When gentlemen dueled and slaves fought for freedom.
When pirates were very real, and soldiers still battled with cold steel.
When women were chattel, yet swayed the fate of nations.
When words like honor and courage were common currency.
When love wasn’t always convenient, but an inconvenient love could change history.
by Alice Von Kannon
Sometimes a marriage of convenience isn't as convenient as it sounds . . .
When her tiny duchy is threatened by warring nations all around her, Chantal Saint-Marcq, Duchess of Valenciére, is obligated by duty to marry a cold and distant stranger, Major Tristan Duroc, hero of Austerlitz and power player in the game of Empire.
When these two willful people collide, the cold intrigue of a political marriage leads to the most dangerous passion in the age of Napoleon!
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by Alice Von Kannon
A sweeping historical tale of passionate love and harrowing secrets!
Captain Isaac McCallister has returned after five horrific years of slavery in Algiers. His reappearance has rattled the city of Salem, America's wealthiest port city, especially the widow and two daughters of his dead step-brother residing in genteel poverty on his estate.
He is a damaged man looking for a reason to go on living. She is an independent woman looking for the courage to love
Eleanor Hampton is a gifted artist and, by the standards of little Salem, an obstinate eccentric. Her life is the struggle to become a painter and to safeguard her mother and young sister. Romance has brought only calamity in her life, and Eleanor has long resolved to do without it. But from the moment Issac sets eyes on Eleanor, he sees a path out of the darkness, back to the land of the living.
After their first sparring match, Eleanor knows she’s found a man more than her match in pride and determination. All Salem is astonished when Eleanor accepts his swift offer of marriage. And as growing passion for her enigmatic husband begins to consume her, Eleanor will need that determination, as well as courage, to face down a deadly threat out of Isaac’s past.
Heart’s Blood is a story of the resilience of the human spirit, and the power of love to heal the darkest wounds.
480 pages; Published by MCP Books
Paperback $8.99
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Alice has been a lover of sweeping, epic, historical romance novels all her life. When publishers lost interest in such lavish stories two decades ago, she was determined to one day write those lush romantic, heroic tales of her own.
She has appeared on History, Discovery, and AHC channels.
Amelia 's all-consuming passion to be with François any time, any place, compels the young, hot-headed Yankee girl to follow the dashing French diplomat to Paris, ostensibly to attend a sophisticated girls' academy. But when his rescue of her from the scene of a riot leads to a night of unbridled passion, he suddenly must face a terrible decision regarding the young ward in his care, a decision that becomes thornier than any adversary on the battlefield or the bargaining table has ever presented with.
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It began in 2017 with my discovery at a Scottish bookseller's of a volume of Pierce Egan's 1823 revision of Francis Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, published at the tail end of the Regency period. The book itself was filled with handwritten notes and additions made by an unknown owner, and they were clearly the work of an author or a Regency period language enthusiast. Some of the handwriting resembled notes I had seen before.
The more I explored, the more I recognized, and the more I began to ask myself a serious question: Had I discovered the incomparable romance author Georgette Heyer's earliest personal slang dictionary with her own private additions?
The answer is a resounding ... maybe.
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