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Author Jim Butcher conjures up a new series set in a fantastic world of noble families, steam-powered technology, and magic-wielding warriors...

Since witnessing the death of her husband during the wars, Imogen, Lady Barclay, has secluded herself in the confines of Hardford Hall, their home in Cornwall. The new owner has failed to take up his inheritance, and Imogen desperately hopes he will never come to disturb her fragile peace.

Historical fiction. Love stories. What do you do if you are of noble stock-but impoverished, and living in London with a certain style to maintain? One has to work ...but One's relatives will be appalled when One turns One's hand to trade-and opens a hotel, The Poor Relation, offering employment to others of the same social standing and in the same awkward situation.

As Lady Frederick Staines, Penelope Deveraux plunges into the treacherous waters of the court of the Nizam of Hyderabad and with the assistance of Captain Alex Reid draws out the deadly plans of the spy known as the Marigold.

"Lord Robert Gresham has given up all hope that the beautiful and independent Flora Jennings will ever take him seriously. He heads to an exclusive country house party to forget about the beauty haunting his thoughts. When Flora shows up, Robert is nothing short of shocked. While Flora hates the expectations of fashionable society, she finds the annoyingly charming Lord Robert hard to resist. But while their attraction flares, someone much more sinister...

"What kind of woman ventures into London's most notorious pleasure club? An outsider like Graciela, the Duchess of Autenberry, snubbed time and time again by society becasue of her Spanish roots. Ela longs to take a lover for a single, wild night, and within the walls of Sodom there are gentlemen to suit every forbidden taste. If only she were not so drawn to the smoldering Lord Strickland... a dangerous man who sees beyond her mask, and could ruin...

"From Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, a sweeping, romantic compulsively readable historical saga about a Duke's daughter--the perfect Victorian lady--who secretly moonlights as an amateur sleuth for high society's inner circle"-- Provided by publisher. Victorian London. Even in the country houses of the elite, gentleman burglars, art thieves and con men preyed on the rich and titled. Wealthy victims, with their pride and reputation at stake,...

Blinded by a cannon blast on the battlefields of Napoleon, Vincent Lord Darleigh, struggles to maintain anonymity and escapes his matchmaking mother's interference by entering a marriage of convenience with an unassuming woman with whom he finds unexpected passion.

Disguising herself as a scullery maid to escape an arranged marriage, heiress Arabella Lucia Fairborne finds a savior in injured spy Colin Somerville, who needs her help to get a baby to the royal palace.