 | The Sanctuary
Publication Date: August 21, 2007In the powerful new thriller from the author of the international bestseller The Last Templar, a geneticist and a CIA agent on a deadly quest to find the most dangerous book in the world discover a secret that has destroyed everyone in its path for centuriesNaples, 1750. In the dead of night, three men with swords burst into the palazzo of a marquis. Their leader, the Prince of San Severo, accuses the marquis of being an imposter, and demands to know a secret only the marquis harbors. In the fight that ensues, the false marquis escapes over the rooftops of ...
 |  | The Blue Flower
Publication Date: April 15, 1997In eighteenth-century Germany, the impetuous student of philosophy who will later gain fame as the Romantic poet Novalis seeks his father's permission to wed his true philosophy -- a plain, simple child named Sophie. The attachment shocks his family and friends. This brilliant young man, betrothed to a twelve-year-old dullard! How can it be? A literary sensation and a bestseller in England and the United States, The Blue Flower was one of eleven books- and the only paperback- chosen as an Editor's Choice by the New York Times Book Review. The 1997 National Boo...
|  | 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 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...
|  | What Is Left the Daughter
Publication Date: May 3, 2011Howard Norman, widely regarded as one of this country’s finest novelists, returns to the mesmerizing fictional terrain of his major books—The Bird Artist, The Museum Guard, and The Haunting of L—in this erotically charged and morally complex story. Seventeen-year-old Wyatt Hillyer is suddenly orphaned when his parents, within hours of each other, jump off two different bridges—the result of their separate involvements with the same compelling neighbor, a Halifax switchboard operator and aspiring actress. The suicides cause Wyatt to move to...
|  | A Christmas Homecoming: A Novel
Release Date: October 25, 2011Among the brilliant array of Anne Perry’s New York Times bestselling novels, her Christmas stories occupy perhaps the warmest spot in the hearts of readers. Each one is a masterpiece of suspense; each is alight with the true holiday spirit.In A Christmas Homecoming, a familiar face from the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novels—Charlotte’s mother, Caroline—travels with her young husband, Joshua Fielding, and his theatrical troupe to Whitby, the Yorkshire fishing village where Dracula the vampire first touched English soil in the sensational no...
|  | 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...
|  | 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-...
|  | 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...
|  | 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...
|  | 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...
|  | 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...
|  | Silence in Hanover Close: A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novel (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt Novels)
Release Date: October 4, 2011| Series: Charlotte & Thomas Pitt Novels When Inspector Thomas Pitt is asked to reopen a three-year-old murder case that had taken place in London’s luxurious Hanover Close, he is all too aware that his superiors want him to simply smooth things over. But penetrating the reserve of high society households will take more finesse than Pitt can muster. Enter Charlotte Pitt, his wellborn wife, and her sister, Emily. As the social equals of the inhabitants of the Close, the women are privy to conversations that would never reach the ears of a mere policeman. Wh...
|  | 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...
|  | Far North: A Novel
Release Date: June 22, 2010Far North is a 2009 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.My father had an expression for a thing that turned out bad. He’d say it had gone west. But going west always sounded pretty good to me. After all, westwards is the path of the sun. And through as much history as I know of, people have moved west to settle and find freedom. But our world had gone north, truly gone north, and just how far north I was beginning to learn.Out on the frontier of a failed state, Makepeace—sheriff and perhaps last citizen—patrols a city’s ruins, salvaging...
|  | To Seduce an Angel (Berkley Sensation)
Release Date: September 6, 2011| Series: Berkley Sensation The youngest of the Jones brothers, Kit, has just been made theMarquess of Daventry-heir to his vengeful grandfather, the Duke ofWenlocke. Kit wants to free his family from the old duke, and he hiresthe beautiful Emma Portland to tutor his young wards while he makes hisplans. But Emma's true identity may be even more dangerous to Kit thanhis dastardly uncle. And the feelings they begin to have for oneanother may spell their mutual doom. ...
|  | 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 Ringed Castle: Fifth 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.Fifth in the legendary Lymond Chronicles, The Ringed Castle leaps from Mary Tudor's England to the barbaric Russia of Ivan the Terrible. Francis Crawford of Lymond moves to Muscovy, where he becomes advisor and general to the half-mad tsar. Yet even as Lymond tries to civilize a court that is still frozen in the attitudes of the Middle Ages, forces in England conspire to enlist this infinitely useful man in their own schemes. ...
|  | Child of the Morning: A Novel (Rediscovered Classics)
Publication Date: April 1, 2010| Series: Rediscovered Classics Thirty-five centuries ago the sun had a daughter: Hatshepsut. Youngest daughter of the Pharaoh, she was a lithe and magical child. But when her older sister died, it became her duty to purify the dynasty’s bloodline. She was to wed Thothmes, her father’s illegitimate son, who was heir to the throne. But fearing his son’s incompetence, Hatshepsut’s father came to her with startling news. She was to be Pharaoh, ruler of the greatest empire the world had ever known--provided, of course, that the unprecedented...
|  | Bethlehem Road: A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novel (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt Novels)
Release Date: October 4, 2011| Series: Charlotte & Thomas Pitt Novels The gentleman tied to the lamppost on Westminster Bridge is most elegantly attired—fresh boutonniere, silk hat, white evening scarf—and he is quite, quite dead, as a result of his thoroughly cut throat. Why should anyone kill Sir Lockwood Hamilton, the kindest of family men and most conscientious member of Parliament? Before Inspector Thomas Pitt can even speculate on the reasons, a colleague of Sir Lockwood’s meets the same fate in the same spot. Public indignation is boundless, and clever Charlotte Pitt...
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