Megan Chance

A spellbinding novel of dark family secrets and a young woman's rise and revenge set against the backdrop of the devastating 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The eve of destruction. After her mother's death, penniless May Kimble lives a lonely life until an aunt she didn't know existed summons her to San Francisco. There she's welcomed into the wealthy Sullivan family and their social circle. Initially overwhelmed by the opulence of her new life, May soon senses that dark mysteries lurk in the shadows of the Sullivan mansion. Her glamorous cousin often disappears in the night. Her aunt wanders about in a laudanum fog. And a maid keeps hinting that May is in danger. Trapped by betrayal, madness, and murder, May stands to lose everything, including her freedom, at the hands of those she trusts most. Then, on an early April morning, San Francisco comes tumbling down. Out of the smoldering ruins, May embarks on a harrowing road to reclaim what is hers. This tragic twist of fate, along with the help of an intrepid and charismatic journalist, puts vengeance within May's reach. But will she take it?

A Novel

A Splendid Ruin

Fleeing a scandal in New York to an expatriate community in Venice where they hope to secure a wealthy patron, artist Joseph Hannigan and his sister, Sophie, attract the attentions of a celebrated courtesan and a man who knows the courtesan's dangerous secret. Original.

Inamorata

A Dangerous Education

An irresistible blend of history, suspense and romance captures the extraordinary drama of the Salem witch trials. Set in one of the most horrific yet intriguing periods in history, "Susannah Morrow" offers fascinating psychological insight into the sexual repression that spawned the witch hunts.

Susannah Morrow

When her family falls into ruin in Victorian New York, Grace Knox must enter into a loveless marriage with Patrick Devlin to save them all, but everything changes when she falls for the mysterious and magical stableboy Diarmid.

The Shadows

In the mid-19th century, Leonie Monroe Russell works alongside her husband, Junius, an oysterman in Shoalwater Bay in the Pacific Northwest. At night she continues her father's lifelong obsession: collecting artifacts and studying the native culture thatonce thrived in the Washington Territory. On her 37th birthday, Leonie discovers a mummy protruding from the riverbank bordering her property--a mummy that by all evidence shouldn't exist. As Leonie searches for answers to the mummy's origins, she beginsto feel a mystical connection to it that defies all logic. Leonie's sense that otherworldly forces are at work only grows when news of the incredible discovery brings Junius's long lost son, Daniel, to her doorstep. Upon his unexpected arrival, a native elder insists that Leonie wear a special shell bracelet for protection. But protection from whom? The mummy? Or perhaps Daniel? Leonie has always been a good daughter and good wife, but for the first time, these roles do not seem to be enough. Finding themummy has changed everything, and now Leonie must decide if she has the courage to put aside the expectations of others to be the woman she was meant to be. From award-winning author Megan Chance, Bone River is a haunting, lyrical tale of passion and identity.

Bone River

AN INCONVENIENT WIFE is a rich blend of suspense, social history (America in the 1880s), and passion. Chance delivers a powerfully written page-turner about a woman's struggle to escape the confines of her time, class, and gender. Literary historical fiction is an extremely popular genre, as demonstrated by such bestsellers as Matthew Pearl's "The Dante Club (Random House, 2/03) and Michael Faber's "The Crimson Petal and the White (Harcourt, 9/02). Megan Chance is the author of "Susannah Morrow (Warner, 10/02), which captured the extraordinary drama of the Salem witch trials; as well as the historical romance novels "A Season in Eden (Harper, 1999), "The Gentleman Caller (Harper, 1998), "The Way Home (Harper, 1997), and "Fall from Grace (Harper, 1997).

An Inconvenient Wife

After she nearly ruins her family with a terrible misstep, Elena Spira is sent to Venice to escape disgrace and to atone by caring for the ailing Samuel Farber. But the crumbling and decaying Ca' Basilio palazzo, where Samuel is ensconced, holds tragic secrets, and little does Elena know how profoundly they will impact her. Soon she begins to sense that she is being watched by something. And when Samuel begins to have hallucinations that make him violent and unpredictable, she can't deny she's in mortal danger. Then impoverished nobleman Nero Basilio, Samuel's closest friend and the owner of the palazzo, arrives. Elena finds herself entangled with both men in a world where the past seeps into the present and nothing is as it seems. As Elena struggles to discover the haunting truth before it destroys her, a dark force seems to hold Samuel and the Basilio in thrall--is it madness, or something more sinister?

A Venetian Ghost Story

The Visitant

Accused of her husband's murder, Evelyn Atherton embarks on a quest to clear her name, one that takes her into the world of the occult and the influential medium Michel Jourdain, a man she believes is a charlatan.

The Spiritualist

Struggling with a devastating past and his own fierce nature, New York art master Jonas Whitaker resists his original impulse to dismiss Imogene Carter, an aspiring artist who seeks Jonas's instruction. Original.

The Portrait

Meeting at the eve of Seattle's 1889 Great Fire, stock company actress Beatrice Wilkes and aristocrat Geneva Langley find their initial ambitions to achieve happier lives through each other profoundly transformed by an alliance forged by a shared fight for survival. Original.

City of Ash

Grace discovers that she must fulfill an ancient prophecy and choose between two groups of Irish warriors, the Fomori and the Fianna.

The Web

The Veil

Her childhood lost the day the Sharpe gang murdered her parents and "adopted" her, Lily, having learned to be ruthless and smart, exacts her revenge and betrays the outlaws, using and deceiving Texas Sharpe, but Sharpe is back in town to show Lily how cruel a man betrayed can be. Original.

Fall from Grace

Lily loses her childhood the day the Sharpe gang murders her parents and "adopts" her. Soon, Lily the Cat is wanted by the law. But, in the act of revenge she has planned for 12 years, Lily betrays the outlaws, including Texas Sharpe, reluctant heir to the notorious gang--the man who had loved her, married her, and defied his father for her. Now, he is about to show Lily just how ruthless a man betrayed can exact revenge.

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