"One of the best historical series being written today."

—Washington Post Book World

The accolades keep pouring in for Charles Todd and his New York Times Notable, Edgar® Award-nominated series featuring British police inspector and shell-shocked World War I veteran Ian Rutledge. In The Red Door, a disturbing puzzle surrounding a lie, a disappearance, and a woman's death ensnares the haunted investigator. Richly

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For his part in saving Robert the Bruce's life, Conall Campbell is rewarded like his elder brother, but with the last thing he wants... a bride. He enjoys women, but only as a lighthearted dalliance, a game, an amusement. He had vowed four years ago never to marry. One broken heart is enough for any warrior's lifetime. Yet now the ultimate irony? He must steal Isabeau from under the very nose of the man she's supposed to wed, Euan MacCulloch, a hated...

It's Christmas Eve, 1859, and everyone who's anyone is headed to the glorious St. Nicholas Hotel for the most talked about ball of the season. It's the kind of Texas night where anything can happen-even love . . . ONE NIGHT AT THE ST. NICHOLAS New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Jodi Thomas To escape her stepmother's plot to marry her off, Texas heiress Jacqueline Hartman spends Christmas Eve sharing a hideout with an accused bank robber....

When Katherine "Kit" FitzGilbert turned her back on London society more than a decade ago, she determined never to set foot in a ballroom again. But when business takes her to London and she's forced to run for her life, she stumbles upon not only a glamorous ballroom but also Graham, Lord Wharton. What should have been a chance encounter becomes much more as Graham embarks on a search for his friend's missing sister and is convinced Kit knows more...

Evie Fraser, paid companion to a crotchety spinster, seems destined for a lonely life. Then out of the blue, a marriage proposal arrives by post. She met the handsome Douglas Barrington just once — at his wedding — but never forgot him. Now widowed, plant.

Munich, 1938. Evelyn Brand is an American foreign correspondent as determined to prove her worth in a male-dominated profession as she is to expose the growing tyranny in Nazi Germany. To do so, she must walk a thin line. If she offends the government, she could be expelled from the country-or worse. If she fails to truthfully report on major stories, she'll never be able to give a voice to the oppressed-and wake up the folks back home. In another...

Carrie Lacey's happy upbringing is seemingly immune from the pressures of growing up Black in rural South Carolina during the Great Depression. But, life changes when her mother and six siblings are forced from their Anderson home, leaving Carrie and her father, Hallie. While working for White businessman, Tommy Joe Butler, a bootleg liquor dealer, Carrie becomes aware of the depth of her father's campaign to change the lives of African Americans....

Griffith, Duke of Riverton, likes order, logic, and control, and he naturally applies this rational approach to his search for a bride. He's certain Miss Frederica St. Claire is the perfect wife for him, but while Frederica is strangely elusive, he can't seem to stop running into her stunningly beautiful cousin, Miss Isabella Breckenridge. Isabella should be enjoying her society debut, but with her family in difficult circumstances, her uncle will...

A fearsome raider known as the Devil of the Seas, Gavin MacLachlan has only ever loved one woman-and he lost her to another man over a year ago. A rich, powerful man that Cora's clan insisted she wed for the powerful alliance it would bring them, though she swore her undying love for Gavin on the eve of her marriage. Consumed by a lust for vengeance, he took to the high seas to make his fortune, which now rivals that of the wealthiest Highland laird....

Bristow does "a grand job of storytelling" (the New York Times) in this memorable novel of the late eighteenth-century pioneers who settled the Louisiana wilderness, establishing a civilization of charm, luxury, and tragic injustice. For his service in the king's army during the French and Indian War, Judith Sheramy's father, a Puritan New Englander, is granted a parcel of land in far-off Louisiana. As the family ventures down the Mississippi to make...