Bowlin
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNewly married, Adelaide Llewellyn, is struggling to find her place in her distant husband's life and in his ancestral home of Cysgod Lys. Surrounded by bitter enemies, lies and the dark secrets that have haunted his family for generations, there is much to be feared. But the danger she faces is as much from the living as the dead...Categorized as:
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Ghost Girl by C.J. Archer
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCara Moreau is dying from a supernatural curse. Her only chance of survival lies with the warrior, an enigmatic man who comes from a realm "in between." Quin St. Clair lived hundreds of years ago, but now exists solely to protect the world he once called home. That's all he will tell Cara, the woman he must keep alive by remaining close to her. Very close... -
Trusting Miss Trentham by Emily Larkin, Rosalyn Landor
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsShe's more than just an heiress... Letitia Trentham is noteworthy for three reasons. One, she’s extremely wealthy. Two, she can distinguish truth from lies. Three, she’s refused every man who’s ever proposed to her.Until Letty receives a proposal she can’t turn down.Icarus Reid barely survived the Battle of Vimeiro. He lives for one thing—to find the man who betrayed him to the French...Categorized as:
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Merlin's Keep by Madeleine Brent
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTHEY CALLED HER JANI BUT SHE ONCE HAD ANOTHER NAME. AND A PAST SHE NEVER KNEW.From far-off Tibet to England's rich countryside, this marvelously enchanting novel unfolds the incredible saga of a beautiful, young half-caste whose strange destiny pulls her into a world of love and terror--a worlds a mysterious power moves slowly toward her, threatening her sanity...and her life... -
The Kidnapper's Accomplice by C.J. Archer
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTo investigate the source of gossip about Cyclops, Willie does the unthinkable – she dons a dress. However her plan goes awry when she’s kidnapped by a disgruntled magician with the power to detonate gunpowder at will. The magician forces India and Matt to race all over London in the hunt for her before the bombs go off...Categorized as:
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The Imposter's Inheritance by C.J. Archer
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA sordid scandal rocks the Glass household and threatens to ruin Matt's family unless he can suppress it. But after word gets out, and a rare magical coronet is stolen, he and India find themselves scrambling to recover the heirloom and suppress the gossip before reputations are ruined...Categorized as:
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If He's Wicked by Hannah Howell
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsShe Saves His Life...For Chloe Wherlocke, it all begins with a vision - a glimpse into the future that foretells a terrible plot against Lord Julian Kenwood and his newborn son. Chloe's psychic gift allows her to save the child from certain death, but the earl remains in grave peril...But When He Steals Her Heart..Categorized as:
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The Haunting of a Duke by Chasity Bowlin
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsAn alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here.A steamy Regency romance full of spicy thrills and spooky chills. Welcome to Briarwood Park, an English manor house filled with spirits, its halls stalked by a bloodthirsty madman, and a brooding duke accused of the most wicked crime of all... murdering his late wife...Categorized as:
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A Whisper of Death by Darcy Burke
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAfter being viciously stabbed and left for dead, Hadrian Becket, Earl of Ravenhurst struggles back to health only to discover he is cursed with a vexing ability to see visions he can’t explain. Terrified he may be going mad, he must keep the disturbing skill secret. But when it proves helpful in tracking his would-be killer, he has no choice but to embrace the newfound power...Categorized as:
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The Swordmaster's Daughter by Terri Green
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhitefriars London 1604When her father bans her from fighting after an unfortunate incident with a stray sword, Lucinda Evans is determined to continue fencing. She recruits a small group of women with an urgent need to defend themselves, training them in secret as the Sisters of the Sword...Categorized as:
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Sisters of Sword and Song by Rebecca Ross
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsFrom the author of The Queen’s Rising comes a thrilling YA stand-alone fantasy about the unbreakable bond between sisters. Perfect for fans of Ember in the Ashes, Sky in the Deep, and Court of Fives.After eight long years, Evadne will finally be reunited with her older sister, Halcyon, who has been proudly serving in the queen’s army...Categorized as:
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The Third Circle by Amanda Quick, Jayne Ann Krentz
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsCalled “supremely addictive” by Booklist, the Arcane Society novels, written under both the Amanda Quick and Jayne Ann Krentz names, have pulled readers into a saga filled with steamy romance, drama, and dark intrigue. Her newest novel promises to mesmerize as well...Categorized as:
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Mark of Royalty by Jennifer K. Clark, Stephonie K. Williams
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAt a time when royal infants are marked at birth, a royal advisor makes a terrible misstep — and an infant princess must be secreted away to save her life. Named Sarah by Miranda, the woman who agrees to raise the child as her own, the girl is unaware of her royal heritage — even though Miranda has done all she can to pair Sarah with the king's nephew, Lord Chad...Categorized as:
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The Last Daughter of York by Nicola Cornick
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn the winter of 1483, Francis Lovell is Richard III’s Lord Chamberlain and confidante, but the threat of Henry Tudor’s rebels has the king entrusting to Francis and his wife, Anne, his most crucial mission: protecting the young Richard of York, his brother’s surviving son and a threat to Henry’s claims to the throne... -
A Golden Grave by Erin Lindsey
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe follow-up to Murder on Millionaires' Row, Erin Lindsey's second historical mystery follows Rose Gallagher as she tracks a killer with shocking abilities through Gilded Age Manhattan. Rose Gallagher always dreamed of finding adventure, so her new life as a freshly-minted Pinkerton agent ought to be everything she ever wanted...Categorized as:
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