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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.

The second book in Mona Kasten's MAXTON HALL series - the multi-million copy international bestselling series. Listen to the series that inspired the Amazon Prime TV show!

April Bannerman is een jonge moeder van drie, getrouwd met haar middelbareschoolliefde en woont nog steeds in het stadje waar ze is opgegroeid. Hoewel ze van haar kinderen en man houdt, wordt April geteisterd door de toenemende twijfel dat ze niet aan de verwachtingen van haar moeder heeft voldaan. Maar op een dag gebeurt er iets vreselijks en onverwachts waarna April de waarheid over haar eigen leven onder ogen moet zien. Dan pas ontdekt ze wat er echt toe doet.

In a tiny Beirut apartment, sixty-three-year-old Raja and his mother live side by side. A beloved high school philosophy teacher and “the neighborhood homosexual,” Raja relishes books, meditative walks, order, and solitude. Zalfa, his octogenarian mother, views her son’s desire for privacy as a personal affront. She demands to know every detail of Raja’s work life and love life, boundaries be damned.

Seeing ghosts has always been part of Melody Bittersweet’s life – a quirky inconvenience at the best of times. But on her 27th birthday, she decides to finally make a career out of it by setting up her very own ghostbusting business. Her first case brings Melody to a house haunted by three brothers with a heap of unfinished business. To complicate matters, her fame-hungry ex, Leo Dark, and sceptical yet maddeningly gorgeous reporter, Fletcher Gunn, are also on the case.

On the eve of her sixteenth birthday, Alice Jansen collects her treasures—the keepsakes, figurines, and mementos that help her make sense of her fragile family. But the next day her heart is broken, and the final treasure, a gift from her father, is lost. Two years later, Alice answers a phone call from a stranger and runs away to New York, trying to forget her last golden summer at the orchard on the banks of the Hudson.

This charming sequel introduces a new lovable cast of healing cats, from Kotetsu, a four-month-old Bengal who unleashes his boundless energy by demolishing bed linens and curtains, to tenacious and curious Shasha, who doesn’t let her small size stop her from anything, and the most lovable yet lazy cat Ms. Michiko, who is as soft and comforting as mochi.

At Last paints a vivid portrait of the American Midwest, capturing the essence of a time and place where societal norms and personal aspirations often clashed. Marisa Silver’s narrative weaves together the lives of Helene and Evelyn, from their vastly different childhoods through the pivotal events that define them.

After her mother’s substance abuse left her raising herself, Samantha Leigh left everyone in her Florida small town behind. She much prefers her new life as a real estate developer in New York City—with its nonstop noise, packed sidewalks, and her fellow workaholics. But when her work nemesis falls ill, she's forced to be his replacement on a new resort development project…in her hometown. Needing this assignment to get the promotion she desperately wants, Sam will just have to suck it up and get in and out as soon as possible.

In Bonhomie, Ohio, a stolen moment of passion, sparked in the exuberant aftermath of the Allied victory in Europe, binds Cal Jenkins, a man wounded not in war but by his inability to serve in it, to Margaret Salt, a woman trying to obscure her past. Cal’s wife, Becky, has a spiritual gift: She is a seer who can conjure the dead, helping families connect with those they’ve lost. Margaret’s husband, Felix, is serving on a Navy cargo ship, out of harm’s way—until a telegram suggests that the unthinkable might have happened.

Meet Buffy. With three ex-wives, a failing career and only his dog George for company, Buffy's bachelorhood is looking worryingly confirmed. Until he meets Celeste. Dazzled by love, Buffy has no idea that Celeste is systematically researching his ex-wives, children and stepchildren, and unearthing secrets that will change all their lives.

Jasmine Thomas should feel safe in her cosy cottage at Admella Beach after finally putting an end to an ill-advised romance. But her perfect sanctuary is shattered with the arrival of hand-delivered threatening notes. Someone has discovered her secret. When the notes escalate to vandalism, Jasmine's anxiety rises. But in such a small place, telling the police would mean the whole town finding out. Digby Wallace-Jones is stumbling through the motions of life, wrapped in a fog of grief since his fiancée Felicity died.

Thomas, ein junger Musiker aus München, liegt Ende der 1980er-Jahre im Sterben. Sein Freund, der wenige Jahre ältere, renommierte italienische Autor Leo, erträgt den langsamen Tod nicht. Stattdessen flüchtet er sich auf Reisen durch Europa und die USA. Zwischen Paris, Duisburg, New York, Berlin, Rom und Mailand überlappen Gegenwart und Vergangenheit, das Leben mit Thomas und die Unmöglichkeit des Weiterlebens ohne ihn.

Un événement familial les amène néanmoins à se retrouver : l'enterrement de leur père à Loisel, village perché sur les falaises normandes. Pendant les obsèques, une inconnue leur remet une lettre. Quelques mots seulement qui résonnent pourtant avec la force d’une énigme. Antoine se détourne de ce qu'il juge n'être qu'un joli message et rentre à sa vie rangée avec sa femme et ses enfants. Mais Valentine est troublée ; dans ces lignes, elle ne reconnaît rien de son père, ni des rires de son enfance.

In the rugged Pacific Northwest of the United States lies the Olympic National Forest – a vast expanse of impenetrable darkness and impossible beauty. From deep within this mysterious woodland, a six-year-old girl appears. Speechless and alone, she offers no clue as to her identity, no hint of her past. Having retreated to her hometown after a scandal left her career in ruins, child psychiatrist Dr Julia Cates begins working with the extraordinary little girl.

In 1970s Brazil, two teenage sisters are thrust into a chaotic world. Fear and hunger stalk them in a sugarcane town choked by a constant rain of ash, a testament to the ravaged environment in which they are trying to grow. With only each other for comfort, they set out to search for their missing mother and the father they’ve never known.

Clova, Scotland, 1942. The midst of the Second World War. Sisters Nell and Effie Anderson live together in the Old Schoolhouse. Effie is a teacher, while Nell works as a postwoman, delivering news – often of the worst – from the frontline to her neighbours. Though they love and care for one another, there are unspoken tensions and mysteries that put distance between them.

Dolphin Westward spent her childhood as the supporting character in the story of her beautiful, wild, volatile mother Marigold. Now thirty-three, she’s painfully aware that not much has changed. She lives in a tiny bedsit, works in a tattoo shop by day and collects her illustrated mum from police stations by night. Dol yearns to climb out of the rut she is stuck in, but has no idea where to begin. Could gardener Lee and his daughter Ava be her chance for a wholesome family life? Or maybe a steamy romance with roguish actor Joel is just what she needs.

Pip’s world is small. But it’s about to become a whole lot bigger. For years she’s tucked away her dreams, shrinking herself into the space left behind – like the delicate origami she creates alone in her room. Then hope comes from an unlikely place: an astronomer from the local observatory. He teaches her to look up at the stars, and to see a world far bigger and more beautiful than she ever imagined. And perhaps in that big, beautiful universe there’s someone waiting for her. If she can find the courage to open her heart.

Merryn Rowe adores her life in St Ives. The café she owns and the community she serves are her much-needed second chance after a heart-breaking divorce. But as she gazes out at the Cornish Sea, she begins to long for more. Zach Trevelyan is not where he expected to be. His surfing career in tatters following an injury, he finds himself in St Ives without a home, a job, or a path ahead. When Merryn discovers an abandoned piano, it evokes long-lost memories of someone who left her life without a word – her much-loved stepfather.