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Educated in math and science by her mother, the only legitimate child of Lord Byron is introduced into London society before forging a bond with Charles Babbage and using her talents to become the world's first computer programmer.

When Lord Wrexford discovers the body of a gifted inventor in a dark London alley, he promptly alerts the watchman and lets the authorities handle the matter. But Wrexford soon finds himself drawn into the murder investigation when the inventor's widow begs for his assistance, claiming the crime was not a random robbery. It seems her husband's designs for a revolutionary steam-powered engine went missing the night of his death. The plans could be...

Wrexford and Sloane must unravel secrets within secretsincluding a few that entangle their own heartswhen they reunite to solve a string of shocking murders that have horrified Regency London . . . Though Charlotte Sloanes secret identity as the controversial satirical cartoonist A.J. Quill is safe with the Earl of Wrexford, shes ill prepared for the rippling effects sharing the truth about her background has cast over their relationship. She thought...

Lady Alexandra Morley, an alluring widow, is desperate to devise a plan to reverse her fortunes. When fate lands her in the arms of Phineas "Finn" Burke, a brilliant inventor with a shocking past, she despairs of ever getting what she needs...until they kiss.

Retired and living a perfect life with Francesca, Owen Hardy gets pulled into one last mission, with his grandson, for the Watchmaker that takes them to the frozen lands of Ultima Thule, while Marinda undertakes her own mission compiling the story of the Watchmaker and stopping a new group of anarchists.

"2040-2045: In the years after the cataclysmic Yellowstone eruption there is massive economic dislocation as populations flee Datum Earth to myriad Long Earth worlds. Sally, Joshua, and Lobsang are all involved in this perilous rescue work when, out of the blue, Sally is contacted by her long-vanished father and inventor of the original Stepper device, Willis Linsay. He tells her he is planning a fantastic voyage across the Long Mars and wants her...

An inventor's daughter falls in love with an investor who has bet his fortune on the success of her father's last design. A respected and driven entrepreneur, Lord Randolph Cavanaugh is loyal and devoted to his family, but yearns for more in life. When he travels to Buckinghamshire to review a recent investment, he discovers the determined and intelligent Felicia Throgmorton struggling to keep her late father's estate together-- and to do that, she...

"Coralline is a mermaid who is engaged to the merman of her dreams. But when an oil spill wreaks havoc on her idyllic village life, her little brother falls gravely ill. Desperate to save him, she embarks on aquest to find a legendary elixir made of starlight. Izar, a human man, is on the cusp of an invention that will enable him to mine the depths of the ocean. His discovery will soon make him the richest man on earth--while threatening merpeople...