Category: Genre Fiction

By Mercedes Rochelle

Harold Godwineson, the final Anglo-Saxon King, owed every little thing to his father. Who was once this Godwine, first Earl of Wessex and referred to as the Kingmaker? was once he an unscrupulous schemer, utilizing King and Witan to realize strength? Or used to be he the best of all Saxon Earls, protector of the English opposed to the hated Normans? the reply depends upon who you ask. He used to be befriended by way of the Danes, raised up via Canute the nice, given an Earldom and a spouse from the top Danish ranks. He sired 9 teenagers, between them 4 Earls, a Queen and a destiny King. with his energy got here a fight to maintain his enemies at bay, and Godwine's top efforts have been introduced down by means of the misdeeds of his eldest son Swegn. even though he grew to become better half's father to a reluctant Edward the Confessor, his fortunes faded because the Normans won prominence at courtroom. pushed into exile, Godwine regathered his forces and got here again even more suitable, merely to find that his moment son Harold was once destined to surpass him in renown and glory.

By Kate Kingsbury

The second one e-book within the awesome Bellehaven secret sequence by means of Kate Kingsbury, the bestselling writer of the Pennyfoot inn Mysteries!

Wacky scholars, interesting secret and a despairing ghost – it’s all in a day’s paintings at Bellehaven House.

It is the peak of women’s suffrage in Edwardian England, and Meredith Llewellyn, headmistress of Bellehaven condominium completing tuition, has her arms complete attempting to flip rebellious, over-priviliged tomboys into sleek and complete younger girls. Her job is decidedly advanced by means of the ghosts of murdered sufferers who insist on her assisting them convey their killers to justice. Watch the joys as Meredith does her top to maintain her ghost-sleuthing a mystery from her wayward fees, whereas attempting to persuade her fellow academics that she’s no longer insane.

Lovers of Agatha Christie’s books will locate a lot to get pleasure from during this story of intrigue and laughter in an Edwardian English village, and Emily Brightwell enthusiasts will love this book’s offbeat characters and their fascinating adventures at a completing university for younger girls.

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When a bit lady ghost appears to be like in entrance of Meredith with an noticeable desire for support, she feels obligated to determine what occurred to the kid. Her seek leads her to think the girl’s mom and dad have been murdered, and once again she has to cajole her reluctant fellow academics to aid her music down a ruthless killer.

By Madeline Hunter

The first novel in a powerful new quartet of ancient romance

Audrianna Kelmsleigh is unattached, independent-and armed. Her adversary is Lord Sebastian Sommerhays. What they've got in universal is Audrianna's father, who died in a scandalous conspiracy-a deserved loss of life in Sebastian's eyes. Audrianna vows to transparent her father's identify, by no means awaiting to fall in love with the fellow dedicated to destroying it...

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By Victoria Holt

Mystery and romance mix with lethal secrets and techniques during this Victorian gothic mystery from an across the world bestselling author

Caroline Verlaine is familiar with anything is inaccurate. Her sister has long gone lacking and nobody can inform her why. the best choice is to move the place Roma was once final seen-an property with a dangerous history.

The Stacy family has lived off the Dover coast for generations, conscientiously navigating the treacherous quicksands close by. however the sands usually are not Caroline's largest danger. every body right here has a mystery, particularly the enigmatic younger inheritor Napier Stacy. irrespective of the place Caroline turns, the floor she walks is harmful. And the nearer Caroline involves unraveling the reality, the nearer she involves sharing her sister's fate.

Blending components of historic romance and romantic suspense, The Shivering Sands is an exciting story from the Queen of Gothic Romance. Dark and thrilling, enthusiasts of Georgette Heyer, Mary Stewart, and Daphne Du Maurier might be stored guessing during this vintage tale, entire with historic ruins, relatives scandal, and forbidden love.

Other Titles from Victoria Holt
The India Fan: Drusilla's glamorous pals present her a valuable kinfolk heirloom-a appealing fanatics with a poor curse
The satisfaction and the Peacock: To safe her inheritance, Jessica Clavering consents to a wedding of comfort, yet will her good-looking new husband's wish for her ever surpass his obsession with a famously cursed opal?
The Time of the Hunter's Moon: in response to legend, a woman will see her destiny husband on the time of the hunter's moon. but if the good-looking stranger published to Cordelia provide disappears after an all-too-brief come across, she has to ask yourself: was once he purely an apparition...or anything more?

What readers are announcing in regards to the Shivering Sands

"The suppose of this tale was once just like that of Rebecca-the type of dark, shivery, mysterious feeling. the tip used to be means higher in my view, even though. certainly a superb read!"

"This is a five-star old, romance, secret, mental thriller."

"The most suspenseful ebook ever, and plenty of years later, after having learn numerous Holt books, i will thoroughly say that this can be her most sensible work."

What reviewers are asserting concerning the Shivering Sands

"The mysteries drew me in and saved me guessing correct as much as the end..."-The reliable, the undesirable, and the Unread

What everyone seems to be asserting in regards to the Queen of Gothic Romance Victoria Holt

"Victoria Holt's writing is captivating"-Bookfoolery

"She spins historical past with romance and intrigue and always leaves me in need of more."

"Holt's tales are spell binding....page turners."

"I love her books! i've got learn them all repeatedly. She is a superb storyteller."

"One of the perfect writers of gothic romance, a compelling storyteller whose gripping novels have delighted millions."-RT e-book stories

By Anne Gracie

Omit Thalia Robinson, a destitute orphan, was once lucky that cousin Laetitia allowed Tallie to seem after her lovable 3 youngsters. the arriving of a home occasion to help Magnus, Earl of d'Arenville, to discover a spouse, used to be to show her international upside-down.

Winner of the 2015 Boyd Award for Literary Excellence in army Fiction

In the Valley of the Shadow, they wrote their names in blood.
From a bold accomplice raid that just about seized Washington, D.C., to a beautiful reversal at the bloody fields of Cedar Creek, the summer season and autumn of 1864 witnessed a few of the fiercest combating of our Civil War―in powerful battles now all yet forgotten.
The determined fight for mastery of Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, breadbasket of the Confederacy and the South's key invasion direction into the North, pitted a awesome solid of heroes in blue and grey opposed to one another: runty, rough-hewn Phillip Sheridan, a Union common with an uncanny present for uplifting infantrymen, and Jubal Early, his accomplice counterpart, obdurate, raw-mouthed and lethal; the speeding Yankee boy-general, George Armstrong Custer, and the intense, brave John Brown Gordon, a charismatic Georgian who lived one of many era's maximum love stories.
From hungry, hard-bitten insurgent privates to a couple of Union officials destined to turn into presidents, from a missed hero who kept our nation's capital and went directly to write certainly one of his century's maximum novels, to doomed accomplice leaders of incomparable valor, Ralph Peters brings to existence yesteryear's giants and their breathtaking battles with an identical authenticity, ability and perception he provided readers in his prize-winning Civil struggle bestsellers, Cain at Gettysburg and Hell or Richmond.
Sharp as a bayonet and piercing as a bullet, Valley of the Shadow is a smart novel of our grandest, most-tragic war.

By KT Grant

Seven years in the past, the as soon as obese Jessica Mulligan made a pact together with her ally that ended up altering her existence for the higher. Now sixty kilos lighter, Jessica’s self-confidence has soared, yet her longtime firefighter weigh down nonetheless won’t become aware of her.

What she doesn’t anticipate is catching the attention of his boss, the a lot older and good-looking Captain Douglass Finley, who thinks she’s ideal in such a lot of ways…

Three years in the past, Doug Finley’s lifestyles took a flip for the more serious whilst his spouse admitted to an affair with their round the corner neighbor. except the potential of a merchandising to Deputy hearth Commissioner, the one factor he seems ahead to is weekends along with his eleven-year-old daughter. along with his forty-fifth birthday round the nook, his love lifestyles is within the rest room. The ritzy New Year’s Eve bash he has been roped into seems like torture, until eventually he spies a imaginative and prescient of good looks consuming chocolate lined strawberries like she’s making like to them…and all he can take into consideration is making like to her.

When Jessica admits she by no means had an orgasm, he’s made up our minds to provide her the final word New Year’s fable she’ll by no means forget.

But can he persuade her they belong jointly for longer than one evening?

By Madeline Hunter

Their marriage was once prepared, yet their hope was once not...

After years, Grayson Bridlington, The Earl of Hawkeswell, has positioned his lacking bride Verity Thompson. Coerced into marrying Hawkeswell by way of her duplicitous cousin, Verity fled London for the geographical region. Now, the couple needs to utilize an prepared marriage-even if it potential surrendering to their shared wish.

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By Albert A. Bell Jr.

At the seashores of gorgeous Lake Como in Roman Italy, a Greek tragedy has taken position. 20 years later, a skeleton falls out of a wall in Pliny’s villa, bearing mute witness to kinfolk secrets and techniques and crimes.

Pliny the more youthful is clever approximately every thing yet girls. He has the same opinion to his wife’s and mother’s needs to marry off his lover, Aurora, to a different slave, yet neglects telling her till the marriage! so as to add to his difficulties, while development a wing onto his Lake Como villa, workmen find a skeleton. As is Pliny’s behavior, he launches a systematic research of the crime, yet quickly gets nameless warnings and threats to stop. Then his spouse, Livia, is kidnapped!

• As within the prior books, a thesaurus of Roman phrases and an inventory of old and fictional characters are integrated

By Steve Robinson

Two hundred years in the past a loyalist relations fled to England to flee the yankee struggle of Independence and likely vanished into skinny air. American genealogist Jefferson Tayte is employed to determine what occurred, however it quickly turns into obvious calculated killer is out to prevent him.

In the Blood combines a centuries-old secret with a present-day mystery that brings humans from contrary aspects of the Atlantic jointly to discover a sequence of conscientiously hidden crimes. Tayte's learn centres round the tragic lifetime of a tender Cornish lady, a writing field, and the invention of a dismal mystery that he believes will lead him to the relatives he's trying to find. hassle is, another individual is seeking an identical solutions and should cease at not anything to discover them.

In the Blood is the 1st booklet within the Jefferson Tayte secret series.

Revised variation: formerly released as a part of the Jefferson Tayte Genealogical secret sequence, this variation of In the Blood comprises editorial revisions.