Rose AdagioIn the gilded age of Edwardian England, when wealth and title were the measures of a man, John Darlington, Seventh Earl of Westhaven, schemes to marry a Wainwright heiress. His ancestral home is near bankruptcy because of death duties and only marriage to wealth will save him.The issue of a first marriage, the child shuttled off to boarding school and forgotten, Helen Wainwright is a modern woman who supports herself by teaching school....

Post-Civil War New York was a golden city where wealth waited for the bold, and everything had its price. Well-born but impoverished Lucy Markham seeks her fortune on the stage under a false name-and becomes the toast of the town just as millionaire Josh Dylan arrives in the city. The moment Josh sees Lucy, he wants her-but only as his mistress. And Lucy realizes she must try to quell her desire for him. For neither can afford to surrender to the...

Call me Julia. I don't stand on formality. Mother and Father think I still need a chaperone, even at the age of twenty, so I must sneak out of the house with the aid of my French maid. Unhappily, I'm putting her in more jeopardy than myself. If I'm caught. Father will send me off to rusticate with relatives in Scotland, but he'll sack my maid and, well you know the only kind of work a woman without references can get.I've taken up the cause for women's...

Tesoros de la Hispanidad "En sus momentos de mayor odio a Eglé, había creído hallar un derivativo evocando a su hermana. El recuerdo de Mercedes, que en otras ocasiones lo excitaba siempre, disgustábale ahora. Mejor dicho, le daba asco". Publicada en 1908, Historia de un amor turbio es la primera novela de las únicas dos que Horacio Quiroga (Uruguay, 1879) escribió con su nombre. En tres tiempos narrativos, relata la sórdida relación...

She is in a hopeless situation. He has sworn off love. Can they find hope in each other and, possibly, a way out of their personal prisons? Laura Millington is the daughter of a prominent railroad tycoon, but that luxury comes at a price. Her father's intentions are to use her as a pawn, steal her choices, and press her into a mold she can't seem to fit. When her curious nature and desire for justice finds her caught up in the middle of a train run...

As heiress to the famous Laurent Fashion Dolls business, Marguerite Ashby's future seems secure. But France still seethes with violence in the wake of the Revolution. And when Marguerite's husband is killed during a riot, the young widow travels to Edinburgh and becomes apprentice to her old friend, Marie Tussaud, who has established a wax exhibition. When Prime Minister William Pitt commissions a wax figure of Admiral Nelson, Marguerite becomes immersed...

In a city of passion and wonder lurks a darkness. A nefarious band of traffickers known as "the ruffians" creep through Argentina's capital. Unbeknownst to the freshly arrived American sailor, Andrew, he soon discovers more than he bargained for when he meets the brave local Renata. She has risked much to rescue these trafficked women; nevertheless, actions have consequences. United by circumstances, Andrew and Renata must work together to escape...

Seeing ghosts is literally in her blood.Life is hard enough without having to deal with ghosts following you around every day. Maggie O'Connor wishes that she did not have psychic gifts but coming from a long line of Irish female seers, she never had a choice. Faced with having to care for her departed sister's orphaned baby, Maggie struggles to pay the rent while working for pennies at a local Bowery sweatshop. Her life goes from bad to worse when...

Courage is choosing to do the right thing regardless of the cost... As Montana emerges into statehood, one woman must decide if social pressure will prevail when she hides an endangered child, risking her own future happiness.Queen of the Rockies, book 1 of 6, opens the series.1889 (Helena, MT): As the gold rush era, the people of Helena MT must create a new source of income via tourism or become another gold mine ghost town. Calista Blythe enters...

From the Best-Selling Pen of America's First Undercover Journalist, a Novel Lost for 125 Years! Pioneering undercover journalist Nellie Bly is rightly famous for exposing society's ills. From brutal insane asylums to corrupt politicians, she exposed all manner of frauds and charlatans. What no one has known was that she was also a novelist. This is because, of the 12 novels Bly wrote between 1889 and 1895, 11 have been lost - until now! Discovered...