Drake: 907 books

Handel's Messiah is the world's most popular choral work. But its story begins in the unlikely setting of a room above a pub in Chester, when the great composer, detained by bad weather on his way to a season of concerts in Dublin, invites some local choristers to rehearse excerpts. It is not a success....

If the Slipper Fits Olivia Drake Raised in a girls' school, Annabelle Quinn longs for the world outside the walls of the academy. When she's hired as the governess to an orphaned duke, Annabelle never expects the child's breathtakingly handsome guardian to capture her imagination*—*or...

Destitute, an actress accepts a job impersonating the princess of an island nation, only to discover her subjects are plotting murder. Lily Lyon's acting career is dead; her latest play closed on opening night. Broke, jobless, and willing to accept anything, Lily makes the mistake of agreeing...

A girl on the run plays a high-stakes game of chicken with the man her murdered her parents. Three years of hiding in the shadows. Three years of looking over her shoulder. Eliza passes from town to town, leaving no trace of herself. A chance encounter with socialite, Sabrina Maldove,...

Teetering on the edge of spinsterhood, a woman discovers her fiancé has been hiding the truth about his identity… and hers. With her cousin on honeymoon and her aunt's matchmaking propensities now solely focused on her, Annabelle escapes to the cliffs of Firefly Island for solace. When her...

To save her childhood crush from an amphibian fate, a waitress strikes a fool's bargain with a slighted enchantress. Rana is hiding a secret. Since she was eight years old, she has been in love with Kaleb Prince, the son of her mother's former employer. The day he left for collage, her heart...

A victim of obligation discovers the cost of true love: one soul. Gabrielle wastes her days slogging away behind a desk, fending off the unwanted advances of her manager, and her nights spoon-feeding memories to her mother, a new resident of an assisted-living facility specializing in dementia. The...

Shannon Drake is back-with a story steeped in darkness, danger and desire THE EARL WAS KNOWN AS A BEAST Camille Montgomery is aware of the wicked man's reputation. But as an expert in antiquities, she also knows his family's Egyptian artifacts are the finest in England. The problem is,...

From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Olivia Drake comes a charming Victorian historical romance—perfect for the holidays! A pretty English schoolteacher anticipates the homecoming of her long-absent, devilishly handsome husband…the only holiday gift that will satisfy her yearning heart… **originally published as Barbara Dawson Smith**

Somewhere in the near future, not that that's terribly important, one Mr. N. "Rals" Ralston is increasingly regretting his latest contract. A soldier-of-fortune stuck in the middle of nowhere fighting a mysterious enemy under an inexplicable set of rules and making no headway whatsover,...

When the bodies of two young boys are found and two other boys are abducted, Detective Kara Jameson finds herself transferred to Luxembourg to track down a vicious predator and rescue his captives before he kills again. With a new partner at her side, Kara must battle her own demons as the case pulls...

When the body of a murdered man washes up on shore near a popular beach town, it isn't the cause of death that catches the attention of Detective Lincoln Munroe, it's something the victim had in his pocket: a British gold coin dated 1798. In Lincoln's mind, there is only one possible...

"He was an adversary to be feared, that much I knew, and I couldn't help but think I'd met my Moriarty." A simple e-mail; short, sweet and to the point: a victim’s name, GPS coordinates, and the fact that the body will be found in a shallow grave. Addressed to Detective Lincoln...

A snake smells with its tongue, hears with its flesh, and breathes under the sand with one lung; it can copulate for days with one snake or with fifty at once; it has infrared radar; and it can induce spontaneous bleeding if threatened. With all these qualities, it is easy to see how snakes have such...