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Leonora Spencer has an acquaintance with death. Sixteen years ago, only she survived the brutal murder of her family. Now, as an assistant in her uncle's London morgue, she uses her photographic memory to catalogue details for his coroner reports. She also isn't opposed to helping him during postmortems if his skilled hands begin to shake. After a thief breaks into the morgue and steals a locket from a young woman's corpse, Leo is determined to understand why, even if it means going against Detective Inspector Jasper Reid's express orders to keep her nose out of it.

Murder never shocks Leonora Spencer. Violence is a fact of life in Victorian London, and most of the corpses Leo attends to inside her uncle's city morgue are its victims. But when she witnesses a woman's death at a popular night club, and then follows a suspicious hooded figure retreating from the scene, Leo lands herself in the center of another complex Scotland Yard investigation—right where Detective Inspector Jasper Reid doesn't want her.

For years, Lady Cassandra Sinclair has harbored a scandalous secret and a painful loss. Unwilling to trust a man again, Cassie throws herself into a confidential project—a private home for pregnant, unwed women. But after she is seen there by the arrogant lord she once fought feelings for, the walls around Cassie's secret life begin to crumble.

As Audrey Sinclair reaches the end of her mourning period, she and Hugh Marsden, the Viscount Neatham, are at long last looking toward their future together—and hoping for a respite from the dangerous criminal investigations they've found themselves entrenched in.

Principal Bow Street Officer Hugh Marsden is used to living in the shadow of disgrace. First, as the illegitimate son of the late Viscount Neatham, and second, as the man who permanently maimed his half-brother in a duel six years ago. Reviled by the posh ton, Hugh happily severed ties to polite society—until the enigmatic Duchess of Fournier, Audrey Sinclair entered his world and turned it upside down. Now, Hugh's half-sister Eloisa has done the same.

A murdered opera singer. A duke drenched in her blood. For Bow Street Officer Hugh Marsden, the brutal killing is a straightforward case. Ever since his exile from polite society, the chance to arrest a high and mighty peer of the realm has never presented itself. Hugh won't snub the opportunity now. But Audrey Sinclair, the Duchess of Fournier, is certain her husband is wrongly accused, and she's determined to prove it to the arrogant Bow Street officer, even if she must employ her most peculiar ability—or perhaps curse—to guide her investigation. After all, a duchess can do as she pleases.

L’araignee, The Spider, is England’s most notorious spy—and Lady Rebecca Wentworth’s alter ego. After her partner in espionage is killed in the line of duty, Rebecca returns to London, only to discover a traitor has compromised the war effort from the highest levels of the vaunted Counterintelligence Corps. To lure the villain into the open, Rebecca embarks on a new mission, acting as prey for a dangerous enemy. But it is the handsome former Navy captain tasked with her safety who presents the greatest threat, when she falls in love.

Oh-so dashing - but untitled - Everett Markham seeks a bride, and he has charged the field of Miss Sabrina Douglas, a woman who prefers trout to truffles. But sometimes, even when both hearts are engaged, happily ever after isn't so smooth a journey. Unabashed and unapologetic, Sabrina sets her cap for a second son, one who will smile patiently when he comes home to find she's misplaced their children. But marriage changes her in ways she could never have imagined, as the awkward debutante surrenders to a very real, very womanly, all-consuming love.

Heartbroken and desperate to escape another London Season, Caroline Elliott stows away aboard a friend's ship, never dreaming she'll be mistaken for a courtesan and abducted by a handsome mariner with wounds as deep as her own.

British Army Major Anthony Erasmus Hildebrand Bartlett, 7th Marquess of Rockingham, returns to London a tortured soul after losing an arm at Waterloo. Suffering incomprehensible terror from his wartime experiences, or what is referred to as nostalgia, Anthony is now the sole heir to a dukedom and a betrothal he doesn't want. He wishes he died on the front lines with his elder brother, and the last thing he needs is a wife. Can Anthony find the will to live again?

Injured at Quatre Bras, Lord Rawden Durant, Earl of Beaulieu, suffers permanent emotional and physical wounds. Hiding a dark secret, he fears exposure that would destroy him. He does not want a wife, and he never intends to marry. Like his friends, the Mad Matchmakers, he battles enemies real and imagined, which an unknown villain exploits. When Rawden discovers the dreadful circumstances faced by the lady he desires, he makes an offer he never expected and finds himself engaged to the woman of his dreams.

When a fellow passenger is found dead on Audrey's packet ship from France, a mysterious note on the body points to her as the killer. Detained in Dover for an inquest that is being led by a prejudiced magistrate, she is joined by trusted friends and family—and the newly minted viscount, Hugh Marsden—to prove her innocence. But when it's discovered the murdered man was a private inquiry agent, hired to follow the duchess while she traveled the Continent, they enter a race to find out who hired him and why.

Unsettled with his new role in society, and being deemed one of London's most eligible bachelors, Hugh is happy to fall back on his Bow Street skills to track down Lady Redding—and to see Audrey again. But the viscountess's disappearance is only half of the puzzle. A long-lost ring worth a fortune could be the driving force behind the deadly events, and as Audrey and Hugh unravel the truth—along with the secrets and complications surrounding their future—a killer closes in on the house party . . . and selects a new victim.

For years, the Duchess of Fournier has buried a shameful secret connected to her remarkable, if bizarre, ability. While Audrey's gift has helped her solve cases alongside the captivating Bow Street officer Hugh Marsden, she longs to forget her previous committal to an insane asylum. But now, a blackmailer with a taste for violence is threatening former patients of Shadewell Sanatorium, and it appears the ghosts of Audrey's past have finally found her.

After a murder scandal nearly sent her husband to the gallows, Audrey, the Duchess of Fournier, has retreated to the countryside to distance herself from gossip—and from the Bow Street officer who proved as irritating as he was intriguing. But when Audrey's friend Charlotte, the Countess of Bainbury, dies mysteriously on Fournier Downs parkland, she summons the only person she trusts to uncover the truth: Principal Officer Hugh Marsden.

Thagon, der Magier von Aruba, ist Herrscher über die Schattenkreaturen der Hölle, abscheuliche orkähnliche Wesen, die ihm treu zu Diensten stehen. Unerbittlich drängt er danach auch die Macht im Reich der Menschen zu erlangen, indem er versucht deren Herrscher durch ergebene Doppelgänger zu ersetzen. Doch seine Aktionen bleiben nicht ohne Gegenwehr: Mutig stellen sich der Barbar Whuon und seine Gefährten ihm in den Weg - und werden dabei selbst zu Gejagten des bösen Zauberers.

Ein Fantasy-Roman von John Devlin - Pseudonym von Alfred Bekker. Nach jahrelanger Suche gelingt es dem Magier An-Shar in den Besitz einer verschollen geglaubten Schriftrolle aus der Spätzeit des untergegangenen Reiches Ta-Tekem zu kommen. Für An-Shar bildet diese Schrift den letzten Stein in einem großen Mosaik, der ihm noch fehlt, um an einen wertvollen Schatz zu gelangen. Nun, kurz vor seinem langersehnten Ziel, gerät An-Shar in die Fänge der Orks. Das Unheil scheint besiegelt.

Ray Logan, der von Außerirdischen wieder zum Leben erweckt wurde, befindet sich auf dem Planeten Valan. Logan glaubt, als Versuchsobjekt der Außerirdischen zu dienen. Diese Annahme wird verstärkt, weil ihm ein Apparat implantiert wurde, dessen Funktion er zunächst nicht durchschaut. Doch mit der Zeit enthüllen sich für Logan immer mehr Details. Im Dschungel von Indochina gibt es eine Stadt, die einst von den Ktoors errichtet wurde.

Französisch Indochina, 1936: Am Oberlauf des Stoeng Sen, einem Nebenfluss des Mekong, kommt es zu eigenartigen Himmelserscheinungen. Fachleute führen diese auf einen Asteroideneinschlag zurück. Ray Logan, ein an ungewöhnlichen Phänomenen interessierter Millionenerbe, und der Ex-Fremdenlegionär Pierre Marquanteur, machen sich in den Dschungel des alten Khmer-Reichs auf, um dem Geheimnis auf den Grund zu gehen.

Als Ray Logan und seine Leute den Absturzort des havarierten Ktoor-Schiffes erreichen werden sie von Angehörigen der Verbrecherloge M3 gefangen genommen. Ihr Anführer, ein skrupelloser Mensch, der sich "Colonel" nennt, will die Technik der Außerirdischen für sich gewinnen. Er ist geleitet von der Vorstellung, dass er die Welt beherrschen kann, wenn es ihm gelingt, an das Wissen der Außerirdischen zu gelangen.