Historical Romance Thriller

Volume two of six begins with the Whigs invading Port Royal. They are escorted by Captain Longstaff "Big Dick", who soon encounters the very seductive Violante Hayze. Atia and Capitaine la Roche remain at Cherry Red's brothel. Plans are made to poison enemies and soon a strange outbreak of "scarlet fever" occurs, stalling the local fayre that drives the city's money flow.

Traveling to be with her fiance's terminally ill mother in her last days, Saoirse Read expected her introduction to the family's ancestral home would be bittersweet. But the stark thrust of Langdon Hall against the cliff and the hundred darkened windows in its battered walls are almost as forbidding as the woman who lies wasting inside. Her fiance's parents make no secret of their distaste for Saoirse, and their feelings have long since spread to their son. Or perhaps it is only the shadows of her mind suggesting she's unwelcome, seizing on her fears while her beloved grieves?

Spring 1937: Teresa, a young Basque girl, is evacuated to London in the wake of the Guernica bombing. She thinks she has reached safety in the lofty halls of Rochester Place and the soothing arms of Mary Davidson, but trouble seeks her out wherever she goes. Autumn 2020: Corrine, an emergency services operator, receives a call from a distressed woman called Mary. But when the ambulance arrives at Rochester Place—the address the woman gave them—she is nowhere to be found.

Steamy regency romance. Redeeming a rake can be so satisfying. Four complete novels. Each filled with intrigue, danger, and true love.

New York Times bestselling author Amanda Quick returns with a thrilling new venture into romance and mystery, featuring the most unusual, highly compatible--undeniably combustible--pairing of Tobias March and his mesmerizing partner, Lavinia Lake. An invitation to a country house party at...

Norditalien 1685: Zwischen Blumenwiesen und Bergen wächst Giovanni Maria Farina heran. Gesegnet mit einem äußerst feinen Geruchsinn avanciert er vom Bauernjungen zum Liebling der Gesellschaft. Im Rausch der ersten Liebe ist er besessen von dem Gedanken, einen einzigartigen Duft für seine Angebetete zu schaffen, und treibt sie damit geradewegs in die Arme seinen Nebenbuhlers. Tief verletzt ändert er die Rezeptur und widmet sie schließlich der Stadt, die seine Liebe rettet - aus seinem Aqua mirabilis wird das weltberühmte Eau de Cologne.

When a mission of critical importance arises, Lord Lynsley, the enigmatic head of Mrs. Merlin’s Academy for Extraordinary Young Ladies, is forced to take on the assignment himself. But when things take an unexpected turn, he has has no choice but to ask for help from a former agent whose injury during a botched mission ten years ago forced her to retire from the elite unit of unconventional lady spies.

Six previous missions had been overwhelmingly successful. They always relied on each other to get out alive, Lex was thinking as he and his four-man SEAL team lay hidden in the wet jungle grass. Their mission was to destroy the North Vietnamese encampment with explosives and to eliminate the officers. When their mission goes terribly wrong, the team is separated, and Mack is killed. While recuperating in the hospital, Lex is more interested in reuniting with his lost love, Leah.

A beautiful weaver, the discerning son of the notorious William Tell and a fugitive Templar knight meet in this tale of allegiance, mystery, romance, and perhaps a little medieval magic, set in the magnificent but menacing Alps in the 14th century.

As the oldest son of the brilliant Harcourt code breaking family, the Earl of Kendal has never backed down from a challenge. When he accepts a dangerous clandestine assignment in Paris, he never expects it to be his last. But with his enemies hot on his trail, and a quickly worsening injury sapping his strength, even Michael Harcourt might not survive this one. Just as death seems imminent, he is saved by a young boy…or so he thinks.

A suspenseful, gripping novel about families and friendships torn apart at the seams by obsession, secrets, and betrayal with relentless twists and turns that hurtle forward to a shocking confrontation. When Ruth, a wealthy divorcé​e, offers to host the Hillside Academy kindergarten...

Malta, 1943. The war in the air above Malta is over, but the battle for Europe is about to begin. Margarita, a young singer in a Valletta nightclub, has not seen her former lover Henry Dunn since breaking off their affair. His wife Vera, an enigmatic archaeologist, arrives at the club to tell her that Henry has disappeared, presumed dead. While investigating, Margarita stumbles upon the hunt for a notorious and dangerous spy: Nero. As an unlikely bond develops between the two women, and strange secrets emerge, an urgent quest to unmask Nero starts.

The only ambition Miss Emily Mifford holds for her first season in London is to endure it without completely humiliating herself; a difficult task when one has an unfortunate habit of saying precisely the wrong thing at the wrong time... After clashing publicly with the odious Lady Hardthistle, Emily soon learns that there are worse things than being embarrassed—like being accused of murder! When the belligerent baroness is found strangled to death at a ball, the finger of blame points at Emily.

Having resigned his position at Bow Street in disgrace (at least in his own mind) and failed in his attempt to establish himself as a private agent, John Pickett toils away at a tedious job as a clerk in the city. When he is approached by a man wishing to hire him to extract a young lady being held against her will at an asylum for opium-eaters, Pickett jumps at the chance to prove himself, and has a very reluctant Julia commit him to the institution as a patient. But nothing at the Larches is exactly as it seems.

Phillippa Benning is the unrivaled beauty of the Season. But when another lady challenges her for a marquis's attentions, Phillippa entices him to a secret rendezvous only to stumble upon The Blue Raven, England's most famous spy, lurking at the site of her planned tryst. The Blue Raven has uncovered an enemy plot directed at upcoming society functions, but he's unable to infiltrate London society.

Hinreißend charmanter Cosy Krimi mit Regency-Vibes Die mysteriöse Hochstaplerin ist der 2. historische Krimi der britischen Krimi-Reihe Miss Austen ermittelt: Jane Austens Gespür für Menschen macht sie zur perfekten Detektivin. Die Grafschaft Kent im Südosten Englands, 1797. Die junge Jane Austen freut sich darauf, den Sommer mit ihrem Bruder Neddy zu verbringen, den sie viele Jahre nicht gesehen hat. Doch schon bei ihrer Ankunft auf dem zauberhaften Anwesen Godmersham Park merkt Jane, dass Neddy dringend Hilfe benötigt.

1943. En plena guerra, el único lugar donde resuenan la música y las risas es el pequeño bistró de Marianne, lleno de oficiales alemanes. Las puertas del local aparecen tapiadas, Marianne ha desaparecido y en el cristal se puede leer una terrible inscripción que la acusa de «colaboradora y asesina». 1987. Sabine se dirige a París para visitar el viejo bistró que acaba de heredar de Marianne, la abuela que nunca conoció.

Shanghai im Jahr 1931, die Bühne ist bereitet für ein neues Jahrzehnt voller Intrigen. Vor vier Jahren ist Rosalind von den Toten zurückgekehrt, aber das Experiment, dem sie ihr Leben zu verdanken hat, verlangt seinen Tribut. Jetzt strebt sie als Assassinin verzweifelt nach Wiedergutmachung. Codename: Fortuna.

A village in Cornwall is thrown into turmoil after a young girl falls from a train to her death. Was this an accident? Or murder? The mystery deepens when clues link the girl to a double homicide committed ten years earlier. Braddon's sensational novel takes us to the estates of aristocrats, the haunts of tabloid writers, the homes of Bohemian artists, and the dark alleyways of Paris. Braddon, one of Victorian England's best-selling novelists, is at the height of her powers in Wyllard's Weird.

Who hated Christy Henshaw enough to shoot her in the throat with an arrow, slash her corpse with hundreds of crisscrossing wounds and deposit her naked body in Roanoke Sound? The answer is no mystery to an immortal man named John Savage, whose gift and whose curse is to recognize the dead among the living. In Henshaw’s murder, Savage divines the echoes of the ancient crime that claimed the life of his soul mate, Mary Colman, one of Sir Walter Raleigh’s famous lost colonists. Savage chases Mary, and her murderer, a Native American named Wanchese, across the pages of history.