It is the summer of 1812. Wellington is fighting Napoleon's forces in Spain, Lord Byron is dazzling the Beau Monde with the first Canto of his 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' - and Viscount Percy Ainsford Foster Ashe is discovered dead in a shabby boarding house in Brighton. It is assumed that the young man - whose gambling debts were considerable - has committed suicide. But then a suspicious silver locket is discovered by Lady Charlotte Ashe, the dead lord's now penniless widow, and Theo Bryght, a Bow Street Runner from London, is called in to investigate what is now suspected to be murder....

Poor William Halsey. An impoverished younger son, his one chance for riches are dashed when his racehorse, The Miller of Dee, is found dead under mysterious circumstances. Then the chief suspect, a wealthy Chester silk merchant, is poisoned a short while later and suspicion naturally falls upon the young man. But would Mr. Halsey really murder the father of the woman he loves, the beautiful Miss Emily Steele? Or does the key to the two killings lie elsewhere in Chester, that bustling English market town famous for its eerie Medieval Rows and restless ghosts of fallen Cavaliers? In this new...

Sophie Moore has neither title nor fortune, but she hopes her talent for music will come to her aid, now that she is an orphan and must make her way in the world. But when she finds temporary shelter at the Mayfair home of a friend of her deceased father, she finds her practical plans being waylaid by the family's dashing eldest son, Arthur Wentworth. Arthur, however, is too in love with his cousin, Lady Harrington, to give Sophie more than a glance-until a series of mishaps and misfortunes open his eyes, in the sparkling tradition of a Cozy Regency Romance.

IT'S THE HEIGHT of the Depression, but for Penny and Nick Garnett, two young Broadway stars about to make their London debut, life feels like one long musical comedy show. They're traveling first class on a glamorous ocean liner along with English nobs, a mysterious Polish countess, and the dazzling, flamboyant Duchess of Tarrington. But just as they're getting used to living the high life on the high seas, the Duchess of Tarrington is found murdered in her cabin. Who would want to murder the young and beautiful duchess? That's the question Scotland Yard Inspector Guy Travers must solve. When...