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From the bestselling author of The Pale Blue Eye comes a brilliantly profound and empathetic story about Oscar Wilde's wife Constance and their two sons in the aftermath of the famous playwright's imprisonment for homosexuality, told against the backdrop of Victorian England and World War I. In...

Als Juliet den Schlüssel zu dem alten herrschaftlichen Anwesen ihrer Familie zugesandt bekommt, öffnet sich ihr die Tür in eine vergessen geglaubte Welt. Nightingale House hat viele Geheimnisse und Juliet ist entschlossen, jedes einzelne davon zu lüften. Warum verbrannte ihr Urgroßvater, ein gefeierter Maler, sein berühmtestes Gemälde? Was ist aus seinen beiden Kindern geworden, die darauf abgebildet waren? Bald schon muss Juliet erkennen, dass die Antworten auf ihre Fragen einen hohen Preis fordern. Denn etwas hat einst dieses Paradies zerstört.

In den ausgehenden Sechzigerjahren verlässt die junge lebenshungrige Paula Winter Hals über Kopf die enge Welt ihres hessischen Heimatdorfes. Und damit auch ihre verbittert schweigsame Mutter Charlotte. In den "Roaring Seventies" von London schlägt sie sich als Sängerin und Schauspielerin durch. Selbst als sie schwanger und vom Vater des Kindes verlassen wird, verschweigt sie ihren Eltern die Wahrheit. Gegen alle Widerstände zieht sie ihre Tochter Maya alleine groß und merkt dabei nicht, dass sich das Mädchen immer mehr von ihr entfernt.

Evangeline Hussey has made a home for herself on Nantucket, though she knows she is still an outsider to the island's small close-knit community, one that by 1849 has started to feel the decline of a once-thriving whaling industry. Her husband, Hosea, and the life they built together, was once all she needed—but now Hosea is gone, lost at sea. Evangeline is only able to hold on to his inn, and her place on the island, by employing a curious gift to glimpse and re-form the recent memories of those who would cast her out.

In 1937, seventeen-year-old Ella’s life changes forever when she is sent to spend the summer on the beautiful Île de Ré and meets the charismatic, creative Christophe. They spend the summer together, exploring the island’s sandy beaches and crystal-clear waters, and, for the first time in her life, Ella feels truly free. But the outbreak of war casts everything in a new light. Ella is forced to return to Scotland, where she volunteers for the war effort alongside the dashing Angus. In this new world, Ella feels herself drifting further and further from who she was on the Île de Ré.

Meet the Otis family: Mister and Missus, and their four children - Washington; the twins called Stars and Stripes; and their daughter, Virginia. They've just moved from America and into the English country manor of Canterville Chase. Though rumors persist that the house is haunted, the Otis' have none of it, and set about making the house their own. Then come the mysterious clanking chains and the bloodstains on the floor, and soon even the Otis family must come face to face with that most feared of creatures - The Canterville Ghost. But will the Ghost be able to survive his encounters with the erstwhile Americans?

Days after their wedding, Blake and Erica Landon embark on their honeymoon - a journey that deepens their bond and promises to fade the scars of their past. Just when their troubles seem safely behind them, scandal surrounding would-be Governor Daniel Fitzgerald's election threatens their newfound peace. Back home, Blake finds himself at the center of the controversy, haunted by the transgressions of his hacker past that he has no wish to relive.