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Author
Series
Breconridge Brothers trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Harry Fitzroy, Earl of Hargreave meets his match, and loses his heart, to Lady Augusta Utterly, a woman who's not at all what he expected.
Author
Series
Maiden Lane romances volume 6
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Description
The conservative Duke of Wakefield has a secret life fighting crime in the darkest parts of London, and the last thing he needs is the mousey Miss Artemis Greaves showing up at his townhouse jeopardizing his cover.
Author
Series
Maiden Lane romances volume 5
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
"He lives in the shadows. As the mysterious masked avenger known as the Ghost of St. Giles, Godric St. John's only goal is to protect the innocent of London. Until the night he confronts a fearless young lady pointing a pistol at his head-and realizes she is his wife . . . Lady Margaret Reading has vowed to kill the Ghost of St. Giles-the man who murdered her one true love. Returning to London, and to the man she hasn't seen since their wedding day,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
In eighteenth-century England, the murder of Sir Edward Crick sends a torrent of gossip breezing through Oxfordshire; although, aside from his sister, Lady Lydia Farrell, few mourn the young man. When Lady Farrell's husband becomes the prime suspect in the murder, she enlists the help of Dr. Thomas Silkstone--an anatomist and pioneering forensic detective--to solve the murder and prove his innocence.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1770, and with that, a new era of manufacturing and industry changed lives everywhere within a generation. A world filled with unrest wrestles for control over this new world order: A mother's husband is killed in a work accident due to negligence; a young woman fights to fund her school for impoverished children; a well-intentioned young man unexpectedly inherits a failing business; one man ruthlessly protects...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
When Prudence Youlgrave's life has been made a shambles by her selfish brother and her brutish fiancé, Catesby Burgoyne rescues her by marrying her himself; when Catesby's elder brother dies, he becomes the Earl of Malzard, making Prudence a most unlikely countess.
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"Apothecary John Rawlings has travelled to Devon to be by the side of his mistress, Elizabeth di Lorenzi, who is due to give birth to their child. Leaving his shop--and his new carbonated water business--in good hands, John is presented with a surprise on his arrival at Sidmouth House. While Elizabeth is recuperating, he learns that Lady Sidmouth's daughter, Miranda, is to marry the Earl of St Austell, who is fifty-two years her senior. The Earl has...
Author
Series
Crowther and Westerman mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Reclusive anatomist Gabriel Crowther investigates an ancient tomb where an extra body and clues about Crowther's haunting past are discovered.
Author
Series
Barbara Devane novels volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Set against the intrigues of the French court in the early 1700's and the South Sea Bubble venture, this is the story of a headstrong young woman who is determined to marry a man clearly not right for her, a man whose romantic and sexual past will come back to haunt the girl he marries.
Author
Series
Kingsbridge volume 5
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial USA
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
Description
"Un nuevo amanecer para Kingsbridge en la emocionante quinta novela de la saga «Los pilares de la Tierra.» La revolución está en el aire: 1792. Un gobierno tiránico está decidido a convertir Inglaterra en un poderoso imperio comercial. Mientras, Napoleón Bonaparte comienza su ambicioso ascenso al poder y, en medio de un gran descontento social, los vecinos de Francia se mantienen en máxima alerta. Kingsbridge se asoma al abismo: Las innovaciones...
11) Rogue's lady
Author
Publisher
Kennebec Large Print, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Vieve Donnelle always thought of herself as a girl who knew her own mind. But ever since she met Captain Tyson Gervais, her days were full of confusion and her nights were plagued by tantalizing dreams and half-understood yearnings. Tyson was both amused and beguiled by the willful English beauty. Innocence shone from her startling blue eyes even as she beckoned him with unwitting feminine wiles. The handsome American had come to England to do business,...
12) Cardinal Black
Author
Series
Matthew Corbett mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Cemetery Dance Publications
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Cardinal Black is the latest installment in Robert McCammon's unique series of historical thrillers featuring Matthew Corbett, professional problem solver, who has been called "the Early American James Bond." December 1703 finds Berry Grigsby living as Mary Lynn Nash in a small English village, where she has fallen victim to Professor Fell's involuntary drug experiments. Her mind is quickly deteriorating under the drug's influence, and the only way...
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