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The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie

Jennifer Ashley · 321 pages

(Highland Pleasures #1) The year is 1881. Meet the Mackenzie family--rich, powerful, dangerous, eccentric. A lady couldn't be seen with them without ruin. Rumors surround them--of tragic violence, of their mistresses, of their dark appetites, of scandals that set England and Scotland abuzz. The youngest brother, Ian, known as the Mad Mackenzie, spent most of his young life in an asylum, an

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A Foreign Affair

Caro Peacock · 331 pages

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Moriarty

Annelie Wendeberg · 718 pages

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What the River Knows

Isabel Ibañez · 404 pages

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India Black

Carol K. Carr · 304 pages

Madam India Black is thrust into a deadly game of intrigue and blackmail between Russian and British agents after Sir Archibald Latham of the War Office has a heart attack and dies while visiting her Victorian London brothel.

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The Dark Unwinding

Sharon Cameron

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Snow White Red-Handed

Maia Chance · 328 pages

"Miss Ophelia Flax is a Victorian actress who knows all about making quick changes and even quicker exits. But to solve a fairy-tale crime in the haunted Black Forest, she'll need more than a bit of charm. 1867: After being fired from her latest variety hall engagement, Ophelia acts her way into a lady's maid position for a crass American millionaire. But when her new job whisks her off to a foreb

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Murder on Nob Hill

Shirley Tallman · 280 pages

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Kitty Peck and the Music Hall Murders

Kate Griffin · 353 pages

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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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The Secret Adventures of Charlotte Brontë

Laura Joh Rowland · 379 pages

Upon learning that she has been falsely accused of plagiarism, the normally mild-mannered Charlotte Brontë sets off for London to clear her name. But when she unintentionally witnesses a murder, Charlotte finds herself embroiled in a dangerous chain of events that forces her to confront demons from her past. With the clandestine aid of the other Brontë sisters, Emily and Anne, and of the suspi

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Good Night, Mr. Holmes

Carole Nelson Douglas · 286 pages

Irene Adler, the beautiful American opera singer who once outwitted Sherlock Holmes, is given a life of her own in this first of a series. Her talent for detection is called upon, not her singing, as she rescues handsome barrister Godfrey Norton, and "duels" with Mr. Holmes himself.

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Meet Samantha: An American Girl

Susan S. Adler · 61 pages

In 1904, nine-year-old Samantha, an orphan living with her wealthy grandmother, and her servant friend Nellie have a midnight adventure when they try to find out what has happened to the seamstress who suddenly left her job.

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The Wages of Sin

Kaite Welsh · 374 pages

"Sarah Gilchrist fled London and a troubled past to join the University of Edinburgh's medical school in 1892, the first year it admitted women. Determined to become a doctor despite the misgivings of her family and society, Sarah quickly finds plenty of barriers at school itself; professors who refuse to teach their new pupils, male students determined to force out their female counterparts, and-

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Delivering the Truth

Edith Maxwell · 358 pages

"For Quaker midwife Rose Carroll, life in Amesbury, Massachusetts, provides equal measures of joy and tribulation. She delights in attending to the needs of mothers and newborns even as she mourns the recent death of her sister. Likewise, Rose enjoys the giddy feelings that come from being courted by a handsome doctor, but a suspicious fire and two murders leave her fearing for the well-being of h

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Proof by Seduction

Courtney Milan · 377 pages

She was his last chance for a future of happiness... A gifted fortune-teller from a humble background, Jenny can make even the most sophisticated skeptic believe her predictions simply by batting her smoky eyelashes. Until she meets her match in Gareth Carhart, the Marquess of Blakely, a sworn bachelor and scientist. He just didn't know it yet Broodingly handsome, Gareth is scandalized to

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Dark Desires

Eve Silver · 332 pages

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Cold-Hearted Rake

Lisa Kleypas · 402 pages

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.

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Secrets of Sloane House

Shelley Gray · 336 pages

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And Only to Deceive

Tasha Alexander · 339 pages

Emily agreed to wed Philip, the Viscount Ashton, primarily to escape her overbearing mother. Philip's death while on safari soon after their wedding left Emily feeling little grief, for she barely knew the dashing stranger. But her discovery of his journals nearly two years later reveals a far different man than she imagined—a gentleman scholar and antiquities collector who apparently loved his ne

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Still Life With Murder

P.B. Ryan · 316 pages

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And Then He Kissed Her

Laura Lee Guhrke · 384 pages

An expert in etiquette, Emma takes her pristine reputation most seriously.But the devilish Lord Marlowe is determined to prove that some rules of proper behavior are made to be broken . . . Supremely sensible Emmaline Dove wishes to share her etiquette expertise with London’s readers, and as secretary to Viscount Marlowe, Emma knows she’s in the perfect position to make her dreams come true. M

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A Study in Scarlet Women

Sherry Thomas · 411 pages

"USA Today bestselling author Sherry Thomas turns the story of the renowned Sherlock Holmes upside down... With her inquisitive mind, Charlotte Holmes has never felt comfortable with the demureness expected of the fairer sex in upper class society. But she never thought that she would become a social pariah, an outcast fending for herself on the mean streets of London. When the city is struck by a

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