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Olivia Varrus and her Uncle Archer own a profitable bookstore on Henrietta Street in the heart of London. As such, Olivia, has practically everything a young Victorian lady could want to live a pleasant life … except for a stalker!
Four hundred years ago the women of the Azgard family would have been burned at the stake. But in the twenty-first century, paranormal ability, witches, and the like are shrugged off as science fiction or fantasy. Thus, the ladies don’t advertise their talent to “see “into the past, but use it in the family business…antiques.
Widowed Annicia Colfax is, without a doubt, SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT. While she is as poised and polished as a Victorian lady should be, she has a dark secret. Annicia, it seems, has a unique facility with all kinds of weapons, and she doesn’t hesitate to use them when necessary.
Victorian England is emerging from a rural and agrarian way of life, to an industrial and urban nation. Yet, this enlightened society does not encourage women to participate in activities outside the home. A female who protests the actions of the police, justice system, and Members of Parliament is considered presumptive, obtrusive, and possibly deranged.
Mid-century, Victorian England . . . Shaleen Brandon is finding it difficult to secure employment outside the usual domestic situations offered to most women. She is forced to rent out a spare room in her small home and sell a few cherished possessions that belonged to her father in order to make ends meet.
Like every other teacher in the country, Maris Connelly is looking forward to the end of school and the long summer vacation. But she didn’t plan on becoming the target of an obsessed stalker. Or being haunted by the spirit of a long dead bandit. And, to make life more interesting, a new neighbor moves next door.
The early Victorian period of the 1840’s England was an age of change and innovation. Into this England ventured young Juliette Wade. After the untimely death of her father she finds herself shouldering the responsibility of a vast business enterprise stretching from England to the American states.
The late 1880’s London provides a backdrop of change and inventions, including the making of a mad man who terrified London with his brutal back-alley murders.
Victorian England presented a stratified, well-defined class system; the Mallory’s are considered gentry, with certain privileges and expectations. Joanna Mallory has managed to escape the dull monotony of her rank, and presumed unable to function in polite society, due to her “affliction. “
Victorian England in the late1860’s. Fifteen year-old Alyse Marrack has been deposited on the doorstep of her distant relatives, the situation proves to be fortuitous for both the young lady and the occupants of Marrack Hall.
