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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Kitty Talbot needs a fortune. Or rather, she needs a husband who has a fortune. Left with her father's massive debts, she has only twelve weeks to save her family from ruin. Kitty has never been one to back down from a challenge, so she leaves home and heads toward the most dangerous battleground in all of England: the London season. Kitty may be neither accomplished nor especially genteel--but she is utterly single-minded; imbued with cunning and...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When shy Miss Eliza Balfour married the austere Earl of Somerset, twenty years her senior, it was the match of the season--no matter that he was not the husband Eliza wanted. Now, ten years later, Eliza is widowed. Suddenly, she is left titled, rich, and, for the first time in her life, utterly in control of her own future. She's always lived by society's conventions, but now, Eliza has resolved to do as she wants. And what she wants is to head to...
3) Infamous
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Once the reigning beauty of her social set, Celia--whom the newspapers dubbed Lady Infamous--has fallen on hard times and is practically destitute, her reputation in shreds. When Celia is forced to attend a society wedding as a companion to an elderly guest, she must confront the clique she once commanded; the gentleman she'd once hoped to marry--who is now wed to a girl Celia relentlessly taunted; and the powerful man who ruined her life a decade...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Language
English
Description
"After an odd encounter at a grand masquerade ball, Lady Emily becomes embroiled in the murder investigation of one of the guests, a sometime actress trying to pass herself off as the mysterious heiress and world traveler Estella Lamar. Each small discovery, however, leads to more questions. Was the intended victim Miss Lamar or the imposter? And who would want either of them dead? As Emily and Colin try to make sense of all this, a larger puzzle...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
257 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The psychologically charged affairs between residents and servants on a posh London street escalate to violence involving a handsome valet who is sleeping with a lord's wife and daughter, an au pair who aids her mistress's affair, and a disturbed gardener.
6) Belgravia
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
402 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
1815, the eve of the Battle of Waterloo. At the Duchess of Richmond's ball, one family's life will change forever; for Sophie Trenchard, this night will change everything. Twenty-five years later, as the upper echelons of society begin to rub shoulders with the emerging industrial nouveau riche, the true repercussions of that moment will be felt. And there are those who would prefer the secrets of the past to remain buried....
7) Outrageous
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Eva de Courtney kidnaps Godric Fleming, her only plan is to stop the irritating earl from persecuting her beloved brother. But once she has the intriguing rogue in the confines of her carriage, she longs to taste the passion she senses simmering beneath his rugged exterior. Her forbidden plan is foiled, however, when Godric turns the tables, taking her hostage instead--and demanding they marry at once... The last thing Godric wants to do is make...
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 321 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A Death by Any Other Name is a delightful Edwardian mystery set in the English countryside. The elegant Lady Montfort and her redoubtable housekeeper Mrs. Jackson's services are called upon after a cook is framed and dismissed for poisoning a guest of the Hyde Rose Society. Promising to help her regain her job and her dignity, the pair trek out to the countryside to investigate a murder of concealed passions and secret desires. There, they are to...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Only from New York Times bestselling author Deanna Raybourn, go back to where it all began with the original Lady Julia Grey historical mystery series.
"Let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave."
These ominous words are the last threat that Sir Edward Grey receives from his killer. Before he can show them to Nicholas Brisbane, the private inquiry agent he has retained for his protection, he collapses and dies at his London...
11) Belgravia
Publisher
Universal Studios Canada, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 283 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows events when the rising nouveau riche, including the Trenchard family, rub shoulders with London's well-known upper classes and when secrets from the past threaten to emerge.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
451 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Julia Elliston discovers that she is an heiress and marries her childhood sweetheart, but her former ties to Chance Macy threaten her status when he claims she is legally married to him and Julia must turn to her father, Lord Pierson, for help.
Author
Series
Haven Manor volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Katherine "Kit" FitzGilbert turned her back on London society more than a decade ago, she determined never to set foot in a ballroom again. But when business takes her to London and she's forced to run for her life, she stumbles upon not only a glamorous ballroom but also Graham, Lord Wharton. What should have been a chance encounter becomes much more as Graham embarks on a search for his friend's missing sister and is convinced Kit knows more...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
After surviving the perils of Egypt, Peregrine Dalmay, Earl of Lisle, is back in London, facing the most dire threat of all: his irrational family...and Miss Olivia Wingate-Carsington. A descendant of notorious--but very aristocratic--swindlers, the delectable redhead has the ability to completely unhinge him and a long history of dragging him into her scandalous schemes. Olivia may be Society's darling, but she's aware a respectable future looms...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Anglemore Park is the ancestral home of Lady Emily Hargreaves husband Colin. But the stately calm of country life is destroyed when their neighbor, the Marquess of Montagu, bursts through the French doors from the garden and falls down dead in front of the shocked gathering. But who has a motive for murdering the young aristocrat? The lovely cousin who was threatened by his engagement, the Oxford friend he falsely accused of cheating, the scheming...
16) Past imperfect
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
410 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Wishing to track down a past girlfriend who claims he had fathered her child, the rich and dying Damian Baxter contacts an old friend from his days at Cambridge. The search takes the narrator back to 1960s London, where everything is changing--just not always quite as expected.
Author
Series
Lady Montfort mystery volume 4
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 302 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In 1916, the world is at war and the energetic Lady Montfort has persuaded her husband to offer his family's dower house to the War Office as an auxiliary hospital for officers recovering from shell shock, with their redoubtable housekeeper, Mrs. Jackson, contributing to the war effort as the hospital's quartermaster. Despite the hospital's success, the farming community of Haversham, led by the Montforts' neighbor Sir Winchell Meacham, does not...
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Large print ed., unabridged.
Physical Desc
569 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jane Austen meets Philip Roth in a sexy, sparkling debut novel reconstructing the real-life scandal that inspired Alexander Pope's famous poem "The Rape of the Lock." London, 1711. The rich young offspring of the city's fashionable families fill their days with masquerade balls, opera engagements, and clandestine courtships. Leading the pursuit of pleasure are the beautiful Arabella Fermor, with her circle of beaus, and Robert Petre, seventh Baron...