Fifteen-year-old Clary Fray thinks she’s just a normal teen. That changes on a night out at the Pandemonium Club with her best friend Simon. Clary witnesses a murder committed by three teenagers covered in strange tattoos and wielding bizarre weapons – but she’s the only one who can see them. Then the victim’s body vanishes into thin air. The next day, more impossible things happen. …
Cherubic eighteen-year-old Anita Lavenham is lost in a woodland daydream after hearing a sermon about the Devil. She’s jolted awake by the sonorous voice of a handsome gentleman asking her to open the gate she’s leaning on. His imperious yet raffish air makes her think he is Lucifer personified – a fallen angel.
Odella Wayne is the beautiful, innocent, yet highly perceptive and intelligent daughter of the local Rector. On a visit to the circus with her maid Emily, Odella decides to see Madame Zosina, the fortune-teller. While waiting in the tent, Odella overhears something horrifying: Madame Zosina is not a real psychic – she’s a spy. Using her “special powers,” Madame Zosina cleverly tricks…
Colonel Romney Wood, a war hero who has just inherited the title Lord Heywood, returns home after six years fighting with the Duke of Wellington. He’s horrified by what he finds: England is in crisis. Agricultural labourers are starving, food shops are empty, and Luddites are destroying new farming machinery. Worse, his own estate, Heywood Abbey, is nearly bankrupt, and his loyal staff face p…
The beautiful young Corena Melville is horrified when a sinister Greek man, Mr. Thespidos, arrives at her home with terrible news: her beloved father, Sir Priam – a prominent archaeologist and expert on Ancient Greek antiquities – is being held prisoner in Greece
Grania returns to her home in Grenada only to discover that her father plans to marry her off to Roderick Maigrin – a coarse, drunken, yet wealthy plantation owner. Horrified by the prospect, Grania has no desire to become his wife
Golden-haired Anona Ranson adores her father, Captain Guy Ranson, a respected East India Company seafarer. Her world shatters when he confesses he is actually a pirate – a “highwayman on a ship” who boards cargo vessels and demands ransom. Fearing the gallows after being identified, Captain Ranson hatches a plan to protect Anona’s reputation
A hundred years after aliens invaded Earth, humans live confined in habitats. The aliens terraformed the world and destroyed infrastructure. Rumors spread that scientists retrofitted an alien spaceship to evacuate some humans. As aliens begin taking groups from the habitats, the remaining humans decide to risk everything and escape.
The story follows Captain Conrad "Tiger" Horn, a war hero fresh from the Battle of Trafalgar, who returns to Portsmouth to take command of a magnificent new ship, The Invincible
The story follows Shimona Bardsley, an innocent and lovely young woman whose father, the celebrated actor Beau Bardsley, falls desperately ill. Despite his condition, her father insists on performing as Hamlet at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane