When the mesmerizing Marcus Longfellow, the Earl of Renn, comes striding into Miss Mary Marsh's life, her world is set spinning. The ladies of London's ton clamor for the lacy confections Mary creates, but the earl is seeking something more from...
Young Derek Lestrange, Mrs. Bradley's grandson, is in need of a scrapbook to complete a school assignment, and finds just the thing in the form of a heavy diary that belonged to an earlier tenant of the house his grandmother has rented. Asking...
When Mrs Bradleys grandson finds an old diary in her rented cottage it attracts the interest of this most unconventional of detectives, for the books now deceased owner was once suspected of the murders of both her aunt and...
An encounter at the Million Man March sucks Gunner into an ice-cold missing persons case
Elroy Covington should have run. He had traveled to the Million Man March in Washington, DC, looking forward to a new city and new faces. Then in a Dupont...
In nineteenth-century Vienna, a drama of love, fate, and will is played out amid the intellectual ferment that defined the era. Josef Breuer, one of the founding fathers of psychoanalysis, is at the height of his career. Friedrich Nietzsche,...
I was once as silly as most girls are when they're seventeen. A pretty figure and a pretty face – it seemed that nothing else was needed for life, everything else life would present on a platter. But, if only I had been given a little more brains...
For more than seven decades the circuses enjoyed tremendous popularity in the Soviet Union. How did the circus—an institution that dethroned figures of authority and refused any orderly narrative structure—become such a cultural mainstay in a...