 | Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: September 1, 2008| Series: Oxford World's Classics Roxana (1724), Defoe's last and darkest novel, is the autobiography of a woman who has traded her virtue, at first for survival, and then for fame and fortune.Its narrator tells the story of her own "wicked" life as the mistress of rich and powerful men. Endowed with many seductive skills, she is herself seduced:by money, by dreams of rank, and by the illusion that she can escape her own past.This edition uses the rare first edition text, with a new Introduction, detailed Notes, textual history and a map of contemporary Lon...
 |  | Confessions from an Arranged Marriage (Avon Romance)
Release Date: March 27, 2012| Series: Avon Romance They couldn't be more different—but there's one thing they agree on . . . In London after a two-year exile, Lord Blakeney plans to cut a swathe through the bedchambers of the demimonde. Marriage is not on his agenda, especially to an annoying chit like Minerva Montrose, with her superior attitude and a tendency to get into trouble. And certainly the last man Minerva wants is Blake, a careless wastrel without a thought in his handsome head.The lights and din of her debutante ball set Minerva's teeth on edge. Surely a moment's rest coul...
|  | The Novice's Tale (Sister Frevisse Medieval Mysteries)
Release Date: November 1, 1993| Series: A Dame Frevisse Mystery UNHOLY PASSIONS AND DEMONIC DEATHS...Inthe fair autumn of Our Lord's grace 1431, the nuns of England's St. Frideswide's prepare for the simply ceremonies in which the saintly novice Thomasine will take her holy vows. But their quiet lives of beauty and prayer are thrown into chaos by the merciless arrival of LadyErmentrude Fenner and her retinue of lusty men, sinful women, and baying hounds. The hard-drinking dowager even keeps a pet monkey for heramusement. She demands wine, a feast...And her niece, the angelic Thomasine.Thelad...
|  | A Death in Vienna: A Novel (Mortalis)
Release Date: May 8, 2007| Series: Mortalis In 1902, elegant Vienna is the city of the new century, the center of discoveries in everything from the writing of music to the workings of the human mind. But now a brutal homicide has stunned its citizens and appears to have bridged the gap between science and the supernatural. Two very different sleuths from opposite ends of the spectrum will need to combine their talents to solve the boggling crime: Detective Oskar Rheinhardt, who is on the cutting edge of modern police work, and his friend Dr. Max Liebermann, a follower of Sigmund Freud and a...
|  | The Forgotten Legion
Release Date: March 3, 2009Set in the late Roman Republic, in the first century B.C.E., The Forgotten Legion is a tale of the greatest empire of the ancient world from the perspective of those on the lowest rungs of its society. Romulus and Fabiola are twins, born into slavery to a enslaved mother who is much beloved by them, and much abused by their owner. At 13 years old, they and their mother are sold: Romulus to gladiator school, Fabiola into prostitution, where she will catch the eye of one of the most powerful men in Rome, and their mother into obscurity and death in th...
|  | Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree (Vol. 1)(The Islam Quintet)
Publication Date: July 1, 1993| Series: The Islam Quintet "An enthralling story, unraveled with thrift and verve. Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree is quizzical as well as honest, informative as well as enjoyable, real history as well as fiction ... a book to be relished and devoured."—The Independent Tariq Ali tells us the story of the aftermath of the fall of Granada bynarrating a family sage of those who tried to survive after the collapseof their world. Ali is particularly deft at evoking what life must have beenlike for those doomed inhabitants, besieged on all sides by intolerantC...
|  | The Foundling
Release Date: September 1, 2009"What happens when a many-titled Duke decides to play hookey from his suffociaating dignity..."—Kirkus Reviews The Duke of Sale is out to prove himself The shy, young Duke of Sale has never known his parents. Instead, his Grace Adolphus Gillespie Vernon Ware, Gilly for short, has endured twenty-four years of rigorous mollycoddling from his uncle and valet. But his natural diffidence conceals a rebellious spirit. A mysterious beauty provides the perfect opportunity When Gilly hears of Belinda, the beautiful foundling who appears to be blackmailing his cou...
|  | Sylvester: or The Wicked Uncle
Release Date: April 1, 2011"Reading Georgette Heyer is the next best thing to reading Jane Austen." -Publishers Weekly Rank, wealth, and elegance are no match for a young lady who writes novels...Sylvester, Duke of Salford, has exacting requirements for a bride. Then he meets Phoebe Marlow, a young lady with literary aspirations, and suddenly life becomes very complicated. She meets none of his criteria, and even worse, she has written a novel that is sweeping through the ton and causing all kinds of gossip... and he's the main character! What Readers Say:"A truly brilliant Heyer with an...
|  | A Tale of Two Cities (Ignatius Critical Editions)
Publication Date: June 15, 2012| Series: Ignatius Critical Editions In this exciting novel set during the French Revolution, Charles Dickens expresses sympathy for the downtrodden poor and their outrage at the self-indulgent aristocracy. But Dickens is no friend of the vengeful mob that storms the Bastille and cheers the guillotine. As with all of his stories, his passion is for the unforgettable and unrepeatable individuals he creates. The sorrows of the suffering masses, their demands for justice, and the indiscriminate fury they unleash take flesh in Madame Defarge, while the self-sacrifi...
|  | The Tintern Treasure (Roger the Chapman Mysteries)
Publication Date: July 1, 2012| Series: Roger the Chapman Mysteries An important discovery puts Roger the Chapman’s life in danger . . . - In the autumn of 1483, Roger goes on an errand of mercy to Hereford, where he is caught up in the Duke of Buckingham’s rebellion against the new king, Richard III. Roger takes refuge in Tintern Abbey, but on his return to Bristol, a murder and a series of house robberies lead him to the eventual discovery of the treasure stolen from the abbey on the night he was there. It also means great danger, not only for himself, but a member of his famil...
|  | Buckingham Palace Gardens: A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novel (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt Novels)
Release Date: October 4, 2011| Series: Charlotte & Thomas Pitt Novels The Prince of Wales has asked four wealthy entrepreneurs and their wives to Buckingham Palace to discuss a fantastic idea: the construction of a six-thousand-mile railroad that would stretch the full length of Africa. But the prince’s gathering proves disastrous when the mutilated body of a prostitute turns up in a linen closet among the queen’s monogrammed sheets. With great haste, Thomas Pitt, the brilliant mainstay of Special Services, is summoned to resolve the crisis. The Pitts’ cockney maid, Grac...
|  | Seducing an Angel (Huxtable)
Release Date: April 27, 2010| Series: Huxtable In a time unlike any other, a family you’ll never forget . . . Meet the Huxtables—three headstrong sisters and their dashing brother—each searching for love that’s always a shocking indiscretion away. . . . In her magnificent new novel, New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh sweeps us into a world of scandal and intrigue—glittering Regency England—and introduces the youngest Huxtable: Stephen, the only son. Here Stephen will risk his reputation and his heart as he enters a scandalous liaison with the in...
|  | Quincunx
Release Date: November 27, 1990An extraordinary modern novel in the Victorian tradition, Charles Palliser has created something extraordinary--a plot within a plot within a plot of family secrets, mysterious clues, low-born birth, high-reaching immorality, and, always, always the fog-enshrouded, enigmatic character of 19th century -- London itself."You read the first page and down you wonderfully fall, into a long, large, wide world of fiction."THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW ...
|  | Simply Carnal (House of Pleasure)
Release Date: January 31, 2012| Series: House of Pleasure No passion is too decadent and no desire is too exotic at Madame Helene's Pleasure House - an exclusive brothel in Regency England that offers the ultimate in erotic delights...Powerful Seduction: Christian Delornay has observed so many illicit liaisons at his mother's house of pleasure he regards sex as merely an enjoyable pastime, certainly not an act of love. So when a young widow arrives in search of work, Christian hires her as his assistant with the intention of instructing her in the ways of sensual seduction...Passionate Surre...
|  | Jasmine Nights: A Novel
Release Date: June 5, 2012FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF EAST OF THE SUN, A POWERFUL LOVE STORY SET AGAINST THE UNSTABLE AND EXOTIC CITIES OF CAIRO AND ISTANBUL DURING THE HEIGHT OF WORLD WAR II At twenty-three, Saba Tarcan knows her only hope of escaping the clamor of Cardiff Bay, Wales, lies in her voice. While traveling Britain, singing for wounded soldiers, Saba meets handsome fighter pilot Dom Benson, recovering from burns after a crash. When Saba auditions to entertain troops in far-off lands, Dom follows her to London. Just as their relationship begins to take root, Saba is sent to ...
|  | The Twisted Root: A William Monk Novel
Release Date: March 22, 2011| Series: William Monk A young bridegroom enlists private investigator William Monk to track down his fiancée, Miriam Gardiner, who disappeared suddenly from a party at a luxurious Bayswater mansion. Monk soon finds the coach in which Miriam fled and, nearby, the murdered body of the coachman, but there is no trace of the young passenger. What strange compulsion could have driven the beautiful widow to abandon the prospect of a loving marriage and financial abundance? Monk and clever nurse Hester Latterly, themselves now newlyweds, desperately pursue the elus...
|  | The Hand That First Held Mine
Publication Date: January 26, 2011Lexie Sinclair is plotting an extraordinary life for herself. Hedged in by her parents' genteel country life, she plans her escape to London. There, she takes up with Innes Kent, a magazine editor who wears duck-egg blue ties and introduces her to the thrilling, underground world of bohemian, post-war Soho. She learns to be a reporter, to know art and artists, to embrace her life fully and with a deep love at the center of it. She creates many lives--all of them unconventional. And when she finds herself pregnant, she doesn't hesitate to have the baby on her...
|  | Checkmate: Sixth in the Legendary Lymond Chronicles
Release Date: September 2, 1997For the first time Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles are available in the United States in quality paperback editions.Sixth in the legendary Lymond Chronicles, Checkmate takes place in 1557, where Francis Crawford of Lymond is once again in France, leading an army against England. But even as the Scots adventurer succeeds brilliantly on the battlefield, his haunted past becomes a subject of intense interest to forces on both sides. ...
|  | Anatomy of Murder
Release Date: February 16, 2012London, 1781. Harriet Westerman anxiously awaits news of herhusband, a ship's captain who has been gravely injured in the king'snaval battles with France. As London's streets seethe with rumor, abody is dragged from the murky waters of the Thames.Having gained a measure of fame as amateur detectives for unravelingthe mysteries of Thornleigh Hall, the indomitable Mrs. Westerman andher reclusive sidekick, anatomist Gabriel Crowther, are once againcalled on to investigate. In this intricate novel, Harriet and Gabrielwill discover that this is no ordinary drowning-...
|  | Earthly Joys: A Novel
Release Date: May 24, 2005| Series: Earthly Joys Whether he is nurturing a single rare seedling into a blossoming tree or planning acres of exquisitely conceived royal gardens, John Tradescant's fame and skill as a gardener are unsurpassed in seventeenth-century England. But it is Tradescant's clear-sighted honesty and loyalty that make him an invaluable servant, and in his role as informal confidant during garden strolls with Sir Robert Cecil, adviser to King James I, he witnesses the making of history, from the Gunpowder Plot to the accession of King Charles I and the growing animosity bet...
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