Scandal, or, Priscilla's KindnessThe protagonists in a sex scandal that reaches to the heights of the British government are boorish Derek Blore, a rising British politician, Bernadette, a lovable prostitute, and Blore's saintly but indiscreet wife.

'Varese brings to life the true grittiness of 19th-century London with great enthusiasm

thwart the plots

so sickening that it may provide the key to his personal redemption

Under the provisions of the Act of Oblivion

compassionate story and to stimulate readers

She's after a share of his luck

Star Begotten is a 1937 novel by H

a British police officer

With every reason to distrust each other

magical books and shapeshifting gods

too wild for courtly life

it is suspected that the target is the family of Hans Roth