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Penelope Ashford, Portia Cynster's younger sister, has devoted her life to the care of orphans. But lately, her charges seem to be disappearing without a trace. Penelope enlists investigator Barnaby Adair to solve the mystery. Adair agrees, intrigued by both the case and by Penelope.

When young Tyballis discovers her husband has been arrested for murder, she is delighted. As a young orphan coerced to marry her abusive neighbor, she was horribly used. Now is her chance to be rid of him for good and find the confidence she never had. When Tyballis joins forces with the motley network of Andrew’s informers and thieves, they are lured into the dark and dangerous world of medieval London’s political intrigue and back alley slums.

Get ALL 5 books from Emma Lee's popular series in one big box set! INCLUDES: Book 1: Body In The Bookstore Book 2: Body In The Snow Book 3: Body In the Storm Book 4: Body In The Fog Book 5: Body In The Woods From Book 1: After her painful and heartbreaking divorce, Bonnie Mayberry thought her life was over. The numbness, the disbelief in what had happened and the fear of what would come next ensured that her every thought was tinged with doubt. Hoping for a fresh start, she’s packed up, said her goodbyes and moved to the small town of Snow Ridge, New Hampshire. Settling down in an old, ...

When Aurelie Harcourt's father dies in debtor's prison, he leaves her just two things: his wealthy family, whom she has never met, and his famous pen name, Nathaniel Droll. Her new family greets her with apathy and even resentment. Only the quiet houseguest, Silas Rotherham, welcomes her company. When Aurelie decides to complete her father's unfinished serial novel, she must keep her identity as Nathaniel Droll hidden while searching for the truth about her mother's disappearance - and perhaps even her father's death.

Jane Austen fan Amelia Bennett sneaks away from a dull tour of an English country manor, only to run into a man more dashing than Mr. Darcy himself. About to lose his ancestral home to family debts, charming aristocrat Tom Calder invites his American guest to join him in drinking his way through the estate’s priceless wine collection. But when they wake in his bed the next morning, they’re convinced that in their drunken haze they witnessed a murder. Problem is, the body has vanished and no one believes them.

Kate Ardleigh is everything the Victorian English gentlewoman is not - outspoken, free-thinking, American...and a writer of the frowned upon penny dreadfuls. Soon after her arrival in Essex, England, a body is unearthed in a nearby archeological dig - and Kate has the chance to not only research her latest story but to begin her first case with amateur detective Sir Charles Sheridan.

In 1782, a ghost ship ran aground in a secluded cove in Cornwall. To this day, no one knows what became of the Aurora’s crew or the shadowy woman rumored to be onboard. In 2021, when Kyle inherits his aunt’s historic house in Cornwall, all Nicole anticipates is a few idyllic days in a beautiful setting—until she discovers that not only is the house connected to the centuries-old legend of the Aurora and the woman at the center of the mystery, but it also hides its own dark past.

Step into the sultry heat of 1920s Egypt, where ancient secrets hide beneath the shadow of the Great Pyramid. Dr. Clarissa Bell came to Giza to prove herself a serious archaeologist, not to sort pottery while her male colleagues claim the glory. But when she discovers a mysterious scribe's palette stained with rare blue pigment, she uncovers more than just an artifact—she stumbles into a deadly conspiracy. Armed with nothing but her Cambridge education, an alarming tendency toward sarcasm, and a talent for finding trouble in supposedly empty tombs, Clarissa navigates a world where British...

A widowed Lady, a charming Earl, and a tantalizing bet. Can the uncatchable Earl change his ways and capture Lady Julianna's heart? Having been widowed for the last three years, Lady Julianna Carsington has come to London for Christmas to seek out good company and enjoyment, while secretly hoping her heart might be stolen away by a worthy gentleman. Lord Wessex, however, is an entirely unsuitable gentleman and as much as he might try to catch her eye, Julianna is determined not to give him even a single glance. Andrew, the Earl of Wessex, is determined to garner Lady Carsington’s interest...

Small town. Big secrets. Deadly lies. Welcome to MacKenzie Cove, a small beach town full of big secrets…and deadly lies. Join the tight-knit first responders of the MacKenzie clan as they dodge killers and unravel mysteries: finding love and renewed faith along the way. A series of clean, inspirational action adventure romances, each guaranteed to lift your heart. Rising Storm: Homecomings can be deadly. When retired Delta Force operative Rollo MacKenzie returns home to become chief of police in tiny MacKenzie Cove, he has lots of expectations...none of them good. What he doesn't expect ...

What happened to Dr. Jonathan Brandon, a dashing RAF flight surgeon, who disappeared from London in 1945? Kidnapping? Murder? Or did Brandon merely vanish of his own free will, seeking another life? American teacher Anne Howard is stunned by a different explanation - that her British grandmother's long-lost fiance was unwillingly wrenched back through time to Elizabethan England. Anne knows time travel is nonsense - until she is handed a fresh-cut thornless rose, a bloom extinct for over 400 years.

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“You offered marriage to protect me, Your Grace… but who will protect me from you?” Moments from scandal and stripped of her inheritance, Lady Charity's future is hanging by a thread. Until a brooding, unreadable duke interrupts a ball and declares her his wife. With Highland blood in his veins and a past built on secrets, Eammon Wexley never meant to marry. But claiming Charity shields the one truth he’s sworn no one can ever know… It is meant to be convenient. Temporary. Without feelings. But the longer she lingers within the walls of Leith Hall, the more he starts to lose ...

In 1540, newly married and pregnant Isobel Devlin vanished from a tiny island in Lancashire, never to be seen again. In 2020, leaving London for the first time since the pandemic began, Nicole Rayburn and Kyle Walsh head to a guesthouse in the Lake District for a much-needed holiday. Across from the historic manor house, on an island in the middle of a lake, are the ruins of Montrose Abbey, the last known abode of Lady Isobel Devlin. Intrigued, Nicole begins to research Lady Isobel’s disappearance as the subject for a new book.

Katie Price is baffled when a man claiming to be her grandfather leaves her his entire estate in the Scottish Highlands. The bulk of the estate consists of a thriving whisky distillery and a moldering castle. The will stipulates that Katie must travel to Scotland and claim her inheritance in person. There, she uncovers the secret that led to her mother’s birth, and begins to unravel a 250-year-old mystery surrounding the beautiful young wife of the last laird of Clan McBride. As Katie begins to unearth the clues to Isobel’s fate, she embarks on a romantic journey of her own.

Step into the sultry heat of 1920s Egypt, where ancient secrets hide along the banks of the Nile River. Fresh from solving her first murder case in Egypt, archaeologist Dr. Clarissa Bell thought the most dangerous thing about her new assignment would be authenticating ancient pigments. She was wrong. When a respected Egyptologist is poisoned at an elegant house party, Clarissa finds herself trapped with a collection of suspicious guests—including the devastatingly competent Benedict Quinn, whose true profession remains tantalizingly unclear. With her insufferable ex-fiancé offering ...

Alice McNeil resolved at a young age to travel through life unencumbered by love or marriage, free to make her own decisions. A seasoned telegrapher, she's recently acquired a coveted position at an important trading firm, but when the company's ambitious junior director returns to London, things begin to change in ways Alice could never have imagined. For Douglas Shaw, years of hard work and ingenuity enabled him to escape a life of grinding poverty. He's also determined to marry into high society - a step that will ensure he never returns to the conditions of his past.

Meg and Sylvie Townsend manage the family bookshop and care for their father, Stephen, a veteran still suffering from his time as a POW during the Civil War. But then the Great Fire sweeps through Chicago's business district. The sisters become separated from their father and make a harrowing escape from the flames with the help of Chicago Tribune reporter Nate Pierce. Once the smoke clears away, they reunite with Stephen, only to learn soon after that their family friend was murdered on the night of the fire. Even more shocking, Stephen is charged with the crime....

Mystery matchmakers strike again in the town of Bethany Springs Elizabeth comes to Texas to care for an orphaned girl abandoned by her mother. The child has never known a mother’s touch. While Elizabeth isn’t her mother, she knows how to care for children. She’s a governess, after all. A famous one, at that! According to the letters sent to the matchmaking firm, the plan is for Elizabeth to marry the child’s father. On arrival to Texas, however, Elizabeth discovers that the father has vanished. The little girl is being cared for by her Uncle Dalton, a wealthy, surly rancher. Right ...

Cordelia Fletcher awakens in a stranger’s home with no memory of who she is or how she came to be lying alone on the prairie. What she does know is that the quiet strength of the widowed rancher who rescued her stirs something deep within her, something that feels both dangerous and safe all at once. Micah Redmond has lived three years in the shadow of grief, his heart buried alongside the wife he lost. Devoted only to his daughter and his ranch, he never imagined fate would place a mysterious young woman in his care, one whose presence unsettles his resolve to remain alone forever. As ...