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Londres, 1940. Edith Reeves, âgée de 16 ans, son petit frère Edward et leur jeune voisine Eleonore se préparent pour un voyage déterminant : grâce au programme Pied Piper, une initiative du gouvernement britannique de Winston Churchill, ils partiront pour Montréal, où une famille du quartier Notre-Dame-de-Grâce les accueillera.

Montréal, janvier 1941. Edith et Edward Reeves sont à Montréal depuis cinq mois. Après une période d'adaptation assombrie par la mort soudaine d'Eleonore, une douloureuse vérité fait son chemin : comme ils ne pourront retourner en Angleterre qu'une fois la guerre terminée, il est impossible de prédire la durée de leur séjour au Canada...

Drei Jahre sind seit den tragischen Ereignissen vergangen. Drei Jahre, in denen Avalone sich von Ann Arbor und den Devil's Sons ferngehalten hat. Die Sehnsucht treibt sie nach Hause, zu den Devil's. Doch die Devil's Sons empfangen Avalone alles andere als herzlich. Sie hegen einen berechtigten Groll gegen sie. Sie haben so viele Fragen und Avalone ist nicht in der Lage, ihnen Antworten zu geben. Sie trägt eine Last mit sich herum und hat viele Geheimnisse, die Avalone um jeden Preis bewahren muss.

Dashing Major Gavin Alexander, recently elevated to sixth Earl of Seabrooke, needs a fortune—fast! His new title came with a mountain of debt, and it is only a matter of time before he's denied entrance to the clubs where he's eking out a living by gaming. When Sir Thomas Chesterton cannot pay his losses at the table and offers his sister—and her inheritance—instead, Gavin jumps at the seemingly perfect solution to his troubles and agrees to wed Miss Chesterton sight unseen.

When my father schemed to marry my sister off to a decrepit old man to boost his standing, I swore I'd protect her. Together, we drove suitors away, but his fury only grew. To punish us, he rigged the barbarian lottery—and when Evelyn's name was drawn, her fate was sealed. Unless I stopped it. There was only one way to spare her. I would take her place. I'd do anything for my family. Even if it meant becoming a barbarian's tribute.

Miss Maddie Smythe My callous father wagered me to a brooding stranger during a hand of cards, leaving me terrified. But Lord Wheaton was nothing like the baron who’d forced me into servitude and gave me away. The handsome marquess was compassionate, honorable, and my only hope for a future. I...

World War II, Berlin. Freyja Bremer, a patriotic museum assistant, marries Kaspar Voigt, an ambitious SS scholar, to protect her father. As she strives to safeguard the priceless Priam's Treasure from air raids, Freyja falls in love with Darien Lessing, an archaeologist who exposes the moral decay beneath the regime's myths. Her awakening drives her into perilous resistance – aiding a Jewish doctor and his wife, Darien's sister – while uncovering Kaspar's role in the SS's darkest programs, which subvert history to justify invasion, abduction and murder.

Innsbruck, 1897: Josefa vertraut fest darauf, dass ihr Stiefvater Rupert nur ihr Bestes will, als er die Heirat mit dem wohlhabenden Geschäftsmann Berthold arrangiert. Doch bereits auf der Hochzeitsreise zeigen sich erste Risse in der Fassade ihres Ehemanns. Josefa versucht verzweifelt, ihrer Rolle als Ehefrau gerecht zu werden, doch ihr Lebenstraum ist ein anderer: Sie möchte Kunstgeschichte studieren. Berthold hat eigene Pläne für seine Frau und die Situation eskaliert dramatisch.

Cambridge, 1895. A frozen river and a fall that changes everything. When Virginia, daughter of famed American soprano Rosanna Bailey, tumbles on the ice of the frozen River Cam, she is steadied by photographer's assistant Charlie Meadows. Their meeting is brief, yet unforgettable. Charlie is shy...

Het zomerseizoen op Sandhamn wordt ruw opgeschrikt door de verdwijning van een 11-jarige jongen op een nabijgelegen eiland. Benjamin Dufva werd gepest op zijn zeilkamp, zijn de pesters te ver gegaan? Is hij weggelopen? Inspecteur Thomas Andreasson wordt op de zaak gezet, terwijl meer verdachte omstandigheden hun intrede doen. Zo blijkt dat de vader van Benjamin, Christian, kroongetuige is in een fraudezaak - en de cliënt van Nora Sand. Met zijn getuigenis staat of valt de strafzaak waar Nora's carrière aan verbonden is.

After more than a decade separated from his home and family, the Earl of Heathbrook returns to his London townhouse to face a new test: reclaiming guardianship of his younger brothers. His reputation as a rakehell, it seems, has followed him from detention inside Napoleon’s France and caused his own father to block Heathbrook’s rightful custody in his will. However, the clever rogue concocts a plan to restore respectability and rescue his siblings . . . by finding a “fiancée” with no strings attached.

As war breaks out across Europe, Clara - a British midwife married to a German officer - finds herself an outsider in the place she has called home for nearly a decade. Dismissed from her hospital and powerless as a pregnant Jewish woman is turned away alongside her, Clara is forced to confront a terrifying new reality. She may not recognise the city she once loved, but she won't stand by and watch as a desperate mother and her child are neglected, so she delivers the woman's baby in secret - a single act of courage that changes everything for Clara and her husband.

Months after a devastating discovery about the murder of her family, Leonora Spencer is still struggling to cope. She has kept her distance from Scotland Yard—and from Detective Inspector Jasper Reid—just as she has vowed to do. But when a bomb kills a young constable outside police...

Weaving a bright passion with the dark currents of past secrets, bestselling author Linda Lael Miller tells the tale of star-crossed lovers bound by Desire and Destiny. Devastated by the loss of her father, lovely Brynne McFarren returned to the Washington coastal town of her youth. Brynne was...

Bridgerton meets The Goldfinch in How to Fake It in Society, a stunning queer romance by rising genre star KJ Charles. It is 1821 and Nicolas-Marc, Comte de Valois de La Motte is making a splash in London Society. The son of Jeanne de Valois de La Motte, infamous for stealing a priceless diamond...

A sapphic regency romance about the duke who fears nothing—until the woman she never forgot walks through the door and brings her to her knees. Set in a world of powerful female nobles and the women who love them... Kate, Duke of Howard, is known throughout Europe as a merciless autocrat not...

In der flirrenden Atmosphäre der hellen Sommernächte von Sankt Petersburg entfaltet sich die Geschichte eines einsamen Träumers, der für wenige Tage glaubt, dem Glück begegnet zu sein. Erst die zufällige Begegnung mit der jungen Nastenka reißt ihn aus seiner inneren Isolation. Zwischen nächtlichen Spaziergängen und vorsichtigen Geständnissen entsteht eine fragile Nähe – getragen von Hoffnung, Sehnsucht und der Angst vor Verlust.

Il barone Andrew Hastings è un furfante della peggior specie: libertino, arrogante e pieno di sé, è soprannominato il Selvaggio di Hungerford, e non ha mai fatto nulla per smentire la sua fama, ma quando rivede Rhiannon deve fare i conti con il suo passato e con tutti gli errori che ha commesso. Rhiannon deve sposarsi, o finirà i suoi giorni da zitella. Resta solo un dubbio: quale pretendente scegliere, se l’unico che l’attrae è anche il solo da cui deve tenersi alla larga?

Gabe Talmadge languished in prison for ten years, convicted of a horrible crime. Now free, he's unable to find work in the midst of the Great Depression. In desperation, he returns home to Ransom, Idaho, hoping his uncaring father will give him food and shelter, if not love. But the prodigal...

Inghilterra, '800. Opaline è una lady molto particolare: aristocratica, bella come il sole, con due splendidi occhi color fiordaliso, potrebbe ambire a sposare un duca. Ma a lei non importa nulla dei salotti mondani o di sfoggiare vestiti e sorrisi a Londra durante la Stagione; il suo desiderio più grande è vivere in campagna, tra il cielo e l’erba, a contatto con la natura, gli animali, e il ricordo della sua idilliaca infanzia.