Victorian Egypt

Best-selling mystery author Elizabeth Peters has captured the hearts of thousands of readers with her spunky Victorian Egyptologist, Amelia Peabody Emerson. In Seeing a Large Cat, Amelia must ensnare a modern-day killer, a bogus spiritualist, and a predatory debutante in the awesome Valley of the Kings. Someone is sending ominous messages: "Stay away from tomb Twenty-A!" Intrigued, parasol-wielding Amelia won't rest until she finds the forbidden burial site.

Three Empires on the Nile tells of the rise of the first modern Islamic state and its fateful encounter with the British Empire of Queen Victoria. Ever since the self-proclaimed Islamic messiah known as the Mahdi gathered an army in the Sudan and besieged and captured Khartoum under its British overlord Charles Gordon, the dream of a new caliphate has haunted modern Islamists. The 19th-century origins of it all were even more dramatic and strange than today's headlines.

📖 Part 4 of 10 of the serialised story about the curse of the Rosetta Stone This is the first part of an ongoing novel in the classic serial format. Click here for the trailer: https://youtube.com/shorts/wWak9h-3FKM For the full reading experience, we recommend starting with Part 1. London, 1882. A mysterious cry for help from Belgravia. An ancient artefact that casts long shadows. And a detective facing his darkest case yet. Arthur Kensington, a brilliant Egyptologist, has disappeared without a trace. What Scotland Yard dismisses as the disappearance of an eccentric academic immediately...

📖 Part 5 of 10 of the serialised story about the curse of the Rosetta Stone This is the first part of an ongoing novel in the classic serial format. Click here for the trailer: https://youtube.com/shorts/wWak9h-3FKM For the full reading experience, we recommend starting with Part 1. London, 1882. A mysterious cry for help from Belgravia. An ancient artefact that casts long shadows. And a detective facing his darkest case yet. Arthur Kensington, a brilliant Egyptologist, has disappeared without a trace. What Scotland Yard dismisses as the disappearance of an eccentric academic immediately...

📖 Part 3 of 10 of the serialised story about the curse of the Rosetta Stone This is the first part of an ongoing novel in the classic serial format. Click here for the trailer: https://youtube.com/shorts/wWak9h-3FKM For the full reading experience, we recommend starting with Part 1. London, 1882. A mysterious cry for help from Belgravia. An ancient artefact that casts long shadows. And a detective facing his darkest case yet. Arthur Kensington, a brilliant Egyptologist, has disappeared without a trace. What Scotland Yard dismisses as the disappearance of an eccentric academic immediately...

📖 Part 2 of 10 of the serialised story about the curse of the Rosetta Stone This is the first part of an ongoing novel in the classic serial format. Click here for the trailer: https://youtube.com/shorts/wWak9h-3FKM For the full reading experience, we recommend starting with Part 1. London, 1882. A mysterious cry for help from Belgravia. An ancient artefact that casts long shadows. And a detective facing his darkest case yet. Arthur Kensington, a brilliant Egyptologist, has disappeared without a trace. What Scotland Yard dismisses as the disappearance of an eccentric academic immediately...

A young Victorian Egyptologist traverses the Nile River on a mission to undo a curse that may have befallen her family in this spellbinding novel. “An intoxicating tale of adventure and obsession, told in prose that shimmers like the Nile . . . I loved it.”—Emilia Hart, author of Weyward...

"As the depth of truth of one's life can only be penned upon the pages of a diary, Jane Digby leads us through her passionate life . . . A wonderful piece of historical fiction that will delight your senses as well as your heart." - Peggy Lee Sprague, author of The Truth Hunters series. Jane Digby's Diary continues with Volume Three: Following an Eastern Star. Based on a true story . . . Bright, beautiful, and bold, Jane Digby led a remarkable life. Born to privilege in 1807 at Dorset, England, she soon scandalized Europe with her reckless pursuit of freedom. Kings, princes, barons, ...

Careful What You Wish For... Sarah Clarke, fifteen year old niece of Sigmund Shaw, had never had any adventure in her life – outside of books.When her friend, Charlotte Merrihail, asked her to come along on an assignment to Egypt, Sarah thought that she could finally experience something that was not just in her imagination. What ensues is far beyond her dreams…or nightmares. A threatening curse, an impossible prophecy, and violent secret societies, are only the beginning of what Sarah will find herself up against. Along with Sigmund and Charlotte, an adventure awaits them that will ...