nobility

As the Speck plague ravages the King's Cavalla of Gernia, his troops are forced to relinquish their military ambitions and face lives of dependency and disappointment, except for cadet Nevare Burvelle, who survived the plague and made an astonishing recovery and returns to his ancestral home, where he is haunted by his memories.

Nevare Burvelle follows his father into the calvalry, training at the elite King's Cavella Academy in Old Thares, where he begins to realize his life path is not as solid as he was led to believe.

Young Italian nobelman, Cosimo, rebels against the authority of his parents in the late eighteenth century by climbing into the trees where he proceeds to make a very full life for himself.

Sir Percy Blakeney defies the French revolutionaries in order to save innocent men and women from being put to death in the guillotine.

One of the Duke of Wellington's most respected officers, Jack Langdon, Lord Frayne, take's his family's honor very seriously. He also hides a shameful secret--a talent for sorcery he has been raised to suppress and openly reject. But after an injury lands Jack at death's door, his only chance at survival lies with Abigail Barton, a peer's daughter--and a skilled wizard. Her price: Jack's hand in marriage. It isn't long before Jack feels an irresistible attraction to his forthright new wife, whose allure is as intense as the reawakening magical abilities he can no longer deny. Abby knows all too well her husband's distaste for magic. Once she has Jack's name and the child she has always longed for, she is determined to live apart from him so he can preserve his reputation--and she can stay true to her own gifts. But neither Abby nor Jack reckons on the deep passion her spell ignites.

Mary Mackenzie travels from Britain to China so that she can marry the man she is betrothed to, but when she arrives, she falls in love with a young Japanese nobleman, and she must choose between her love and her country.

Yoshifuji, exiled from the Japanese court, returns to his estate and becomes fascinated with foxes which his wife knows are harbingers of danger.

In this sequel to Jane Austen's "Pride and prejudice," unexpected visitors disrupt Lady Catherine's household and she is kidnapped.