Author: barbararussell
London, 1888After years of working and living in a brothel, I—Asia Quicksilver, the orphan who was called after a continent and a chemical element—finally have a normal job that doesn’t require to remove my clothes. But am I happy as the housekeeper of the elusive Mr Evander Lynch? Not really. The pay is good and the job easy, but every time I’m close to Mr Lynch, odd visions of us together … us together flash in my mind, as if I met him before he hired me. And I feel this cursed tug in my chest that pulls me towards…
Excalibur has chosen her bearer. Getting married to the woman of his dreams isn’t as easy as Nathair thought. Not when his bride-to-be is a Morrigan and a wanted criminal. When he asks the king for an audience to speak in defense of Bryhannon, he ends up sentenced to death. Locked up in the Tower of Londinium, he wonders if the story about the Morrigans cursing those around them is real and if … cursing those around them is real and if his lock-picking knacks and fighting skills will save him before Bryhannon unleashes her destroying power. more
London, 1884Accused of being involved in her father’s bankruptcy and wanted by the police, Pearl finds herself penniless and jobless. Her father disappeared, leaving her alone to sort out a financial mess she doesn’t know anything about. Heck, she doesn’t even understand what her charges are.Desperate, she asks for a job to Miss Cherrywood, the head of a secret society—The Wayward … Ladies—dedicated to aid women in need. The job Miss Cherrywood offers is simple, but borders to felony. Pearl is supposed to impersonate Miss Amelia whose parents wish her to meet brooding and short-tempered Lord Christopher Lyon, Earl of…
London 1887 My name is Asia Quicksilver, and my life has never been a bed of roses. Well, I spent a lot of time in a bed, but not to sleep. As a whore of the luxurious brothel De Luna House, I’ve seen a lot of action in the bedsheets . Not that I’m planning to whore myself forever. Once I set aside enough pounds to move out of London, I’ll start afresh. My little plan goes out of the window when … when a handsome and menacing man asks to be my exclusive client. I can’t refuse. The pay…
Catching her is only the beginning.Being a Maori cat-burglar in a corset isn’t easy for Beatrice. When she gets caught red-handed, pilfering from famous steam-car racer Lord Alexander, she’s sure she’s in for it. But instead of turning Beatrice over to the bobbies, Alexander offers her a job: recovering a stolen blueprint of a boiler from his rival racer, Lord William.Soon Beatrice wonders if her … Beatrice wonders if her steam-powered gadgets and street smarts will keep her alive long enough to find the darn blueprint. And the worst part? She can’t deny her attraction for Alexander.more
Second book of the White Order Series. Steamy paranormal romance set in Victorian London. For AdultsLondon, 1884As a failed witch, Kaela isn’t the most experienced person to rescue her father from the Hierophant’s clutches. With her scarce magic strength and her weak spells, she needs help to infiltrate the mansion of one of the Hierophant’s minions where her father might be kept. Yet, Étienne, … father might be kept. Yet, Étienne, fire warrior of the White Order, isn’t exactly the companion she expected. Cranky and impossible, he does his best to control her.After eight hundred years of fighting sin-breathers, Étienne’s…
Auckland, 1885.Determined to take control of her life, Isabel decides to marry Murk despite the fact that Auckland’s peers and maybe even the Queen won’t accept a former thief, and man-whore as her husband. She’s a duchess and a Supernatural with the power of reading people’s feelings, for goodness’ sake. She can do as she pleases.When a supernatural killer slashes the throat of a few toffs, … of a few toffs, she’s asked to investigate. Suspicion falls on the man her warden chose as her betrothed, an ambitious businessman who seems struck by an exceptional good luck in his business…
Auckland, 1859Alexandra Greystone is a Supernatural. The power of deduction is her gift . . . and her curse. With one look, she can understand everything about a man: where he comes from, what he does for a living, and even if he cheated on her. Like her former husband.A marriage annulment is painful enough without Auckland’s peers doing nothing but gossip about her. Bruised and hurt, she accepts … she accepts a job with Military Intelligence Seventh Division to catch a dangerous criminal.It’s the perfect solution: she’ll help people, escape Auckland, and keep her mind off her ex-husband and…
The Morrigans are rising. After fighting dragons, wild Vikings, and clockwork monsters, Nathair is facing the biggest challenge of his life: proposing to Bryhannon. Apparently, flowers and a three-month salary worth ring aren’t enough because she doesn’t seem thrilled by the proposal. Bryhannon loves Nathair; however, she has a devastating power to control, Reapers to face, and more importantly … to face, and more importantly she has to find the courage to tell him she’s one of the deadly, feared Morrigans.more
London, 1884.While other twenty-seven-year-old, middle-class women think about rearing children and attending dinner parties, Hazel finds herself unmarried and unemployed.The stuffy barons of the Royal Archaeologic Society don’t believe a woman can be an archaeologist, so they gave her the sack. Having slapped the leader of the society when he groped her breasts might have something to do with … do with losing her job. With bills to pay and a stomach to fill, she accepts a position as dealer in ancient artefacts. It’d be her dream job except that her new employer, Tyon Sancerre, has more secrets than an…