Paris, 1823. Victor Beauchene has led a stifling existence, unrecognized for both his cleverness and his gender, except in the pages of his meticulous diary. Abruptly cut off from his f...
George Grantley has fond memories of his boyhood days spent at Anglesey House with his childhood playmate Charles Scarlet, happy times that came to an end with the Scarlet boy's tragic death in ...
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) was an American novelist and short story writer of the Romantic movement. A Dark Romantic, his works often focus on the inherent evil of humanity and usually include...
Introduction and Notes by Henry Claridge, Senior Lecturer, School of English, University of Kent at Canterbury.This is a troubling story of crime, sin, guilt, punishment and expiation, ...
We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.Set in the mid-17th century in New England, The Scarlet Letter follows married Hester Prynne after she conc...
In the late 18th century, France was in the throes of the French Revolution. Of particular tumult during this conflict were the years known as the “Reign of Terror”, a time in which ...
It did not end with Guadalcanal. It did not end with one island. There were more islands... an island with snow-capped peaks, friendly people, blue seas, where Bud found love with his Tongan pri...
The Scream and Other Dark Stories explores the shapes that form in the shadows, the ones we can't bring ourselves to look at. The trauma that is passed through the secrets famil...
Bella, an autistic elementary school girl, comes from a well-to-do but uncaring home. Her mother and father frequently push her off onto the school that she attends but makes it difficult for th...
Spot and his expanded quirky family are odd-looking creatures who encounter challenging circumstances in life, which people can relate to. Some situations are realistic while others are pure fan...
'Here you have fundamental poetry about water, earth, air and even fire. Jeannie Lawson has a keen eye for nature in all its guises. She has an admirable sense of detail and a rare sense of the ...
A BRAND-NEW ROMANCE ABOUT SISTERHOOD AND SECOND CHANCES IN TRANQUIL WALES TO FALL IN LOVE WITH THIS SUMMER.________________________________________________...
Once upon a time, I met a man who stole my heart. In my desperation to reunite with him, I have nowhere to turn but the Sea Witch. Ursa is as beautiful as she is dangerous, and the one person my fa...
Dove Graves lives a quiet life, running the family cafe and keeping her head down. But when a world-famous movie director and his assistant appear in her cafe, practically begging her to star i...
Brad Reid now lives in Los Angeles but he spent most of his younger days growing up in the high deserts of Southern California. It's been years since he's seen any desert, but while on an import...
The Searching Time is equally a drama, a romance, a social novel, a mystery novel and a lyrical novel. The Searching Time is a rich drama about the intersecting lives of a sixteen-year-...
"People" is a literary novel about a young man's Eastern European homecoming and entanglement in a crime. Like the first book in this series, this story is entangled in mystery and family and susp...