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Clio Blair is a fire witch—gifted, defiant, and hiding more than just her magic. With the power to speak to the dead and glimpse their final memories, she’s called in by her uncle at Scotland Yard to help solve the murder of Viscount Beachley. His ghost lingers, his wife is missing, and the trail leads straight into the glittering world of the ton… where Clio has no place. Enter Lieutenant General Thomas Grey: brooding, scandal-shadowed, and bound by honour to assist the investigation. He never expects to be paired with a sharp-tongued witch who walks with ravens...

Katy Baker presents Book 2 in the Highlander of the Isles series.

Sie geht das Wagnis ein. Lady Gemma Brooks befindet sich noch in ihrer unbeholfenen Phase, als eine boshafte junge Frau sie auffordert, den unerreichbaren Duke of Grovemont um einen Tanz zu bitten. Gemma stimmt zu, nicht um ihrer selbst willen, sondern um die anderen Mauerblümchen vor bösartigem Klatsch und Tratsch zu schützen. Doch was als harmlose Mutprobe beginnt, entwickelt sich bald zu einem Skandal, und Gemma sieht sich gezwungen, völlig unerwartet einen Mann zu heiraten, den sie kaum kennt.

A secret letter. A wartime promise. A courageous act of love... Singapore, 1942: The war is drawing ever closer, and Dorothy faces a heart-rending choice to flee the country she has come to call home. With warplanes advancing across the ocean, she is boarding a boat full of evacuees when...

Discover the gripping conclusion to Glenda Young's Toffee Factory trilogy, set in a WWI toffee factory in the North-East! The Great War has ended, but Jack's toffee factory struggles after years of sugar rations and its troubles are far from over. Fun, feisty Elsie longs for freedom and...

Ein Kindheitsversprechen. Ein Familiengeheimnis. Und eine unmögliche Liebe in den goldenen Jahren Italiens. Zwei Kinder im Garten einer Mailänder Villa: Piero, der strahlende Sohn eines Automobilunternehmers. Und Valeria, die talentierte Tochter der Hausangestellten. Sie versprechen sich, Freunde fürs Leben zu werden. Verbunden durch ein altes Familiengeheimnis erleben sie eine Jugend in den goldenen Jahren Italiens, zwischen Dolce Vita und kultureller Revolution.

Gawain Burton, the Duke of Bromleigh, is a Silver Duke, and everyone in the ton knows these exceptionally handsome forty-something men with some gray salted in their hair have no intention of ever marrying. However, carrying on the Bromleigh title is important, and Gawain is determined to find a proper wife for his nephew and heir.

Shade is a dedicated healer focused solely on gaining as much knowledge as possible to help those suffering and in need. Consumed with her work, she has had no time to find a husband and at twenty and six years most believe she is past her prime. Quint arrives at her cottage one day with a wound that needs her skills. It is obvious that he is a seasoned warrior. His injury requires him to remain at her cottage for a few days and she finds she quite enjoys having him there. It does not take long for her to find what she never thought she would or for Quint to rediscover what he lost ... love.

No longer in the first blush of youth and without a marriage portion, Miss Constance Woodley can scarcely imagine why one of the leading lights of London society should take an interest in the likes of her. But under her benefactor's guiding hand, she's transformed into a captivating creature who catches the eye of the handsome, charming, and ever-so-slightly notorious Lord Dominic Leighton.

Alex Ivanov is a brilliant young innovator, designing cutting-edge train engines. But Alex has a secret—he isn’t really Alex Ivanov. As a boy, he was pulled from the Thames, presumed drowned, with no memory of who he was. Rescued and raised by the formidable Ryder Sherbrooke, Alex has built a new life, but his past is catching up with him.

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‘A woman can get more information about German supply lines and replacements than a man with a knife to a soldier’s throat…’ Germany, 1944 Best friends Vivien Allen and Junie Knight are part of the covert world of America’s Morale Operations branch. As members of The League of Lonely...

Chloe Sinclair is desperate to find her sister who vanished under mysterious circumstances. Retracing her footsteps the day of her disappearance, she finds nothing but dead ends. Until she makes her way to an antique store in the heart of Edinburgh with an eccentric shopkeeper who gives her a strange looking stone and a cryptic message. When the man she thought she loved attacks her to take the stone for himself, it transports her back in time to medieval Scotland, dropping her in the middle of dangerous territory.

Cornwall, heute: Nach einem beruflichen Rückschlag flieht Samantha zu ihrer Tante nach Cornwall. Dort findet sie auf dem Dachboden einen geheimnisvollen Verlobungsring, der sie zu einem Rätsel aus der Vergangenheit führt. Maxwell Trevenian, der arrogante Erbe des altehrwürdigen Familienanwesens, versucht ihre Nachforschungen zu verhindern. Zwischen den rauen Klippen und dem endlosen Meer begegnet sie dem eigensinnigen Fischer Lowen, der ihr Cornwall von einer ganz anderen Seite zeigt. Doch je tiefer sie in die Vergangenheit eindringt, desto brisanter werden die Geheimnisse, die sie aufdeckt.

What begins as a practical arrangement slowly transforms. Amid the snow-capped peaks and harsh beauty of the frontier, Ivy finds not just purpose, but belonging. Yet shadows from her past aren't finished with her. When a violent man comes calling—claiming Ivy as payment for her brother's betrayal—she and Cormac must stand together or risk losing everything.

Gerrit van Draak, the fifth Duke of Dulverton, might not love his orderly, boring life, but at least it is one he can manage. And then she comes along. Lady Kathryn Bellamy not only tears down the walls Gerrit has spent decades carefully constructing, she also shatters the bedrock of his existence in the process.

Gage Edmonds plans to use his engineering degree to blaze new roads in the Southern frontier—but first, he must follow in the footsteps of his war hero father and prove he's worthy of their family name. His assignment to the Georgia Mounted Militia puts him between gold-hungry settlers and Cherokees soon to be forced from their homes. The local miller's captivating daughter, Anna Walker, makes him question everything he thought he wanted.

Eight years ago, Lieutenant Luke Ripton made a hasty wartime marriage-in-name-only to protect a young girl from a forced union and left her protected in a remote mountain convent. Now, Luke is Lord Ripton, but he has been unable to obtain an annullment. Which leaves him no choice but to collect a wife he doesn’t want.

Devin Aincourt, Earl of Ravenscar, makes no apologies for who he is—a drinker, a womanizer, a gambler. Having been cast aside by his disapproving father years before, Dev is content to live out his cursed life in this hedonistic manner. Until his mother asks him to make a bold move to restore the family name and fortune: marry a rich American heiress.

To escape her strait-laced overbearing sister, Birdie Stauffer auditions for the all-female Versatile Quintet, Chautauqua circuit's opening act. Through this train-traveling roadshow she experiences the tumultuous 1920s, a modern era of shocking flappers and smuggled whiskey, with the camaraderie of newfound friends. Her exceptional gift of concert whistling entertains more than songbirds as she gains national notoriety and she's soon entangled in two romantic relationships—one with a dapper circuit manager, the other her fellow pianist.