At the close of the year 1918, forced to flee England, Sherlock Holmes and his nineteen year old apprentice, Mary Russell, enter British occupied Palestine under the auspices of Holmes enigmatic brother Mycroft. A rash of murders there seems unrelated to the growing tensions among Jew, Moslem and Christian, yet Holmes is adamant he must reconstruct the most recent one in the desert gully where it occurred. Their singular findings will lead him and Russell through labyrinthine bazaars, verminous hovels, cliff-hung monasteries - and into mortal danger...

There's no way to soften this, so I'll say it outright. I already have a wife.' In a single sentence, Walter Radcliffe destroyed everything Kate Sullivan had lived for up to their wedding day. Conventional family life in 1920s rural Somerset left her totally unprepared for the shame and disgrace of being jilted. Desperate to escape, she accepts the insulting gifts of Walter's money and his sham wedding ring and flees to the honeymoon hotel in Bournemouth to try and forget.

Trapped in an arranged marriage to a veteran of the wars against Robert the Bruce, Lady Johanna FitzHenry has one last chance to escape. If a stranger can be found who is willing to swear to a court that she was secretly wed to him before her match to Sir Fulk de Enderby, Johanna will be set free.
Fleeing bounty hunters after the Battle of Boroughbridge where Edward II's army defeated the rebels, 'Gervase de Laval' is discovered on FitzHenry land and made and offer he cannot refuse.

George and Lennie are itinerant farm workers - one of nimble wits, the other of huge physique - whose simple arrangement keeps them in work. Labouring from dawn until dusk they both have a dream to keep them going. That one day, they'll have enough money to buy a small ranch of their own and keep cows and chickens and rabbits. But even his best friend and mentor can't save Lennie from his worst enemy - his own strength ...

Spirited, independent and in her late twenties, Miss Annis Wychwood held herself to be past the age for falling in love. Befriending a pretty runaway heiress brings unexpected consequences, among them the very conflicting emotions aroused by her encounter with the wayward girl's guardian, Mr Oliver Carleton, who was quite the rudest man Annis had ever met....

Captain John Staple had enjoyed active service too much to ever settle for a life of humdrum respectability. The post of gate-keeper to a toll-house in the Pennines appeared to offer certain unexpected and agreeable diversions. This exciting, witty novel tells how the handsome dragoon becomes involved with an engaging highwayman, a tacituen Bow Street runner and a stolen hoard of coins whilst protecting the squire's attractive neice from black villainy.

When Gervase Frant, Seventh Earl of St Erth, returns at last from Waterloo to his family seat at Stanyon, he enjoys a less than welcome homecoming. Only Theo, a cousin even quieter than himself, is there to greet him - and when he meets his stepmother and younger half-brother he detects open regret that he has survived the wars. The dangers of the Lincolnshire countryside could never be more unexpected...

A full-blooded romantic thriller.
'I have often wanted to know what it was he did that was so entirely wicked,' she said. It is a mystery, and I think very romantic.'
'There is no mystery,' said Shield,'nor is it in the least romantic. Ludovic was a wild young man who crowned a series of follies with murder.
A full blooded romance of the eighteenth century, this exciting adventure story of the tracking-down of a master criminal is told with all the verve and suspense of a modern detective story.

Recently divorced, Anna Fox decides to cheer herself up by retracing a journey her great grandmother, Louisa, made in the mid nineteenth century - a Nile cruise from Luxor to Aswan. Anna carries with her two of Louisa's possessions - an ancient Egyptian scent bottle and an illustrated diary of the original cruise that has lain read for over a hundred years.

The Golden Dragon, ancient banner of the Saxons, was never carried through a more turbulent era than the years preceding the Norman Conquest. While the greedy tore at England's bleeding heart, eight kings assumed the heavy crown, and many died contesting it. This was a dark time of battle, royal family quarrels and marriages of convenience, or treachery and brutal murder. Through the years of turmoil lived Princess Aelfgifu: though sent into exile she was never far from the intrigues of her homeland. Behind the scenes she played a dangerous game and tasted a forbidden love....