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Life at Copper University in Michigan's Upper Peninsula has been good for Professor of Victorian literature Maddie Temple, but the school year is about to get off to a deadly start.

One summer, in a hedge near her family's cottage in Kenora, five-year-old Susan Coyne discovered an overgrown stone fireplace.

Bowing to an urgent summons from his former lover, Justin de Quincy hastens to Paris only to find that the Lady Claudine was in fact acting on behalf of his nemesis, Prince John.

An Irish immigrant in New Zealand fills his son, Rory, with patriotic tales. When Rory grows up, World War I is on.

By day, Sidonie Saint-Godard is a quietly elegant young widow who teaches deportment to the unpolished daughters of London's nouveau riche.

Lara gets to extend her annual European antiquing tour when she's secretly commissioned by a reclusive billionaire to buy a certain Etruscan sculpture.

Kinsella steps into the batter's box and slugs another home run.

While recuperating from the events ofAftermathon a Greek island, Inspector Alan Banks reads that the bones of his childhood friend, Graham Marshall, have been dug up in a field not far away from th

A confused seventeen-year-old girl, a single mother and her young son, two elderly women, and a sad and lonely man, with their own individual tragedies to bear, come together in a small Manitoba to

Short stories from around the world, many from lesser authors. Adult fairy tales, and ghost and horror tales. Twenty-eight stories.