Product Description: Gripping, passionate, and intense, the story of the English Civil Wars, through the eyes of Charles I's queen, Henrietta MariaShe was the Princess Diana of her day; her story the English Gone With The Wind. She loved clothes and jewels and parties...read more

"Fiona Mountain is a major new talent in the field of historical fiction." -Alison Weir, author of The Lady Elizabeth They say I'm mad and perhaps it's true. It is well known that lust brings madness and desperation and ruin. But upon my oath, I never meant any harm. All I wanted was to be happy, to love and to be loved in return, and for my life to count for something. That is not madness, is it? So begins the story of Eleanor Glanville, the beautiful daughter of a seventeenth-century Puritan nobleman whose unconventional passions scandalized society. When butterflies were believed to be the souls of the dead, Eleanor's scientific study of them made her little better than a witch. But her life-set against a backdrop of war, betrayal, and sexual obsession-was that of a woman far ahead of her time.

Product Description: Eleanor is the daughter of a strict puritan and Roundhead major and lives in a medieval manor on the bleak wetlands of Somerset. Her longing for color and brightness leads to an obsession with butterflies as well as to an illicit passion for charismatic but troubled Richard Glanville...read more

An anonymous note, the shooting death of one of her clients, and an elderly man investigating his granddaughter's boyfriend send ancestor detective Natasha Blake on a perilous quest in search of a the truth about a cold-blooded crime that has been hidden for generations. Reprint.

An anonymous note, the shooting death of one of her clients, an elderly man investigating his granddaughter's boyfriend and send ancester detective Natasha Blake on a perilous quest in search of a the truth about a cold-blooded crime that has been hidden for generations. By the author of Pale as the Dead. 10,000 first printing.

Product Description: Natasha Blake is a detective with a difference. She's an ancestor detective, an ambitious young genealogist with a passion for history, whose choice of career is partly driven by the mystery of her own roots. The disappearance of a young girl, Bethany, appears to be linked in some way to Lizzie Siddall, the haunting ethereal Pre-Raphaelite model and artist, whose life was cut short by an overdose of laudanum...read more

While investigating the disappearance of a beautiful young woman, ambitious twenty-eight-year-old genealogist Natasha Blake uncovers a link to Lizzie Siddal, the haunting Pre-Raphaelite artist, model, and wife of painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti, whose own life had been cut short by an overdose of laudanum. Reprint.