The Necklace Affair (and Other Stories) - 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...

A Comedy Urban Fantasy Novel by Jay ZoracleWelcome to the Byte Corporation: where the coffee's stale, the managers are clueless, and the servers are literally on fire. William Butler is just your average,...

He was born into duty. She was born to defy it. But neither of them is willing to play by the rules.Being the son of a Duke means living under a microscope—groomed, watched, and shaped into a man of perfect...

How far down does the rabbit hole go…?When Liv and her friends are sucked into a magical portal, they emerge on the other side of the map in a strange and dangerous land. Guided by dreams, and under the...

Predator. Prey. Pack.When Teancum Leon's ex-lover confesses to murder, Tean doesn't believe it. Sure, Ammon has a dark side, but he's not capable of killing someone.Except Tean seems to be the only one...

He vowed to protect her. She vowed never to love a killer. Some vows are made to be broken.Sophia Ivanov survived war zones and impossible choices, trading her missionary work in Sudan for a crumbling...

While working as waiters, Rekan and Ramus decide that enough is enough and escape the space resort orbiting Mars. From there they get embroiled in conflict and other absurd situations. Join them as they...

Rising Phoenix is the powerful third installment in the Gemma's Journey series, marking the moment where survival turns into self-reclamation.After everything she's endured, Gemma Westley stands at the...

On his way back from delivering a parcel one day, Everson stumbles across an empty cottage at the edge of the wood, where he quickly discovers its secret: there's magic within these walls, and he can...

In Arrhythmia, Texas, even half mermaids, half demons aren't exactly what they seem. Hell, we're lucky to have a resident mermaid here, considering the lack of water within the city limits. Speaking of...

In a time when love meant silence and sacrifice, how far would you go for mercy?Dayton, Ohio, 1946. Lotte Walheim is a lonely housewife in a marriage of convenience, bound not by love but by necessity....

Wylie Pennington never expected to become a millionaire overnight—or to find himself searching for a forever home instead of the life he thought he wanted. After selling off the family land, Wylie is...

Thea Jones always dreamed of a magical christmas cruise, but catching her boyfriend of three years fucking another woman on board was never part of the plan. Heartbroken, she's ready to spend the rest...

At work one night, photography archivist Charlie Sze-Toh receives a misdirected letter from Wang Tian Wei, a 1920s colonial era Chinese photographer. Through a mysterious digital folder and photographic...

Vienna, 1935.She was born into scandal.He was built to sell lies.When Sera Calhoun falls for Julian Everhart—the man who helped destroy her father's legacy—she knows it's reckless, dangerous, and irrevocable.But...

I CAN SEE YOUHe thought the past was behind him.He was wrong.Living a quiet life shaped by routine and restraint, he believes some truths are better left untouched. But love has a way of reopening what...

He's human. She's a Bear. Fate doesn't care about the rules.Honor D'Amato has always looked out for his little sister. Hope may be grown, but she's still family, and nothing comes before family.Only now…...

Shipwrecked on her way to an arranged marriage, Lyliana McKenzie discovers that her rescuers are not the saviours she thought them to be. Amidst the dangers of a pirate coup she must find a way to keep...

Jason Collier is on his way up in the world. Wealthy and well-educated, he's translated a successful business career overseas into a parliament seat at home in Britain. His marriage to one of the world's...

The old gods are dead …The OLDER gods have returned!Before the American master of cosmic horror H.P. Lovecraft came the Welsh genius of the weird Arthur Machen, who filled his pages with tales of ancient...

He fled Detroit after his wife's murder. But the gang that killed her followed him to Newhaven. Now, with a new ally in Detective Lyne and old ghosts clawing their way back, Commissioner Angote learns...

On Valentine's Day, while the city celebrates love, Detective Maya Chen throws her wedding invitations into the trash.An hour later, she's standing over a dead woman.Charlotte Webb is found murdered inside...

He rejected her to save his pack. Now he'll burn the world to keep her.Lucia is a ghost in her own life. A human healer living in "The Wilds," she is a permanent outsider to the Blackwood Pack—a people...

Harper thought she had left the ghosts of Topanga Canyon in the rearview mirror. As the trusted steward of Roman Sterling's industrial empire, she's spent months building a sanctuary in the Australian...

Heather is looking for a spark. She finds it in Roberto—a charismatic, older man with a dark past and a mind steeped in the occult. He speaks of poetry, tarot, and "sex magic." He also speaks of a future...

Complete the trials, secure the crown—or lose the realm of Embermere to its wicked queen forever.I survived the savage brutality of the Wilds and its vicious monsters only to find myself in more danger...

When the wedding invitation arrives, Maeve Kennedy knows she's in trouble.Five years after their devastating breakup, she's finally moved on from Parker Christian—built a successful engineering firm,...

From Far Around They Saw Us Burn is the eagerly awaited first short story collection from Alice Jolly, one of the most exciting and accomplished voices in British fiction today.The extraordinary range...

King Arthur's Death, commonly referred to as the Alliterative Morte Arthure, is a Middle English poem written in Lincolnshire at the end of the 14th century. A source work for Malory's later Morte d'Arthur,...

The thrill of the carnival turns sinister as FBI Agent Hailey Rock tracks a murderer using fairground games as instruments of death. Can she unveil the face behind the funhouse mirror before the carnival...

He walks through time to solve crime…… of an unusual kind. Someone, or something, is killing the high-rollers who frequent Cleo's pleasure palace in 1880s Leadville, Colorado. Cleo, one of the blood-sucking...