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The setting is the beginning of an Amish settlement in colonial America in the forests of eastern Pennsylvania. There, a young Amish couple, Hans and Kate Zug, are in their ninth year of marriage, still waiting to have a child. Then, one April morning, Kate finds a Native infant, wrapped in deerskin and placed next to the spring where she went to fill her water bucket.

Set in the waning days of the Dutch Golden Age, this enchanting, lush reimagining of The Little Mermaid is perfect for fans of Jesse Burton’s The Miniaturist and Leigh Bardugo’s The Familiar. The Dutch Republic, 1650. One fine spring day in Friesland, twenty-year-old Clara van Wieren is...

"Weaves a spell of darkness that’s mysterious and magical, and binds it with a knot of deathless love." —New York Times bestselling author Susanna Kearsley on A Lullaby for Witches In post–World War I England, a young woman inherits a mysterious library and must untangle its powerful...

"Steeped in Gothic eeriness."--Nicola Cornick, USA Today bestselling author In Salem, they burned. Now, they will rise. New Oldbury, 1821 The house holds its breath, trying to outlast me… Something has awakened in Willow Hall. Eighteen-year-old Lydia Montrose can feel it. But she has no idea...

"Betrayal, loss, love, redemption, and justice collide in this masterpiece of a novel. You won’t want to miss The Book of Thorns." —Paulette Kennedy, author of The Devil and Mrs. Davenport A spellbinding tale of secrets, betrayal, and magic from the author of The Heir to Blackwood Library!...

Two women. A history of witchcraft. And a deep-rooted female power that sings across the centuries. Once there was a young woman from a well-to-do New England family who never quite fit with the drawing rooms and parlors of her kin. Called instead to the tangled woods and wild cliffs surrounding...

The dead won’t bother you if you don’t give them permission. Boston, 1844. Tabby has a peculiar gift: she can communicate with the recently departed. It makes her special, but it also makes her dangerous. As an orphaned child, she fled with her sister, Alice, from their charlatan aunt...

A town gripped by fear. A woman accused of witchcraft. Who can save Pale Harbor from itself? Maine, 1846. Gabriel Stone is desperate to escape the ghosts that haunt him in Massachusetts after his wife’s death, so he moves to Maine, taking a position as a minister in the remote village of Pale...

Miss Catherine Wenton, die Schwester des Earls of Wenton, verliebt sich schnell, oft und heftig. Aber nie ist ihr Gefühl von Dauer. Sie liebt die Aufregung, hasst die Langeweile und sehnt sich nach Freiheit. Auf einer ihrer nächtlichen Eskapaden gerät sie in die Fänge von Louis Royston. Der verstoßene Sohn eines angesehenen Generals herrscht über ein Imperium der Unterwelt. Und bald herrscht er auch über Catherines Geschick.Kann sie sich befreien? Will sie sich befreien? Louis Royston zeigt sich Catherine gegenüber ungewohnt einnehmend.

England und Frankreich, 1817: Henry Wenton, 6. Earl of Brentford, ist das schwarze Schaf der Familie und in der guten Gesellschaft als Lebemann und Wüstling verschrien. Nun vererbt ihm im Testament der verunglückte Vicomte de Maligny, ein angeheirateter französischer Verwandter, seinen Titel. Unter einer Bedingung: Er muss seine junge Tochter Florence heiraten. Es erscheint Henry ein verlockendes Angebot zu sein und so macht er sich auf nach Frankreich.

A sweeping multigenerational story centered around endless heartbreak and enduring love.

Un’incantevole storia di tradimenti, segreti e magia. Due ragazze che parlano il linguaggio segreto dei fiori. 1815 – Cornelia ha un segreto che deve rimanere ben custodito, perché nessuno accetterebbe mai la sua capacità di comprendere il linguaggio dei fiori e ascoltarne le voci, in una misteriosa connessione che ha sin da bambina. Il polveroso e cupo accampamento della Grande Armée di Napoleone non è il luogo dove aveva immaginato se stessa quando è fuggita in Francia, lasciandosi alle spalle una vita agiata, ma un passato di dolore.