Showing results for "The Secrets We Keep" in Literature & Fiction

Artist Marguerite Segal is recruited by British Intelligence into befriending Etienne Valade, a local priest. Her mission is to persuade him to pass on information from the high-ranking German officers who attend his church: evidence of their war crimes. Connected by a passion for art, Marguerite and Etienne soon fall in love, but their association increasingly puts her at danger of violent reprisals. With his church frequented by Nazis, Etienne is a suspected collaborator, and distrust is high.

When Tessa arrives at the little house by the lake with her two children, it is an escape. The rental house may be a bit small – but it’s theirs for the summer. A place to hide.... However, their isolation is disrupted by the family from the big house next door. Three children and their glamorous mother Rebecca – who seems determined to invite Tessa into their lives.

A mother’s secret, a father’s betrayal, a town on the edge.... When social worker Aimee arrives in the mining town of Kalgoorlie, she is ready for a fresh start. Her colleagues Lori and Paddy seem friendly, and she is also drawn to one of her cases: the Steele family, whose future looks particularly bleak. But Aimee has a dark secret and as the past reaches out towards her once more, she realises that somehow her secret is connected to this unfamiliar but harshly beautiful town and its inhabitants.

Her daughter Sadie is making progress in therapy, and her son Oliver is thriving in school. Deputy US Marshal Tucker Shaw, once a stranger, has become an integral part of their lives. But when a mysterious figure demands the twenty-five million dollars her late husband embezzled, Riley's fragile peace shatters. With her life at stake, she must not only find a way to keep her children safe, but also find a way to convince Tucker she's telling the truth while navigating a frightening maze of mind games and deceit.

On the surface Sloane has the perfect life - an adoring husband, a precocious daughter, and enough financial security to be a stay-at-home mom. Still, she can't help but feel as though something - or someone - is missing.

Still stuck in his small Central Pennsylvania hometown, Ilya Stern is used to feeling like a disappointment. After his high school girlfriend, Jennilynn, drowned, he married her sister, Alicia, only to divorce a decade later. The business they started together is threatened by a luxury development - and Alicia has already sold her stake. Now that Babulya, Ilya's gentle Russian grandmother, has died, there's no one left who believes in him. Or so he thinks.

Eine Eliteuniversität an der Geheimnisse, Intrigen und Rivalitäten auf dem Lehrplan stehen... Um den mysteriösen Tod ihrer Schwester aufzuklären, bewirbt sich auch Hazel an der Eliteuniversität Rosefield Academy of Arts. Doch als sie dort ankommt, erschweren Intrigen und Rivalitäten unter den Studierenden ihre Suche nach der Wahrheit. Nur zu dem charmanten Tristan spürt sie sofort eine tiefe Verbundenheit, die über ihre Liebe zur Musik hinausgeht. Gemeinsam folgen Hazel und Tristan neuen Hinweisen. Als Hazel ein gefährliches Geheimnis lüftet, weiß sie plötzlich nicht mehr, ob sie Tristan trauen kann.

A threatening note. Long-buried secrets. Their friendship tested. The last time lifelong friends Payton, Isley and Clara were together, Clara broke their unwritten rule and brought up the one thing they never talk about. And now, more than twenty years after their friend Cece took her life, they...