This book studies travel writing produced by French authors between the two World Wars following visits to authoritarian regimes in Europe and the USSR. It sheds new light on the phenomenon of French
In the tradition of the lush historical dramas of Kate Morton, Philippa Gregory and Barbara Erskine, USA TODAY bestselling author Nicola Cornick's The Woman in the Lake is a delicious tale of jealousy
“My name is Mary Seymour and I am the daughter of one queen and the niece of another.”Browsing antiques shops in Wiltshire, Alison Bannister stumbles across a delicate old portrait—s
The wooded hills of Oxfordshire conceal the remains of the aptly named Ashdown House—a wasted pile of cinders and regret. Once home to the daughter of a king, Ashdown and its secrets will unite
`There is much to enjoy in a sumptuous novel that slips between present day and 1557.' - Sunday Mirror"My name is Mary Seymour and I am the daughter of one queen and the niece of another."Browsing ant
London, 1662: There was something the Winter Queen needed to tell him. She fought for the strength to speak. 'The crystal mirror is a danger. It must be destroyed - ' He replied instantly. 'It will'.
He will expose her as the criminal he seeks, or seduce her as the woman he desires...An old maid—that's all Lady Christina McMorlan, daughter to the Duke of Forres, is to society now that she's past t
He will expose her as the criminal he seeks, or seduce her as the woman he desires? An old maid?that's all Lady Christina McMorlan, daughter to the Duke of Forres, is to society now that she's past th
The Rake She Couldn’t Forget Jack Rutherford is everything fashionable society widow Lady Mairi MacLeod dislikes in a man: roguish, arrogant and irritatingly charming. If only she could erase the memo
Can true love be born from scandal? She is young and beautiful and fashionable, Edinburgh's most flirtatious hostess. But within the merry widow beats a grieving heart. Lady Mairi mourns the husband s
Bluestocking darling and secret scribe Lady Lucy MacMorlan has no interest in marriage. Putting herself second to a man is definitely not for her. Instead, she makes a profit from matchmaking others a
An Indecent Proposal Lady Lucy MacMorlan may have forsworn men and marriage, but that doesn't mean she won't agree to profit from writing love letters for her brother's friends?letters that become inc
London, April 1817 'Dance with me,' her dark gentleman said. 'You were meant to dance with me.' Trial by Seduction From the moment Lord Henry Wardeaux heard that the missing heiress to the Templemore
Tess Darent’s world is unravelling. Danger threatens her stepchildren and she is about to be unmasked as a radical political cartoonist and thrown into gaol. The only thing that can save her is a resp
As maid to some of the most wanton ladies of the ton, Margery Mallon lives within the boundaries of any sensible servant. Entanglements with gentlemen are taboo. Wild adventures are for the Gothic nov
Her wicked ways were the talk of the tonTeresa, Dowager Marchioness of Darent, is rumored to have exhausted her four deceased husbands with her insatiable needs. So it's no surprise that every rake in
When the ton's most notorious heartbreaker?Dangerously seductive and sinfully beautiful, Susanna Burney is society's most sought after matchbreaker. Paid by wealthy parents to part unsuitable couples,
