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Dr. Julie Walker wakes on a summer morning in San Francisco to find a city in chaos. Today Californians are voting on a controversial ballot initiative that will change history. With the future of the state and the nation uncertain, the streets have erupted into violence. Injured, Julie must make her way across the city by foot to the Veterans Administration Hospital, where her sister, recently returned from Afghanistan, is in labor. At the hospital a brutal scene is unfolding as a man who shares an intimate past with Julie begins to take his revenge.

It's 1938, and twenty-five-year-old secretary Frances Healey is ready for a fresh start. Hoping to forget her painful past, she takes a job working for Hollywood producer Lawrence Merrill. She quickly becomes absorbed in VistaGlen Studios's biggest project: a movie about Kitty Ridley, the legendary stage actress who disappeared from the public eye in 1895. The movie will be the making of Belinda Vail, a beautiful ingenue who is hungry for a breakout role—and also happens to be Mr. Merrill's love interest. But the real Miss Ridley has other ideas.

The New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Wives and A Certain Age creates a dazzling epic of World War II-era Nassau—a hotbed of spies, traitors, and the most infamous couple of the age, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. The Bahamas, 1941. Newly-widowed Leonora “Lulu” Randolph...

Set in 1995 against the backdrop of Auckland's burgeoning party scene, Golden Days is the story of an intense late-teens friendship between bookish Becky and star-dusted Zoe Golden, and what happened when one terrifying night changed their lives and destroyed their friendship forever. After finding out that her husband has been cheating on her, Becky is mourning the end of her picture-perfect marriage at the bottom of a bottle. She thought she'd left that summer far behind, but the trauma of her present day brings back memories of the horrific night her brother died.

Natalie is a young Gold Coast mother with a loving husband, two small children, and a happy lifestyle. While helping her mother move house, she finds a little box containing a Burmese artifact. When Natalie learns its unique history through a letter left by her great-great uncle, it ignites her interest in its origins and her uncle’s unfulfilled plans for this curio. Her investigations collide with her own dramatically changing circumstances and create a dilemma that challenges the core of her marriage as she finds herself immersed in two very different golden lands.

Dear Reader, As most of you probably know by now, I began my career writing series, or category, romance. I am very proud of my roots in romance, and consider myself lucky to have served a solid writing apprenticeship in a genre that allowed me to combine various elements in pursuit of a...

Frankfurt 1901: Bettina Wessling hat ihr Leben dem Aufbau des prächtigsten und modernsten Kaufhauses der Stadt gewidmet. Ihr Ehemann Arnold ist das Oberhaupt der angesehenen Familie. Doch Bettinas heimliche Leidenschaft gilt einem anderen: Sie liebt Richard, Arnolds verfeindeten Bruder, doch sie hält es für ihre Pflicht, ihre Gefühle zu unterdrücken. Bettina hütet nicht nur dieses Geheimnis. Genauso wie ihre Ehe auf Lügen aufbaut, gründen das Kaufhaus und der Reichtum ihrer Familie auf Schuld und Verrat. Eines Tages kommt ein fremdes junges Mädchen aus Paris zu den Wesslings. Alles droht aufzufliegen, und die Zukunft und das Glück der nachfolgenden Generationen stehen auf dem Spiel...

It’s the 1980s, and in their small coastal town, Ali and her best friend, Jessie, are on the cusp. With The Golden Book, a journal of incantation and risk-taking as their record, they begin to chafe at the restrictions put on them by teachers, parents, each other. Then Jessie suffers a devastating accident, and both their lives are forever changed. When Ali is an adult, with a young daughter herself, the news of Jessie’s death brings back the intensity of that summer, forcing her to reckon with her own role in what happened to Jessie so many years ago.

Two sisters navigate the thrilling, euphoric early days of California surf culture in this dazzling saga of ambition, sacrifice, and the tangled ties between mothers and daughters from the New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator’s Wife. “A shimmering rendering . . . pairs the surf...

Gloria's life takes a sharp turn when she learns that her son, a star college athlete, is entangled in a dire situation. Torn between her duty as a mother and the echoes of a past love, Gloria finds herself facing her ex-husband, who has reappeared with an agenda of his own. As Gloria grapples with old emotions and the urgency of her son's situation, she must confront whether her heart has truly healed or if some ties are destined to remain unbroken.

Die Fortsetzung der erfolgreichen Familiensaga: Die wilden Zwanziger, eine Familie, die ihren Traum retten muss, und der Duft von Schokolade. Stuttgart, 1926: Die junge, abenteuerlustige Serafina zieht zu ihrem Halbbruder Victor in das prächtige Familienanwesen der Rothmanns, die "Die Schokoladenvilla". Mit dem charmanten Karl stürzt sie sich in die Vergnügungen der goldenen Zwanzigerjahre. Doch erst als sie dessen ruhigeren Zwillingsbruder Anton kennen lernt, verliebt sie sich Hals über Kopf.

München 1898: Lulu, Elsa und Fanny könnten nicht unterschiedlicher sein, doch eines verbindet die drei jungen Frauen: Sie wollen Ärztinnen werden. Aber an der Universität sind Frauen offiziell nicht erwünscht, und von Gleichberechtigung ist die bayerische Hauptstadt nicht nur in der Wissenschaft weit entfernt. Lulus Vater, Direktor des Haunerschen Kinderspitals, will seine Tochter lieber standesgemäß verheiraten.

1931 is the year that changes everything for Daisy Denham. Her family has not long swapped life in India for Dorset, England when she uncovers an old secret. At the same time, she meets Ewan Fraser - a handsome dreamer who wants nothing more than to entertain the world and for Daisy to play his leading lady. Ewan offers love, and a chance to escape with a touring theatre company. But can first love last forever?

Die Fortsetzung der erfolgreichen Familiensaga: Die wilden Zwanziger, eine Familie, die ihren Traum retten muss, und der Duft von Schokolade. Stuttgart, 1926: Die junge, abenteuerlustige Serafina zieht zu ihrem Halbbruder Victor in das prächtige Familienanwesen der Rothmanns, die "Die Schokoladenvilla". Mit dem charmanten Karl stürzt sie sich in die Vergnügungen der goldenen Zwanzigerjahre. Doch erst als sie dessen ruhigeren Zwillingsbruder Anton kennen lernt, verliebt sie sich Hals über Kopf.

München 1902: Obwohl die Freundinnen Lulu, Elsa und Fanny es mittlerweile an die Medizinische Fakultät geschafft haben, werden sie dort keinesfalls mit offenen Armen empfangen. Vor allem die schlaue Fanny ist ihren männlichen Kommilitonen ein Dorn im Auge. Lulu versucht neben Vorlesungen und Sezierstunden, das dunkle Geheimnis ihrer schwerkranken Freundin Änny zu ergründen

After the loss of her single father, Josie Wills gives up her dreams and returns home to take care of her autistic teenage brother Nick. But she doesn’t just leave her dreams behind; she has to leave her first real love Julian Russell. Having been the mother figure for Nick his entire life, stepping into the role of parent comes easily for Josie. She adores Nick, and taking care of him makes her feel closer to her mother who never had the chance to see them grow up.

Tess and Simon Sparrow may have a few more grey hairs than they used to, but that doesn’t stop them from being swept up in a whirlwind romance and starting over. Swapping their city lives for an escape to the Cornish countryside, they fall in love with a crumbling hotel and impulsively buy it to renovate as their forever home. But soon the newlyweds have had their first fight (and their second and third...) and building costs are spiralling out of control. Their families think they’re mad and Tess is starting to agree – she just wants to escape back to civilisation.

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Christmas 1889. A baby is born in the early hours at Vienna General Hospital, only to be abandoned by her unwed mother and entrusted to a foundling home and its loving caretaker. Fanny Schindler grows from a precocious girl into a strong-willed young woman. Undeterred by the rules of her station, she’s determined to rise above her humble origins and pursue her dreams at all costs, becoming an apprentice to one of the most glamorous fashion houses in Austria-Hungary.

Kann Elly ihre Zukunft selbst bestimmen und ihre Träume verwirklichen? Der inspirierende historischer Roman jetzt auch als Hörbuch! Hamburg, 1953. Vor Elly, Tochter einer angesehenen Kaufmannsfamilie, liegt ein sicheres Leben in Wohlstand. Auch der richtige Ehemann ist schon gefunden. Doch Elly will mehr und hat andere Pläne für ihre Zukunft. Als sie Peter kennenlernt, der beim noch jungen NWDR arbeitet, ist sie sofort fasziniert von der neuen, bunten Fernsehwelt.