It is 1863, but not the one it should be. Time has veered wildlyoff course, and now the first moves are being made that will leadto a devastating world war and the fall of the British Empire. Theprime minister, Lord Palmerston, believes that by...
London, 1861. Sir Richard Francis Burton—explorer, linguist,scholar, and swordsman; his reputation tarnished; his career intatters; his former partner missing and probably dead. AlgernonCharles Swinburne—unsuccessful poet and follower of de...
It is 1862, though not the 1862 it should be... Time has beenaltered, and Sir Richard Francis Burton, the king’s agent, is oneof the few people who know that the world is now careening along avery different course from that which Destiny...
This most curious and unusual case displays Sherlock Holmes's astonishing abilities of observation, logical reasoning and detection to the full, but nevertheless the case did not meet with his personal satisfaction, he felt it did not merit...
When patron of the arts Lady Erlorne Werewilk hires Markhat to identify the parties who are stealthily mapping out the Lady’s estate by moonlight, Markhat anticipates the usual—greedy relatives or rapacious neighbors plotting a land grab. After...
There’s no way Markhat can turn away his newest client. Who is he to refuse the woman he loves—especially when she bribes him with breakfast?
This time it’s Darla’s friend Tamar Fields, whose fiancé vanished days before the wedding....
Meet Dr. Gideon Wolfe, expert criminologist of the new millenium. A professor at New York's John Jay University in the year 2023, he lives in an era that has seen plague, a global economic crash, and the 2018 assassination of President Emily...
Samantha Sweet is about to realize her dream of opening her pastry shop, Sweet's Sweets. Juggling the crazy amount of work to get her new business off the ground, with her old job of breaking into houses, she's got her hands full. When a...