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Every old house has its secrets, so it comes as no surprise when a relic of a noble Victorian family is discovered in the new home of historical author Nicole Rayburn and her husband Kyle. Curious about the lovely young woman in the sepia photograph, Nicole delves into the history of the family and stumbles on a long-forgotten mystery.

War rages across Europe. France is under the Nazi thumb. Britain has its back to the wall. In London, Scotland Yard detective Merlin investigates a series of disturbing events - a young girl killed in a botched abortion, a French emigre shot in a seedy Notting Hill flat, a mysterious letter written by a British officer gunned down in Crete. With action spanning Buenos Aires, New York, Cairo and occupied France, Merlin and his team are plunged into a dark world of espionage, murder, love and betrayal.

She was never supposed to survive Giacomo. And he was never meant to fall for a graceful black woman who belonged to someone else. Dahlia Cole gets kidnapped by a dark-haired Sicilian stranger named Giacomo—the ruthless head of the Sicilian Brotherhood. Against her will, he traps the modern Black woman in a brutal world of blood oaths, betrayal, and power.

Jam-packed with panty-dropping and page-turning love scenes between an Italian mafia alpha and a courageous black woman. This interracial romance novella is 20,000+ words of pure enchantment with a guaranteed HFN ending. Grab Book I & Book II before this one! Take a peek inside to get hooked on Dahlia & Giac's love story. BOOK IIIDahlia & Giacomo float towards freedom on a borrowed yacht. An Atlantic storm and a pirate attack split their boat in two, separating them for good. Death is on the hunt for victims and he’ll take whomever he can find…

The Second World War rages on, but Britain now faces the Nazi threat with America at its side. In a bombed-out London swarming with gangsters and spies, DCI Frank Merlin continues his battle against rampant wartime crime. A mangled body is found in the Thames just as some items of priceless art go mysteriously missing. What sinister connection links the two? Merlin and his team follow a twisting trail of secrets and lies as they investigate a baffling and deadly puzzle.

The most skilled of Merlin's Mauraders, Siena must unmask a traitor lurking among an exclusive club of book collectors. Armed with only her wits, her blades, and her sultry body, she joins the gentlemen at a country house party. But her prime suspect, disgraced ex-army officer Lord Kirtland proves as enigmatic as he is suspicious-and sinfully sensuous.

The voice first came to Jean-Patrique when he was brutally punished as a boy. It offered protection and a sinister gift that demanded obedience — with blood in its wake. The voice called himself Merlin. JP accepted, and Merlin stayed. As his life unfolds during the post-war art boom— from the sun-kissed island of Mallorca to the glamorous fishing village of Saint Tropez, and the chilling perfection of Isola Bella — JP moves with practiced ease, manipulating, deceiving, and removing anyone who stands in the way of his ambitions.

When a mission of critical importance arises, Lord Lynsley, the enigmatic head of Mrs. Merlin’s Academy for Extraordinary Young Ladies, is forced to take on the assignment himself. But when things take an unexpected turn, he has has no choice but to ask for help from a former agent whose injury during a botched mission ten years ago forced her to retire from the elite unit of unconventional lady spies.

The chance discovery of a virtual mountain of copper brings incredible wealth and power to two men: Irish immigrant and miner, Marcus Daly, and merchant, banker, and investor, William Andrews Clark. The two men become bitter rivals, employing armies of workers from every corner of the world as they battle head-to-head for control of "The Richest Hill on Earth." And then, in the spring of that year, the stakes increase dramatically. News of an assassin stalking Daly reaches the Territorial Capitol...