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For years, Lisabetta had been under the protection of the Empress Josephine due to her status as a stray-relation-the illegitimate child of Josephine's first husband. But now, Josephine was dead and all the various spymasters that Lisabetta had double-crossed were circling like vultures to see what she knew about the rumored St. Alban's treasure. She needed a gambit, and needed it fast, it was fortunate, indeed, that love was the greatest gamb...

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This homicide case featured aristocrats as far as the eye could see, between the Russians and the Spaniards-and Acton, of course, who was supposedly investigating the others but seemed a little too deferential, for Doyle's taste. Why wasn't her husband moving in on the killer? And why did she have the sense that she was standing on the outside, peering into a world where there were no laws and no explanations-only birthrights, forged in ancien...

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Detective Sergeant Doyle realizes that several apparently unrelated murders are actually "containment" murders--murders to contain an ominous scandal that could reach into the highest levels of Scotland Yard's CID. In the process of tracking down the killers, however, she comes to the unsettling conclusion that Chief Inspector Acton has committed a containment murder or two of his own.

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Timid and shy, Juno Payne has lived an uneventful life growing up in Calcutta, her father's home port during those rare times when he wasn't at sea, trading for the East India Company. But news of her father's death and the cloud of scandal surrounding it, has suddenly made Juno the centre of attention, as various factions attempt to seize her supposed bridegift - a fabulous cache of diamonds. In vain, Juno protests that she knows nothing abou...

Things are a bit grim at Scotland Yard, this Christmas. On the heels of a nasty corruption scandal, the CID must now contend with a killer who is murdering pregnant women, so as to steal their babies. Chief Inspector Acton doesn't want Doyle anywhere near this case, of course, but she can't shake the feeling that there is more to his concern than his usual over-protectiveness--and more to this case than the usual psycho-killer."--]cProvided by...

A member of the French âemigrâe community in London, Epione is forced to hide her true identity, and instead works as a milliner's assistant in a Bond Street shop. Cautiously optimistic, she believes she's managed to avoid public scrutiny--until she notices that a handsome man is watching her movements from across the way. As she is swept up in the plots and counter-plots surrounding the restoration of the French monarchy, Epione must call upo...