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The scandalous women of the USA Today bestselling author Scarlett Peckham’s Society of Sirens are back with the final stage in their fight for female rights—and this time the battle is to be waged in bed… She’s the most infamous harlot in London…and she’s up for auction. Thaïs...

The scandalous women of the SOCIETY OF SIRENS are back with an explosive secret…their ranks include a duchess in disguise Once upon a time she married in secret… An activist painter of radicals and harlots, Cornelia Ludgate dismisses love and marriage as threats to freedom. But when an...

Meet the SOCIETY OF SIRENS—three radical, libertine ladies determined to weaponize their scandalous reputations to fight for justice and the love they deserve… She’s a Rakess on a quest for women’s rights… Seraphina Arden’s passions include equality, amorous affairs, and wild...

Inghilterra, 1754. Quando Lady Constance Stonewell rovina il buon nome di Julian Haywood, Conte di Apthorp, diffondendo un pettegolezzo scandaloso, l'unica soluzione che intravede per riparare al male fatto è offrirgli la sua molto onorevole mano, o meglio, un finto fidanzamento che metta a tacere le malelingue. E pazienza se Julian è considerato il nobile più noioso d'Inghilterra. Dietro la facciata bellissima e imperturbabile lui però nasconde più di un segreto.

Inghilterra, 1758. Henry Evesham è un uomo in missione. Nel suo ruolo di Lord Luogotenente, è incaricato di investigare sul vizio che infesta la città di Londra, dai bassifondi ai ceti nobili, per estirparlo. Sono soprattutto i piaceri della carne a preoccuparlo, come quelli in cui si indulge nel club di Charlotte Street. Henry vi è stato diverse volte, per la sua inchiesta, ed è rimasto colpito dalla quieta bellezza di Alice Hull, assistente della padrona del club. Quando scopre che la giovane deve tornare nel Somerset per un'emergenza familiare, si offre di accompagnarla.

Depois que lady Constance Stonewell sem querer arruína o futuro de Julian Haywood, o conde de Apthorp, com sua coluna de fofocas, ela faz a única coisa que resta a uma dama honrada: se oferece para casar com ele. Ou, pelo menos, para encenar um noivado às pressas e, assim, salvar a reputação do coitado. Mesmo que isso signifique passar um mês inteiro na companhia do sujeito mais sem graça da Inglaterra, um homem que condena todos os prazeres que ela mais adora.

Depois de superar a ruína financeira, redimir o nome de sua família e se tornar o mais lendário investidor de Londres, o Duque de Westmead precisa garantir a continuidade de seu título e de sua fortuna. A única forma de fazer isso é gerar um herdeiro. Para isso ele tem que arranjar uma esposa que não interfira nos anseios sombrios que ele satisfaz na calada da noite, nem faça exigências ao seu coração trancado para o amor.

O lorde-tenente Henry Evesham é um homem religioso que está investigando as “transações carnais” em Londres. Suas visitas a casas de má reputação o deixam ávido por ajudar as pessoas que perderam a inocência para o vício. Ao mesmo tempo, circular nesse ambiente é um desafio à sua promessa de se manter longe das tentações.

Inghilterra, 1753. Archer Stonewell, Duca di Westmead, si è salvato dalla rovina finanziaria riscattando il nome di famiglia. Irreprensibile e meticoloso, ha bisogno di un erede e quindi cerca moglie. Nasconde però un torbido segreto e il senso di colpa che lo tormenta lo porta a frequentare un club privato, in cui si sottopone a punizioni fisiche e umiliazioni, dalle quali ricava però un intenso piacere. Ambiziosa botanica, Poppy Cavendish non sembra proprio il tipo di moglie ingenua e distratta che servirebbe a un uomo del genere.

A con man always has a bag of tricks, ready to fool the unsuspecting, and almost everyone is unsuspecting until they get taken. When that happens, they turn to Carpenter and Quincannon, Professional Detective Services, to recover their money and what’s left of their dignity, and perhaps even to save their lives.

When Barney Street, the fixer, was in Holland in World War II, his life had been saved by a German soldier. Now Barney is dead and his two million dollar estate is left entirely to the soldier who saved him, Milo Hacha. But that fortune comes with a death sentence, for Barney's widow, Estelle, won't rest until she gets back everything that is rightfully hers.

A debutante's missing body, murder most foul, and weird spectrallights in the fog make for a thrilling gas light-era tale of mystery and detection. In 1895 San Francisco young debutantes don't commit suicide at festive parties, particularly not under the eye of Sabina Carpenter. But Virginia St. Ives evidently did, leaping from a foggy parapet in a shimmer of ghostly light.

Drug lords, missing millionaires, corrupt cops… just another day for Carpenter and Quincannon Detective Services. Two missing bodies and two separate investigations take Carpenter and Quincannon from the heights above San Francisco Bay to the depths of Chinatown's opium dens. For John Quincannon, this is a first: searching a Chinatown opium den for his client's husband, missing in the middle of a brewing tong war set to ignite over the stolen corpse of Bing Ah Kee.

Can the true identity of the Sherlock Holmes imposter be revealed at last? Sabina Carpenter and John Quincannon are no stranger to mysteries. In the five years since they opened Carpenter and Quinncannon, Professional Detective Services, they have solved dozens, but one has eluded even them: Sherlock Holmes or, rather, the madman claiming his identity who keeps showing up with a frustrating - though admittedly useful - knack for solving difficult cases.

When a pleasant afternoon's bicycling through Golden Gate Park with a friend ends with the revelation of threatening letters, followed by a gunshot in a mansion garden, Sabina Carpenter knows this is a case that demands her immediate and undivided attention. The questions her partner John Quincannon has to unravel are not difficult: Wrixton, a wealthy banker, has met his extortionist's first demand, but the order to pay another $5,000 is too much to face. The banker's real problem is something he doesn't want to reveal.

Carpenter and Quincannon, Professional Detective Services is a fixture in San Francisco at the dawn of a new century. While the future is unclear, Sabina and John know one thing for certain: they will protect their clients from flimflammers, thieves, and murderers, and do whatever it takes to run these dregs of society into the arms of the law. Sometimes, that requires a subtle touch. Professor A. Vargas, self-styled medium extraordinaire, and his partner Annabelle, use guile and trickery to swindle bereaved men and women eager to contact the spirits of deceased loved ones.

In response to a string of gold thefts in a Mother Lode mine, Quincannon goes undercover as a newly hired miner to identify and capture the men responsible. Meanwhile, Sabina finds herself not only making plans for her and Quincannon’s wedding, but also investigating both an audacious real estate scam and an abusive young man’s villainous secret.