Kirjahaku

Two years ago, Kestral Falco was and up and coming prosecuting attorney in Los Angeles. His life was set until he discovered his fianc e cheated on him. In a misguided attempt to be chivalrous, he let her place the blame on him, never imagining the repercussions. Treated as an outcast, he leaves the practice of law and moves to Mexico where he's recruited to join the DEA and go undercover to fight the war on drugs. His code name is Mockingbird. Rachel Newsome, a defense lawyer who blames Kes for breaking her friend's heart, has a client who desperately wants to find out Mockingbird's true identity. When Rachel's sister is kidnapped and taken to Mexico, Rachel is desperate to find her. She's more than a little upset when she's forced to team up with Kes as he has the knowledge she needs to save her sister.

A chance encounter during the battle of Quatre Bras changes Captain Jeremiah Denby's life forever. A member of Wellington's staff, he fulfills his duties to king and country through the surrender of Boney at Waterloo but then must decide how to reconcile his new life with his old. Emmaline Rothesay has a battle of her own to fight. To her Lady mother's dismay, Emmaline has had her eye on Captain Denby as a potential suitor. Now that his changed circumstances after Waterloo could cause a scandal, Lady Rothesay is even more set against any relationship her daughter desires with the man. Emmaline finds herself at war with her mother and maybe even the captain himself.

Lady Augusta Covington isn't an average young woman of the ton. She's unique and prefers outdoor pursuits over needlepoint and gossip. She's a crack shot and has the best seat in the county. In Milady and Her Spy, a house party at her family's country estate leads to extreme danger for the daughter of the house. There's a traitor in their midst with evil plans afoot and they include the lady herself. In Milady Takes a Groom, Lady Augusta has found the man she wants to spend her life with. There's just the pesky matter of a plan by a French agent to pull off a shocking mission to try to end the war with Napoleon to deal with first. In Milady Goes to France, Lady Augusta must travel directly into enemy territory to find and assist an agent of the Crown who is in danger. It'll take all the skills Milady has in order to make it back to English soil alive.

Bernadette McSwain's family has a strong connection to the Queen Mary ocean liner. They're invited to sail on the Queen's final voyage to her new home in Long Beach, California in 1967.Bernadette and her cousin, Michel are writing a book on the spirits who haunt the mighty ship. Bernadette's psychic abilities help in their research. They meet a young Spanish grandee, Lazarus Garcia, who's on the ship as a chef to learn to run his own first class restaurant. He's surrounded by anguished spirits whom Bernadette can see. When passengers start to die in violent ways, Bernadette suspects Lazarus of the crimes. This suspicion causes a rift between the cousins as Michel has befriended the Spaniard.As the voyage continues and Lazarus tries to charm her, Bernadette must make a decision about him or face losing her cousin, both literally and figuratively.

December, 1920: Mary Margaret Kincade, known as Peg, a devout Catholic, is the only child of an Irish adventurer presumed dead in an Arctic expedition gone awry. When her odious cousin comes to take over the family business and presumes to force Peg into marriage, she decides to make a new life in America by working her way across the ocean on a cruise liner.Liam Cormac, a Protestant member of the Irish Republican Army, fighting for freedom from English rule, signs on to the same ship with the intention of blowing it up in the middle of the ocean. Liam and Peg encounter each other in the first class passenger lounge and the attraction is mutual. When Peg is taken hostage by Liam's partner, Liam has to make a decision about where his loyalties lie- with his country and his mission or with an Irish Catholic lass.

In 1811 London, Briony Pettibone has a talent for making perfume as her nose is particularly sensitive to scents. Her employer's family have been in the business for over a hundred years but unfortunately, neither the father nor the son have Briony's abilities. They rely on her to invent new product for their customers. Jemison Frost, Earl of Albany, has the stepmother no one desires. The lady wants him dead so her son can inherit the dukedom at her husband's death. Jemison has been in hiding as a stable owner on the opposite side of London from his home, making furtive visits to the ducal residence to check on his father's health. When Briony and Jemison are thrown together by fate or perhaps merely by an errant hackney cab, life becomes risky for her and even more so for him and his father. They each must somehow rescue the other.

Hester (Hetty) Hale is not like other girls of her age. She's already fallen in love and has no desire to make the rounds on the marriage mart. The problem is she's chosen a man of science. One her father would never consider a suitable match. There's another unsurmountable issue: the man acts as if she's invisible. Laurence Fortescue is not all he seems. On the surface, he's a lecturer at Oxford with a scientific mind. Hetty's father admires his work and allows Laurence to use his personal laboratory for experiments. Laurence tolerates the girl hanging around but rarely notices her as he's wrapped up in his tests. When she's struck by lightning recreating Ben Franklin's experiment and a gentleman she hates is allowed to court her, she turns to Laurence for assistance. Assistance he's willing to give as that gentleman is someone he suspects is a spy. For France.

Charlotte Greystone is a disaster waiting to happen. She can't seem to stay out of trouble and when her father betroths her to a man she hasn't seen in over ten years, she decides to run away. Never mind that it's a couple of days before Christmas, bitterly cold and she has no survival skills. She makes a dash for freedom anyway. When she's almost crushed by a horde of hunters on horseback, a handsome man on a black stallion comes to her rescue. Not thinking of the scandal of being alone with a strange man, she allows him to assist her in returning to her home. While riding with him, she is indiscreet in her conversation. The next day, Charlotte is appalled when the butler announces the entry of her betrothed. The man is the same as the one she shared a horse with the day before. Terrified that he will tell her father of her scandalous behavior or cause an even bigger scandal by breaking off the engagement, Charlotte is knocked off-kilter and remains that way until Christmas night.