Cirrus@Austlit

'Lady Sophia Hamilton hates the French, who took her husband's life and who threaten the peace she craves for England and her family. In a world gone mad with war, the last thing she should do is fall in love with the enemy, a Frenchman whose true loyalties are a frightening enigma.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'A woman at war with authority and a man at war with himself defy their king to fight for freedom.

'Young, rebellious Viviane de Chercy reaches Paris in 1776, determined to join a band of aristocrats who are plotting to throw themselves into the American War of Independence. But when she stows away on a ship carrying La Fayette and his followers to war-torn Pennsylvania, she sails headlong into a passionate struggle with her nemesis, the man she fled France to escape—Jules, Comte de Mirandol, who has joined the Virginia Riflemen to fight for the same cause.

'As the battles rage, Viviane overhears a plan that could turn the tide of British onslaughts against General Washington’s Continentals. Armed with only a pistol and her courage, she takes the fate of Philadelphia in her hands.

'Interweaving the birth of a nation with the destiny of two outsiders, REBEL is a vivid portrait of the first great affair between America and France—a story of love and war.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Queen Scheherazade is kidnapped from Baghdad and must tell a story to save her own life, having told stories for many years to save the lives of other women.

'Ninth-century Baghdad, legendary crossroads of the East. It is nearly twenty years since Scheherazade spun her tales for a thousand and one nights, the tales that saved her life and immortalised the city that she had never seen - until now. But almost immediately she is kidnapped by a party of hashish-chewing assassins from under the Caliph of Baghdad's nose. An ancient prophecy leads the Caliph to despatch an unlikely crew of sailors on a rescue mission. As they venture deeper into the unforgiving desert, losing camels, supplies, and all sense of dicrection, Scheherazade must face her abductors alone. And once again begins to spin a tale to save her life... An adventure full of wit, danger and incident, murder and mystery, poetry and philosophy - and testament to the power of the imagination - Scheherazade sweeps from the historical realities of Arabian life into a world of magic carpets and miraculous beings, seamlessly weaving fact, fiction and fable into a novel rich with all the heady power of the Arabian Nights.'

Source: Back cover