Bøger af Nicky Penttila

Frankie Styles wants to get away from it all. A week on the beach while her spaceship is overhauled is just the ticket. Too bad the weather, an old friend, and her new boss have other plans. Space opera meets comedy of manners in this rollicking moon-bound space opera!Readers who love second-chance stories, cats with attitude, robots of all sorts--and a little light espionage--will love Frankie!A Cooperative Realm story, Frankie Takes a Holiday takes place directly after the events in Cargo Trouble

The people of Arkhide don't fear their planet's mighty volcanoes, but they have long lived in fear of being 'discovered' by the mammoth Cooperative Realm of Planets. Now the Co-op has found them. To save her people, Katla Sofiasdotter is charged with changing the terms on the unfair treaty the Cooperatives have offered. A treaty that sentences thousands on her planet, "illegals," to immediate death. Problem is, Katla's no diplomat.

Frankie Styles took on a smalltime cargo route at the edge of Cooperative space to get away from the constant pressure of her life in Central sector.She's about to find out that edge space is just as turbulent as the life she left behind. And a lot weirder.A rollicking novella set in the Cooperative Realm.

What's the harm in a little white lie?Especially when it could carry so much good-a new life for a wounded soldier, catharsis after long years of war, and an opportunity for lady composer Olivia Delancey to finally hear her music played in public.Newspaper publisher Will Marsh hates lies. He refuses to compound the sins of his father's generation by taking money to print propaganda. But with the end of the wars in France and America, he needs something new to drive Londoners to grab his paper first. Why not publish the score of the "Tune That Took Waterloo", by a wounded vet, no less?As Olivia struggles to keep her secrets from this unsuitably alluring publisher, and Will fights to find the truth without losing his hold on this bright-eyed angel who has descended into his life, both discover another sort of truth.Being the talk of London can be bad-or very, very good.Regency romantic historical novel, 83,750 words, sensual (heat level 2 of 4). London & Plymouth, 1815

When the British army is sent into Spain to help expel Napoleon, nothing goes as expected.Louisa Wakefield's family, Loyalist refugees from America, seek peace among people of their faith, but instead find war has followed them even to remote Galicia.London newsman Sam Kerr, covering the troops for a story that will win him the editor's chair, finds something else entirely.If you enjoy sweeping stories set on an international stage, with complex and engaging characters, The Spanish Patriot is for you.

"Powerful. Disturbing. Heartbreaking. Smart. Occasionally gentle, often brutal. And always enthralling. An atypical setting, an actual historical event, masterfully layered characters and a sophisticated, seamless narrative -- An Untitled Lady is a standout, gripping historical romance, unlike any Regency you've ever read."--USA Today "The social turmoil in Manchester leading to the Peterloo Massacre of 1819 is the unusual setting for Penttila's quietly stunning, memorable debut novel. A very highly recommended book."--Historical Novel Society Shocking family news forces Madeline Wetherby to abandon her plans to marry an earl and settle for upstart Manchester merchant Nash Quinn. When she discovers that her birth father is one of the weavers her husband is putting out of work-and a radical leader-Maddie must decide which family she truly desires, the man of her heart or the people of her blood. As Manchester simmers under the summer sun, the choices grow more stark for Maddie and Nash: Family or justice. Love or money. Life or death.

What's the harm in a little white lie?Especially when it could carry so much good-a new life for a wounded soldier, catharsis after long years of war, and an opportunity for lady composer Olivia Delancey to finally hear her music played in public.Newspaper publisher Will Marsh hates lies. He refuses to compound the sins of his father's generation by taking money to print propaganda. But with the end of the wars in France and America, he needs something new to drive Londoners to grab his paper first. Why not publish the score of the "Tune That Took Waterloo", by a wounded vet, no less?As Olivia struggles to keep her secrets from this unsuitably alluring publisher, and Will fights to find the truth without losing his hold on this bright-eyed angel who has descended into his life, both discover another sort of truth.Being the talk of London can be bad-or very, very good.This is a Regency-set romantic historical novel, 84,000 words, sensual (heat level 2 of 4). London & Plymouth, 1815