Ratcatcher
by James McGee | 
Orphan Train
by Christina Baker Kline | 
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
by Michael Chabon | 
World Without End
by Ken Follett | 
The Invention of Wings
by Sue Monk Kidd | 
Year of Wonders
by Geraldine Brooks | 
The Storyteller
by Jodi Picoult | 
Bring Up the Bodies
by Hilary Mantel | 
Viking Tales
by Jennie Hall | 
Let the Great World Spin
by Colum McCann | 
Moloka'i
by Alan Brennert | 
The Autobiography of Henry VIII
by Margaret George | 
Shifted By The Winds
by Ginny Dye | 
Sarum
by Edward Rutherfurd | 
Rules of Civility
by Amor Towles | 
Glimmers of Change
by Ginny Dye | 
Carried Forward By Hope
by Ginny Dye | 
One Thousand White Women
by Jim Fergus | 
The Lacuna
by Barbara Kingsolver | 
The Marriage of Opposites
by Alice Hoffman |
October 1812: Britain and France are still at war. France is engaged on two battlefronts'??Spain and Russia'??and her civilians are growing weary of the fight. Rebellion is brewing. Since Napoleon Bonaparte appointed himself as First Consul, there have been several attempts to either kill or overthrow him. All have failed, so far! Meanwhile in London, Bow Street Runner Matthew Hawkwood has been seconded to the foreign arm of the Secret Service. There, he meets the urbane Henry Brooke, who tells him he'??s to join a colleague in Paris on a special mission. Brooke'??s agent has come up with a daring plan and he needs Hawkwood'??s help to put it into action. If the plan is successful it could lead to a negotiated peace treaty between France and the allies. Failure would mean prison, torture and a meeting with the guillotine.