Victorian Travel

Step into the machine that launched modern science fiction—now clearer and more compelling than ever. This Adapted for Modern Readers edition of The Time Machine keeps H. G. Wells’s groundbreaking story intact while updating the reading experience for today. Clean formatting, contemporary typography, and gently clarified language remove Victorian clutter without touching the plot, tone, or ideas, so you can focus on the mystery, tension, and wonder at the heart of this classic journey. First published in the late nineteenth century, The Time Machine captures an era obsessed with ...

Embark on a thrilling adventure with Jules Verne’s "Around the World in Eighty Days: Adapted for Modern Readers." This refreshed edition breathes new life into the classic tale with clean formatting and contemporary typography, making it more accessible for today's audience. The adapted language ensures clarity while preserving Verne’s original tone, allowing modern readers to dive seamlessly into the whirlwind journey that has captivated imaginations for generations. Set against the backdrop of the 19th century, this timeless narrative follows Phileas Fogg in a daring race against the ...

What if you have to go back in time to find out your purpose in life in the time you were born in? Barbara is a single mother of one and the owner of a successful Gift and Herb Shop. Her beautiful daughter, Megan, has found her happy ending. Barbara is very glad her daughter has found love, but now she feels lonely and starts to search for her purpose in life. She never thought she’d fall in love herself, let alone get married, mainly because of her complicated past with Megan’s father which has affected Barbara ever since Megan was born. One day, she suddenly finds herself traveling ...

"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 And now the conclusion of Jane Digby's Diary . . . Bright, bold, and beautiful, 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, brigands, lords, and sheikhs were among her lovers. A gifted...

October 1849. Edgar Allan Poe dies in the streets of Baltimore under mysterious circumstances. History calls it a tragedy. But history is wrong. When inventor H. G. Wells receives a letter from the dead, he discovers a device that should not exist—a fragment of machinery capable of disturbing time itself. Determined to uncover the truth behind Poe’s final hours, Wells constructs the Chronoscope, a machine that can follow fractures in history. What he finds is far more dangerous than a single murder. To stop it, Wells assembles an unlikely alliance of the greatest literary minds of the ...

He took on a mission to bring her back. Now it's his own heart she holds hostage… When Lady Barrie St. Claire loses her father, Lord Huxley immediately demands she marries him. Barrie makes her escape and heads for Scotland, seeking the only man she can trust, a good friend of her father. She could never have thought her life would be on the run after the death of her father… Kyle MacLaine, a Scottish mercenary, is hired by Huxley to find his runaway bride. Soon he realizes that things aren’t what he was led to believe. His original plans have changed and now Kyle has to trust his gut...

THE FIRST 5 EPISODES OF THE EXCITING, TIME-TRAVELING, STEAMPUNK MYSTERY SERIES! Episode 1: The "Ghost" Division Agent Artful Doyle, the Bureau's expert on Reports and Regulations, has been unexpectedly given an assignment after three years doing desk work. She's been sent to "bring to heel" their foremost Ripperologist, Agent Darrish Fox, who shows signs of going rogue. But when she finally arrives in Victorian London and discovers what Agent Fox has been investigating, she realizes that situations in the field are rarely as cut-and-dried as they are on paper. The Bureau has always used ...

He never asked for a blind date—especially not one from 1864. If Connor Payne had known his grandfather was up to a matchmaking scheme on their weekend trip to a quirky B&B, he would have stayed home on the farm. But it turns out his accommodations come not with a blind date, but a trip to 1864—with a war on the doorstep and no idea how to get home. Rescuing a stubborn beauty and her grandfather from the burning of Atlanta was not on his weekend agenda. Now getting her to safety might mean dragging her through time… and into a future neither of them understands.

Cholera. Flooding. Worldwide economic downturn. Yet Emperor Franz Josef insists that the upcoming 1873 World Expo goes ahead. A cholera epidemic grips the majestic city. The River Danube threatens to burst its banks. An economic crisis looms on the world stage. Yet Emperor Franz Josef is insistent that the upcoming World Expo goes ahead. After all, it glorifies his name and his nation! Behind the scenes, a team of the brightest minds - including our hero, Jed, and young Marie - gather to stop the spread. Together, they seek to prevent a disaster and, in addition, to foil a deeper ...

He has lived the same deadly day for ten years. She is the only variable he didn’t predict. New York City, 2025. Investigative journalist Zadie Washington is hunting for corruption in the history of the Shaw family empire. But when she touches a mysterious prototype in a museum exhibit, the world explodes into white light. New York City, 1895. Zadie wakes up on the floor of a Gilded Age study, staring down the barrel of a pistol held by Donovan Shaw. But Donovan isn’t just a ruthless railroad tycoon; he is a prisoner. For a decade, he has been trapped in a time loop, reliving October ...

Now, Emma is a back-to-school PhD student with bigger and better things to worry about. That is, until one night, exhausted, slightly tipsy, and on her way home from a party, the glaring white light of a car comes crashing toward her, changing her life forever. Instead of waking up in a 21st-century hospital, she finds herself waking up in the backwaters of London, Victorian England, 1881.

The instant Sunday Times bestseller SOME MURDERS CAN'T BE SOLVED IN JUST ONE LIFETIME. A mysterious death. A Victorian psychic. A case for Ali Dawson and the Frozen People. 'Warm and engaging characters and a wildly brilliant story wittily told' Ann Cleeves 'A thriller that is full of zest and...

A modern pathologist. A Victorian Wolf Lord. A killer stalking the fog. Dr. Simone Grant trusts evidence, not magic. But when a routine autopsy in present-day Chicago uncovers a searing, cursed wolf amulet inside a corpse, the logic of her world shatters. In a heartbeat, her sterile morgue is replaced by the suffocating coal smoke of 1888 Whitechapel—and she is standing in the hunting grounds of Jack the Ripper. But the killer in the shadows isn’t the only monster in the mist. Dominic Sterling, the Duke of Ravenhall, rules London’s secret "Syndicate" of shifters. He is an Alpha Wolf ...

TIME GIRL, a seven book series. Luna lost her leg. Then she lost her century. She was training for the London Marathon. She woke up in 1871. What happens next was not a joke—it was a fight for survival. Luna is a bright, defiant, and driven 23-year-old London music student with no time for fantasy. A disabled millennial with a passion for marathons, music, and making the world fairer, she’s grounded in the realities of modern life. But one spring morning in 2018, while training for the London Marathon near Temple Gardens, a collision with a mysterious woman on Victoria Embankment hurls ...

TIME GIRL, a seven book series. Part 2. You can run from the past… until it drags you back. Luna must return to 1872—and this time, she’s not alone. Some mistakes echo across centuries. Luna must return to fix hers—even if it breaks her. Months after surviving 1871, Luna is back in her own time—but not whole. Haunted by guilt, exhausted by anxiety, and tormented by the consequences of the choices she left behind, she knows she must return to Victorian London to set things right. This time, her best friend Sophia insists on coming with her. But the past is no safer the second time ...

Abigale Martin needs a miracle. After a crushing family secret stole her job, her apartment, and her future, she escapes her ruined life and risks a return to her hometown. Hints from a trusted friend that a mysterious bed and breakfast could grant her deepest desires lead her to rent a room. But when her former crush - a man she’s spent months avoiding - won’t leave her side, they both end up facing more than just the past she tried to escape.

Time travel meets urban fantasy. Book 1 of The Time Corps Chronicles The Time Corps Chronicles is a fantasy series that moves from worlds much like our own to those where the mythical is real and the impossible is true. Clockworks, fey, ancient spirits, time machines, talking animals and other things both beautiful and strange wait for the travelers daring enough to find them. But moving between worlds comes at a price. Medical student Felicia Sanchez is only trying to help an injured man when she slips through a time rip and into 19th century New Orleans, one very different than the one ...

In a world where Nazis lurk and Valentine's Day is anything but sweet, our most beloved detective and his trusted companion find themselves embroiled in an adventure that will test their resolve and challenge the boundaries of time itself. Join Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson as they navigate a Wild West unlike any other, filled with tanks, mortars, and machine gunfire – where even the traditions hold the scent of death. But when they discover Calamity Jane, a freedom fighter leading the charge against a new Nazi empire, their mission takes an unexpected turn. As Holmes struggles with...

Ransom needs a mother for his orphaned niece, not a companion for himself. The fact that Hannah is from Boston is an added bonus in his eyes. Their arrangement allows him to get out of town - a little fact Hannah didn't know about. Hannah needs a husband. Her new name will protect her siblings. The fact that he lives in the back of beyond gives them a place to hide. She hadn’t counted on him being so appealing. But what happens when they realize how very permanent their proxy marriage truly is? Sparks fly but will they warm the heart or burn them down? Read this sweet historical western ...

**I cannot be sure of what I would do, but I hope that my actions would be dauntless. ** How does one independent, incomparable heiress fight back against the destructive force of the Crimean War and the restrictive rules of Victorian England? Alexandra Remingdon is a daring woman with a kind heart, but her social class dictates how she lives her life, and whom she can expect to wed. Then a handsome, skilled, military doctor entraps her into marriage to gain her fortune before he leaves for the battlefield. Is he a scoundrel or is he someone special? With one well-executed deception, ...