A professor of geology, a retired general, and a young engineer sit on a hot veranda west of the Rockies arguing about the sea that used to be there - and out in the desert is a mine called the Golden Fleece, a relic said to be Montezuma's, and a woman who knows more about both than she says.
Two hundred years after the Great War of 1914 severed the hemispheres, an officer of the Pan-American navy drifts across the forbidden thirtieth meridian and finds out what became of Europe.
Rouletabille is summoned to Petersburg: someone is poisoning a general in a locked villa, the household is above suspicion, and the police are the least trustworthy people in the house.
Two green stones out of a Russian church, a grand duke's daughter hiding in a New York boarding house, and a Bolshevik agent with a scarred hand hunting both.
The author's knowledge of the law and experience in the courtroom are the basis for an intriguing legal thriller sure to capture the imagination of his readers.
Two charming people with no money marry on the understanding that either may leave the moment a better match appears, and spend a year borrowing other people's villas and honeymooning at their expense.
A Kansas farm, a marriage made for the land, and a woman who understands too late what she has agreed to - dust, wheat, mortgages, and a husband who is not cruel, only certain.
The turn of the balance Book II examines the quiet disparities between privilege and hardship through parallel lives shaped by class, duty, and unseen injustice.
Denry: The audacious follows the journey of a young man from a working-class background who rises through society by relying not on wealth or status, but sheer boldness and charm.
The conqueror: Being the true and romantic story of Alexander Hamilton Book II presents a vivid and humanized portrayal of an iconic historical figure shaped by instability, ambition, and the tensions of a rapidly evolving world.
A red wallflower tells the story of a young girl growing up in a quiet New England village, grappling with the loss of her mother and a distant father.
När hertigen av Chevingham bjuder in den strålande vackra lady Rothley till sitt slott på franska Rivieran följer dennas styvdotter Tempera med, förklädd till kammarjungfru, eftersom styvmodern inte har råd med en egen sådan.
In this moving debut novel set over one transformative summer in the lush, beachy enclave of Block Island, a young woman reckons with love, loss and and a startling secret.
An American with a Central European face is mistaken for a mad king who has escaped his keepers - and finds that impersonating him is easier than explaining, and considerably more dangerous.
Fanny Price is sent at ten to live with rich relations who never let her forget the favor, and grows into the only person in the house with a working conscience.
It is exactly one week until sixteen-year-old Mercy Swimmer is to play out a dream scenario: to spend an entire week with movie star Fiona Wonder, the prize awarded to the winner of a contest staged by a teen magazine.
Catherine Hayes, a servant girl, marries badly, poisons her way through it and is burnt at Tyburn - and Thackeray, sickened by novels that made criminals romantic, wrote her deliberately repellent to spoil the taste.
A Boston gentleman goes to sleep in a sealed underground chamber in 1887 and is dug out in the year 2000, in a city with no money, no advertising, no servants and no poor.
Christmas in Hollywood is a glamorous affair, but since moving to Los Angeles full time, soon to be mother of two and writer, Chloe Dean, wife of actor and heart throb, Jack Dean, insists on bringing a few of her own traditions to the table.
A surgeon performs a small operation on a young woman's brain so that she may see the god Pan, and years later a series of London gentlemen begin killing themselves.
A young wife, caught in a lie, tells her husband she has had a baby - and then has to produce one, at short notice, in a New York flat, with the help of a friend and a series of borrowed infants.
