Diana Croft
1) Snowed In
A Cosy village pub. A secret millionaire.
A snowstorm that will change everything.
Introvert Tracey sold her beloved app for millions and now everyone wants to know what she's going to do next. Burned out and exhausted, she retreats to her Aunt's pub in Yorkshire for a much needed dose of anonymity. The village is cosy and adorable, and better yet, there's barely any phone signal.
Vinnie
...Four years ago, somebody pinched perhaps the most valuable book in existence.
Merlin's personal grimoire.
And the price they're offering for its return is the kind we can't refuse, so it's Ves and Jay on the case.
Except that there aren't any clues. Seriously, not even a little one. Nothing's going to solve this case but a Vesper-patented Crazy Plan, and it had better be a good one, for complications are sprouting like daisies.
...Rumour's got a lot to say for itself, and the message is clear: the regulator's ready.
You know. The magickal regulator. The bright and shiny thing with which we, Team Improbable, propose to restore magick to a fading Britain.
Somebody's got to test it, and that somebody is us.
Which means wading into the depths of a long-dead realm that nobody's entered in centuries. And I may have had some practice at that, but this time
..."A perfect lockdown escape read."
When Ellie's boyfriend forbids her from going to France to attend her best friend's wedding, she decides she's had enough. She dumps him and goes to France by herself. But travelling alone is scary and Ellie realises how reliant she'd become on the men in her life.
On holiday, she learns to trust her own judgement and grows in confidence. Just when she decides she doesn't need a man to complete her, she
11) Royalty and Ruin
13) Toil and Trouble
14) Once Upon a Vow
Rome 1638
Old sins have long shadows ~ Italian Proverb
Giulia Tofana never wanted to be a nun, but she is determined to atone for her past misdeeds by making her new monastery a success.
When an unexpected disaster closes the convent, Giulia is forced to turn to her old friend Fabio Pasello for help. Giulia still has intense feelings for Fabio and Fabio's passion for her has never diminished.
But
...Naples 1633
Aqua Tofana – One drop to heal. Three drops to kill.
Giulia Tofana longs for more responsibility in her mother's apothecary business, but Mamma has always been secretive and refuses to tell her the hidden keys to her success. But the day Mamma is arrested for the poisoning of the powerful Duke de Verdi, Giulia is shocked to uncover the darker side of her trade.
Giulia must run for
...Lady Emily Black will do anything for redemption.
Haunted by a tragic mistake in her past that endangered her family and nearly cost the life of the only man she could ever love, Emily now lives a life of exile that just so happens to include sword play and stealth on the dark streets of London in an attempt to stop innocent people from coming to harm at the hands of seedy criminals. Caring not for her own safety, Emily embarks
...Hiding away in a tiny Yorkshire village, Harriet is grieving for her lost love. His family won't talk to her and she can't move on from from his death. All this changes when his daughter, Niamh, turns up on her doorstep, needing a sympathetic ear.
Tim thinks Harriet broke up his sister's marriage all those years ago. His sister's enemies are his enemies. When his niece runs away to Harriet's house, he knows he has to get her back before his
...There is only one thing standing in the way of getting everything she wants...him.
She's a determined learned lady.
He's a notorious crime lord.
The Sparks fly when the property she wants to call home is in fact owned by him.
When Jack's business partner turns up dead at the hands of a high society member with ties to Melinda's deceased husband, the two are thrust together to investigate a murder
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