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Frank Swinton is an adventurer, a man determined to raise himself above the drudgery of a nine-to-five job.

Lady Ancella Winn, after the death of her father, goes to Paris as a nurse-companion and falls in love with her mistress's son.

While on a secret mission to the fanatical leader of a holy war against Imperial Russia, Lord Athelston becomes involved in an escape from the Sultan's harem.

Girls in their teens form friendships that are astonishingly intense, yet these relationships are often broken and reformed, filled with confidences and betrayals, loyalty and fickleness.

Lucretia is forced to marry the Marquis of Marlyn. Together they encounter dangerous adventures in France as they rescue Englishmen from the hands of Napoleon.

The characters from Susan Musgrave’s A Cargo of Orchids are back in this brilliantly engaging novel.

Evocative and superbly rakish, these essays are a generous diagnosis of the often offbeat worlds of family, writing, travel, sex and death as interpreted through the real life adventures of Susan M

A light novel of romance, intrigue and kidnapping, written in the style of the late 19th century set in Spain and England.

Betrothed against her wishes to an elderly Duke, Katarina falls in love with her neighbour Prince Michael.

If there is one person to whom Lady Marlowe would rather not owe her life, it is the Duke of Buckington, a man she detests.

A thrilling story set against the background of England, India and 19th Century Hong Kong.

In order to save his ancestral home and estate, the Earl of Irchester must do the unthinkable and marry the daughter of Groon, the most notorious Usurer in the whole of 19th century London.

The war with Napoleon won, the Earl of Hellington begins another campaign, the pursuit of a pretty yet infuriating young milliner who evades all his attempts to make her his mistress.

Disguised as a French governess, Nadina Talbort is hiding in Constantinople wondering how she will get back to England.

How will Astaria choose between three cousins offered to her as husbands?