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1912. The peace of the Lake District is interrupted by the noisy test flights of a new flying machine: the hydroplane--and Beatrix's friend Grace is receiving anonymous letters that threaten her good name and her plans to marry.

Lady Serena Grantley was born to the nobility, but fortune's whim placed her in control of her gamester stepfather, who uses her beauty to lure young men to his gambling tables. Serena even dismissed her first love, the Honorable Sebastian Sullivan, at her stepfather's command. But when he attempts to force her into a liason with a dissolute earl, Serena resolves to do his bidding no more. Sebastian is the only man who ever captured her heart, and it is to him she turns.

Known by both the lawful and the lawless as "The Teacher," War veteran and former schoolmaster Sherman Dahl sells his services to those seeking justice--and is relentless in his pursuit of wanted men.

As an illegitimate child, the quiet-mannered Frederica Bracewell grew up as a stain upon her family's good name. But when she meets her uncle's new gamekeeper Robert--who also wishes to break free from a scandalous past--she finally begins to discover her worth.

Viscount Sebastian Blackwood returns home after nine years following a scandal. Will he and Isabel Mortimer discover the real killer of this father and brother?

Johnson pens a fictional memoir of a buffalo soldier--a black U.S. cavalryman and the son of slaves, who finds true freedom when he is posted to patrol the newly created Yosemite National Park in 1903.

The time-traveling Americans from the West Virginia town of Grantville find themselves caught in the middle of the Baltic War, with Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, launching a counterattack on the combined forces of France, Spain, England, and Denmark.

A West Virginia town is transported from the year 2000 to 1631 Germany at the height of the Thirty Years' War. Thrust into conflict, the town residents must also contend with moral issues such as who should be considered a citizen.

While on holiday Fitzwilliam and Elizabeth Darcy investigate the murder of a woman whose body was found at the base of Lyme's famous sea wall as well as the prospect that Fitzwilliam's naval-lieutenant cousin may have also been murdered.

Based on 19th century history, this novel follows four women who pin their hopes for the future on a plan devised by Brigham Young to bring emigrants to Salt Lake City. Pushing two-wheeled handcarts loaded with all their life's belongings, the women set off on the 1,300-mile journey from Iowa City--and soon become fast friends even as perils mount around them.