Blood, death, and duty-the title bequeathed to the heir of the royal executioner becomes a burden too heavy to bear. In this omnibus edition collecting volumes 1-3 of the original manga series, Shin'ichi Sakamoto masterfully fictionalizes the true life of Charles-Henri Sanson, the "Gentleman of Paris," who performed nearly three thousand executions in 18th century France. Born into a family of executioners, Charles-Henri Sanson must take up...

Refusing to marry her sister's beau to please their father, Olive is at her wit's end when Joseph Billings purchases the local manor. He's a handsome viscount's heir and she's a penniless villager, but they have one thing in common-being pushed to marry against their will! With his potential bride visiting for a week, Joseph suggests a bold charade: pretending to be newlyweds! As they grow closer, Olive starts wondering where the ruse ends...and reality...

"Evangeline Hussey has made a home for herself on Nantucket, though she knows she is still an outsider to the island's small, close-knit community, one that by 1849 has started to feel the decline of a once-thriving whaling industry. Her husband, Hosea, and the life they built together, was once all she needed-but now Hosea is gone, lost at sea. Evangeline is only able to hold on to his inn, and her place on the island, by employing a curious gift...

"Moments after Lisbeth is born, she's taken from her mother and handed over to an enslaved wet nurse, Mattie, a young mother separated from her own infant son in order to care for her tiny charge. Thus begins an intense relationship that will shape both of their lives for decades to come. Though Lisbeth leads a life of privilege, she finds nothing but loneliness in the company of her overwhelmed mother and her distant, slave-owning father. As she...

A forbidden romance set during WWII. He danced her off her feet...now she can't stop falling. Nurse Wendy Smith promised her mother she'd see the world, starting with beautiful Hawaii. Her promise to herself--to never depend on a man--is harder to keep when navy officer K.T. McAllister jitterbugs into her life. Then Pearl Harbor is attacked and, as Wendy nurses an injured K.T., she learns he too has promises to people back home. Yet as K.T. grows...

Recently widowed Antonia Lytton-Popplewell is determined to carve her place in a man's world. Yet turning a ramshackle property in London into a world-class department store isn't easy. Especially when her inheritance comes with strings in the form of her late husband's business partner, infuriatingly attractive Lord Cullen Allardyce. To ensure success, Antonia needs Cullen's guidance. But her alliance with society's most notorious rebel becomes even...

Meeting Marcus, Earl of Malbrook again, nine years after their anonymous encounter, Lady Eloise Grantham, now a widow and raising a child, is unsure how much of her past to reveal but even more so surprised by the possibility of a future together.

Her memory has returned and she's the Countess of Epping! Mary has arrived home, after months away, following a traumatic encounter with a highwayman that wiped her memory. Back in her grand house, her aloof--but distractingly handsome--husband, Anthony, is wary, suspecting her of the worst! But how can she explain that she'd become brave and wily to survive? She'll need those skills if she's to win back her earl's trust, and if they're to resume...

When Gabriel is awakened by the news that his riotous grandmother has lost a card game and he has gained a bride, he knows he has to act! So the viscount wastes no time in meeting Marie, his unexpected betrothed. But she's nothing like the wallflower he expected. Not least because Marie is privy to his family's deepest secrets...which he has worked hard to hide. Now he has no choice but to keep Marie tantalizingly close!