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Desperate to shield her from scandal, Mary's brother-in-law, the ambitious botanist Robert Fortune, forces her to accompany him on a mission to China to steal tea plants for the East India Company. But Robert conceals his secret motives - to spy for the British forces, newly victorious in the recent Opium War. His task is both difficult and dangerous - the British are still regarded as enemies by the Chinese, and exporting tea bushes carries the death sentence.

Home is where the heart is Barry Bleecker wanted to trade in his dreary life for one of adventure and art. Until he finds himself washed up on a deserted beach with only four pairs of contact lenses to his name… Sophie Ducel was meant to be having the honeymoon of a lifetime. Then the plane...

No-one is ever happy to see Grace Salmon. As a funeral arranger, she’s responsible for steering strangers through the hardest day of their lives. It’s not a task many would want - but for Grace, giving people the chance to say a proper goodbye to the ones they love is the most important job in the world. From the flowers in the church to the drinks served at the wake, Grace knows it’s the personal touches that count - and it’s amazing what you can find out about someone from their grieving relatives...or their Facebook page.

A tense cat-and-mouse game and a brilliantly realised story of hope in a seemingly hopeless place A LIFE IS IN HER HANDS The last thing Percy expected to find in the local drug den was a baby girl. Now she needs to get the baby to a hospital, and fast. But there’s a blizzard outside and soon...

Haunted by nightmares, doubts, and hints of depression and PTSD that she keeps denying, Christine decides to embark on the riskiest journey of her life so far: the one that ends with meeting her birth father. Despite her mother’s pleas to reconsider, she jumps on a plane to America, gets a room at a cheap motel and tries to work up the courage to approach the man who created her. The man who still has no idea she exists.

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Marie-Luises Leben ändert sich grundlegend, als die lebenslustige Cosima ihren Weg kreuzt. Zwischen beiden Frauen entwickelt sich eine tiefe Zuneigung, getragen durch die maritime Berufswahl ihrer Männer. Bevor sie ihre Erinnerungen über das Leben an Bord eines Hochseefrachters mit ihrer jungen Freundin teilen kann, verstirbt sie unverhofft und hinterlässt Cosima ein Tagebuch. Als diese erkennt, wie sehr Marie-Luises Leben ihr eigenes tangiert, begibt sie sich auf eine abenteuerliche Reise und in eine erschütternde Vergangenheit... Ein historischer Roman über die Seefahrt.

A week on an island sounds like the stuff of beach dreams, but for Paisley Royce, it's a nightmare. Her little sister is marrying her ex-college sweetheart, and Paisley is serving as maid of honor. To add insult to injury, nobody will let Paisley forget she's single. Bachelorette weekend changes everything when she runs into her old college frenemy, Klein Madigan. Klein is still intelligent and funny, and somehow time has only made him more attractive.

Willowvine yearns for inclusion. Banished by the elven community for bringing bad luck as an orphan, she wishes she could earn her way back in...just to have the pleasure of turning them down.

Willowvine faces the final quest with Springheart and Tom by her side. One more Stone of Power to be restored to the Guardian, and she will get her dream. No one will stop her from joining Elven society. The Stone of Orphan was taken so long ago that no one can remember the story, only that it meant orphans were bad luck and so must be exiled. The quest takes Willowvine and her companions on a search for clues that leads her to the one place she swore never to revisit.

Catalina Béjar de Prado es una mujer progresista hasta donde le conviene: se casó con un "igual", o eso es lo que ella creía, pero, en el fondo, Catalina se casó para escapar. Nunca supo de qué tenía que escapar, pero ese fue su propósito. Ahora, Catalina se nota permanentemente turbada: por su casa, su hija, su marido, su trabajo, su madre, su hermana, sus amigas, el amante, la mujer del amante, la política, la globalización, la anorexia, los gimnasios, el magnesio... Así que una mañana decide seguir el consejo de su hija y darle un giro a su vida: rebelarse.

Seven summers. Two families. One beach house. And a diary that holds all the secrets. What began as a brief reunion of two families at the renovated Summer House has become something far more complicated and meaningful than anyone expected. And now they must weather one last storm. Just as the...

Alles, was du siehst, ist nur Teil meiner Fassade. Ich spiele ein Spiel, das ich längst hätte verlieren sollen. Und dann kommt sie. Louisa Velmont. Die Tochter aus gutem Haus, der ich nicht zu nah kommen darf. Sie ist die verbotene Frucht. Verlobt. Unberührbar. Tabu. Ich wäre nicht Stone Blakewell, wenn ich es schaffen würde, mich von ihr fernzuhalten. Der erste Kuss ist elektrisierend und ich weiß sofort, dass ich mehr will. Doch wenn sie erfährt, was ich verberge, wird mein größter Fehler nicht mein Geheimnis sein, sondern, dass ich sie nicht gehen lassen kann.

Er sollte sie beschützen – nicht sich heimlich in sie verlieben. Doch als Charlaine und Drake aufeinandertreffen, wird aus einem Sicherheitsplan ein gefährliches Spiel mit dem Herzen.

Lara Croft meets Indiana Jones? Nein, eher Mrs. Tolpatsch meets Mr. Irresistible. Lara Croft und ich haben leider fast nichts gemeinsam, außer einem verstorbenen Vater und einer Schatzsuche. Aber Ben kann es schon eher mit Indiana Jones aufnehmen.

A true story. A forgotten heroine. In a time when women were told to stay silent, could she become the saviour her people need? 12th-century England. Nicola de la Haye wants to do her duty. But though she’s taught a female cannot lead alone, the young noblewoman bristles at the marriage her father has arranged to secure her inheritance. And when an unexpected death leaves her unguided, the impetuous girl shuns the king’s blessing and weds a handsome-but-landless knight.

Laura’s assistant Jared is obsessed with her, and after being fired he uses his newly free time to learn her routines. No matter how she says no, his advances keep getting bolder. Laura soon realizes that the women she thought were friends are actually team Jared—he’s funny and likable while Laura is reserved. Of course they don’t believe that he is stalking her, and without a tangible threat, the police can’t help either.

Men would kill for this treasure. The McKenzie women will guard it with their lives. London, 1837. When 25-year-old Araminta McKenzie-Moore is summoned from Richmond to her great aunt's deathbed in Edinburgh, it's the first time she's met her extended family. The McKenzie women, however, have...

France, 1650. En pleine Fronde, tandis que le royaume vacille entre révolte et fidélité à la Cour, une autre bataille se livre, plus secrète et plus implacable : celle des femmes. Nanon de Lartigues, passionnée et loyale, la vicomtesse de Cambes, farouche ennemie du pouvoir royal et madame de Condé, stratège politique redoutable, croisent leurs intrigues et leurs désirs dans une lutte où l'amour devient une arme. Au cœur de ce conflit, le baron de Canolles est déchiré entre deux camps et deux passions contraires.

For fans of Kate Quinn, a dual-timeline adventure novel of a historian who risks everything—including her life—to discover the truth about a female Renaissance sculptor unjustly erased by history. Two determined women four hundred years apart. One mysterious statue. And a bombshell that could change history. Art historian Mia is running out of time to prove her theory that the sculptor of an unearthed erotic statue was a courtesan erased from history—a scandal no one will believe.