Joan Smith: The Black Diamond

Other readers are calling this Jane Eyre meets Rebecca, and they are not wrong.  This gothic Victorian has a plucky heroine off to investigate her Continue

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19th Century British Drapery Shop

This ad appeared in the October 1817 issue of La Belle Assemblee. This building would be demolished in the 1840s for the formation of New Continue

Diana Quincy: The Viscount Made Me Do It

CW: death/murder Second in a series that worked great as a standalone, The Viscount Made Me Do It features a wounded soldier carrying grief from the Continue

Olivia Waite: The Hellion’s Waltz

It’s not a crime to steal a heart… Sophie Roseingrave hates nothing more than a swindler. After her family lost their piano shop to a Continue