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Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon Line. Here is their story as re-imagined by Thomas Pynchon, featuring Native Americans and frontier folk, ripped bodices, naval warfare, conspiracies erotic and political, and major caffeine abuse. We follow the mismatched pair - one rollicking, the other depressive; one Gothic, the other pre-Romantic.

It’s 1924. Lady Ellen of Ashcombe Hall is on a relaxing hotel break to recuperate. Her nemesis is found dead in the restaurant, face down in his pea and ham soup. Can she confront her past to solve the mystery? Lady Ellen seeks respite in the charming seaside town of Branden Bay, whilst her home, which was used as a convalescent home for war veterans, is being refurbished to its former glory.

Prepare for a steamy, thrilling journey through the Scottish Highlands, where desire and destiny are bound by blood, magic, and an unbreakable bond. When hardened Highland warrior Mason sets out to find his missing brother, he’s prepared for danger, betrayal, and bloodshed—but not for Raven. This fiery, mysterious young witch carries secrets as dark as her past, and an agenda that threatens to turn Mason’s world upside down.

England, 1939. Robert Henley-Finch returns to Beaumont Hall, the country estate that made him and never forgave him. The house is waking—whispers in the stairwell, a plaque that shines with unspoken scripture, a painting that answers back. And Robert’s sleep is no longer his own.

1854. Thomas Mason has returned from India where he served in the East India Company Army throughout the First and Second Anglo-Sikh wars. He and three companions returned to England as the guard detail for the Koh-i-Nor diamond and were then offered the chance to join the Rifle Brigade with their officer Lieutenant Warren. All of them have agreed, but had to return to basic training to learn the ways of their new regiment. In India, Thomas rose to Corporal, but must now return to the bottom of the rank ladder.

There are too many secrets in the Paris Opera House and Christine Daaé knows them all, for her lover, Erik, the infamous Phantom of the Opera, is at their center.

Christine Daaé ventures into the underground world of The Phantom of the Opera, a mysterious man named Erik who brought her fame and ecstasy as The Angel of Music. Now she must learn to trust her teacher as a man if she is to survive the cutthroat intrigues of the opera above. Despite the horror of Erik's face and the darkness of his past, Christine is drawn to the man who awakens her soul with his music…as well as her desire.

Christine Daaé arrives penniless and hopeless at the steps of the great Paris Opera House, in search of an angel. What finds her instead is a man in a mask named Erik, a tortured soul masquerading as a ghost. Fascinated by Christine, Erik dons a new mask to be close to her: that of the Angel of Music. This strange patron awakens Christine's voice and soul...as well as desires she cannot understand. Their adoration growing, Erik and Christine remain separated by deception and darkness, tangled in a web of lust and lies.

A Pride and Prejudice What if? Story... This re-telling of Pride and Prejudice asks "what if" events prevented Fitzwilliam Darcy from proposing to Elizabeth Bennet that day at Hunsford parsonage? Darcy arrives with marriage on his mind, only to find Elizabeth has just received news her father is critically ill and not expected to live. In the process of offering his help to her in traveling home, Darcy discovers what she really thinks of him-and it's not good.

Abducted, held captive by unknown men for unknown reasons, Mary Mason had to use all of her resourcefulness to escape what would surely have been a terrible fate. But in the course of her escape, she encounters new dangers in the form of a mysterious man. Is he friend or foe? Can he be trusted, or will she prove to be just a pawn in whatever game he is playing?

Life in the Middle Ages can be tough. Nasty, brutish, and short, as they say. War, famine, torture. Plague and intolerance. People getting burned at the stake and all that. And nobody speaks English. All of which sucks if you’re from the 21st Century. Martin’s just a regular guy. A job that's going—well, not exactly nowhere, but not anyplace fast. A condo in the DC suburbs. A Ford Fusion. A couple of beers on a Friday night.

William “Billy” Quantrill is destined to become America’s most notorious outlaw. As the Civil War threatens to destroy the country from within, Billy - a schoolteacher turned gunslinger - is working for the Pony Express when he is lured into a gunfight over a gambling debt set up by a dangerous and crooked politician. Just when he was beginning to make a name for himself, Billy is thrust into a world of politics as a hired gun. While living the life of an outlaw, Billy is recruited by a powerful secret society with plans to change the way the country is run.

As a child, Regina’s father traded her identity for the extraordinary opportunity to make her a Baroness. Now, after 4 dead fiancés Regina is ready to marry a horse as long as it gets her down the aisle. At the very least it would distract her from Leo Kingston, the gorgeous, charismatic PI she keeps running into. Every moment in his presence tests her resolve to commit to the marriage designed to protect her mother and sister from the continued slights of the British ton.

The year is 1888. The Place is the East End of London. Dead and mutilated bodies are popping up all over the east end from Stamford to Whitechapel. Jack the Ripper is making his mark in the East End in ways that puts the city on edge, so to speak. Johnathon Rhoades has been exposed to mercury since he was a boy of sixteen working in his father’s hat factory, which he now owns due to his father’s unexpected death. The hats that are created at the factory are in such demand that he almost cannot keep up with the orders.

Edgar Drake, Klavierstimmer in London, erhält den Auftrag seitens der britischen Krone, vertreten durch das Kriegsministerium, im Dschungel von Birma den Erard-Flügel eines exzentrischen Militärarztes zu stimmen. Er willigt ein, und schon auf dem Weg nach Birma hört er abenteuerliche Geschichten über diesen charismatischen Militärarzt, der so eine wichtige Rolle in diesem Krieg spielt, daß er sich unentbehrlich gemacht hat und alles verlangen kann. Auch einen Flügel im Urwald und einen Klavierstimmer.

How a teenager and her friend cope with life on a farm near Leningrad 1942 during the seige by German troops. Their fears, memories, and hopes during their brutal experiences.

His father’s maneuvers afforded John Mason, the ninth duke of Ashfield, an unwanted bride. Past slights garnered an unknown enemy. And schemes conceived before his time gained him an unforeseen adversary.

Seventeen-year-old Elizabeth St. Leger is accustomed to doing as she pleases and apologizing later if necessary. However, simply saying sorry did not work the night she was caught eavesdropping on a mysterious ceremony in her home, Doneraile Court. Bound and blindfolded, she listened as the men debated unusual ways to kill her until one suggested another option that would change the history of the world’s oldest fraternity forever.