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Marina and Hugh were once madly in love. But after the loss of their beautiful little daughter, grief has created a distance between them that feels impossible to bridge. Marina knows leaving Italy is the only way they will be able to move on, but Thorncliffe Hall, Hugh's family home in England, is so grey and unwelcoming.

Brave Frauen schreiben selten Geschichte. 1937. Als die junge Engländerin Leonora Carrington den berühmten Surrealisten Max Ernst kennenlernt, ist er ein verheirateter Mann. Er führt sie in die Pariser Künstlerszene um Salvador Dalí und Pablo Picasso ein, und bald wird aus der leidenschaftlichen Affäre eine Liebesbeziehung. Das Paar zieht nach Südfrankreich, wo Carrington sich der Malerei verschreibt. Doch dann bricht der Zweite Weltkrieg aus, und die beiden werden auseinandergerissen. Verzweifelt macht Max sich auf die Suche nach ihr.

Sixteen-year-old Charlotte Kirby believes she's all alone in the world when her mother is killed in a bombing raid. But then a mysterious aunt comes forward and offers her a home in the small Yorkshire village where she and her husband George run the local pub. Charlotte finds it hard to adjust to rural life. She doesn't mind helping out in the pub, but she can't understand why her Aunt Hilda seems to resent her so. When a group of French orphans are brought to live in the big house, Charlotte volunteers to help look after them.

A poacher's daughter meets the heir to a country estate – as their destinies intertwine, their lives will never be the same. The Poacher's Daughter is a story of love and fate from bestselling historical saga author Margaret Dickinson. It is 1910 in the Lincolnshire Wolds. Young Rosie...

All she want is to go home . . . 1944, Liverpool. Marcia is only twelve years old the first time she is sent to the orphanage with her older sister, Cynthia. With their father in a POW camp in Singapore, her mother is struggling to cope and hands them over to the nuns to be 'orphans of the...

John F. Kennedy said he needed sex every three days or he got a headache. In the White House, he never had a headache. Kennedy met Mary Pinchot in 1935, when he was eighteen and she was sixteen. Twenty years later, when she was living in Virginia and married to Cord Meyer, a high-ranking CIA official, she was Jack and Jackie Kennedy’s next-door neighbor. In 1962, she was an artist, divorced, living in Washington—and Kennedy’s first serious romance. Mary Pinchot Meyer was more than a bedmate. She was Kennedy’s beacon light: his sole female adviser.

Being Madame Ariadne, Psychic Dream Consultant, wasn't Prudence Ryland's ideal gig, but it paid well which was reason enough to do the work—until she realizes that her latest client intends to kill her. But Prudence, a master at reinvention, finds a new job and home as far away as possible and is finally able to relax—which turns out to be a big mistake. Letting her guard down means being kidnapped and drugged and waking up in a bloodstained wedding dress in the honeymoon suite next to a dead man.

Calliope Adham—young, strong-willed, and recently widowed—is schoolmistress in the village of Molyvos when Hitler's army invades Greece in 1941. Well-read and linguistically gifted, she is recruited by the Germans to act as their liaison officer. It is the beginning of a personal and national saga that will last for several decades. Calliope's wartime duties bring her into close contact with Lieutenant Lorenz Umbreit, the Wehrmacht commander. The schoolmistress is an active member of the Greek Resistance, yet her friendship with the German blossoms against all odds.

Nach dem Tod ihrer Mutter ist Adelheid mehr denn je auf ihre Stellung auf Schloss Liebenberg angewiesen. Doch den Tod ihrer Mutter lastet sie der Fürstin an – und schwört Rache. Als sie einen den Fürsten belastenden Brief im kalten Kamin des fürstlichen Arbeitszimmers findet, begreift sie dessen Wert sofort. Doch was soll sie damit machen? Als Adelheid von einem Unbekannten angesprochen wird, der ihr gegen Informationen aus dem Schloss gutes Geld bietet, muss sie sich entscheiden... Zu spät erkennt sie, dass die Fürstenfamilie auch ein Opfer von Intrigen ist.

Outcasts—one by choice, one by chance—Rachel and Ciaran meet on the docks of lower Manhattan in 1928. Drawn to each other in this lyrical story, they seemed doomed as eternal lovers to repeat a cycle of love and loss.

Welcome to England, 1809. London is a violent, intolerant city, exhausted by years of war, beset by soaring prices and political tensions. By day, John Church preaches on the radical possibilities of love to a multicultural, working-class congregation in Southwark. But by night, he crosses the river to the secret and glamorous world of a gay molly house on Vere Street, where ordinary men reinvent themselves as funny, flirtatious drag queens and rent boys cavort with labourers and princes alike. There, Church becomes the first minister to offer marriages between men, at enormous risk.

It should have been a time of romance and excitement for Anne - but it's 1941 and the war is raging. So instead, she spends her days repairing spitfire wings and reminding herself that the real sacrifice is going on far away from her Cornish village. When the news breaks that America has entered the war, jeeps filled with GIs eventually roll in, and it seems their little community is to play a pivotal role in the next stage of the fight. But the Americans don't just bring Hollywood glamour and optimism, they also bring something more tantalising.

From the author of the bestselling Seven Sisters series, Lucinda Riley's Hothouse Flower is a moving story of love, heartbreak and, above all, hope. Read by Stephanie Racine (Daisy Darker) Georgian mansion Wharton Park was a place of childhood solace for Julia Forrester, spending summers in the...

Sussex, England, 1913. Nineteen-year-old Anna Neale longs for an independent life full of adventure. Refusing her father’s wishes to marry his chosen suitor, she convinces him to allow her to take a receptionist position at a prestigious seaside hotel. But her beautiful plan soon turns ugly when the inn’s lascivious manager assaults her.

Övergiven av sin fästman och sörjande efter att en fruktansvärd gruvkatastrof tagit både hennes bror och far ifrån henne bestämmer sig Jennifer för att fly från sin hjärtesorg. Hon accepterar den förmögne Julian Rothes erbjudande att utveckla sin växande talang som operasångerska och lämnar sin hemby Werford. Men när hon får reda på att hennes fästman – som hon trott lämnat hennes bror och far till deras öde den där dagen i gruvan – faktiskt agerade med stort hjältemod så återvänder hon till honom.

Author Carol Umberger combines her love of history, romance, and God in a quartet of powerful stories set in 14th-century Scotland during the reign of Robert the Bruce, Scotland's great hero king...

Keen to rehearse, the company heads to the Seagate Theatre under the tutelage of the company's owner, Ed Forsyth. This is Ed's last hoorah before retiring and he's keen to leave on a high. But his son, Cal, has absconded, leaving his twin sister, Evie, to help manage the company after their mother's death. Hoping to display her best trapeze performance ever, she's also desperate that the entire troupe should succeed. If only her father hadn't brought in another old-timer...

Auch, wenn wir nichts mehr haben, so haben wir immer noch einander. Der Zweite Weltkrieg tobt auch über England und stellt die Familie Caldwell erneut auf die Probe. Imogen ist weiterhin im Kriegsdienst tätig und bangt um das Leben Ihres Verlobten James, der an der Front kämpft. Doch weil sie abergläubisch ist, verweigert sie ihm seine größte Bitte. Elsie entscheidet sich aus dem zerstörten Bristol zu der Familie ihres Mannes zu ziehen, um in der Ferne ihr Glück zu finden. Krankenschwester Daisy hingegen träumt davon, auf der Bühne zu stehen und die Truppen zu begeistern.

An archaeologist’s estranged daughters. 1907: The dawn of Egyptology is a time of imperialism and plunder, opulence and unrest, and Dr. Warren Ford, esteemed archaeologist, is the man of the hour. His daughters—intellectual Lila, on the eve of her debut as a Manhattan socialite, and...

When the Germans march into Denmark, Baron Henrik Ahlefeldt exchanges his nobility for anonymity, assuming a new identity so he can secretly row messages for the Danish Resistance across the waters to Sweden. American physicist Dr. Else Jensen refuses to leave Copenhagen and abandon her research-her life's dream. While printing resistance newspapers, she hears stories of the movement's legendary Havmand-the merman-and wonders if the mysterious and silent shipyard worker living in the same boardinghouse has something to hide.