British Historical Romance

Lord Brookenham and Miss Isobel Stafford naturally rubbed up against each other like wild thistles and horsehair. They couldn’t share a ballroom or a parlor without snapping at to each other. To Isobel, he was too handsome and too manly for his own good. It was as if he had been placed on this earth to frustrate her. To Lord Brookenham, Isobel Stafford was too free and self-assured for a young miss. The antithesis of everything he knew to be correct about his world.

James Fenimore Cooper was America's first successful popular novelist. Son of the prominent federalist William Cooper, founder of the Cooperstown settlement, James was educated at Yale in preparation for a genteel life as a federalist gentleman. After his father's death in an 1809 duel, Cooper quickly squandered his inheritance, and at thirty was on the verge of bankruptcy. He turned to writing but his first book, Precaution (1820), was a failure.

'Pemberley, murder, hilarity and a romance to span the ages . . . This is the perfect book to unwind with' – Rachel Wolf, author of Five Nights Cosy, quirky and utterly enthralling, A Crime Through Time is the debut from Amelia Blackwell – the start of a series where crime, time travel and...

Lady Amelia Chastain knew most men weren’t to be trusted. And Lord Simon Davenport was at the top of that list. Handsome, rich, and a rake, the man was too arrogant, too confident for his own good. What made it even worse was that he stood between her and her dreams. Confronting him was both worrisome and challenging. But at the same time, exciting and fulfilling.

Em 1876, d. Pedro II embarcou num vapor rumo aos Estados Unidos para as comemorações do Centenário da Independência americana e passou três meses conhecendo o país. Em Os perigos do imperador, Ruy Castro parte desse episódio verídico e constrói um romance eletrizante, que imagina um atentado fatal contra o monarca orquestrado por republicanos brasileiros.