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England 1819. Thomas Shield, a master at a school just outside London, is tutor to a young American boy and the child’s sensitive best friend, Charles Frant. Helplessly drawn to Frant’s beautiful, unhappy mother, Shield becomes entwined in their family’s affairs. When a brutal murder takes place in London’s seedy backstreets, all clues lead to the Frant family, and Shield is tangled in a web of lies, money, sex and death that threatens to tear his new life apart. Soon, it emerges that at the heart of these macabre events lies the strange American boy. 

Brought to you by Penguin. DIVE INTO A DAZZLING WARTIME TALE OF ENDURING LOVE AND HUMAN RESILIENCE THAT WILL LEAVE YOU BREATHLESS 1924, PRAGUE Two worlds collide, until a world at war threatens to tear them apart . . . On her first day at the Viennese Conservatory, gifted pianist and darling of...

The Season’s most eligible bachelor is Lord Blake, Viscount of Thorwood. Classically handsome and obscenely rich. The unmarried ladies are sure to swoon at his feet. One must not forget Mr Carstairs, he may not be titled but he is most certainly rich and handsome in his own right. One might call him the underdog of the Season. An unexpected interloper by the name of Miss Violet Bertram has appeared for the first time this year. A recent heiress with a most mysterious and magical aura.

Deeply harrowing circumstances force Cecilia Belmonte to leave her impoverished Spanish village and cross the Mediterranean to settle in Oran, a French Algerian city where she knows no one. She carries stolen identity papers, her body and soul burdened with confusion and pain. Laboring on plantations and in laundries and factories, Cecilia navigates devastating twists of fate as she strives to rebuild a life of her own making. What begins as a modest operation of manufacturing soap with two Spanish refugees soon evolves into a flourishing enterprise.

The Midnight Letters, a new HarperCollins book, full description to follow when available...

The Mists of Time, a new HQ book, full description to follow when available...

WWI is now in full swing and with their brothers away fighting the Graham sisters have an increasingly important role to play at the family smock mill. But while Daisy and her cousin Olive are both nursing and Holly has taken on the role of a busy mother and wife, Cynthia is stretched to her ends trying to help her husband keep the business afloat. Violet, meanwhile, having lost interest in the bakery, is heavily involved in the suffragette movement, causing rifts among the family. But through the ups and downs of war, love could be blossoming.

From New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict comes the story of the richest woman of the Gilded Age, the brilliant and controversial Hetty Green. The Gilded Age, New York City. Hetty Robinson is not your average young woman. Born into a successful whaling family, her father, Black Hawk...

June Harrington’s Merely a Matter of Time is an irresistible, slow-burn love story between two outrageously gifted arcane scientists who fall back in time only to fall for each other. Lucy Bright and her brilliant research partner Francis de Montmort (a former academic rival turned...

London, present day. Andie, an academic falling out of love with her job, is reeling from the discovery that she is descended from renowned 1920s makeup artist Winnie Ferris. She sets out to tell Winnie's story, one that might give her a chance to rediscover the passion for the work she used to love.

Fünen in Dänemark, 1875: Nach den Flitterwochen in Paris kehren Baron Julius und Baroness Jessie auf Schloss Egeskov zurück – doch heimliche Affären und tief verwurzelte Traditionen drohen ihr Glück zu zerstören. Julius wagt es, die Regeln des Schlosses infrage zu stellen, während Jessie zwischen Leidenschaft, Mutterschaft und Pflichten ringt.

In the poverty-stricken streets of Sunderland's East End in the early 1900s, orphan Rose Lumley lives with her alcoholic uncle Stan, thieving aunt Bea and beloved but forceful Granny. Granny urges Rose to forge a better life for herself, away from the East End, and when she gets a job at a local...

A Daughter’s Wish, a new Avon book, full description to follow when available...

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Isa Rose can hardly believe her luck when she lands a job as a maid to Charles Dickens' family. She has writing ambitions of her own and it isn't long before the charming, convivial Charles begins to take her under his wing. But as Isa is drawn into the lives of the Dickens' family, she begins to realise that behind closed doors all is not quite as it seems, and not everyone there is happy about her growing influence.

1806, Cloud Mountain. Jiayi is the lowliest of the Gu family's servants, so she is thrilled when their son and heir chooses her to be his 'little wife'. But this quasi-marriage offers no security, and Jiayi's situation becomes increasingly perilous with her husband's family plotting against her...

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1853, Bath. Industrialist William Rose was a poor lad from the slums who pulled himself up by his bootstraps, but in order to achieve his greatest ambitions he must become the epitome of Victorian respectability: a family man. Though she was once born to great wealth and privilege, she's hardly got the reputation he's looking for, but she's determined to invest her hard-earned fortune in Mr. Rose's mills and forge a new life as an entirely proper businesswoman.

New York Times bestselling author Sarah MacLean returns with the fiery conclusion to her blazingly sexy Hell’s Belles series...

Die junge Issey genießt fern ihrer Heimat ein glamouröses Leben mit ihren Freunden in Singapur. Doch als dort die ersten japanischen Bomben fallen, wird Issey klar, dass sie fliehen muss. Mit gebrochenem Herzen kehrt Lamorna aus Singapur zurück, um das baufällige Anwesen ihrer Familie in Trelenna zu retten. Zusammen mit dem gutaussehenden Archivar Zach entdeckt sie in der alten Bibliothek ein Tagebuch, das Isseys verzweifelte Flucht schildert.