Welcome to another place in time...where one can be swept away into lands and eras long forgotten.Included in this anthology:"Office Romance" by Tamara Allen"Introducing Mr. Winterbourne" by Joanna Chambers"The Ruin of Gabriel Ashleigh" by KJ Charles"Unfair in Love and War" by Kaje Harper"Carousel" by Jordan L. Hawk"Deliverance" by Aleksandr VoinovAlong with a foreword written by Alex Beecroft, enjoy these original short stories th...

Secret Service operative Emlyn Strickland may be new to field work, but his talent for identifying counterfeit bank notes, honed over ten years at the Treasury, has given Sing Sing’s population a respectable boost. When counterfeiter August McKee takes illegal advantage of a sinking silver market, his former confederate Darrow Gardiner shares that information with Agent Strickland so they can track down the once-friend who left Darrow to rot in prison.Promised his freedom in return...

His career as a concert pianist ended by a war injury, Sutton Albright returns to college, only to be expelled after an affair with a teacher. Unable to face his family, he heads to New York with no plans and little money--only a desire to call his life his own.Jack Bailey lost his parents to influenza and now hopes to save the family novelty shop by advertising on the radio, a medium barely more than a novelty itself. When he and Sutton cross paths, despite a world of differences ...

Thanks to influential friends, Hugh Pritchard may escape a jail sentence for the part he played in Gust McKee's scheme to flood the country with counterfeit silver. Emlyn Strickland intends to keep an eye on both Pritchard and the jailed McKee, but it's no easy task when his attention is taken up by the new case Bishop assigns him—and the new partner, an overbearing senior agent by the name of Philip Mowbray.Darrow, enlisted as part-time informant by a pragmatic Bishop, loathes Mow...

His career as a concert pianist ended by a war injury, Sutton Albright returns to college, only to be expelled after an affair with a teacher. Unable to face his family, he heads to New York with no plans and little money--only a desire to call his life his own.Jack Bailey lost his parents to influenza and now hopes to save the family novelty shop by advertising on the radio, a medium barely more than a novelty itself. When he and Sutton cross paths, despite a world of differences ...

In the darkest days of the Great Depression, New York Times reporter Whit Stoddard has lost the heart to do his job and lives a lonely hand-to-mouth existence with little hope of recovery, until he meets Peter, a man in even greater need of new hope.

Thanks to influential friends, Hugh Pritchard may escape a jail sentence for the part he played in Gust McKee's scheme to flood the country with counterfeit silver. Emlyn Strickland intends to keep an eye on both Pritchard and the jailed McKee, but it's no easy task when his attention is taken up by the new case Bishop assigns him—and the new partner, an overbearing senior agent by the name of Philip Mowbray.Darrow, enlisted as part-time informant by a pragmatic Bishop, loathes Mow...

Secret Service operative Emlyn Strickland may be new to field work, but his talent for identifying counterfeit bank notes, honed over ten years at the Treasury, has given Sing Sing’s population a respectable boost. When counterfeiter August McKee takes illegal advantage of a sinking silver market, his former confederate Darrow Gardiner shares that information with Agent Strickland so they can track down the once-friend who left Darrow to rot in prison.Promised his freedom in return...

In the darkest days of the Great Depression, New York Times reporter Whit Stoddard has lost the heart to do his job and lives a lonely hand-to-mouth existence with little hope of recovery, until he meets Peter, a man in even greater need of new hope.

It’s amazing what people throw away…Crispin Tredarloe never meant to become a warlock. Freed from his treacherous master, he’s learning how to use his magical powers the right way. But it’s brutally hard work. Not everyone believes he’s a reformed character, and the strain is putting unbearable pressure on his secret relationship with waste-man Ned Hall.Ned’s sick of magic. Sick of the trouble it brings, sick of its dangerous grip on Crispin and the miserable look ...

Two years after his last encounter with cynical nobleman Lord Murdo Balfour, David Lauriston accidentally meets him again in the heart of Edinburgh.King George IV is about to make his first visit to Edinburgh and Murdo has been sent North by his politician father to represent his aristocratic family at the celebrations.David and Murdo’s last parting was painful—and on Murdo’s part, bitter—but Murdo's feelings seem to have mellowed in the intervening years. So much so, that ...

Archaeologist Saul Lazenby has been all but unemployable since his disgrace during the War. Now he scrapes a living working for a rich eccentric who believes in magic. Saul knows it’s a lot of nonsense…except that he begins to find himself in increasingly strange and frightening situations. And at every turn he runs into the sardonic, mysterious Randolph Glyde.Randolph is the last of an ancient line of arcanists, commanding deep secrets and extraordinary powers as he struggles to f...