The Crimson Rooms

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Author: Katharine McMahon

Publisher: Penguin Group

Published: 2011-01-04

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 042523858X

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From the author of the #1 international bestseller, The Rose of Sebastopol--an unforgettable historical novel. Still haunted by the death of her brother James seven years ago in World War I, Evelyn Gifford is shocked when a young nurse named Meredith and her six-year-old son appear on her London doorstep. Meredith claims the child is James's son, and the grief-stricken Evelyn welcomes them into her home. At the same time Evelyn, a struggling attorney, is defending a veteran charged with murdering his wife. She believes her client is innocent, just as she suspects there is more to the story of her "nephew" than meets the eye.

The Crimson Rooms

The Crimson Rooms PDF

Author: Katharine McMahon

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2010-02-18

Total Pages: 363

ISBN-13: 1101185317

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From the author of the #1 international bestseller, The Rose of Sebastopol--an unforgettable historical novel. Still haunted by the death of her brother James seven years ago in World War I, Evelyn Gifford is shocked when a young nurse named Meredith and her six-year-old son appear on her London doorstep. Meredith claims the child is James's son, and the grief-stricken Evelyn welcomes them into her home. At the same time Evelyn, a struggling attorney, is defending a veteran charged with murdering his wife. She believes her client is innocent, just as she suspects there is more to the story of her "nephew" than meets the eye.

The Crimson Petal and the White

The Crimson Petal and the White PDF

Author: Michel Faber

Publisher: Canongate Books

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 865

ISBN-13: 1847678939

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Yearning to escape her life of prostitution in 1870s London, Sugar finds her fate entangled in the complicated family life of patron William, an egotistical perfume magnate.

The Crimson Blind and Other Ghost Stories

The Crimson Blind and Other Ghost Stories PDF

Author: H. D. Everett

Publisher: Wordsworth Editions

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 9781840225389

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Mrs H.D. Everett was the last in a long line of gifted Victorian novelists who knew how to grip the reader through the invasion of everyday life by the abnormal and dramatic, leaving the facts to produce their special thrills without piling on the agony. 'I always know', says one of her characters, 'how to distinguish a true ghost story from a faked one. The true ghost story never has any point and the faked one dare not leave it out.'

The Woman in the Picture

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Author: Katharine McMahon

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2014-07-03

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 0297866052

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The page-turning sequel to THE CRIMSON ROOMS by the author of bestselling Richard & Judy Book Club pick, THE ROSE OF SEBASTOPOL. London, 1926. Evie Gifford, one of the first female lawyers in Britain, is not a woman who lets convention get in her way. She has left her family home following a devastating love affair, much to her mother's disapproval. London is tense in the days leading up to the General Strike and Evelyn throws herself into two very different cases - one involving a family with links to the unions and the other a rich man who claims not to be the father of his wife's child. Evie is confronting the hardest challenge of her career when she is faced with an unexpected proposal - just as her former lover returns. How can she possibly choose between security with a man she admires and passion for the man who betrayed her?

The Rose of Sebastopol

The Rose of Sebastopol PDF

Author: Katharine McMahon

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2009-03-05

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 1101016353

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The #1 international bestseller about love, war and betrayal from the author of The Alchemist's Daughter In 1854, adventurous Rosa Barr travels to the Crimean battlefield with Florence Nightingale's nursing corps. For Mariella Lingwood, Rosa's cousin, the war is contained within the letters she receives from her fiancé, Henry, a celebrated surgeon who also has volunteered to work in the shadow of the guns. When Henry falls ill, Mariella impulsively takes an epic journey to the ravaged landscape of the Crimea and the tragic city of Sebastopol. What she finds there, as her world beings to crumble, is that she has much to learn about secrecy, faithfulness, and love...

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