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For Sofie King, love has always been a risk. She’s been living under a thundercloud since her dad’s sudden death when she was just a teenager, building a career in insurance and letting the numbers predict the safest options. But meeting husband Rory was like a ray of sunshine breaking through: he can’t help but always see the bright side. When Sofie falls pregnant, the couple begin to dream of their future as a three. But just a week before her due date, the worst thing imaginable happens and there is no baby to bring home from the hospital.

At 72, Gracie Jenkins thought her days of adventure were behind her. Settled into the familiar rhythms of small-town life, she never imagined she'd lace up her trainers for anything more than a stroll down memory lane. But when a forgotten photograph sparks a fire within her, Gracie decides to embark on an extraordinary journey.​ With nothing more than sheer determination, Gracie sets out to conquer the ultimate challenge: training for a marathon. Amidst doubts from her family and peers, she finds unexpected allies in her local running club and a newfound coach in her sister, Jill.

When Georgie Greene is evacuated to the English countryside to keep him safe from the London Blitz, he can’t think of anything worse than leaving his family behind to face the nightly bombings. With her little brother safe from the air raids, his sister, schoolteacher Kate, prays for a brighter future, but in a time of war, tragedy is never far away. Faced with uncertainty and heartache at every turn, Georgie and Kate must find the courage to carry on without each other. Can they be strong and keep their hopes alive of being a family once again?

Noa is desperate to be loved. More than anything else – more than her studies, more than her job, her friends, her family – she wants to belong to someone. And she knows if this can happen, if someone will just choose her, she’ll finally be happy. Elliot is terrified. Terrified about what will happen to his brother, Willy, if he isn’t there to keep him safe. Terrified that his friends will find out that he doesn’t have any of his own opinions. Terrified that the girl he loves will realise he isn’t a real person.

Jason and his Argonauts set sail to find the Golden Fleece. The journey is filled with danger, for him and everyone he meets. But if he ever reaches the distant land he seeks, he faces almost certain death. Medea – priestess, witch, and daughter of a brutal king – has the power to save the life of a stranger. Will she betray her family and her home, and what will she demand in return? Medea and Jason seize their one chance of a life together, as the gods intend. But their love is steeped in vengeance from the beginning, and no one – not even those closest to them – will be safe.

Nineteen years ago, PC Chris Fletcher's lover was found dead in an abandoned house. Now, his loyal wife has disappeared without a trace. There's no doubt that he's guilty, but which crime?

Meet the Mikkola sisters: Ina, Evelyn, and Anastasia. Their mother is a Tunisian carpet seller, their father a mysterious Swede who left them when they were young. Ina is tall, serious, a compulsive organizer. Evelyn is dreamy, magnetic, a smooth talker. And Anastasia is moody, chaotic, a shape-shifting presence, quick to anger. Ina meets her future husband when she’s dragged to a New Year’s rave by her sisters, only to suffer the ultimate betrayal. Evelyn drifts through life before embarking on a wild career as an actress.

Meet the Mikkola sisters: Ina, Evelyn, and Anastasia. Their mother is a Tunisian saleswoman, their father a mysterious Swede who left them when they were young. Ina is tall, serious, a compulsive organizer. Evelyn is dreamy, magnetic, a smooth talker. And Anastasia is moody, chaotic, a shape-shifting presence, quick to anger. Ina meets her future husband when she's dragged to a New Year's party by her sisters, only to suffer the ultimate betrayal. Evelyn drifts through life before embarking on a wild career as an actress.

Eila Jacobsen is adrift, reeling from her father’s recent death and still suffering from the loss of her best friend. When invited to join a research trip to a remote part of Alaska, she takes the chance to refocus her life and perhaps unravel the mystery behind the dwindling caribou population. But as Eila buries herself in data, she stumbles across something remarkable. Concealed in the pages of her father’s journal is a discovery with life-changing possibilities. So why was it abandoned?

Edith, just out of school, has been sent from her quiet English life to rural Italy. It is the 1960s, and her mother has issued strict instructions: tend to her sister, ballet dancer Lydia, in the final weeks of her scandalous pregnancy; help at the birth; make a phone call that will summon the nuns who will spirit the child away to a new home. Decades later, happily divorced, recently moved, and full of new energy, Edith has made a life of contentment and comfort in Ireland. Then her best friend Maebh receives a shocking phone call from an American man.

Layla Smart was raised by her pragmatic Midwestern mother to dream medium. But all Layla’s ever wanted is a career in dance, which requires dreaming big. So when she receives a prestigious offer to be the choreographer-in-residence at Briar House, an arts program in rural Vermont, she leaves behind Brooklyn, her job, her friends, and her husband to pursue it.

The narrator of Middle Spoon appears to be living the dream: He has a doting husband, two precocious children, all the comforts of a quiet bourgeois life—and a sexy younger boyfriend to accompany him to farmers markets and cocktail parties. But when his boyfriend abruptly dumps him, he spirals into heartbreak for the first time and must confront a world still struggling to understand polyamorous relationships. Faced with the judgment of friends and the sting of rejection, he’s left to wonder if sharing a life with both his family and his lover could ever truly be possible.

Alexandra Atkinson's talent for spotting successful business ideas has helped enrich her father's company while leaving her with little time for a social life—and certainly nothing as silly as love. But when her father hints that Alex will need to marry as well if she ever wants to win the approval of the company's far more fusty board members, she hatches her most ambitious plan yet: a fake courtship that lasts just long enough to see an important deal through and secure her place at the head of the company.

To Stella Dixon, sneaking her teenage brother out of their parents’ house for a beach party was harmless fun—until Max disappeared without a trace. Six years later, Stella’s family is still broken, and she can’t let go of her guilt. The only thing that keeps her going is helping other families find closure through A Killer Motive, her true crime podcast. In a bid to find new sponsors and keep making episodes, Stella goes on a local radio show. But when she says on air that if she had just one clue, she’d find Max and bring whoever hurt him to justice, someone takes it as a challenge.

Was verbindet uns mit denen, die vor uns kamen? Alles beginnt mit einem heimlich geschlachteten Schaf in einem Dorf an der Nordsee. Hier rührt die Urgroßmutter das Blut für die Würste, der Großonkel schläft 15 Jahre lang und die Großmutter fürchtet die Heuriesen auf dem Feld. Am Ende steht Urenkelin Alma und fügt die Einzelteile ihrer Familiengeschichte zusammen: vom kargen bäuerlichen Alltag in der Kaiserzeit über den Neuanfang nach den Kriegen bis in die Gegenwart.

Teil 2 der Coastlines-Reihe: Die Schwestern Harmony und Hope haben alles zusammen durchgestanden. Doch nun ist Hope schwerkrank und Harmony muss lernen, allein ihr Glück zu finden. Harmony lebt als Journalistin in Phoenix. Die Liebe hat sie nach einigen Enttäuschungen aufgegeben. Stattdessen konzentriert sie sich ganz auf ihren Beruf und auf ihre ältere Schwester Hope, die seit drei Jahren vergeblich gegen Leukämie ankämpft. Hopes größter Wunsch ist es, ihre letzten Wochen auf Key West zu verbringen – ihrem liebsten Ort auf Erden.

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Can one kiss melt a cold, broken heart? When career-focused Chloe Bellamy is sent to Iceland on a work trip at the last minute, it’s her chance to prove she deserves a seat at the top. There’s just one problem: she may have embellished her CV a little, saying she speaks Icelandic. She doesn’t. And to top it off, she’s landed with no place to stay.

Laurel, at eleven, was conscious of being happy. She was almost afraid of it. 'I'll never be as happy again. When I'm quite old, as old as 30, I'll come back to this bit of Eastbourne. I'll come on the same day in June and remember me now. ' The four Wiltshire children live a comfortable middle-class English life. But as WWII overtakes the country, the family, like so many others, slowly disintegrates. Told from the perspective of the children, Saplings is 'immensely readable . . . a dark inversion of the author's best-known book, the children's classic Ballet Shoes' (Sunday Telegraph).

Der neue bewegende Roman über die Spuren der Vergangenheit von Spiegel-Bestsellerautorin Sibylle Weischenberg An manchen Orten hallen die Geheimnisse der Vergangenheit bis in die Gegenwart nach. Schloss Rosenhof 1964: Konstanze ist überglücklich, als sie den deutlich älteren Richard von Seelingen heiratet. Doch ihre Träume zerplatzen schnell: Sie merkt, dass es für ihn nur eine Vernunftehe ist. Erst eine Brieffreundschaft ändert alles. München 2024: Die alleinerziehende Maklerin Leonie trifft zufällig den attraktiven Augenarzt Leon, der in Vergessenheit geratene Orte fotografiert.