Blood of a Gladiator - format ePub

In June, 1820, I travel to Lyon to attend a wedding, looking forward to sunny strolls on the city's two rivers and sampling the region's food. Instead, I soon spy a man from my past who stirs painful...

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...

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...

Cosamian Dastou is the last living Saint. His immunity to the Social Cypher, a system of mass-hypnotism that regulates and controls modern life, means that some people worship him, and many think of him...

The Andovia Chronicles and Realm of the Undersea Complete SeriesTwo worlds. Two heroines. One epic collection.On land, Nyx Ashwood discovers she's the last fae mind whisperer after being saved from death...

He owns the company. She owns his obsession. I'm not just a billionaire. I'm a man who thrives on control: in business, in life, in the bedroom. Everything runs on precision and discipline. Until Melinda...

Bree Waters has escaped the town that took her magic, but claiming her power was only the beginning.Merfolk exist at sea, and Bree has found them. Approaching the Luna pod for help defeating corruption...

To regain his life, he must earn the love of a heartless woman. Is she the one?Privateer or pirate? Lucien Flynn never makes promises to any woman. When a scorned lover curses him to live the life of...

The perfect Alchemist's daughter.Sybil Grant wants the one thing she can't have—to be an alchemist. Even though women are barred from working in the forge, she's developed her skills quietly, secretly....

300 years ago, a god was murdered. Blue, once the deity's most faithful general, made immortal through her service, has wandered the fractured land ever since.Her inability to die is a curse she strives...

At a dinner in Orvieto, Pope Urban IV shouts at Thomas Aquinas to pass the involtini. Whether this incident actually occurred is doubtful. Whether it matters is even less clear. And yet the delay—the...

Captain Celia Grey is tasked: Aliens have her ship locked down, but her crew have begun to fight back. The good news is that help is on the way, courtesy of a detachment of Marines aboard the BPOE Rosalind...

A modern day re-imagining of Sherlock Holmes' most famous enemies!Following his polite ejection from the SAS at the end of a decade-long military career, Captain Sebastian Moran is at loose ends. Between...

The dogs are trained to kill. The handlers are ghosts. And Nikki Drake just became their next target.Private investigator Nikki Drake doesn't usually accept cases from fourteen-year-olds whose life savings...

Some love stories start with a meet-cute. This one started with a migraine, a bottle of water, and Finn Walker telling Alex Archer, to her face, that she's a real tight-ass. He just didn't know it was...

Bad Boys of Redwood Academy Boxset: Books 4-6Innocent heroines. Devious blackmail. And an elite society of bad boys.From Detention: She's a star student at her desk—and even better under mine. When Sakura...

Twenty-five-year-old BJ Wells has had enough of her controlling father and the work on their sprawling family ranch. Determined to carve out her own life, she launches into a computer search for a professional...

She came to the mountains by mistake.He never thought she'd stay.When stormy roads and a wrong turn leave Clara Belle stranded in Woodhaven, she's way out of her element. Designer heels, city attitude,...

Rey Switzer is a young woman living on her own in Pasadena, California. An inspiring artist and gallery intern, she has an estranged relationship with her parents, particularly her mother. As she tried...

Lisbon, 1943.She lies to survive.He kills those who cross him.When Isla Devereaux is caught forging Lucien Duret's signature, the man whose made a fortune by making people disappear, survival turns into...

Pat Lancaster is a Psychic Detective who helps the different police precincts solve their most difficult cases.The man she is having a very serious relationship with has tried many times to talk her into...

A remote island. A chilling homicide. A killer who walks among them.When maintenance man Hal checks in on his client, the widow Aubrey McNaught, he finds her twisted, lifeless body on the kitchen floor...

Fire can destroy—or it can reveal what's truly burning inside.Captain Eli Grant has spent years burying the pain of losing his wife to a fire he couldn't stop. When a string of suspicious blazes rocks...

The Prince Written in InkBy Riaan Hayes — Part One of TwoIn a quiet rain-washed town where stories are repaired instead of written, Elia Vell struggles to keep her late father's bookbinding shop alive....

Clayton is a man obsessed with "Progress". At forty-eight, he is haunted by the legacy of his forefathers. Driven by a desperate need to outlast time itself, Clayton tracks down Chaney, a reclusive shopkeeper...

Lila thought that surviving abduction was the hardest fight of her life, that after making it out alive she would have the freedom to enjoy a somewhat normal life. She was wrong. After Nikolai disappears,...

Some stories begin on grand stages, under bright lights and roaring crowds.This one began in the quiet corners of faith, family, and football in a small Minnesota town where a young girl named Macy Allen...

The New Adventures of Dzhikoni is a vivid middle-grade adventure book for curious readers aged 9–12. Dzhikoni is not an ordinary boy. He travels the world, meets extraordinary people, faces real danger,...

Dr. Adrian Vale is dead.The official explanation is simple: a quiet death in his lab late at night.But nothing inside this case file is simple.What you are about to read is not a traditional novel.It...

DawnVeins of Eternal Light is a compelling narrative of the human spirit's transition from the shadows of the subconscious into the clarity of spiritual renewal. Weaving together themes of psychological...

Welcome to Dolmenwood.A land of ancient forests and older secrets, where stone circles hum with forgotten magic and fog-shrouded villages cling to survival against the dark. Here, lords scheme for power,...

Crown Princess Bernice of Philodendria needs to marry a prince (preferably handsome) in order to produce her own little heirs to the throne. Randolph, a fire-breathing dragon with heartburn, wants to...

In "Death at the Drippity," Samantha White runs a busy coffee shop in the small town of Ryant River, along with her business partner, Larry Lumkey. One day, she and her Chihuahua, Abby, find the body...