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Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Buzzfeed · Bookbub · BookTrib · and more! Two women, two countries. Nothing in common but a call to fight. A heart-stopping new novel based on the extraordinary true stories of an American socialite and a British secret agent whose stunning acts of...

At Heim Hochland, a Nazi breeding home in Bavaria, three women’s fates are irrevocably intertwined. Gundi is a pregnant university student from Berlin. An Aryan beauty, she’s secretly a member of a resistance group. Hilde, only eighteen, is a true believer in the cause and is thrilled to carry a Nazi official’s child. And Irma, a forty-four-year-old nurse, is desperate to build a new life for herself after personal devastation. All three have everything to lose.

1173, France. Eleanor of Aquitaine has been arrested for rebelling against her husband, King Henry II of England. Her loyal ladies-in-waiting, Alice and Joanna of Agen, have fled to the nunnery at Fontrevault, where they are anxiously awaiting news of their queen. Alice and Joanna struggle to adapt to their cramped new home at the Abbey. Each is secretly nursing a broken heart—and harboring unholy desires. Joanna left behind a lover, Jean, at Eleanor's court in Poitiers, and Alice has long been in love with the queen's daughter, Marie.

Wife and mother to a dynasty of kings, crusader, prisoner and formidable political operator, Eleanor of Aquitaine is a thoroughly modern woman, despite living almost 900 years ago. Intelligent, witty and independent, she is tough enough to forge her own destiny—and subtle enough to shape the world to her will.

Mme de Pompadour 30.12. 1721 - 15.04.1764: Als offizielle Mätresse von Ludwig XV. setzte sie Maßstäbe in Kultur, Erotik und Verschwendung. Sie stieg zur einflussreichsten Frau Frankreichs auf, aber das Volk nannte sie nur die "königliche Hure". Mme de Stael 22.04.1766 - 14.07.1817: Die Frau, die Napoleon die Stirn bot. Philosophen der Aufklärung gingen bei ihr ein und aus. Kein Wunder, dass sie eine kritische und manchmal widerspenstige Frau war, die kein Blatt vor den Mund nahm. Damit verärgerte sie auch Napoleon - und der verbannte sie ins Exil.