Lucy Rayner

Considered to be, one of Virginia Woolf's most popular novels, Mrs. Dalloway follows one high-society woman as she goes about her day planning a splendid party for her acquaintances. As she goes about her day, she ponders on the life she could be living had she not married the reliable Richard Dalloway, and instead sought the enigmatic Peter Walsh. At one point, she muses on the fact that she had not the option to be with a close female friend of...

Beautiful and brilliant, Kendra Donovan's a rising star at the FBI. Her path to professional success hits a speed bump during a disastrous raid where half her team is murdered, a mole in the FBI is uncovered, and she herself is severely wounded. As soon as she recovers, she goes rogue and travels to England to assassinate the man responsible for the deaths of her teammates. While fleeing from an unexpected assassin herself, Kendra escapes into a...

A magnificent biography of Queen Victoria by International New York Times columnist Julia Baird. Drawing on previously unpublished papers, 'Victoria: The Queen' is a stunning new portrait of the real woman behind the myth--a story of love and heartbreak, of devotion and grief, of strength and resilience. When Victoria was born, in 1819, the world was a very different place. Revolution would begin to threaten many of Europe's monarchies in the coming...

"Still stranded in 1815, FBI agent Kendra Donovan finds herself on the trail of a vicious murderer with a shocking secret"--Amazon.com.

When a young nurse dies on her watch, Florence Nightingale must uncover the deep-hidden secrets someone will kill to keep buried. 1853. Florence Nightingale has just accepted the position of Superintendent of the Establishment for Gentlewomen During Temporary Illness in London. She has hardly had time to learn the names of the nurses in her charge when she finds Nurse Bellamy hanging in the Establishment's library. Determined to preserve what little...

1816, London. Time-traveler Kendra Donovan is asked to find Jeremy Pascoe, who has vanished. The FBI agent accepts the case, but finds the man stabbed to death in a remote cottage he'd been using as a writer's retreat. Pascoe was the business manager of one of the largest breweries in England - was money the motive for the murder? A complication arises when a woman arrives claiming to be the Duke of Aldridge's presumed-dead daughter Charlotte - and...

Twenty-first century FBI agent Kendra Donovan returns to the gritty streets and glittering ballrooms of 1816 London to assist Bow Street Runner Sam Kelly in a grisly murder case involving one of England's most clever spymasters.

High-spirited American heiress Emma Dunster travels to London, where her highjinks lead her into rescuing the nephew of the Duke of Ashbourne, a notorious rake who is impressed with her splendid verve.

"Ireland, 1845. To Briana Walsh, no place on earth is more beautiful than Carrowteige, County Mayo, with its sloping fields and rocky cliffs perched above the wild Atlantic. The small farms that surround the centuries-old Lear House are managed by her father, agent to the wealthy, reckless Sir Thomas Blakely. Tenant farmers sell the oats and rye they grow to pay rent to Sir Thomas, surviving on the potatoes that flourish in the remaining scraps of...

"From the acclaimed author of The Last Summer, a captivating and moving story of the unlikely relationship between a lady and her maid on the eve of World War I. As I watched him his long legs striding the narrow path through the heather, his golden hair catching the sun I had a hideous feeling in the pit of my stomach. For it seemed as though he was already marching away from me. In 1914, despite the clouds of war threatening Europe, Pearl Gibson's...