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The Whitley is Nantucket's most exclusive waterfront hotel - a sprawling collection of pristine white cottages and an elegant main building on a long stretch of private white sandy beach. It's a family owned business - brothers, sisters, cousins, aunts, all work there in various capacities.

Eight months ago, I was a naive, small-town farm girl nursing a shattered heart. Then hotel billionaire Henry Wolf picked me up off the ground (literally), and my entire life changed. Now, I live in a luxurious Manhattan penthouse, and I'm starting my first company while planning a beautiful wedding to the man of my dreams. I knew these first months would bring plenty of drama. I expected the savage media attention surrounding our engagement, and I braced myself for Mama's theatrics about the wedding.

Londres, Nochevieja de 1959. Todo el mundo celebra el cambio de década. Los corchos de las botellas de champán y el entrechocar de las copas resuenan en los salones del lujoso hotel Flanagans. Los invitados brindan por la adorada dueña del hotel, Linda Lansing, que ha estado a cargo del...

Sisters Alice and Annie have always been close but will a man come between them? Annie and Alice love their life working at the Beach Hotel together and each is thrilled to have finally found a sweetheart. Yet the path of true love never did run smooth and they soon find themselves facing conflict and strife. Could love come between them and the bond they share?

Der zweite Band der großen Familien-Saga von Anke Petersen um ein kleines Hotel auf Amrum Ende des 19./Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts – mit viel Nordsee-Zauber und Nostalgie. Amrum Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts: Die Familie Stockmann hat sich auf der Nordsee-Insel gut eingelebt, und ihr Hotel Inselblick blüht und gedeiht – sehr zum Ärger des Pastors, dem der florierende Betrieb ein ewiger Dorn im Auge ist, da er darin eine Konkurrenz zu seinem eigenen Seehospiz sieht und außerdem im »Inselblick« Sodom und Gomorrha wittert.

Der erste Band der großen Familiensaga von Anke Petersen Der Roman beruht auf wahren Geschichten um ein kleines Hotel auf Amrum Ende des 19./Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts – mit viel Nordsee-Zauber und Nostalgie. Hamburg 1891. Der Kaufmann Wilhelm Stockmann beschließt, das Leben in der Stadt aufzugeben und mit seiner Familie auf die Nordsee-Insel Amrum zu ziehen und dort ein Hotel zu eröffnen.

Wien, Ende der Achtzigerjahre: Angelika Moser, aufgewachsen im Gemeindebau als Tochter der Hausbesorgerin, verbringt ihre Freizeit durch das Nachtleben tanzend. Gleichzeitig liebt sie ihren Job in einer für sie neuen, eleganten Welt: Als Buchhalterin im Grand Hotel Frohner, das von Wiener Originalen und Gästen von überallher bevölkert wird, lässt sie sich auf zweifelhafte Zahlenspiele ein, um das Etablissement zu retten. Plötzlich mit kleinem Kind auf sich allein gestellt, nimmt Angelika den Kampf um ein gutes Leben auf und beginnt, Rechnungen zu manipulieren.

Heiress Ariana Theodosis wanted everything that Hollywood had to offer, took it all, and is now paying the price. When she inherits a hotel on the beautiful French Riviera, she hopes it’s a chance to start again. Elizabeth and Robert Chappell were Hollywood’s fiery English golden couple. Their legendary breakups and passionate make-ups were tabloid gold, but now they are headed for divorce. Will they say their last goodbyes by the sparkling waters of the Mediterranean?

È l'estate del 1926 e la famiglia Ainsworth si è da poco trasferita dall'Inghilterra sulla suggestiva costa ligure per gestire un hotel di lusso per turisti stranieri. L'Hotel Portofino ha aperto soltanto da qualche settimana in una magnifica villa d'epoca, eppure i problemi che Bella Ainsworth deve affrontare non sono pochi: le spese da sostenere sono ingenti, il personale non è ancora al completo e gli ospiti, per lo più ricchi stranieri, hanno pretese spesso stravaganti.

Thirty-one years after workers first broke ground, the magnificent Hotel Neversink in the Catskills finally opens to the public. Then a young boy disappears. This mysterious vanishing - and the ones that follow - will brand the lives of three generations. At the root of it all is Asher Sikorsky, the ambitious and ruthless patriarch whose purchase of the hotel in 1931 set a haunting legacy into motion.

The hotel was old, run-down. But to Swiss-born Hugues Martin, a young, ambitious hotelier trained in the most illustrious European traditions, it is a rough diamond, tucked away on a quiet, perfectly situated Manhattan street. After begging and borrowing every penny he can scrape together, Hugues purchases the building - and transforms it into one of the world’s finest luxury hotels. Under Hugues’s tireless, exacting supervision, the Hotel Vendôme is soon renowned for its elegance, its efficiency, its unparalleled service and discretion - the ideal New York refuge for the rich and famous....

Berlin, 1944. ‘It is a great honour to have you here, Herr Hitler.’ Lili doesn’t stumble over the lie, her hand steady as she pours champagne. Everything must be perfect, no one can suspect a thing… Lili Rodenberg and her husband Marius run the Edel, Berlin’s most glamorous hotel. For its wealthy guests, it is an escape from the destruction outside, with its elegant piano bar and fine amber brandy. But Lili is Jewish, a secret she is terrified will end in tragedy for her and their beloved little girl.

The son of a sweetmaker, Karl Jochum has ambitions for a life beyond his father's shop. Through hard work and perseverance he determines to open a cafe in Berlin where the Emperor will one day dine. As the city grows and prospers, so too does Karl's business empire, and he rises to become the proprietor of Europe's finest and most luxurious hotel. Situated close to Berlin's Brandenburg Gate, the Hotel Quadriga is a glorious monument to Imperialist Germany.

After his wife leaves him for another man, Hugues Martin’s life revolves solely around two things – the celebrated five-star hotel he owns and manages in New York City and his daughter Heloise. At four, Heloise becomes the only woman in her father’s life; by seven, she is the undisputed queen of the Hotel Vendome. And as the years pass, despite her mother’s abandonment, she basks in her father’s love, the devotion of the hotel’s staff, and the affection of its guests. But their little world is transformed forever when Heloise moves to France for hotel school....

Chambermaid Fanny is thanking her lucky stars she has had a second chance at life. As an unmarried mother, it could have been very different, and she is happy. But when new maid, Susie, arrives at the Beach Hotel, it isn't long before sparks fly. Susie begins to meddle in Fanny's friendships and even in her budding romance with Walter, an American working at the aerodrome. Meanwhile, a flu epidemic starts to spread and as more people fall ill, the hotel is forced to close. Matters come to a head when Susie plots to reveal secrets about Fanny that could spell her ruin.

Brit, Kari und Alisia: drei Frauen und ihre Lebensträume - der dritte Band der großen Syltsaga. Sylt, Gegenwart. Das berühmte Café und Hotel "König Augustin" wird mittlerweile von Kari geleitet, Brit hat sich aus dem Alltagsgeschäft zurückgezogen. Aber wie soll es weitergehen? Karis Tochter Alisia, die das Geschäft übernehmen soll, hat eine eigene Karriere: Sie ist ein gefragtes Model und erobert unter dem Namen "La Cappuccina" sämtliche Laufstege. Dann aber ändert sich alles, denn ihr begegnet die große Liebe. Dieser Mann scheint jedoch genau der Falsche zu sein...

Rügen, 1924. Bernadette von Plesow blickt voller Stolz auf das imposante Grand Hotel ihrer Familie. Hier hat sie ihre Kinder großgezogen: den ruhigen Alexander, der einmal das Grand Hotel erben wird; Josefine, die rebellische Künstlerin, die ihren Weg noch sucht; und den umtriebigen Constantin, der bereits sein eigenes Hotel in Berlin führt. Abgesehen von ein paar Streitigkeiten mit ihrer Tochter und dem merkwürdigen Verhalten des Zimmermädchens, scheint alles in bester Ordnung zu sein.

Kitty learned early on in her marriage that her husband, Bill Dunbar, isn’t reliable with money. So when they inherit the Dunbar family hotel at the start of the war, she's hopeful that their financial worries are over… until the bailiffs turn up! With Bill away fighting, it’s up to Kitty to turn things around for her family, or risk ruin. Lily worked as a chambermaid at Dunbar’s before the war. She met Daniel there, but their relationship was complicated by class differences and the disapproval of Daniel’s mother.

Hetty Affleck is working as a maid at the prestigious Beach Hotel in Littlehampton. Her beau, Lorcan, is away at war and has recently stopped replying to her letters but she is determined to keep her spirits up. When she meets wealthy shipbuilder's son Victor Perryman, they pass the time of day and they both feel a connection but she can't allow herself to think anything more of it - not only does she have Lorcan to think of, but she and Victor are divided by wealth and class.

Helen Bygrove is managing the hotel, now that her husband has been conscripted. Against all expectations, Helen and her team are doing marvellously, despite the shortages brought by war. Even the exacting Lady Blackmore agrees. But then the calm is shattered when poison pen letters are sent to prominent townsfolk and Helen finds herself the target of a police investigation. Is someone trying to ruin Helen, and the Beach Hotel? And can she rely on the handsome but taciturn Inspector Toshack to help her?