Bright young things. Jazz and dancing. And two women who were never meant to meet …When Patience Carmichael attends a royal ball in a gown she made for herself as a break from her dull life as her stepfamily's servant, she unfortunately finds that the tumult of a roaring '20s party in full swing is a bit much for her and has to duck out to the quiet of the gardens. There she unexpectedly meets a handsome woman who puts her at ease — the first person she's met in ye...

The distinctive style of the Regency period is a source of endless fascination for fashion academics and historians, living historians, re-enactors and costume designers for stage and screen.Author and fashion historian Cassidy Percoco has delved into little-known museum hoards to create a stunning collection of 26 garments, many with clear provenance tied to a specific location, which have never before been published and never – or very rarely – displayed. Most of the garments have...

***** NOTE: REVISED VERSION ********Aline, Countess of Myddelton is a very proper widow whose friends feel she has mourned her husband long enough. Their surprise birthday gift of a secret lover backfires, for the man who appears to seduce the propriety out of her is her husband’s much younger and very tempting heir. But Richard, long in love with her, cannot stop with just one touch, or one kiss, and he vows to make Aline his by means fair or foul.

From the bestselling author of The Yard and Red Rabbit, comes a short story of Scotland Yard’s Murder Squad, a cautionary tale: Be careful what you wish for.October 1889: Constable Colin Pringle is a man of few illusions, but there is something about the girl in the canal, her skin a delicate shade of blue, that bothers him more than he expected it would. Perhaps it’s because Dr. Kingsley’s forensic examination suggests that she was a just-married...

From The New York Times bestselling author of A Lady?s Secret, a classic Regency romance back in print and in trade for the first time.Even if the handsome, debonair Lord Wraybourne is only marrying Jane Sandiford for her fortune?as she suspects?that does not diminish the powerful sway her betrothed seems to hold over her. The Sandiford Heiress has lived a sheltered life and is known for being stuffy, so her passionate responses to her fiancé?s at...

Bonded by books and united by a purpose, The Mayfair Literary League has taken on a new mission—For Better or Worse. The bachelors of London won’t know what hit them when these bookish ladies set their sights on the men in their lives who don’t see them for who they truly are—yet.When a simple favor becomes very complicated...After years abroad, Lady Eliza Chadwick returns to London to claim her future. Only one man will do—her brother’s l...

In this enchanting first novel, an irrepressibly optimistic oddball orphan is thrust into the wilds of postwar New York City after an extraordinary childhood in a theater—Candide by way of John Irving, with a hint of Charles Dickens.Abandoned as an infant by his actress mother in her theater dressing room, August March was raised by an ancient laundress. Highly intelligent, a tad feral, August is a true child of the theater –able to recite Shakespeare befo...

In the glittering ballrooms and scandalous gambling dens of Regency England, the notorious Lord Tristan Breckenridge is a name whispered with both awe and trepidation. When a high-stakes card game leads him to win the captivating Miss Emmeline Brooks, a virtuous lady untouched by the allure of London society, their fates become irrevocably entwined.Tristan, a charming rogue with a disdain for marriage, never expected to acquire a wife through a game of chance. Emmeline, resolute in...

Some families will do anything to protect their secrets...A haunting Victorian gothic mystery from the author of the acclaimed Sea of Secrets! In this short novella of about 80 pages, governess Medora Yates arrives at remote Hawksclaw House in the dying days of 1856 to find that the parents of her new charge won't even let her meet him. When surly Mr. Hawksclaw announces the next morning that the boy has died, Med...

Boston, 1984. Even in a world without cell phones, messages come through loud and clear if one is listening. When thirty-something Nora Forrest travels to Manhattan to see a Broadway play starring her idol, an aging Irish actor named Hugh Sheenan, she doesn’t know whether what happens in the theater that night should be credited to witchcraft, extrasensory perception, synchronicity, or simple accident—and she knows that many people would tell her nothing had happened at all.Told thr...

The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan (originally, The Pie and the Patty-Pan) a children's book written and illustrated by the famous author of children's stories: Beatrix Potter: It tells of a cat called Ribby and a tea party she holds for a dog called Duchess. Complications arise when Duchess tries to replace Ribby's mouse pie with her own ham and veal pie, and then believes she has swallowed a small tin pastry form called a patty-pan. Its themes are etiquette and social relations in a s...

A father's ultimatum…On Christmas Day, Lady Elizabeth Tierney is aghast when her father tells her he's found her a bridegroom. She'll meet her suitor, Viscount Fairchild, at tonight's festivities, and Elizabeth had better charm him – or else!A daughter's defiance.The spirited beauty has danced her way through four seasons and sees no reason why her life needs to change. At least until she falls in love with one of ...