Harbor for the Nightingale is the highly anticipated fourth installment in the award-winning Stranje House YA series! #1New York Timesbest-selling author Meg Cabot calls this romantic Regency adventure series completely original and totally engrossing.
Enticing from the first sentence." New York Times Sunday Book Reviewon A School for Unusual Girls
An outstanding alternative history series entry and a must-have for teen libraries. Junior Library Guild on Refuge for Masterminds
A girls spy school amid Jane Austens high society . . .
London, 1814. Emperor Napoleon has forced Europe to its knees, and now he plots to seize control of Britain. Miss Maya Barrington, one of Miss Stranjes unusual girls, must act as a double agent and rely upon her uncanny gift of persuasion to stop Napoleon.
She brought the mystery of India with her . . .
Maya is from two different worlds. Her Indian mother died and her father, an English lord, took her away from the warmth of India to cold inhospitable London. She was not welcomed. Especially by her prejudiced stepmother, who sent Maya away to Stranje House, a reform school known for its harsh discipline.
The schools dark reputation hides the fact that the headmistress, Miss Stranje, is actually training these unusual young ladies to enter the dangerous world of spies, diplomacy, and war. Stranje House turns out to be the perfect hiding place for Mayashe finally carves out a sense of belonging among these brilliant outcast girls.
But her world turns upside down when Miss Stranje and the girls are drawn into Napoleons devious conspiracy.
To protect the friends she now holds dear, and to keep Napoleon and his ruthless spies from destroying the world she has grown to love, Maya agrees to play a duplicitous role. She must enter this treacherous game on the arm of the elusive Lord Kinsworth. Maya can read almost everyonenot so with this young rascal. Quick with a jest and armed with lethal charm, Lord Kinsworth remains just beyond her reach. Can she trust him?
With Britains future at risk and those she loves in deadly peril, Maya questions everything she thought she understood about life, love, and loyalty.
Baldwin has a winning series here: her characters are intriguing and fully rendered. * Booklist* , on Refuge for Masterminds
Fans of genre-blending, sweet romance, and action will love this speculative history Regency-era novel filled with spunky heroines, handsome young lords, and dastardly villainsfourth in the Stranje House series. A girls spy school amid Jane Austens high society. Dont miss the first three books: A School for Unusual Girls, Exile for Dreamers, and Refuge for Masterminds
An outstanding alternative history series entry and a must-have for teen libraries. Junior Library Guild onRefuge for Masterminds
This alternative history series will appeal to fans of Gail Carriger's works and The Cecelia and Kate novels by Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer. School Library Journal onA School for Unusual Girls
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"An unforgettable story told with such lyrical beauty it takes my breath away." Patience Griffin, bestselling author of To Scotland With Lov e
Harbor for the Nightingale is the highly anticipated fourth installment in the award-winning Stranje House YA series! #1 New York Times best-selling author Meg Cabot calls this romantic Regency adventure series "completely original and totally engrossing."
"Enticing from the first sentence." -- New York Times Sunday Book Review on A School for Unusual Girls
"An outstanding alternative history series entry and a must-have for teen libraries." -- School Library Journal on Refuge for Masterminds