Unable to find a suitable husband in New York, American
heiress Clare Herschel had sailed with her mother to
England, where parties from good families didn't care if the
money came from trade when their coffers were empty. The
eligible bachelors seemed a dour lot, until Emmett Markham,
the Read more...
After seeing his mentor off to Italy, Ash returns to London to live with
his two best friends: Nate and Verity Plum, owners of Plum & Company,
Printers and Booksellers. The economic climate is hurting the siblings'
business, and Nate's involvement in revolutionary diatribes against the
government is even more Read more...
During the war, Lieutenant Colonel Benedict Draven had
agreed to a marriage of convenience in Portugal to
protect Catarina Neves. Benedict is shocked when she
arrives in London, after five years, to ask him for an
annulment. The one kiss they had shared still lingers on
his mind, and he Read more...
In order to get a coveted promotion, Lord Gray - officially
Lord Graham Chadwick - has rented a house in Suffolk with
his superior, Lord Fennimore. Their mission is to bring in
The Boss, a murderous smuggler. Gray must also ingratiate
himself to his neighbor, Viscount Gislingham, who is the
King's Read more...
To avoid further scandal after the death of her elderly husband, the
Duke of Tremaine, Viola Cartwright sought refuge in her work at the
hospital she founded. When Florian Lowell has to treat his brother
Henry for the gunshot wound he suffered in a duel, Florian requests
Viola's assistance Read more...
To avoid marrying the Earl of Rolland, whom she had come to despise,
Lady Clara told a lie. She said she was pregnant by another man and
doing so, she caused her own ruin. Resigned to the life of a spinster,
Clara travels to Scotland to stay with her brother Read more...
The king and the queen are dead, winter is near, and Paris
has become the city of death. But the League of the Scarlet
Pimpernel has not given up on freeing the dauphin, Louis
Charles. Tristan Chevalier, Robespierre's secretary,
approved of the Revolution, for he has seen what the Read more...
Ruth and Chandler had met while on a humanitarian mission in
Columbia; they were out to change the world; they knew of
the risks involved. But Ruth Neufeld had never envisioned
being widowed at thirty with two young daughters. The Afghan
hospital, where Chandler and his father both been worked Read more...
The humiliation of admitting publicly that her husband, Ross Barton,
was gone from her life, was almost more than what Hannah Swensen
could bear at the moment. Thankfully, her friends and relatives
understood how badly she hurt and stood by her side. That Eden Lake
had been chosen to host Read more...
After her life in LA imploded, Eden Rafferty went back home
to Wildcat Bluff County to recoup. She never expected Shane
Taggart to be one of the first people she would encounter;
he looks even better than he did eleven years ago. They had
been childhood friends, but Shane always Read more...
Almost forty years ago, ten young men established a tontine
- a wager of sorts - and the survivor would take the lot, a
most significant amount. Until relatively recently, nothing
remarkable had happened, but George, Lord Northbrook, is
worried. His godfather, Lord Deverell, and George's father,
the duke of Ardmore Read more...
The most notorious Nazi war criminals were tried at the
Nuremberg trials, while the small fry went free. So after
WWII, former journalist Ian Graham formed the Vienna Refugee
Documentation Center, a small operation dedicated to the
prosecution of
Nazi criminals. In order to capture THE
HUNTRESS, first, he must Read more...
Honoria Blake was bored and somewhat restless in the little
Paris flat she shares with her friend Alexandra, where the
Pimpernel's agents also hide and congregate. Honoria forges
documents needed by the French who need to escape France and
Madame Guillotine. Honoria was drafted by the League of the Read more...
When Kellen Adams is offered a job to take an artifact to an
art restorer, she figures it would give her a respite from
trying to bond with a daughter she doesn't really know, and
the girl's father, the man she can't quite remember loving.
It soon Read more...
Detective Ryan Kennedy is on sick leave, pretending to be a
casualty of the Detroit Flu, while trying to find where the
virus is hidden and remove the guilty party from the streets.
He's convinced the werewolf pack is responsible, but he
cannot tell his superiors, as they don Read more...
Isobel Glasen was so disappointed. She had been saving to buy the
shop next door to expand her dressmaking business and almost had
enough when she learns that the establishment had been sold. And to a
veterinarian! Her disenchantment turned to dismay when she learned
the new business owner's Read more...
Ya'ara Stein, at thirty-four, intended to finish her BA in
filmmaking but a
pressing call from the Israeli Prime Minister put a hold on her
education. She is to establish a small, ultra-secret team of
covert
agents that will answer only to the PM. The team members Read more...
"Fixie" Farr fixes things. After a personal failure, she
has gone back to live at home and work in the family
houseware store, Farrs, where her older siblings, Jake
and Nicole, make sporadic appearances. When Ryan Chalker,
Fixie's long-time crush flies in from LA, Fixie needs to
calm Read more...
You know how it is when you're so confident in an author's abilities that
you know you want to read her newest book only because her name is
below the title? That's how it is for me for Lynsay Sands. Mind you, the
scrumptious cover didn't Read more...
Alexander Haversham had gone to the family estate to draft a
bill for Parliament, with his friend Lord Slade. During the
night, Alex's older brother Freddie, the Duke of Fordham,
died unexpectedly and Alex was now the new duke. The fourth
Duke of Fordham in as many years -- was Read more...
Monique Daoust
As soon as I learned to read, I read,
and never stopped. As a lifelong
reader of mystery, suspense, and
thrillers, I bifurcated at some point
into romance because of my infatuation
with vampires. I’m a very eclectic
reader – I will read a M/M romance, a
technothriller, a historical romance,
a biography, an erotic romance or an
inspirational one with the same
enthusiasm – but what makes me chose a
book varies little, regardless of the
genre: originality, creativity, solid
plotting, complex and charismatic
characters, wit, and most of all great
writing skills and spellbinding
storytelling. I have a Master's Degree
in Linguistics, and I'm fluent in
French and English, as well as basic
knowledge of a few other languages. I
became a proofreader and sometime
copy-editor because I know I have the
skills to contribute, even ever so
slightly, to this wonderful world of
books, be it only to ensure that those
tiny annoying details – such as a
heroine’s eye color changing midway,
and so on – do not happen. Yes,
accuracy is crucial to me, but so is
being thoroughly entertained.
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