Victorian Thriller

The year is 1831. Down the murky alleyways of London, acts of unspeakable wickedness are taking place, and no one is willing to speak out on behalf of the city's vulnerable poor as they disappear from the streets. Out of these shadows comes Hester White, a bright young woman who is desperate to escape the slums by any means possible. When Hester is thrust into the world of the aristocratic Brock family, she leaps at the chance to improve her station in life under the tutelage of the fiercely intelligent and mysterious Rebekah Brock.

London. 1850. The Great Exhibition is being erected in Hyde Park, and among the crowd watching the spectacle, two people meet. For Iris, an aspiring artist, it is the encounter of a moment - forgotten seconds later, but for Silas, a collector entranced by the strange and beautiful, that meeting marks a new beginning. When Iris is asked to model for pre-Raphaelite artist Louis Frost, she agrees on the condition that he will also teach her to paint. Suddenly her world begins to expand, to become a place of art and love. But Silas has thought of only one thing since their meeting....

England, 1866: Die 18-jährige Felicia kann es kaum erwarten, nach zwei ereignislosen Jahren endlich ihre Mädchenschule zu verlassen und die Reise zur Hochzeit ihres Bruders anzutreten. Statt gemütlich im Zug nach Gloucester zu reisen, findet sie sich jedoch plötzlich in einer Kutsche eingepfercht durch einen verlassenen Wald polternd. Ein unerwarteter Zwischenstopp endet in einer Katastrophe: Ein Mitreisender wird tot aufgefunden. Schnell wird klar, dass es sich nicht um einen harmlosen Unfall handelt. Ein Mord ist geschehen und nur einer von Felicias Mitreisenden kann der Täter gewesen sein.

Pride and Prejudice is a romantic novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story charts the emotional development of the protagonist, Elizabeth Bennet, who learns the error of making hasty judgments and comes to appreciate the difference between the superficial and the essential. The comedy of the writing lies in the depiction of manners, education, marriage, and money during the British Regency period.

When famous bounty hunter Thad McIntyre and lonely widow Jessie Alderman meet, a fiery romance flares between them, but terrible events threaten their happiness. A mysterious stranger also arrives in Echo Canyon. Is he friend or foe?

A detective mystery novel set in London during the late 19th century, "Dead Diamond" brings readers into the gritty, desperate world of Paddington, where a struggling writer's life becomes entangled in an intricate web of crime, desperation, and love. The narrative thrusts protagonist, Andrew Thomas, into the heart of an intriguing criminal investigation set against the backdrop of poverty-stricken London. Thomas, a struggling writer fighting poverty, pawns his father’s treasured items and encounters the enigmatic Zillah, the impressive granddaughter of pawnbroker Daniel Stevens. This ...

After the last shots of World War II were fired and the process of rebuilding Germany and Europe began, the Western Allies and the Soviet Union each tried to obtain the services of the Third Reich's leading scientists, especially those involved in rocketry, missile technology, and aerospace research. Naturally, this was a delicate affair due to the fact many of the German scientists were not only active Nazis but had helped the Nazi war machine terrorize the world. At the same time, near the end of the war, the Anglo-American Allies formed a clear picture of the Soviet state.

London, 1897: Lady Christiana Harker once committed a grave sin against her kind when she saved Inspector Elijah Drexler's life by turning him into a vampire. Christiana's bold act has only driven Elijah deeper into an impenetrable darkness, fueled by morphine, nightmares, and a constant thirst for blood. Elijah has no room left in his heart for anything but his quest for vengeance against his childhood tormentor, a quest that he fully expects to end with his own death.

This novel has been in the works since its beginning in 2005 when a century and half old colonial style home was restored by the author and his wife, Barbara. For over twelve months, the house did an amazing transformation, the third time since its original construction in 1845. The first time it was restored was 1861. The second time in 1932 and the last time in 2005.

It is 1933, and Europe is a place of increasing fear and violence. Young British photographer Elena Standish is on assignment in Amalfi when she meets Ian Newton, a charming Englishman with whom she falls in love. But what does she really know about him? Accompanying him on a train across Italy to Paris, she finds him critically stabbed and dying. He tells her he is a member of Britain's Secret Service, on his way to Berlin to warn MI6 so that they can foil a plot to assassinate one of Hitler's vilest henchmen and blame Britain for it, thus causing a devastating diplomatic crisis.

In "Fatal Flowers," the year is 1888, and ex-Pinkerton detective Oliver Redcastle's teenage daughter, Chloe, has gone missing. Kidnapped by an unscrupulous orchid-hunter, she disappears into Florida's vast and treacherous Everglades. Oliver will stop at nothing to find her, and his journey takes him across an ocean, where he battles an assassin, defies murderous train robbers, and confronts sharpshooting enemies from his bloody Civil War past. As Oliver ventures deeper into Florida's most mysterious and exotic wilderness, he discovers the River of Grass holds secrets that will define both ...

The illustrated prequel to the award-winning Anna Kronberg series. Anna Kronberg lives in Victorian London’s worst rookery, offering medical treatment to prostitutes, vagrants, and criminals. To her, plugging holes and mopping up blood is normal. Stitching the slashed face of a young prostitute is not. Witnesses refuse to talk. The police can’t be bothered with yet another injured whore. But whispers are spreading about a man who pays well for a few harmless knife marks. No one dares reveal the man’s identity. Only Garret O’Hare - a thief Anna barely knows - reluctantly agrees to ...

In 1899, Juniper St. James, a sorceress with a haunting past, finds herself entangled in a world of treachery as the enigmatic courtesan to the captivating vampire, Lucas Crawford, and his family, as known as the feared Fanged Four. Their reign of chaos has plunged Prague into turmoil, catching the attention of the power-hungry vampire king, Ezven, whose underground castle harbors secrets darker than the night itself. As the city teeters on the brink of an all-consuming vampire civil war, Juniper's heart is torn between her loyalty to Lucas and her growing affection for Kristoff Novak, a ...

With six years of sobriety under his belt, Caleb Rogan changed his life and married a woman whose reserved lifestyle and morals contradicted everything he knew. When the passion dies between them, Caleb is left edgy and resentful until a night of bad judgment from Scarlett turns his life upside down. In a private room of a grungy sex club, Scarlett triggers his secret passion. Caleb is a sex addict who thought he suppressed his compulsive urges and conquered his disorder years ago, but Caleb soon learns he is wrong when Scarlett awakens a fire between them that will never burn out. Content ...

1896. After he brought her home from Jamaica as a baby, Florence's father had her hair hot-combed to make her look like the other girls. But as a young woman, Florence is not so easy to tame - and when she brings scandal to his door, the bookbinder throws her onto the streets of Manchester. Intercepting her father's latest commission, Florence talks her way into the remote, forbidding Rose Hall to restore its collection of rare books. Lord Francis Belfield's library is old and full of secrets - but none so intriguing as the whispers about his late wife.

Olivia Sheldon has travelled across the world to marry a man she does not love. Reluctant to leave England but coerced into the marriage, Olivia's reward is being reunited with her estranged sister, Clara. Her punishment is falling impossibly and illicitly in love with the enigmatic Captain Edward Bertram. Then one scorching day Clara is abducted from Alexandria's busiest street. Desperate to find her sister - and the truth about her disappearance - Olivia becomes embroiled in Egypt's shadowy underworld, risking both her life and future with Edward.

The Lord of the Manor is a Bit Gruff – But He Has Captured the Heart of the Lovely Sophia. Given their stations in life, Can There Ever Be Anything More Between Them? Lord Zachary Moorshead: I yearn to claim sweet young maiden Sophia as my own, but our ages are not compatible and she is the daughter of my closest friend. Lord Hamish has allowed his only daughter to grace my Moorshead Manor Lodge as the new chief cook, but I doth think he will not embrace a union between us two. Sophia: My heart aches for a forbidden love, an older man, my father’s closest friend, but I fearest he doeth ...

Lady Mary Montagu Douglas Scott has a secret. Overlooked and underestimated by all who meet her, the wallflower daughter of Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch has a sharp intelligence and keen powers of observation. Traits that make her perfect to uncover society crimes – those whose wealthy victims have their pride and reputation at stake. Unnoticed amongst the ballrooms of grand houses, Mary uncovers stolen jewellery, missing money, and saves reputations. When Mary meets Colonel Walter Trefusis, an unlikely alliance is formed as the two work together.

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