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Lynn Messina
Verity Lark is in a new flap!
Bedeviled by Colson Hardwicke's treatment-summarily dumping her via tersely worded message!-Verity Lark is lying awake in her bed seething over his behavior when…
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Seventeen-year-old Chrissy Gibbons lands a summer internship at her favorite magazine, Savvy. In the whirlwind of boys and parties, Chrissy neglects a competition to become Savvy’s first teen columnist. As…
You know Darcy: rich, proud, standoffish, disapproving, one of the greatest romantic heroes of all time. But you don’t know this Darcy because this Darcy is a woman.
In Prejudice…
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Lights! Cameras! Inaction!New York writer Ricki Carstone knows it’s extremely unlikely a movie of her debut novel, Jarndyce and Jarndyce, will actually get made-the odds are like one in a…
Verity Lark knows everything.
As the London Daily Gazette's popular gossip columnist, she is extremely adept at sneaking into houses, assuming disguises and overseeing a vast network of spies to…
Verity Lark, Unraveling Deception.
Verity Lark - England's most tenacious gossip, the London Daily Gazette's most dogged reporter - relishes a challenge, which is why she refuses Colson Hardwicke's offer…
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Having inexplicably nabbed the Duke of Kesgrave, twenty-six-year-old spinster Beatrice Hyde-Clare is determined to marry him at once.
And no amount of handwringing from anxious family members, worried friends and…
Finally, Flora Hyde-Clare has wrest the narrative from Beatrice by finding her own compelling murder mystery to solve.
Well, it's not entirely her own because the victim is her cousin's…
Nothing ruins a lovely house party like bloody murder.
At the decrepit old age of six-and-twenty, Miss Beatrice Hyde-Clare has virtually no hope of landing a husband. An orphan living…
To be clear: Beatrice, Duchess of Kesgrave, does not think every dead person in London is the victim of a sinister plot. The city is large, after all, and some…
As much as Beatrice Hyde-Clare relished the challenge of figuring out who murdered a fellow guest during a house party in the Lake District, she certainly does not consider herself…
Having solved the two murders that somehow fell in her path, Beatrice Hyde-Clare is on the lookout for a third.
Through an absurd quirk of stupid fate, the shy spinster…
Since the new Duchess of Kesgrave cannot be swayed from her unfortunate interest in dead bodies, Lady Abercrombie decides to confront the matter head-on by hosting a murder mystery dinner…
The former Beatrice Hyde-Clare is having a little trouble adjusting to her new situation.
Now installed as the Duchess of Kesgrave in elegant splendor in Berkeley Square, she is confounded…
Having long abandoned any hope of making a match, twenty-six-year-old Beatrice Hyde-Clare finds herself a little overwhelmed by her engagement to the Duke of Kesgrave.
Cloying society matrons clamor for…
Why, yes, the former Beatrice Hyde-Clare is distracted. Having settled comfortably into marriage to the Duke of Kesgrave, she is nevertheless surprised to find herself in an interesting condition. And…
Despite suffering a few initial setbacks, the former Beatrice Hyde-Clare has settled into her new position nicely.
Thanks to Lady Abercrombie's machinations, she has secured the admiration of society and…
The past rears its gorgeous head ...
Deeply distressed to discover her husband lied about his whereabouts the day before, Beatrice, Duchess of Kesgrave, emerges from a wretched night's sleep…
Miss Emma Harlow hasn't earned the reputation as a hoyden for nothing, so when the Duke of Trent discovers her in his conservatory stealing one of his orchids, he isn't…
No, no, no! It doesn't matter how many times the Duchess of Trent (The Harlow Hoyden) requests her help with a delicate matter regarding a patent for her sister's invention…
Earning the nickname Lady Agony was no minor achievement for Lady Agatha Bolingbroke. It required a great deal of effort to make herself so disagreeable, but she did it for…
A woman in the British Horticultural Society! The very idea horrifies everyone, including ardent horticulturalist Lavinia Harlow, whose own name has been put forth for membership by the provoking Marquess…
The classic novel of love and family in the nineteenth century has grown some fangs! An uproarious retelling of Little Women that will leave readers craving the bloodthirsty drama on…
