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Twenty-year-old Prudence "Rue" Akeldama and her friends journey in a gaudy dirigible to India in search of a superior type of tea for her adoptive father, a wealthy vampire, only to run headfirst into danger, intrigue, and local politics.

Sent to India to weather the scandal of her hasty marriage, Lady Penelope finds herself in the court of the Nizam of Hyderabad, where she encounters freedom and deception before her athletic talents draw the attentions of Captain Alex Reid and a dangerous spy.

Maya Witherspoon sets herself up in self-imposed exile in London after her physician father is killed by the bite of a poisonous snake in India just after her sorceress mother had died, warning Maya to beware the serpent's shadow.

Critically acclaimed, perennial New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell (Agincourt, The Fort, the Saxon Tales) makes real history come alive in his breathtaking historical fiction. Praised as "the direct heir to Patrick O'Brian" (Agincourt, The Fort), Cornwell has brilliantly captured the fury, chaos, and excitement of battle as few writers have ever done, perhaps most vividly in his phenomenally popular novels following the illustrious...

"A mesmerizing story of blackmail, romance, and deception."--Associated Press With Over 100 Million Books Sold, Victoria Holt is the Queen of Gothic Romance. Blackmail. Arson. Murder. Obsession. Beautiful as its peacock feathers may be, the priceless fan hidden deep within the Framling mansion has a legacy of death and destruction. And Drusilla Delanyhas no idea she's been marked by its curse ... But the fan's dark past might prove less of a danger...

In 16th Century England, a young apothecary is sent to the Far East to bring back rare herbs. In Goa, he discovers a powder which can resurrect the dead. As he tries to find its source, he is arrested and tortured by the local inquisitor who wants the powder to prolong the pain of victims who die too early.

The first novel in the epic "God Is an Englishman" series, this book is a stirring saga of England in the 19th century, as the Industrial Revolution takes hold, forever changing the landscape of England and her people. Adam Swann, scion of an army family, returns home in 1858 after service with Her Majesty's army in the Crimea and India, determined to build his fortune in the dog-eat-dog world of Victorian commerce. Swann is soon captivated by Henrietta,...

A trilogy of satirical works includes the anti-hero's adventures during the First Anglo-Afghan War, at the side of a young Abraham Lincoln, and while wooing women in India.

"India, 1837. William Avery is a young soldier with few prospects except rotting away in campaigns in India; Jeremiah Blake is a secret political agent gone native, a genius at languages and disguises, disenchanted with the whole ethos of British rule, but who cannot resist the challenge of an unresolved mystery. What starts as a wild goose chase for this unlikely pair--trying to track down a missing writer who lifts the lid on Calcutta society--becomes...

The tenth installment in The Flashman Papers finds Captain Harry Flashman of Her Majesty's Secret Service in the antebellum South, where the irrepressible, globe-trotting Victorian becomes the target of blackmailing beauties. Evading danger, bedding women, and profiting from every opportunity, Flashman once again weasels his way into history, this time in John Brown's raid of Harper's Ferry, just before the Civil War. As a result of Flashy's letching,...