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Nestled amongst the trees in the hills and bluffs of the uppermost northwest corner of Illinois is the little village of Galena. In 1826, it began as a small town named after the technical term for lead sulphide. It rose to incredible wealth and prosperity with its river trade in the 1850s, and because of its lead-rich mines, it became an invaluable asset for the Union during the Civil War. After the war, however, the mines played out and the river silted in, and the town slowly began to decline over the next century. In the late 1980s it was acknowledged for its extensive historic and ...

London, 1696 The city chokes with plots, and executions. Sarah Goodricke—playwright, addict, reluctant heroine—blunders into the Tyburn hanging procession. For a guinea, she agrees to ease a condemned man’s death. But there is more than coin at stake: a sealed package must be smuggled onto the body. When the plan collapses, Sarah finds herself hunted through London’s alleys, coffee houses, and theatres—pursued by Jacobites, courtiers, spies, and a one-legged Irish killer. All want the package, all are willing to kill. The Tyburn Guinea is an unrevised and unfinished fragment from ...