A Mystery at Carlton House - format ePub

Captain Gabriel Lacey begins Spring 1818 preparing for a duel. But while he focuses on the affair of honor, darkness, greed, and death stalk the streets of London and bring tragedy to a family Lacey has...

Captain Gabriel Lacey accompanies famous dandy Lucius Grenville to Egypt, a land that Lacey has long anticipated visiting. Lacey travels there for more than a simple holiday, however—James Denis has tasked...

When I agree to visit Grenville in his villa near Rome, I scarcely imagine that I immediately will become embroiled in mystery and mayhem. James Denis has requested that I purchase an antique from a collector,...

March 1820When James Denis is arrested for murder and lands himself in Newgate, it falls to me to prove his innocence. I have nowhere to start but in a dark street in Seven Dials and the name of the unknown...

London, 1819: When Brewster, my bodyguard, comes to me about a murder of a pugilist—and what's more, says his wife has summoned me—I must hasten to St. Giles to find a killer before Brewster is arrested...

This anthology brings together three short mysteries in the Captain Lacey series: The Necklace Affair (novella); and The Gentleman's Walking Stick and The Disappearance of Miss Sarah Oswald (short stories).In...

When Captain Gabriel Lacey finds himself standing over a dead body in Brighton Pavilion, bloody sword in hand and no memory of how he got there, he immediately fears he is a murderer.The dead man is Colonel...

Leonidas, freeman, former slave gladiator and champion of the Roman Colosseum, now must fight the full might of the Roman Empire.  A man who owed him money was murdered, and Leonidas is a prime suspect....

Quand la police de Bow Street convoque le capitaine Gabriel Lacey dans une salle de bal de Berkeley Square, l'heure est grave. On vient de retrouver un jeune dandy mort par arme blanche lors d'une soirée...

Leonidas, champion gladiator of Rome, is set free from the games by a mysterious benefactor who grants him freedom, a place to live, and a servant—Cassia, a scribe—to look after him. But the benefactor...

Paris, 1679Émilie d'Armand, lady-in-waiting to the Queen of France in the time of Louis XIV, leaves court for a brief visit to a friend in Paris. She finds a house filled with secrets and old scandal,...

1816When I, cavalry captain Gabriel Lacey, return to London from the Napoleonic Wars, I am exhausted and fighting melancholia, my army career ended.My interest is piqued, however, when I learn of a man's...

Three historical mysteries span time from the court of Louis XIV to Victorian London.Meet Émilie d'Armand, a young woman who witnesses corruption and murder in seventeenth-century France (The Bishop's...

A Bow Street Runner summons Captain Gabriel Lacey to a Berkeley Square ballroom where a young dandy has been found stabbed to death during a society ball. The prime suspect: Lacey's former commander,...

Winter 1818: As Captain Gabriel Lacey prepares for his upcoming wedding, his former neighbor, Marianne Simmons, asks for his help to find an actress friend who's gone missing. Lacey agrees to help look...

Captain Lacey is asked by Peter Thompson of the Thames River Police to help him investigate a cold case–the murder of a woman found near the docks Thompson patrols. The investigation was sidelined, considered...

From H.L. Crowe comes their blasphemous debut, DELIVER US TO EVIL.Woodheart, North Carolina is home to a Catholic Church like no other; it runs and operates like Vatican City with the eponymous Father...

The night they ran, the world went quiet in a way that felt unforgiving.By morning, sixteen-year-old Eli Moreno and his sisters—Maria and little Lila—are standing in the wreckage of one desperate choice:...

Tucked in the lucrative Silicon Hills of Austin, Texas, Olivia St. George thrives as a master of illusions—charming wealthy men who pay handsomely for her company, all while safeguarding her heart against...

For a year, she has been a ghost haunting the mud of the Lowlands. They whisper her name in the taverns and the market squares: Cheveux-Sang. The Girl with the Blood-Hair. A reaper with a bone-grip falchion...

I was supposed to let the beast die.Instead, I saved him.The creature I drag from the snow isn't human. He's a dragon shifter — an Alpha — and when he opens his eyes, he doesn't thank me. He looks at...

ATLASI once had her on her knees.Gun to her head. Finger on the trigger.And I let her live.That mistake carved itself into me—followed me all the way to the throne.Because now I'm the Don. And mercy like...

A love cursed by fate…A bond that refuses to break.After the heartbreaking events of Season One, everything changes.Love is no longer just a feeling—it becomes a sacrifice written in destiny.Secrets begin...

Zalea and Milla Wood know little about the world outside their tribe's land-hold. In school they learned about the troubled Old Times, when bad leaders wreaked havoc on the nation, but that was before...

Wren is a very small bird with a very big dream: to sing her own special aria for the Queen and the Royal Court. But to achieve it, she must travel a long way, across a vast ocean, through a dense jungle,...

A man spends his life searching for truth — only to discover something within himself he cannot accept.

In a parallel universe, under the hammer fist of evil colonialism, a native people are uprooted from their homelands, taken into captivity, and relocated to a life of submission and cruelty.  Separated...

Eliza Bell can face down a requisition officer, deliver a foal at three in the morning, and run an estate stripped bare by war without once raising her voice. She cannot, for the life of her, tell a man...

The Salt Between Us is a coastal novel about love, ambition, and moral fracture set in a village threatened by both rising tides.

They killed her family to break her…but a woman like her is not easily broken. A borrowed badge. A hidden identity.And a man she should never trust. Lainee James should be mourning. Instead, she rides...

Dallas is drowning.A hurricane has flooded the streets. A casino runs on soul-debt. A platform called TRAGIX lets citizens bet on real crimes in real time, payouts cascading as bodies drop. The city's...

A glorious vision is Gloucester harbor, whether seen under the radiant sun of a clear June morning or through the haze and smoke of a mellow October afternoon. Gloucester town lies on a range of hills...

Some years ago I, the editor, was stopping with a friend, "vir doctissimus et amicus neus," at a certain University, which for the purposes of this history we will call Cambridge, and was one day much...

In old times, when voyages were longer than in these days of steam, a nautical frolic on crossing "the Line" helped to break the monotony of many a tedious passage. This time-honoured custom is slowly...

Seventeen days at sea. No ports. No escape.The M/S Elysium is carrying eight hundred passengers across the Atlantic on a luxury repositioning cruise from Italy to Barbados. At table six, strangers become...

The sea was never just water. It was a circuit.In the age of the Phoenicians, the world was not as the history books claim. Hanno, a master navigator and guardian of the Tyrian Pride, has discovered a...

Meloriel is a wood elf who had to leave her homeland due to deforestation. Now, she travels the country, warning people that when the forests are gone, evil from The Below will emerge and humans will...

In the vast and mysterious cosmos, only metal and bloodshed form the eternal backdrop. When Lei Yaotian—a man from our world—unexpectedly awakens on a remote planetary outpost, he is thrust into a brutal...

Li Daoxuan received a strange scenic box.Inside the box, there was an ancient village, and a group of plastic figures, holding swords and knives, hacking and slashing through the village.He bent his finger...

A stolen dragon egg. A forbidden kiss. A fated bond that could destroy two worlds.In the smoke-choked streets of Emberfall, street thief Elara Voss survives by her wits and her quick hands. When she and...

What if the greatest discovery in human history was hidden… not lost?Deep within the unexplored shadows of the Amazon rainforest, a secret older than recorded history is waiting to be uncovered.When Dr....

The Crossing follows the Wooster family in the mid‑1600s as they leave England behind and brave the perilous Atlantic in search of a new beginning. When a widower remarries and tensions rise within the...

Maya Torres works the dead shift. 2 AM to 5 AM. No listeners. No one to hear her voice.Then the static comes.Every missing person she reports—the name, the location, the time—matches the next disappearance....

Ancient Power Awakens. Veteran war pilot Riven Voss thought the war was over. He was wrong. Humanity isn't free—it's contained. Watched. Controlled by the alien Ascendancy. Now Riven survives on the edges...

She writes the scandals that ruin men. He's the cold-hearted Duke who just became her target. Clara Stanhope is a master of the double life. By day, she is a "Pious Shadow"—a wallflower so unremarkable...

He needs a silent wife to save his reputation. She is the anonymous voice behind London's most scandalous gossip sheet.Elara Vance is the Ton's most successful wallflower. Quiet, stuttering, and overlooked,...