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This royal visit is going to off with a bang... Edward, the Prince of Wales, is about to step foot on Kiwi soil and Grace is frantically finishing gowns for her wealthy clients to wear at the balls thrown in his honour. But then a horrible accident and a dying man's last moments, draws her into a conspiracy to harm the prince. As Grace follows the strands of a last memory, she discovers there is a patchwork of conspirators all with grudges aga...

The only thing worse than wet woollen togs, is a knife in the back... As the kiwi summer draws to a close, a family outing to the beach takes a deadly turn when a lifeless body washes up on shore. Grace is devastated to recognise the victim, Ricky, who worked in her friend's bakery. But when the supposed drowning victim is rolled over, a shocking truth is revealed-he was murdered. Drawn into finding the murderer of the cheerful baker, Grace pi...

There are two things that can't talk-moving pictures and dead showgirls... 1920, Wellington, New Zealand. Grace Devine is poised to build her thriving dress design business as the twenties begin to soar. But when a fashionable client is murdered, suspicion falls on Grace as the last person to see Agatha alive. As wary clients cancel and business begins to fail, Grace decides there's only one way to prove her innocence and save her career...thi...

Will Mireworth yield her secrets to her new mistress...?The family gather at Mireworth for their first Christmas and Hannah is determined to unravel the secrets within its walls. Why did Wycliff's ancestor hide the tower, and what grip did the long ago shadow-mage cast over his family? With Barnes as her assistant, Hannah sets out to discover the truth.This is an epilogue novella to the Manners and Monsters series

Fire extinguishes all... even the undeadOne of London's most recognisable Afflicted has been incinerated in a horrifying way. Whispers spread that a hellhound prowls the streets, snatching the lost souls who have escaped the underworld. Except Wycliff is doing no such thing--could there possibly be another such creature in London?While Hannah and Wycliff investigate the unnatural flames, unrest grows on the streets as someone seeks to reveal t...

A heart as lonely as the ocean...Hannah and Wycliff arrive at his ancestral estate in Dorset as tragedy strikes the coastal village. A young woman has lost her life to the tempestuous ocean, but only Hannah suspects the woman's death is anything but a horrible accident. As Hannah learns more about life in the closeknit community, she discovers two other women lost their lives to the sea. Or did they?A rift grows between the young couple, as Wy...

Being a reveller is such a drain...Someone is supping upon young noblemen and it's up to Hannah and Wycliff to investigate. If only they could agree on how the men are being drained of their life's blood. Is it a vampyre, known for their impeccable fashion sense, nocturnal roaming, and dislike of rain, who lurks in the shadows of London? Or is some more earthly method at play, like an attack of leeches?With her best friend's wedding imminent, ...

Can Allie walk the line between shadow and light, or will she fall?Allie Donovan returns to the elite St Matthew's Academy with mounting problems. Her heart wants Jared, but her bain argues their relationship is doomed. Weasel is acting strange, and Eloise is giving off sparks.Then Allie finds a kindred spirit looking for escape in the library - Princess Alexandrina Victoria of Kent. The heir to the British throne is on a temporary hiatus from...

A lady never reveals the true extent of her decay...Hannah Miles lives a quiet existence, helping her parents conduct research into a most terrible affliction - until a gruesome murder during her best friend's engagement party pulls her from the shadows. With her specialist's knowledge and demure disposition, Hannah is requested to aid the investigation. Except Hannah discovers her role is to apologise in the wake of the rude and disgraced man...

One look could turn you to stone…The newly married Lord and Lady Wycliff are cordially invited to a house party-to be mocked and ridiculed as entertainment. Wycliff insists on attending to discuss business with their host, while Hannah longs to hide in the library with its rare volumes on the Fae. Bound to Wycliff even beyond death, Hannah wonders how she will survive the week-when one of the guests, a notorious rake, is discovered turned into...

The worlds of noble and guild are about to collide, with seventeen-year-old Allie Donovan as the catalyst...Allie lives in a shadow world until she is thrust into the light of the aristocratic St Matthew's Academy. More at ease with a blade than a needle, she is stalked along the ancient corridors by a Scottish lord intent on determining why she is among them.She stumbles onto the reason when soldiers arrive to see her friend, Zeb, a mechanica...

Ephraim is marked by a white feather tattoo, a permanent reminder of his cowardice. Ironic for a man who draws a soldier's pay, but he survives by keeping his head down and following orders. Until there's another failed attempt to end Lady Alise's reign and the petulant ruler delivers her latest retaliatory edict. One hundred healthy children are to be torn from their mothers and delivered to the ore-mancers. The wizards of metallurgy will tur...

Together, beyond death…A new Unnatural horror is about to rattle Hannah Miles' quiet existence, and it's not the short-tempered viscount prowling the hallways of her home. Someone is creating monsters by stitching together pieces of different people. When a limb attempts to escape, Viscount Wycliff is called to investigate. All of London knows there is one mad scientist among them capable of creating such an ungodly monster: Sir Hugh Miles.Han...

Dragons have taken up residence at Lowestoft and Queen Victoria is not amused.The queen is on the warpath and to protect the mythical beasts from treasure hunters, Cara needs to find the foundation stone from the Great Wall of China. To add to her problems, there's a strange box hidden deep under the Lowestoft estate that makes her skin crawl and steals the air from her lungs. Nate is trying to find a way to make it reveal its secrets, but Car...

Legend says if you consume the heart of a mermaid, you will know all of a man's secrets Ailin doesn't care if the legend is true or not - she's stuck in a crate on her way to feature as the main course at a lavish banquet. Her heart to be served while still beating for a cruel noble while the rest of her is sliced into sashimi. Unless she can escape. Across the ocean, Fenton longs for a different release. Sold as a child by men who labelled hi...

Cara Devon has always suffered curiosity and impetuousness, but tangling with a serial killer might cure that. Permanently. 1861. Cara has a simple mission in London - finalise her father's estate and sell off his damned collection of priceless artifacts. Her plan goes awry when a killer stalks the nobility, searching for an ancient Egyptian relic rumoured to hold the key to immortality. Nathaniel Trent, known as the villainous viscount, is re...

All things must come to an end... London is in the frozen grip of an unnatural winter and Queen Victoria wants answers. Cara and Nate know who - the Curator. The queen's artifact hunters just don't know what is responsible. Cara is on the trail of an ancient and powerful artifact capable of freezing a city and stirring demons. First she must confront her past and her father's history. Only in learning why her father became a disciple of the Cu...

One death by spontaneous human combustion is a rare act of God. Two... is surely a freakish coincidence. Three... well, that's starting to look deliberate. Cara has a new role as Queen Victoria's artifact hunter, she's adapting to married life and living in a country manor that more closely resembles a mausoleum. In London, Inspector Fraser investigates a series of strange deaths by divine fire - except he doesn't believe in coincidences. Desp...

An ancient Egyptian artifact is driving Queen Victoria insane, and that's not top of Cara Devon's growing list of problems. Viscount Nathaniel Lyons is a man of numerous secrets, but there is one in particular that threatens his fledgling relationship with Cara. Stunned by Nate's revelation, and before she can absorb the ramifications of his actions, he is arrested, charged with treason and imprisoned in the grim Tower of London. He stole some...

Ella and Alice are trying to forge a path with the men they love in a world reeling from the Great War and the influenza pandemic that left the countryside crawling with the undead. Then Alice goes missing without a trace, until the new vermin queen sends an invitation--Ella is welcome to try and rescue her friend before Elizabeth lets her subjects tear the housemaid apart. To save Alice, Ella must venture into a subterranean world ruled by he...