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Dracula, My Love: The Secret Journals of Mina Harker

Syrie James · 562 pages

"Bestselling author Syrie James has crafted her most powerful tale yet in this amazingly written retelling of Dracula from Mina Harker's perspective. Perfect for anyone who loves vampires--and there are millions of readers out there who do--this novel deftly unveils Mina's story, a woman falling into into a forbidden, dangerous love and whose powerful emotions are subdued by the restrictions of he

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Mist of Midnight

Sandra Byrd · 418 pages

Rebecca Ravenshaw, daughter of missionaries, spent most of her life in India. Following the death of her family in the Indian Mutiny, Rebecca returns to claim her family estate in Hampshire, England. Upon her return, people are surprised to see her-- less than a year earlier, an imposter had arrived with an Indian servant and assumed Rebecca's name, home and incomes-- and died within months of her

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The White Forest

Adam McOmber

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Silent on the Moor

Deanna Raybourn · 465 pages

This isn't your average eBook...Prepare to go beyond the page with this ebook exclusive Enriched Edition of Silent on the Moor! It is enhanced with a recipe, list of characters, letter from Lady Julia Grey, and an excerpt from Morag's journal by author Deanna Raybourn that will bring the world of Silent on the Moor to life, all without leaving your screen.Despite his admonitions to stay away, Lady

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The Road to Paradise Island

Victoria Holt · 410 pages

Annalice Mallory is consumed with curiousity when she discovers the neglected grave of an ancestress with a name similar to her own. But it is her brother Philip who acts on the discovery of the long-dead Ann Alice's map and journals, and who sails in search of the legendary Paradise Island.

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Beloved Poison

E.S. Thomson · 395 pages

After uncovering six tiny coffins at St. Saviour's Infirmary, apprentice apothecary Jem Flockhart seeks answers, following a trail that leads from the dissecting room to Newgate prison and the gallows.

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Elijah's Mermaid

Essie Fox · 406 pages

Since she was found as a baby, floating in the Thames one foggy night, web-toed Pearl has been brought up in a brothel known as the House of Mermaids. Cosseted and pampered there, it is only when her fourteenth birthday approaches that Pearl realises she is to be sold to the highest bidder. Meanwhile, orphaned twins, Lily and Elijah, have shared an idyllic childhood, raised in a secluded country h

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Her Dark Curiosity

Megan Shepherd · 422 pages

Back in London after escaping from her father's island and the secrets she left behind, Juliet Moreau strives to stop a killer while searching for a serum to cure her own worsening illness.

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Mary Reilly

Valerie Martin · 240 pages

This retelling of the enigmatic Dr. Jekyll-Mr. Hyde tale deserves praise for suspense, character creation, and historical verisimilitude. Mary Reilly, a loyal, trusted servant in the household of Dr. Jekyll records in her diary the mysterious circumstances which lead to her Master's tragic fate. The hierarchy of social classes, relationships among servants and domestics, and details of language an

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The Twin's Daughter

Lauren Baratz-Logsted

In Victorian London, thirteen-year-old Lucy's comfortable world with her loving parents begins slowly to unravel the day that a bedraggled woman who looks exactly like her mother appears at their door.

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Catherine's Heart

Lawana Blackwell · 414 pages

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The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein

Peter Ackroyd · 376 pages

When two nineteenth-century Oxford students--Victor Frankenstein, a serious researcher, and the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley--form an unlikely friendship, the result is a tour de force that could only come from one of the world's most accomplished and prolific authors. This haunting and atmospheric novel opens with a heated discussion, as Shelley challenges the conventionally religious Frankenst

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The Darkly Luminous Fight for Persephone Parker

Leanna Renee Hieber · 321 pages

After Percy Parker found her true love, she discovers that her destiny has more in store for her and with the help of magical beings, must stand against a deadly host who plan on overrunning London.

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The Pleasures of Men

Kate Williams · 401 pages

Spitalfields, 1840. Catherine Sorgeiul lives with her Uncle in a rambling house in London's East End. She has few companions and little to occupy the days beyond her own colourful imagination.

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A Taste for Monsters

Matthew J. Kirby · 343 pages

In 1888 seventeen-year-old Evelyn Fallow, herself disfigured by the phosphorus in the match factory where she worked, has been hired as a maid to Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man--but when the Jack the Ripper murders begin she and Merrick find themselves haunted by the ghosts of the slain women, and Evelyn is caught up in the mystery of Jack's identity.

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Who Brings Forth the Wind

Lori Wick · 396 pages

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Hyde

Daniel Levine, Robert Louis Stevenson · 416 pages

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The Poisoned House

Michael Ford

Abigail is a maidservant in Greave Hall, an elegant London household governed by the tyrannical housekeeper, Mrs Cotton. Whilst the widowed master slips slowly into madness, Mrs Cotton gradually usurps the position of gentlewoman of the house. She wears his dead wife's jewellery and clothes, entertains guests as though the house is her own and reserves her most despotic treatment for Abi. In the d

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Drood

Dan Simmons · 963 pages

On June 9, 1865, while traveling by train to London with his secret mistress, 53-year-old Charles Dickens--at the height of his powers and popularity, the most famous and successful novelist in the world and perhaps in the history of the world--hurtled into a disaster that changed his life forever. Did Dickens begin living a dark double life after the accident? Were his nightly forays into the wor

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The Haunting of Hecate Cavendish

Paula Brackston · 356 pages

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Stalking Jack the Ripper

Kerri Maniscalco · 352 pages

A gothic murder mystery set in gritty Victorian-era London, where an intrepid society girl finds herself embroiled in the investigation of a serial killer known as Jack the Ripper.

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A Great and Terrible Beauty

Libba Bray · 416 pages

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