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Author
Series
Ravenels volume 7
Language
English
Description
A strong-willed young widow running her late husband's shipping company, Lady Merritt Sterling avoids scandal until she meets a rough-and-tumble Scottish whisky distiller on the run from a very determined killer.
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Railway magnate Tom Severin is wealthy and powerful enough to satisfy any desire as soon as it arises. Anything--or anyone--is his for the asking. It should be simple to find the perfect wife--and from his first glimpse of Lady Cassandra Ravenel, he's determined to have her. But the beautiful and quick-witted Cassandra is equally determined to marry for love--the one thing he can't give.... Severin is the most compelling and attractive man Cassandra...
5) Royal blood
Author
Series
A royal spyness mystery volume 4
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
305 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Superintendent Runcorn-who Anne Perry fans will remember as William Monk's ex-boss-is feeling rather lonely during his holiday on the remote, snowy island of Anglesey, off the north coast of Wales. However, he is suddenly called into action when the sister of the local vicar is discovered murdered and draped over a gravestone in her brother's churchyard. Investigating this tragic crime with the assistance of the beautiful Melisande gives him just...
Author
Series
A Countess of Harleigh mystery volume 2
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When her friend Mary Archer is found murdered and notes detailing the indiscretions of London society's elite are discovered in her home, Frances Wynn, the Countess of Harleigh, assists the police in investigating the very sensitive case.
Author
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
167 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"No-nonsense law student Adelaide Smith doesn't believe in fairytales. But when she learns she's the daughter of King Maximillian V, the ruler of a small European principality, she's swept into a world filled with family mysteries, royal jealousies, and the possibility of her own happily ever after"--
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sent into an arranged marriage, Tan Yunxian, forbidden to continue her work as a midwife-in-training as well as see her forever friend Meiling, is ordered to act like proper wife and seeks a way to continue treating women and girls from every level of society in fifteenth-century China.
"According to Confucius, "an educated woman is a worthless woman," but Tan Yunxian--born into an elite family, yet haunted by death, separations, and loneliness--is...
11) A lady unrivaled
Author
Series
Ladies of the manor volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
408 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lady Ella Myerston knows of the danger that haunts her brother, and she intends to put an end to it. While visiting her friend Brook, the true owner of the Fire Eyes diamonds, Ella accidentally gets entangled in an attempt to blackmail the dashing, newly reformed Lord Cayton. Will she become the next casualty of the alleged curse?
Author
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
A penniless twenty-something member of the British nobility, Lady Victoria puts her sleuthing talents to work when an arrogant Frenchman, who is determined to gain control of her family's eight-hundred-year-old estate for himself, ends up dead in her bathtub.
Author
Series
A Max Tudor novel volume 5
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Max Tudor must contend with his new role as a father as well as a murder all too close to home in Nether Monkslip.
14) It's in His Kiss
Author
Series
Bridgerton volume 7
Language
English
Description
Hyacinth Bridgerton offers to translate an old family diary for Gareth St. Clair, but as they delve into the mysterious text, they discover that the answers they seek are not in the diary, but in each other.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Inheriting not only an earldom, but also an estate riddled with debt and the late earl's three sisters and Kathleen, Lady Trenear, a beautiful young widow, Devon Ravenel engages in a sensual battle of wills with this woman whose sharp wit and determination are a match for his own.
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the dead of night, shots ring out over the grounds of a sprawling English estate. The world-weary butler Eustace recognizes the gunman-his longtime employer, Mr. Crowe-and knows he must think and act quickly. Who is the man lying dead on the lawn? Who is the woman in his company? Can he clean up his master's mess like he always has before? Or will this bring a new kind of reckoning? Mr. Crowe was once famed for his gifts-unaccountable gifts, known...
Author
Series
Cavendon Hall volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a captivating epic saga of courage and honor, following the aristocratic Inghams and the loyal Swann family who have served them for centuries. It is 1938 in England, and Miles and Cecily Ingham have lead the family in bringing the Cavendon estate back from the brink of disaster. But now, with the arrival of World War II, Cavendon Hall will face its biggest challenge yet. It is a challenge that...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"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"--
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, would never go to the police....
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
For the first time, James Malory and his Anderson in-laws agree on something: It's payback time for the culprit who kidnapped James and Georgina's beloved daughter Jack from her American debutante party and whisked her away to the Caribbean, no matter that she escaped unscathed.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Cavendon Women, the stunning sequel to Barbara Taylor Bradford's Cavendon Hall follows the Inghams' and the Swanns' journey from a family weekend in the summer of 1926 through to the devastation of the Wall Street crash of 1929. It all begins on a summer weekend in July of 1926 when, for the first time in years, the earl has planned a family weekend. As the family members come together, secrets, problems, joys, and sorrows are revealed. As old enemies...