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Who Slays the Wicked by C.S. Harris
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThe death of a fiendish nobleman strikes close to home as Sebastian St. Cyr is tasked with finding the killer to save his young cousin from persecution in this riveting new historical mystery from the USA Today bestselling author of Why Kill the Innocent....When the handsome but dissolute young gentleman Lord Ashworth is found brutally murdered, Sebastian St...Categorized as:
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![A Tarnished Canvas by Anna Lee Huber]()
A Tarnished Canvas by Anna Lee Huber
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsLady Kiera Darby had planned to spend the winter practicing her painting, but instead, she must find the flaw in a killer’s masterpiece when an art auction results in one participant’s final bid.…March 1833. Kiera and her husband, Sebastian Gage, have decided to settle in Edinburgh for the winter with their infant daughter...Categorized as:
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![A Daughter's Guide to Mothers and Murder by Dianne Freeman]()
A Daughter's Guide to Mothers and Murder by Dianne Freeman
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsIn the latest USA Today bestselling, Victorian Era-set Countess of Harleigh Mystery from multi-award winning author Dianne Freeman, Frances Hazelton and her husband, George, uncover the secrets of backstage Paris to find out who’s acting the role of a killer to chilling perfection…Frances and George are enjoying some well-deserved leisure time in Paris when an old acquaintance from London,... -
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Kral by Ava Ross
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsA stoic Vikir warrior meets his match in a spunky Earth woman determined to show him what he's been missing.After she's kidnapped on her way to Crakair, Mila's not sure she'll ever meet her arranged mail-order alien match. Until Kral falls--literally--on top of her during his heroic rescue mission... -
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![The Corpse Played Dead by Georgina Clarke]()
The Corpse Played Dead by Georgina Clarke
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratings‘All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players…’ When an undercover assignment for the Bow Street magistrate sees prostitute Lizzie Hardwicke trade Ma Farley’s Bawdy House in Soho for life as a seamstress the theatre on Drury Lane, it becomes clear quite quickly - what goes on in the wings is much more intriguing than the theatrics being played out on stage…Soon Lizzie is...Categorized as:
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![Dropping the Ball by Merry Farmer]()
Dropping the Ball by Merry Farmer
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsThe second part of this passionate silver fox romantasy series, set in a wholly new Regency England …Whoever marries last will inherit a cursed castle and this Lord has the perfect plan... -
![A Slash of Emerald by Patrice McDonough]()
A Slash of Emerald by Patrice McDonough
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn a riveting new novel in a Victorian-set mystery series brimming with authentic atmosphere, Doctor Julia Lewis, Scotland Yard’s first female medical examiner, and her partner, Detective Inspector Richard Tennant, investigate a string of murders in the art world... -
![You Belong to Me by Johanna Lindsey]()
You Belong to Me by Johanna Lindsey
In all the world, no man exists who can tame Alexandra Rubilov. A fiery and beautiful free-thinker, Alex's steadfast refusal to marry has frustrated her hapless father...Categorized as:
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![A Trace of Deceit by Karen Odden]()
A Trace of Deceit by Karen Odden
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsFrom the author of A Dangerous Duet comes the next book in her Victorian mystery series, this time following a daring female painter and the Scotland Yard detective who is investigating her brother’s suspicious death.A young painter digs beneath the veneer of Victorian London’s art world to learn the truth behind her brother’s murder... Edwin is dead... -
![Omegas of Pandora, Volume One by Lillian Sable]()
Omegas of Pandora, Volume One by Lillian Sable
She never wanted to be Omega. Ianthe keeps her freedom because her dynamic is a carefully guarded secret. Omegas are rare and highly prized, but they have no rights. An Omega is the property of whatever Alpha is strong enough to claim her. Ianthe toils in the slums, pretending to be Beta, so she can hide from a world that wants to make her a pet in a gilded cage...Categorized as:
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![Not Quite a Duchess by Ava Rose]()
Not Quite a Duchess by Ava Rose
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsOne confident Duchess. One broken hero. With danger looming, will they uncover more than they bargained for?A determined Duchess...Lady Anna Trevallyn, Duchess Wrexford, does not possess the typical qualities of the Boston elite...Categorized as:
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![And I Am Happy by R. Cooper]()
And I Am Happy by R. Cooper
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWill is a terrible valet. Until he came to the house of war hero and respected MP Charles Howard, he was more of a rich man's convenience than a valet. No one predicts he will keep the position for long but Charles Howard is not at all what Will expects... -
![The Time Slip Girl by Elizabeth Andre]()
The Time Slip Girl by Elizabeth Andre
ASIN moved from less recent editionWhat if the woman you loved was more than a century away? Dara, a computer programmer from Chicago, is visiting London when she opens a door in an Edwardian house and slips into Edwardian England...Categorized as:
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Inceptio by Alison Morton
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here. New Yorker Karen Brown is caught in a tangle of hot foreign agents, vicious maniacs and tough families. Running for her life, she flees into the alien culture of Roma Nova, the mysterious last outpost of the Roman Empire in Europe... -
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![Murder at Madame Tussauds: The gripping historical whodunnit by Jim Eldridge]()
Murder at Madame Tussauds: The gripping historical whodunnit by Jim Eldridge
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLondon, 1896. Madame Tussauds opens to find one of its nightwatchmen decapitated and his colleague nowhere to be found. To the police, the case seems one killed the other and fled, but workers at the museum aren't convinced and Scotland Yard enlists 'The Museum Detectives' Daniel Wilson and Abigail Fenton to aid the investigation... -
![The Lady is Daring by Megan Frampton]()
The Lady is Daring by Megan Frampton
Five well-bred sisters, one sensational scandal. Now the Duke of Marymount's daughter Ida is about to find love in the most unconventional way...It was easy for society to overlook Lady Ida Howlett; they found her bookish, opinionated, and off the marriage mart...Categorized as:
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![Keeper of the Heart by Johanna Lindsey]()
Keeper of the Heart by Johanna Lindsey
In search of a true and gentle love, fiery Shanelle Ly-San-Ter flees the lustful advances of the blue-eyed barbarian who has been chosen as her lifemate, confused and frightened by the fevered yearnings the handsome brute has awakened in her innocent soul. A warrior, virile and magnificent Falon Vanyer is overwhelmed with intense desire for the spirited beauty who has vowed never to be his...Categorized as:
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![Murder at the Ashmolean by Jim Eldridge]()
Murder at the Ashmolean by Jim Eldridge
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 12 ratings1895. A senior executive at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford is found in his office with a bullet hole between his eyes, a pistol discarded close by. The death has officially been ruled as suicide by local police, but with an apparent lack of motive for such action, the museum’s administrator, Gladstone Marriott, suspects foul play... -
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Murder at the Natural History Museum by Jim Eldridge
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 11 ratings1895. When the newly dubbed 'Museum Detectives' are asked to investigate deliberate damage to a dinosaur skeleton at the Natural History Museum, there is evidence that the fossil-hunting mania of the notorious Bone Wars in America may have reached their shores... -
![Murder at the British Museum by Jim Eldridge]()
Murder at the British Museum by Jim Eldridge
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 17 ratings1894. A well-respected academic is found dead in a gentlemen’s convenience cubicle at the British Museum, the stall locked from the inside. Professor Lance Pickering had been due to give a talk promoting the museum’s new ‘Age of King Arthur’ exhibition when he was stabbed repeatedly in the chest... -
![Echoes in the Mist (Kingsleys in Love) by Andrea Kane]()
Echoes in the Mist (Kingsleys in Love) by Andrea Kane
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsTrenton Kingsley, the embitttered Duke of Broddington, has dreamt of the day that he would avenge his beloved father's death. Returning suddenly from self-imposed exile on the Isle of WIght, he takes aim at the man he holds responsible... the unscrupulous Baxter Caldwell, Viscount Winsham. In a masterstroke of irony, he forces the viscount's hand and walks away with his most precious posession..Categorized as:
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![Murder at the Manchester Museum by Jim Eldridge]()
Murder at the Manchester Museum by Jim Eldridge
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratings1895. Former Jack the Ripper detective Daniel Wilson and his archaeologist sidekick Abigail Fenton are summoned to investigate the murder of a young woman at the Manchester Museum. Though staff remember the woman as a recent and regular visitor, no one appears to know who she was, nor was she carrying any identification... -
![A Pair Of Blue Eyes: By Thomas Hardy by Thomas Hardy, Asif Anjum]()
A Pair Of Blue Eyes: By Thomas Hardy by Thomas Hardy, Asif Anjum
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsThomas Hardy, OM (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist, short story writer, and poet of the naturalist movement. The bulk of his work, set mainly in the semi-imaginary county of Wessex, delineates characters struggling against their passions and circumstances... -
![What Wild Moonlight by Victoria Lynne]()
What Wild Moonlight by Victoria Lynne
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhat wild deception... Nicholas Duvall, rakehell Earl of Barrington, pretended to be a coach driver when they met. Before he knew what hit him, headstrong Katya Alexander swept him into an intrigue of her own. Thinking she was a mere pickpocket--and a ravishing one at that--he made her an offer she couldn't refuse: pose as his mistress and help him retrieve a priceless family scroll... -
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![Tipperary by Frank Delaney]()
Tipperary by Frank Delaney
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 21 ratings“My wooing began in passion, was defined by violence and circumscribed by land; all these elements molded my soul.” So writes Charles O’Brien, the unforgettable hero of bestselling author Frank Delaney’s extraordinary new novel–a sweeping epic of obsession, profound devotion, and compelling history involving a turbulent era that would shape modern Ireland... -
![The Way of a Man with a Maid by Anonymous]()
The Way of a Man with a Maid by Anonymous
Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Way of a Man with a Maid by an anonymous author is about a romantic drama between a young man who has been jilted by a beautiful young maid named Alice. "I, the man, will not take up the time of my readers by detailing the circumstances under which Alice, the maid, roused in me the desire for vengeance which resulted in the way I adopted and which I am about to relate...Categorized as:
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![The Rainbow by David Herbert Lawrence]()
The Rainbow by David Herbert Lawrence
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsKDP-OVERALL EDITION 1:-The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence. The Rainbow is about three generations of the Brangwen family of Nottinghamshire from the 1840s to the early years of the twentieth century... -
![Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson]()
Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson
#1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson brings us a gripping story set in the Cosmere universe told by Hoid, where two people from incredibly different worlds must compromise and work together to save their worlds from ruin.Yumi comes from a land of gardens, meditation, and spirits, while Painter lives in a world of darkness, technology, and nightmares...Categorized as:
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![Godsgrave by Jay Kristoff]()
Godsgrave by Jay Kristoff
Mia Corvere has found her place among the Blades of Our Lady of Blessed Murder, but many in the Red Church hierarchy think she's far from earned it. Plying her bloody trade in a backwater of the Republic, she's no closer to ending the men who destroyed her familia; in fact, she's told directly that Consul Scaeva is off limits...Categorized as:
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![Farilane by Michael J. Sullivan]()
Farilane by Michael J. Sullivan
Some truths are dangerous, certain secrets best concealed, and one story never should have been written at all. Being an unwanted twin in the imperial line of succession, Farilane becomes a scholar, an adventurer, and—in a time when reading is forbidden—a hunter of books. Her singular obsession is finding the mythical Book of Brin , a tome not just lost but intentionally buried...Categorized as:
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