"I NEED A MAN ... ANY MAN." She had blood on her dress and trouble in her eyes when she walked into Cavey Davey's tavern and roused Dr. Cain D'Alessandro from his drunken stupor. The sight of Ana, "The Duchess" -- beautiful, icy, desperate -- almo...
"SHE WAS BACK. SWEET JESUS, SHE WAS BACK." He was her worst enemy, her best friend, the childhood sweetheart and lover -- she couldn't escape. And now, after six long years, Belle Sault was back home in Ohio again, determined to claim ...
She was his inspiration and his undoing.... The reigning master of the New York art world, Jonas Whitaker was brilliant and compelling, a man of dark passions and uncontrollable emotions. Terrified of his own dangerous nature and scarred by the ho...
THERE ARE SOME BETRAYALS A WOMAN CAN NEVER FORGIVE... Sarilyn Travers trembled when she spotted the lone rider crossing the high Colorado plains. Conor Roarke was back. It had been only a year since he'd loved her and used her to betray her husband ...
A WANTED WOMAN Lily lost her childhood the day the Sharpe gang murdered her parents and "adopted" her. They brought her into their world, and taught her how to be ruthless and smart. Soon, Lily the Cat was wanted by the law. But, in an act of reve...
Eliza Beaudry was determined to get out in the big, wide world -- even if it meant trading a few kisses for her freedom. When she met traveling gambler Cole Wallace, she thought her fantasies had come true. But Cole's daydreams didn't include...
HE IS NO GENTLEMAN... After five long, hard years in prison, Jack Waters knows a lot about survival, but now he's caught in the most difficult situation he's ever faced. His new job at one of the best banks in antebellum New Orleans could turn his l...
For a time, Lora Cameron was a happy young woman married to a loving husband with dreams of one day having a beautiful, prosperous farm and living with simple joys. But her dreams turned to dust as harsh conditions, drought and backbreaking work robb...
Only fifteen years of age, Charity Fowler has lost too much: her mother in childbirth and her illusions about love to a young man who broke her heart. Her stern Puritan father has withdrawn from his family; and her aunt, Susannah Morrow, who has just...
You're too sensitive, Lucy. You need to know your place. Be a wife to your husband. Find your duty. Happiness will follow. For young Mrs. Lucy Carleton, it's becoming harder and harder to be the perfect wife, to feign pleasure at the elegant soirees ...
SOMETIMES TRUTH IS THE GREATEST ILLUSION OF ALL. On a cold January morning in 1856, Evelyn Atherton's husband is found murdered after attending an exclusive seance. Having "married up" into New York society, Evie herself is the immediate suspect. ...
Opera singer Sabine Conrad is the toast of nineteenth-century New York high society. A celebrated soprano with the voice of an angel, she is showered with adulation by her audiences and courted by wealthy patrons. But behind the scenes, her every mov...
When the great Seattle fire of 1889 leaves them with nothing to lose, two very different women discover a mutual passion for revenge. Chicago socialite and art patron Geneva Langley has brought scandal to her family for the last time. Her latest ...
In the mid-19th century, Leonie Monroe Russell works alongside her husband, Junius, an oysterman in Shoalwater Bay in the Pacific Northwest. At night she continues her father’s lifelong obsession -- collecting artifacts and studying the native cult...
Grace Knox is about to turn seventeen, and the world of Victorian New York society should be opening to her―a time of dances and parties and boys vying for her heart and her hand. Instead, Grace’s world is closing in: the family business is gone;...
A crumbling palazzo in nineteenth-century Venice holds a buried secret. After she nearly ruins her family with a terrible misstep, Elena Spira is sent to Venice to escape disgrace and to atone by caring for the ailing Samuel Farber. But the crumbl...
The Tales of the Fianna are short stories for readers of Megan Chance’s The Fianna Trilogy: In The Gift of the Deer, the leader of the Fianna, Finn MacCool, encounters a magical deer on the run from a most dangerous Druid, and finds a love that cha...
The Tales of the Fianna are short stories for readers of Megan Chance’s The Fianna Trilogy:While hunting a mythical stag, Diarmid Ua Duibhne and his fellow warriors stumble upon a mysterious croft where they encounter a very curious power. The Love...
The Tales of the Fianna are short stories for readers of Megan Chance’s The Fianna Trilogy.When the best warrior of the Fianna, Oscar, son of Ossian, runs into a strange woman in the wood and is issued a fateful challenge, he discovers that battle ...
The Tales of the Fianna are short Stories for readers of Megan Chance’s The Fianna Trilogy.Diarmid Ua Duibhne’s act of mercy to an enchanted hag leads to a quest that takes him far beyond the borders of Ireland, into the mysterious world of Under...
Penniless and disgraced, Adelaide Wentworth is feeling rather desperate. With nothing left to lose, she and her sister, Louisa, flee to Lake Geneva with Adelaide’s lover, the infamous poet Julian Estes. There, Louisa hopes to persuade Bayard Sonnie...
A spellbinding novel of dark family secrets and a young woman’s rise and revenge set against the backdrop of the devastating 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
The eve of destruction. After her mother’s death, penniless May Kimble li...
A reformist teacher. A dangerous student clique. A powerful novel about secrets and redemption set in the shadows of McCarthy-era America. Rosemary Chivers is haunted by the choices she made as a teenager -- and by those made for her by a controll...
A costume designer’s past casts a long shadow over her well-constructed lies in this intriguing story about stolen identities, friendship, and betrayal from the author of A Splendid Ruin and A Dangerous Education.Hollywood, 1955. As head costum...