The Earl in the Shadows The Thrilling Victorian Adventures of the Most Dangerous Woman in Europe by Brenda Clough Marian Halcombe Camlet comes to awareness in the Dower House of a grand English country house, but she can’t remember how … Continue reading
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The Jaguar Queen of Copal The Thrilling Victorian Adventures of the Most Dangerous Woman in Europe Book 3 by Brenda Clough Walter Hartright returns to Central America to search for the leader of his expedition, and Marian’s husband Theo goes … Continue reading
Book View Cafe member Alma Alexander recently suffered the devastating loss of her husband. To help support her through this difficult time, we are shining a spotlight on her novel EMPRESS. You can also purchase other books of hers here, … Continue reading
The King of the Book The Thrilling Victorian Adventures of the Most Dangerous Woman in Europe Book 2 by Brenda Clough Marian Halcombe Camlet’s son has run away from his boarding school, and Queen Victoria’s jewels are stolen. Marian Halcombe … Continue reading
In this sensational sequel to The Woman In White, Marian uses all the wits and wiles she learned then to save her husband Theo Camlet from charges of bigamy and then murder. Women are supposed to be rescued in her world, but Marian fights to rescue everything she loves: her husband and her happiness.
Continue readingIn my own particular mental map of the modern novel’s river, the watershed is Jane Austen. Her books were romantic, but she was not writing romance as it later came to be understood. Romance in the early sense could be … Continue reading
These days there has been a lot of talk about daring narrative voices and experimental playing with fiction and truth (as in real life experience, to skirt around the gigantic elephant of what constitutes “truth”), and it’s great that more … Continue reading
by Phyllis Irene Radford Much of the Magna Carta has been called an economic peace treaty between King John and his barons. The following clauses address some of these issues. For the entire document of the Magna Carta, you … Continue reading
by Phyllis Irene Radford This episode deals with loose threads and nit picking. But they are issues that crop up frequently today. Now we come to what we would call infrastructure, roads and bridges and such. These vital improvements keep … Continue reading
By Phyllis Irene Radford One of the things about King John that is often overlooked, or shoved aside because it does not blacken his name, is that he was a dedicated and learned judge. He set the precedent of having … Continue reading