After the death of her parents, Miss Jane Chatham found
herself without a home or funds. Refusing to wallow in self-
pity, Jane came to London and started a business. She
convinces Lady Harwood to hire her to teach her toddler and
friends to dance. Jane's classes are the Read more...
Five years ago, Francesca Bonnard watched as her friends
abandoned her. They believed the half-truths and lies her
husband told. Without friends and family to aid her,
Francesca ran to Paris as a disgraced divorced woman.
However, she defied her husband's expectations that she
would land in the Read more...
In her fourth season, Miss Madelyn Haywood ignored
society's snickers that she's a social disaster. After
listening to her stepmother's constant criticisms over the
last 10 years, Madelyn is immune to their ridicule. Her
attendance at the social event of the season is only to
shield her Read more...
Ella St. James' life is based on lies. Living as the
Countess of Lanshire, society believes she's a widow with
excellent linage. The truth would land her in an insane
asylum. She's actually a member of Lavender House, a home
for a coven of gifted witches who are Read more...
Grace Eversleigh knows she owes her eternal gratitude to
the Dowager Duchess of Wyndham, who offered her a position
as companion after her parents died and left her
impoverished. The Dowager believes in the rigid social
order of God, King and Duke with everyone else subservient.
She frequently reminds Grace Read more...
Detective Mallory Russo left the police force amid a
scandal that left her with a tattered reputation.
Attempting to reinvent herself, Mallory tries writing true
crime, until a local priest begs her to investigate two
missing teenagers. The police view the teens as prime
suspects in the brutal murder of Read more...
Dean Robillard, star quarterback for the Chicago Stars
professional football team, reflects on his career as he
speeds down the road. He's not prepared to see a woman
stomping along in a headless beaver costume, so curiosity
makes him stop and offer assistance. The beaver, Blue
Bailey, dressed to Read more...
Keira Sullivan, a successful illustrator and folklorist,
arrives in Ireland to research the history of an old folk
tale involving fairies and a stone angel. It will also give
her a chance to look into her own Irish background, which
her mother refuses to disclose. Thirty years prior, her
mother Read more...
Nora Thorngoode rushes to the art gallery expecting to be
received with admiration for her painting. Instead, an
opportunist destroys her reputation by altering her work.
Nora's father, a hard-nosed businessman from low
beginnings, buys her a husband who's suspected of murdering
his brother. Nora trusts her Read more...
Lady Ivy Wentworth cannot find her twin brother. At their
last meeting, Ian was troubled by revelations from their
mother regarding their parentage. Ivy, a seer, has dreams
that her brother is in peril. When the Home Office, with
whom she is secretly employed, asks her to investigate
missing diamonds Read more...
With five older brothers who scare away any suitors that
brave their doorstep, Jewel Crowley has relinquished her
dream of marrying and having children. Instead, she
concentrates on growing her beautiful roses and caring for
her brothers and father. When Eli Grayson appears at her
door begging a favor, Jewel Read more...
Marietta Winters watches powerlessly as her younger brother
is arrested and charged as the Middlesex Murderer. The
gruesome killer slashes and mutilates his female victims
viciously. Londoners roar for quick justice. Marietta
cannot find help from her drunken older brother or her
friends, who will not return her calls. Broke Read more...
Princess Sophia of Kavros travels with armed guards in the
dead of night as she plans to meet British representatives
who promise to restore her to power. Assassins attack her
carriage brutally killing her guards. Sophia escapes into
the night making her way to a secure location until help
can Read more...
When her mother died, Petra d'Averio's brother rejected her
as a bastard that the family no longer had to tolerate.
Penniless with pursuers on her heels, Petra heads to London
to find her real father and request protection. Her mother
swore that when the powerful English lord learned Read more...
Fionna Hawkes loves wandering her neighborhood streets in
the dark where she draws inspiration for the sinister and
moody books she writes. Fionna maintains her anonymity by
writing under the pen name E.J. Sparrow. The popularity of
her books is growing, which allows her to earn enough money
for Read more...
Hurt and betrayal are equal to her shock when Grace Banbury
learns her compulsive gambler mother waged her virtue in a
game. Grace gathers her pride and arrives on her brother's
doorstep only to learn of his recent gambling losses. Once
again, Grace must control her own fate. Meeting Read more...
Nightmares of her mother's murder have plagued Lady Aimee
Daventry for the past 10 years, but she has no recollection
of the actual murder. For the past few months, she's been
remembering bits and pieces in her dreams with increasing
memories of her mother trying to give her Read more...
Miss Claudia Martin realizes society views her as a
failure, since she has not married or had children.
Instead, Claudia has spent 15 years building Miss Martin's
School for Young Ladies into a successful business. After a
disastrous love affair in her youth with a member of the
peer Read more...
Former FBI agent Sloane Burbank left the agency after a
vicious attack left her physically and mentally scarred.
Her life is in shambles from the frequent operations and
physical therapy she needs. Sloane struggles to come to
terms with her limitations as they interfere and complicate
her new career as Read more...