Landing her personal hero and mega-best-selling author Essie Starling as a client, housecleaner Liv Green forms an unlikely friendship with this infamous recluse, but when Essie suddenly dies, leaving her an astonishing last wish, Liv discovers a connection between them that changes Liv's own life story forever.

Working as a housekeeper was one of the most prestigious jobs a nineteenth and early twentieth century woman could want - and also one of the toughest. A far cry from the Downton Abbey fiction, the real life Mrs Hughes was up against capricious mistresses, low pay, no job security and gruelling physical labour. Until now, her story has never been told. The Housekeeper's Tale reveals the personal sacrifices, bitter disputes and driving ambition that...

Prim and proper lady's companion Emma Chegwidden throws caution to the winds when she unexpectedly ends up in the arms of the mysterious Reaper, a dangerous masked man on a mission of vengeance who rides under cover of darkness.

Nicole era una apasionada belleza francesa secuestrada por error y llevada a través de mares turbulentos ... para ser la esposa de un desconocido. En la Virginia del siglo XVIII, las tierras fértiles se extendían junto a los ríos que limitaban las grandes plantaciones. Allí, Clayton esperaba a su dama inglesa ... pero cuando besó ardientemente a su prometida, ¡descubrió que la mujer que estaba en sus brazos era la desconocida Nicole Courtlain! On...

The third, ground-breaking mystery featuring African-American maid and amateur sleuth Blanche White by Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity Award winning author Barbara Neely. Blanche White is working as a temporary cook and housekeeper for a right-wing, Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate Alistair Brindle when someone tries to blackmail him. It's an ugly mess that Brindle's political team is eager to sweep under the carpet and that Blanche can't resist...

"She remembered when Hemingway had planted a banyan tree at his house and told her its parasitic roots were like human desire. At the time she'd thought it romantic. She hadn't understood his warning." In Depression-era Key West, Mariella Bennet, the daughter of an American fisherman and a Cuban woman, knows hunger. Her struggle to support her family following her father's death leads her to a bar and bordello, where she bets on a risky boxing match...

Marion Shaw se cri̤ en los suburbios, donde lo n͠ico que conoci̤ fueron el anhelo y la carencia. A pesar de que lo que m̀s anhela es abandonar la ciudad y todas sus miserias, no tiene ninguna esperanza de escapar hasta el d̕a en que encuentra un anuncio muy peculiar en el peri̤dico, en el cual se busca una criada de sangre. Aunque sabe muy poco sobre el lejano norte, donde los nobles viven a todo lujo y se beben la sangre de aquellos a su servicio,...