He's free at last. No longer under the crushing weight of a mortal disease, Sir Marcus Camberley is ready to go and live the life he imagined; wife and family included. His travels are leisurely, his appreciation for life sharpened by his new-found liberty. When he arrives on a moonlit beach one night, however, everything changes. Thanks to one unlikely smuggler – Mistress Mariah Dean.Mariah has one goal – to protect her "lads". When she's roughly...

All Lady Mabel Fairweather wants for Christmas is to experience one night of dancing and freedom from her horrible nickname. Her family assures her that a simple magic potion will do the trick. But when something goes awry, Mabel finds herself with a mob of amorous men descending upon her. Andrew Holbrooke has loved his friend Mabel for years. Now that he has the means to marry, he's come home intending to seek her hand. What Drew didn't expect was...

A blade cuts both ways Newly minted an Elder of the Verdant Green Waters sect, sword prodigy Elder Cheng Zhao Wan - the Sundering Blade - is forced to leave the sect to fulfil an old obligation. A benefactor from the past is injured and has demanded Elder Cheng locate his assailant. Forced to listen to the ramblings of a dying old man, amidst a small and unfamiliar sect, who Elder Cheng can trust is unknown. Was the injury nothing more than happenstance,...

This book is "A Riverboat Odyssey". It is about a woman who grew up in central Minnesota. The story takes place starting in 1899 thru 1935. She marries a Paddlewheel steamboat captain in 1922 and travels up and down the Mississippi river between Braionerd, MN. and St. Louis, Mo. She has about 200 letters from her family that she reads to the passengers every day about growing up on a 40 acre farm. Their boat, "The Northern Belle", becomes a second...

Requiem. In this flashback story set in 1973, Isis is called to the Theta House by her sorority sisters who want her to step down from her leadership role the Senior Grand Mother. With her mortal alias Andrea Robinson being 98-years-old,and Isis being immortal, they fear that if she continues on with the organization her secret may be revealed, and their mission compromised in the Black community.Coming to terms with her aging secret identity, Isis...

Whilst we may believe we have done with our past, our past may not have done with us.A century ago, the women of Wintergreen had only the sketchiest of ideas about contraception. It was a time for old wives' tales and superstition.So what was it like back then to conceive and give birth, sometimes to a live baby?Wintergreen is an historical saga, telling the stories of twelve ordinary women surviving in less enlightened and very difficult times.This...

"An Oxford Holiday" is an 8,000 word companion short story for the Ingenious Mechanical Devices series and should be read after The Winter Garden (IMD #2).After a trying two months at Oxford dealing with miserable classmates and isolation, all Immanuel Winter wants is a peaceful weekend with Adam- two days where they could forget about the impossibilities of their future together.But when the arrival of a radical female lawyer turns the university...

Au cours de l'année 1895, les rêves de Gwen ont commencé à prendre forme. Elle savait que son parcours pour devenir tutrice privée serait une étape audacieuse dans un monde incertain, mais elle était déterminée à explorer de nouveaux horizons et à partager ses connaissances avec les autres. Elle était loin de se douter que son chemin la mènerait bientt au-delà des ctes de Newport, jusqu'au cœur de l'Empire britannique, à Bombay, en...

The Great Alaska Earthquake is the largest and most powerful recorded earthquake in US history. Lauren Tarshis's story of one child surviving this terrifying natural disaster pounds with page-turning action and heartwarming hope. It was 1964 in the brand-new state of Alaska, a vast land of staggering beauty and heart-stopping dangers. Eleven-year-old Jack had grown up living happily with his parents in an off-the-grid cabin, miles from their closest...

Mr. and Mrs. Smith meets The Thin Man's Nick and Nora Charles in this intrigue-filled debut from film and television writer Shaina Steinberg, as two former spies who shared more than just missions during WWII reunite in 1948 Los Angeles. Can they let go of heartbreak long enough to team up for one last operation? A tightly-plotted, emotionally rich postwar mystery for fans of The Rose Code by Kate Quinn and The Lost Letter by Jillian Cantor, as...