nobility

Hoping to safeguard themselves from the ravages of World War II within the walls of their ancient villa in Florence, the noble Rosatis family become prisoners in their home when eighteen-year-old Cristina's courtship by a German lieutenant prompts the Nazis to take over the estate, a situation that leads to a serial murder investigation years later.

Survivors, outlaws, renegades, and carrion eaters begin to gather their forces to grab their share of what is left of the Seven Kingdoms in the aftermath of the war of the Five Kings.

After the Ninth Duke of Rutland, one of the wealthiest men in Britain, died alone in a cramped room in the servants' quarters of Belvoir Castle on April 21, 1940, his son and heir ordered the room, which contained the Rutland family archives, sealed. Sixty years later, Catherine Bailey became the first historian to be given access. What she discovered was a mystery: the Duke had painstakingly erased three periods of his life from all family records--- why? As Bailey uncovers the answers, she also provides an intimate portrait of the very top of British society in the turbulent days leading up to World War I.

Young drawing master Walter Hartright's life takes an unexpected turn after his encounter with a mysterious apparition in the early morning hours on a deserted London road.

"A biography of Margaret Douglas, the beautiful, cunning niece of Henry VIII of England who used her sharp intelligence and covert power to influence the succession after the death of Elizabeth I."--Dust jacket.

Briony Eddons, heir to the kingdom of Shadowmarch along with her twin brother Barrick, struggles to save the kingdom from the inhuman Qar who have begun to reach beyond the Shadowline after centuries of peace, while also trying to deal with Barrick's increasing strangeness, and other enemies from without and within.

An abridged version of Shakespeare's play about the magical storm, shipwreck, and the deposed duke living in exile with his daughter, Miranda, and includes stage directions and character suggestions.