Paul Watkins

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Society miss by day...daring thief by night When Devon Mackinsey is saved from her life as a scullery maid by the titled grandmother she never knew, she blossoms into a spirited beauty, determined to save her ancestral home even if it means turning to crime as the notorious Shadow. But when Hunter Barclay discovers the flame-haired vixen stealing his uncle's silver, they make a devil's bargain -- one kiss for silence about his secret: he's a spy for the colonists. They part as Devon's destiny is cast to the wind in a dangerous and exciting adventure that takes her around the world and back -- ever a slave to passion and the man who has made her a prisoner of love. Devon Series: Devon (Devon #1) Black Angel (Devon #2)

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During the summer of 1908, twelve-year-old Constantine Boyd is witness to an explosion of home-spun investigation--from experiments with cave-dwelling fish without eyes to scientifically bred crops to motorized bicycles and the flight of an early aeroplane. In 1920, a popular science writer and young widow tries, immediately after the bloodbath of the First World War, to explain the new theory of relativity to an audience (herself included) desperate to believe in an "ether of space" housing spirits of the dead. Half a century earlier, in 1873, a famous biologist struggles to maintain his sense of the hierarchies of nature as Darwin's new theory of evolution threatens to make him ridiculous in the eyes of a precocious student. The twentieth-century realms of science and war collide in the last two stories, as developments in genetics and X-ray technology that had once held so much promise fail to protect humans--among them, a young American soldier, Constantine Boyd, sent to Archangel, Russia, in 1919--from the failures of governments and from the brutality of war.--Publisher description.