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New York City, 1943. From jazz clubs to back alleys, passion and peril collide in this slow-burn sapphic love story that simmers through every twist and turn. Nightclub singer–turned–OSS spy Kathryn Hammond has a past she can’t outrun and a mission she can’t afford to fail. But when fearless reporter Jenny Ryan becomes her assignment, sparks fly and everything starts to unravel.

Butch Cassidy kehrt 1910 unerkannt in die USA zurück und sucht seine einstige Weggefährtin Abby auf, die seit 16 Jahren mit ihrer Familie in San Francisco lebt. Abby erkennt durch ihn, dass sie im Verlauf ihrer Ehe alles einbüßte, was ihr einst wichtig war. Als Butch ihr vorschlägt, mit ihm neu zu beginnen, fällt ihr die Entscheidung leicht, auch wenn ein Leben an der Seite des gesuchten Outlaws Verzicht und eine ungewisse Zukunft bedeutet. Zunächst muss Abby jedoch ihrer eigenwilligen Tochter Alison alle Wege ebnen und ihr zeigen, was wahre Freiheit bedeutet.

Los Angeles 1927. Auf der Williams Ranch ist Unruhe eingekehrt, die 16-jährige Tochter Betty möchte nicht länger das einfache Mädchen von der Ranch sein und strebt nach Glanz und Glamour. Da sie einen gefährlichen Weg wählt, nimmt Abby ihre Tochter mit auf eine lange Schiffsreise. Robert dagegen zieht es in seine Heimat, nach Utah, wo er wieder Butch Cassidy sein könnte. Schwierige Entscheidungen müssen getroffen werden, doch das Leben lässt sich nicht immer planen.

Kalifornien 1918. Für Abby und ihren Mann Robert Williams, dem ehemaligen Banditen Butch Cassidy, könnte das Leben im Norden von Los Angeles nicht besser laufen. Sie fanden auf ihrer Ranch mit der lebhaften Tochter Betty eine neue Heimat, in der sie niemand aufspüren wird, denn man hält sie für tot. Doch allzu bald wird der Friede bedroht, nicht nur gefährliche Banditen treiben ihr Unwesen, persönliche Dramen und Unglücke erfordern allen Mut, Geschick und Einfallsreichtum. Und dann gibt es ja auch noch Abbys erste Tochter Alison.

Utah, 1889. Wenige Tage vor ihrer arrangierten Hochzeit mit einem alten Mann verlässt die junge Abigail Clearwater zusammen mit dem Banditen Fynn ihr Elternhaus, um ein Leben in Freiheit zu beginnen. Sie entschließt sich, selbst gesetzlos zu werden. Als sie auf die später so berühmten Outlaws Butch Cassidy und Elzy Lay trifft, erlebt sie mit ihnen und Fynn viele Abenteuer, auch in der Liebe, und sie findet Freunde fürs Leben. "Ich kann tun, was ich will, ich bin frei!", wird zu Abbys Lebensmotto. Sie weiß, dass jeder für sein Glück selbst verantwortlich ist.

Sophisticated. Scandalous. In fact, Miss Sarah Hamilton, a proper Philadelphian, finds London society altogether shocking. How can it be that she has awakened from her innocent slumber to find herself in bed next to a handsome - and exceedingly naked - man? The laughing onlookers standing in the doorway are no help whatsoever and surely this amorous lunatic cannot be a duke, as he claims. She is compromised - though she most certainly will not marry him!

This is the story of the notorious abduction in 1826 of Ellen Turner, a wealthy fifteen-year-old heiress, by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a thirty-year-old British diplomat. The Shrigley Abduction is a compelling narrative, a story of deception and the lure of 'high society', with a strong Byronic...

Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen, is one of literature’s most beloved stories of love, marriage, and sisterhood. For Elinor Dashwood, sensible and sensitive, and her romantic, impetuous younger sister Marianne, the prospect of marrying the men they love appears remote. In a world ruled by...

“A stylish and confident new voice—readers are going to love discovering Abbie Greaves.” — Louise Candlish, internationally bestselling author ofOur House andThose People A poignant and thrilling love story about one woman’s decade-long search to reconnect with the love of her life who...

Amsterdam, May 1943. As the tulips bloom and the Nazis tighten their grip across the city, the last signs of Dutch resistance are being swept away. Marijke de Graaf and her husband are arrested and deported to different concentration camps in Germany. Marijke is given a terrible choice: to...

Determined to find a husband, Miss Eleanor "Nell" Bowman attends a ball put on by the Duchess of Greycliffe, fondly referred to as the Duchess of Love. But she roundly dismisses the suitors the matchmaking hostess has invited on her behalf. For it's the duchess' dashing son Ned, Lord Edward, who long ago captured Nell's heart - and roused her desire. All it takes is a pair of conveniently misplaced silky red bloomers to set the handsome widower's gaze on this unusual girl who is clearly more than meets the eye.

Frances Hadley has managed her family's estate for years. So why can't she request her own dowry? She'll have to go to London herself and knock some sense into the men interfering in her life. With the nonsense she's dealt with lately, though, there's no way she's going as a woman. A pair of breeches and a quick chop of her red curls, and she'll have much less to worry about....

Successful New York editor Jen Gibbs is at the top of her game with her new position at Vida House Publishing - until a mysterious manuscript from an old slush pile appears on her desk. Turning the pages, Jen finds herself drawn into the life of Sarra, a mixed-race Melungeon girl trapped y dangerous men in turn-of-the-century Appalachia.

Kit, the marquis of Ashton, is in a sticky wicket. He married young and for love - how naïve. He discovered his mistake the very day of his wedding, but he is saddled now with a wife he's reluctant to trust. And however much evidence he gathers against faithless Jess, he can't seem to prove her guilt to the final judge - his foolish heart.

New York editor Jen Gibbs knew when she bought Evan Hall's next blockbuster book, it would change her career. She didn't know it would change her life. But after being sent along on the European book tour, at Evan's request, she has made a promise she's not sure she can keep - she's crossed professional lines and accepted Evan's surprising engagement proposal. Now she's scared to death. In Jen's family, marriage represents the death of every dream a woman holds for herself.

The day was as hot as the pond was inviting. It's not as if anyone in Little Huffington was going to happen upon a secluded vale on the Duke of Greycliffe's lands. And Venus Collingswood didn't want to get her shift all wet. It was the perfect setting in which to plan her lovely bookworm of a sister's betrothal to the mysterious new duke arriving seven days hence. If only she had a suitable accomplice. Andrew Valentine, Duke of Greycliffe, never thought arriving at his own household a week early would cause so much trouble.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that you will go from enemies to lovers... Meet Elizabeth Bennet. Otherwise known as Eden Blake the understudy in Liz and Darcy, the musical adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. Eden has toiled away for years as a working actress and while she's not...