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Victorian Drug Fiends - Classic Tales of Opium and Hashish!    by Abe Aaronson
Price: $5.95 USD. 106910 words. Published by FishesEye Publishing on December 30, 2009. .

A collection of infamous classics of drug literature: short stories, hours of giddy entertainment: journalism, medical reports, poetry, visions, capturing the heady essence of Victorian drug culture. From the Romantic opium-eaters, to the Bohemian hashish fanatics. Narcotics, opium dens, dreamy afternoons and hedonistic nights of absinthe, reefer cigarettes and wild hallucinations!
In the Brief Eternal Silence    by Rebecca Melvin
Price: $2.99 USD. 220000 words. Published by Double Edge Press  on May 7, 2010. .

Enter into the world of the Duke of St. James in Victorian England, 1863. . .When he offers Lizzie Murdock an astounding proposal, she is faced with a deadly mystery, and an arranged proposal meant to flush out evil produces much more until their very survival depends upon their love for each other.
Still Life With Murder (Nell Sweeney Mysteries, Book 1)    by P.B. Ryan
Price: Free! 94900 words. Published by Patricia Ryan on July 9, 2010. .

Still Life With Murder is Book #1 of P.B. Ryan’s acclaimed historical mystery series featuring Boston governess Nell Sweeney and opium-smoking former battle surgeon Will Hewitt. Thought to have died during the Civil War, Will is arrested for murder, and Nell must prove his innocence. Originally published by Berkley Prime Crime.
Crazyhead    by John Klawitter
Price: $8.95 USD. 97150 words. Published on February 4, 2011. .

Sometimes you just try to get along, a little guy in a big pond. You're young, in the center of your luck. And then love shows up. She's the most unlikely woman in the world, but somehow, from that time on, everything you relied on to get through your day is blown to splinters.
Desire    by Amy Wallace
Price: $2.99 USD. 77820 words. Published by Crossroad Press  on May 29, 2011. .

The future of Lily van Velsen, San Francisco pearl "doctor" and gemologist, looks assured, given her recent engagement to her goodnatured colleague Alan Purdue. But once she begins reading the diaries that recount many of her ancestors' illicit romances and their relationships with demon lovers, she is driven toward a dark destiny of her own.
The Nell Sweeney Historical Mysteries    by P.B. Ryan
Price: $19.99 USD. 391200 words. Published by Patricia Ryan on June 7, 2011. .

This bargain-priced “boxed set” contains all six of P.B. Ryan’s popular historical mysteries, originally published by Berkley Prime Crime. Set in post-Civil War Boston, the series features Irish-born governess Nell Sweeney and opium-smoking former battle surgeon Will Hewitt.
Col's Phantasm Speaks    by Fiona Tanzer
Price: $0.99 USD. 25520 words. Published on October 26, 2011. .

Trouble with Opium! For young Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1797, it meant a vision of Xanadu, a visit from Porlock, and an unfinished poem. 200 years later, opiate trouble led Fiona Tanzer to write the short story of Sam's mysterious Porlockian visitor, and to make literary history by finally completing Coleridge's famous poem, Kubla Khan. Read the completed poem for the first time!
Opium in Thailand    by Duncan Stearn
Price: $2.99 USD. 7230 words. Published by Proglen  on January 11, 2012. .

Opium in Thailand traces the history of the trade from its beginnings in the late 17th century and its imposition by the British as a trading item on Siam through to the rise of the famed Golden Triangle and the attempts at suppression from the 1960s onwards.
Surrender (A Regency Romance)    by CJ Archer
Price: $2.99 USD. 104180 words. Published by CJ Archer  on January 25, 2012. .

Only one woman can save Alex from himself.
Daisy Wong, Space Marshal: The Case of the Virgin Shirley Temple    by Jamie McNabb
Price: $4.99 USD. 23710 words. Published on March 14, 2012. .

(SHORT NOVEL, INCLUDES EXTENDED BONUS MATERIAL) The discovery of a murder victim wedged against the intake screen of a sewage-reclamation plant sends Lt. Daisy Wong on a dangerous chase for the killer. She follows the trail through a mirrored maze of desperate politicians, a slumming debutante, seedy bars, drugged-out body builders, and dope dealers. Her own boss may have even turned crooked.