Patricia Rice
NYT bestselling author Patricia Rice presents the third book in her beloved School of Magic series:
Victorian Edinburgh belongs to staid professors, not the flamboyant daughter of a Hindu princess.
Lacking any of her Malcolm family's psychic abilities, Azmin Dougall flees her ancestral home of India for Edinburgh, fearing she'll be a pigeon in a family of peacocks. But she's willing to risk everything
...Tainted by the gossip about her mad mother, Daphne Templeton defies family and society by spurning the only gentleman to make her an offer. Fleeing London rumors, she's captured by a highwayman, who believes her mad for not fearing him when he rides off with her. Even her beloved aunt fears she's lost her wits for not encouraging her neighbor, the quiet but handsome Lord Griffin. And Daphne has to question her own rationality when she prefers the
...The descendant of adventuring—dead—aristocrats, Clarissa Knightley supplements a modest inheritance by penning gothic novels that cost more than they earn. Upon learning that she has mysteriously inherited a share of an earl's estate, she rashly packs up her household. In remote Gravesyde Priory, she hopes to find a safe haven and family who will welcome her and her young nephew.
Instead, she discovers a drunken American army captain,
...Award-winning author Patricia Rice brings you another light-hearted Regency mystery from our favorite Gothic Wycliffe Manor...
At Gravesyde Priory, each new arrival is either a blessing—or a threat. . .
Wycliffe Manor has been neglected for decades. Its new heirs are determined to create a welcoming home. Yet soon after the latest family moves into the nearby parsonage, bones are uncovered in the
...As a second son, Lord Harry Winchester indulges in a carefree, comfortable life—until the unusual death of his brother and father bestows upon him a dukedom plagued with a crumbling family manor and hungry debtors. What's a desperate duke to do but marry the wealthy lady betrothed to him since childhood?
Lady Christina Malcolm Childe's magical gift of reading auras reveals, to her dismay, that her laughing Harry has recently become a dark
...Frustrated divorcee Amy Warren is striving to fix her life by helping her home town buy the local mill, and then she can put her Plan for the Rest of Her Life in action by buying a rundown cottage and turning it into her heart's desire.
Amy's Plan shatters when Jean-Jacques St. Etienne arrives with loads of cash, charisma, and expertise, with every intention of buying the mill for its designs and then abandoning the community. A European playboy,
...Free spirit Alys Seagraves has lost a home and a husband, she's not about to lose her best friend, Mame, to a crazed journey along historic Route 66. With no other choice, she commandeers Mame's ancient pink Cadillac and her friend's uptight nephew, Elliot Ross. The sexy doctor possess a voice like velvet, and eyes to match, but his routine is guaranteed to drive them both off a cliff— except they need each other to find Mame. After retracing
...Ex-country musician Flynn Clinton retires from the road for the challenge of raising his two boys in his old hometown, but the talented, sexy waitress who thinks she runs his new coffee shop has the means to carve what remains of his future into coffee grounds unless he finds some way of offering her the career he's given up.
Determined to undo the damage her ex has caused in the small Carolina town she calls home, Amy Warren wants to save the local mill. Her plan shatters when Jean-Jacques St. Etienne arrives with loads of cash, charisma, and expertise, with every intention of buying the mill for its designs and then abandoning the community. A European playboy who lives a charmed life, Jacques has no interest in mills, communities, or anything except the designs that
...Daughter of a marquess, Lady Felicity Malcolm Childe is expected to marry well, but her gift of psychometry has always been more curse than blessing. Tired of living in the shadows, wrapped in woolens to deflect the more agonizing images generated by her suitors, Felicity sets out to locate an ancient book of spells that might extinguish her dreadful gift.A brilliant inventor who can move rivers and harness lightning, Ewen Ives is also a charming
...11) Whisper of Magic
The death of Celeste Rochester's father on the voyage from Jamaica to London leaves her and her young siblings nearly penniless in a foreign country. Forced to battle lawyers for her inheritance and the roof over their heads, Celeste uses her only weapon: her mysteriously compelling voice. Having become a barrister to fight injustice, Lord Erran inexplicably incites a riot with his first impassioned speech. Barred from the courtroom, he acts as
...12) Wicked Wyckerly
John Fitzhugh Wyckerly has been the spare heir all his life, supporting himself with gambling and charm. The news that he's inherited the bankrupt title of Earl of Danecroft shatters his indolent world. Even penniless, he's always paid his debts, but now the estate's creditors are closing in. He can fake his death and run for cover...or accept overwhelming responsibility and find a rich wife—one who will also accept his illegitimate terror
...Dorothea Franklin's life is sliding toward disaster just as surely as her house is crumbling into the Pacific. Her unusual talent for feng shui can't bring harmony to her invalid father or prevent her brother from dying in an experimental helicopter crash. Or has he?
She turns to computer genius Conan Oswin, whose brother also reportedly died that day. When Dorothea informs Conan that she didn't feel the vibrations of her brother's death, he
...14) Crystal Vision
Mariah lives off the grid by waitressing, weaving ghostcatchers to send Hillvale's ghosts across the veil, and keeping clear of electronics that haunt her—until the day her friend and mentor, Crazy Daisy, is murdered, and Mariah goes on the hunt for a killer. Her prime suspect is geologist Keegan Ives. Mysteriously arrived from the UK, he was present when Daisy died, and he's too handsome to believe—not that Mariah takes a dim view
...Neville Perceval, the bankrupt Duke of Anglesey, has been burdened since youth with more responsibility than one man should handle. He has finally accepted that he needs to marry a wealthy, gracious lady who will ease his burdens and smooth his political path.
Fiona MacDermot, the rebellious, untamed cousin of an Irish earl, has the freedom and independence Neville has never known. Like the duke, she needs cash to help starving villagers and
...16) Mystic Guardian
Aelynn, a tropical island veiled from human sight, magically protects a sacred chalice. When a beautiful maiden washes ashore from the outside world and steals the chalice, she sets in motion dangerous and far-reaching consequences...
Trystan l'Enforcer is Aelynn's powerful guardian. To guarantee the isle's safety, he plans to marry into a magically powerful family. His ambition is thwarted when his ship carries a sultry beauty onto the island's
...17) Devil's Lady
The Methodist and the highwayman: heaven, meet hell.
Her pious father's murder leaves Faith Montague orphaned and lost on the dangerous road to London , only to be rescued by a notorious highwayman.
Morgan de Lacy, a lawless rake with the bearing of a nobleman, treats her finer than those who should have loved and protected her. Recognizing a fine gem when he sees one, de Lacy sets about seducing his orphaned companion. His caresses
...18) Sapphire Nights
Samantha Moon arrives in Hillvale—population 325 lives and countless ghosts—in a fog as thick as the one circling the aging mountain town. Bereft of friends and family, money and memory, all she has to her name is a stray cat... but that's apparently enough for the people of Hillvale to take her in. L.A. investigator Chen Ling Walker's problem is too many memories. He's come to bury his tragic past in this remote California town, where
...An Irish rogue and a duke's daughter should have nothing in common except trouble...
Though enchanted by the selfless beauty of a duke's granddaughter, Michael - a man of many names but none his own - has wisely kept his distance. But two years after the disastrous fire that brought Lady Blanche Perceval into his life, he is saddled with a lost, lying Irish waif and needs a woman's understanding aid.
To his dismay, the generous lady he remembers
...Evangeline Malcolm Carstairs, dog-walker and ghost-buster, has one goal—earning respect for her paranormal abilities. The moment ten-year-old Loretta Post walks into her Psychic Solutions Agency bearing two sad ghosts and claiming someone is trying to kill her, Evie is on the case.
When the child's hunky guardian shows up to drag Loretta back to boarding school, Evie is not about to send the grieving child into possible danger. Besides,
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