Victorian House

Enjoy three stories of romance, mystery, and the magic of Christmas! THE OXFORD STREET COFFEE HOUSE DETECTIVES Two young women and one young man lead unobtrusive lives working at a Victorian coffee house, for the owner Mr. McDougal. But when a famous painting is stolen, they must assume their other identities--for they moonlight as apprentice detectives under the employ of Mycroft Holmes. THE ROOKS OF MISSELTHWAITE - PART 1: IN THE FORGOTTEN GARDEN Lilias Lennox and her sister Evelia have lost everything. Their parents are dead, their brother is serving in India, and now their sole ...

The House on Thornhallow Moor (Book One of the Between Heartbeats Series) On the wind-swept cliffs overlooking Blackwater Hollow stands Thornhallow Moor—a house bound by secrets older than the sea. When Clara Wren returns to the neglected Victorian estate of her childhood, she expects memories, perhaps even closure. But the house has waited patiently for her arrival, harboring more than just dust and echoes of the past. Whispers drift through empty rooms, footprints glisten with seawater, and in the shadows stands Silas Vale—a ship’s captain lost to a storm over a century ago. Bound ...

Not all houses are homes and not every door should be opened. Cousins take a reluctant yet necessary trip to a house that is not a home.

It is 1859, and the son of an infamous fraudster enters the London home of a wealthy industrialist and his daughter. Before long, passions flare, three people have gone missing, and the work of a rising novelist has been abruptly stopped. A reputation is in ruins, and a fortune will be lost.

This box set contains all 5 books in the Pa's Dirty Little Secret series Book 1 I’ve lived with the man who raised me, alone, since my mama died last year. It hasn’t been easy taking over everything around the house and the farm. But staying busy is a good thing, especially since I can hear the way he touches himself, night after night. Being innocent as I am, it causes me to have thoughts I shouldn’t have. I ache for a man’s touch. It shouldn’t surprise me that he wants the closest one to him to replace what he and my mama had. He IS a man with needs, after all. But does he ...

A richly drawn, captivating, and endlessly amusing novel of love and subterfuge between a lady’s maid and her clandestine lover, set in the country estates of nineteenth-century England. "Ayelet Waldman’s clever, fast-paced historical romp turned out to be not only great fun but also...

Everfair is a wonderful neo-Victorian alternate history novel that explores the question of what might have come of Belgium's disastrous colonization of the Congo if the native populations had learned about steam technology a bit earlier. Fabian Socialists from Great Britian join forces with African American missionaries to purchase land from the Belgian Congo's "owner", King Leopold II. This land, named Everfair, is set aside as a safe haven, an imaginary utopia for native populations of the Congo, as well as escaped slaves returning from America.

London, 1893: High up in a house on a dark, snowy night, a lone seamstress stands by a window. So begins the swirling, serpentine world of Paraic O'Donnell's Victorian-inspired mystery, the story of a city cloaked in shadow but burning with questions: Why does the seamstress choose to jump out of that window? Why is there a cryptic message sewn into her skin? And how is she connected to a rash of missing girls, all of whom seem to have disappeared under similar circumstances? 

Christmas at a snowed in country house. You know what happens next… Not necessarily. Agatha Aston is invited to spend the weekend before Christmas with some old friends. Accompanied by her Machiavellian Basset hound, Talleyrand, Agatha encounters murder, ghosts and romance at a country house where nothing is as it seems. While Agatha has her hands full solving a murder, Talleyrand has his own problems in the shape of Bismarck, the hosts’ unfriendly German Shepherd. Expect fireworks. Containing a short ghost story within a story, The Christmas Murder Mystery is a twisty box of delights, ...

For the first time in its one-hundred-and-twenty-five-year history, the Arthur Conan Doyle Estate has authorized a new Sherlock Holmes novel. Once again, The Game's Afoot... London, 1890. 221B Baker St. A fine art dealer named Edmund Carstairs visits Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson to beg for...

Discovery. Desire. Deception. A wondrously imagined tale of two female botanists, separated by more than a century, in a race to discover a life-saving flower . . . In Victorian England, headstrong adventuress Elizabeth takes up her late father's quest for a rare, miraculous plant. She faces a...

When Cathy’s breasts start making milk, Jake makes her share it with the guys. *18+ Adults Only

The true story for fans of the PBS Masterpiece series Victoria, this page-turning biography reveals the real woman behind the myth: a bold, glamorous, unbreakable queen—a Victoria for our times. Drawing on previously unpublished papers, this stunning portrait is a story of love and heartbreak...

Content to remain a Harvey Girl forever, fiery Tacy Blanche has worked in nearly every Harvey House down the Santa Fe line. But, when she accepts the position of second waitress at the new Montezuma Hotel, Tacy isn’t expecting her former fiancé’s closest friend to return to her life—bringing long buried memories to life. Pinkerton Jasper Caffery had long abandoned hope of ever finding Tacy again, but while on holiday in New Mexico, Jasper collides with the woman who had never noticed him before. He decides to take his chances and attempt to woo her. However, when Tacy’s past ...

The Paris Wife meets PBS’s Victoria in this enthralling novel of the life and loves of one of history’s most remarkable women: Winston Churchill’s scandalous American mother, Jennie Jerome. Wealthy, privileged, and fiercely independent New Yorker Jennie Jerome took Victorian England by...

My magic roses bloomed the moment he walked through the gate. I told them to mind their own business. I’m Wren Hawthorn, Green Witch and guardian of Moonstone Manor, a sentient Victorian B&B slowly sinking into the Oregon coast. The city has issued an ultimatum: fix the foundation in thirty days, or they bulldoze the only place I’ve ever truly put down roots. Graham Stone is the structural engineer sent to assess the damage. Steady, methodical, made of logic and flannel. He didn’t even flinch when I sprayed him with a hose on arrival. He’s not leaving. My home has a secret that has ...

Love got her into this mess—never loving again would get her out. Corinna Victoria Roberts had never been lucky—not in her choice of husband, or her lot in life after the man she’d eloped with had promptly abandoned her, taking her gold and jewels with him. When her husband’s thieving, lawless relatives show up at her door announcing his death and demanding that her late father’s fine dining empire be signed over to them, her life is in danger. She flees to take a position no one expects of her—as a Harvey Girl waitress in New Mexico. Tanner Sterling has hunted his last bounty. ...

Discover a haunting Victorian Gothic tale where family secrets, supernatural terror, and the unbreakable bond between sisters collide in the wild moors of Northumberland... When desperate poverty forces Eliza Harrow to accept a mysterious inheritance from her estranged uncle, she believes her prayers have been answered. Withering House—a remote Gothic manor in the windswept Northumberland countryside—promises refuge from her precarious existence in Victorian London. But the house harbors secrets that stretch back three centuries. Local villagers speak in whispers of lights in empty ...

It was among the earliest cases Dr. Watson undertook in the company of the great Sherlock Holmes, merest months after their initial meeting described in A Study in Scarlet, as in the winter of 1882 the pair travel north to Edinburgh, after a bizarre letter from the eccentric new landlord of a long-abandoned theater, asks for Holmes’ aid in verifying before the world the validity of hauntings long-rumoured to occur there, and which have become supremely active of late amid the playhouse’s ongoing restoration. Disdainful of the idea of the supernatural, the still little-known Sherlock ...

Does the feisty Miss Gabriella Parker know the man in the mask? Who could he be? Readers who have enjoyed the inspirational, clean, and heartfelt stories of authors like Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, and Charles Dickens may enjoy this great story about one of the most important things in life - finding love. ***This book is included in the Regency Engagements Box Set.*** Miss Gabriella Parker is the youngest child and only daughter of Mr. Cecil Parker, a prominent landowner from Kent. Spoiled and privileged, she possesses not only wit but beauty. Making her debut in London for her first ...