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Be swept up in the unforgettable new historical novel from the reader’s favourite. Can Rosina discover the hidden secrets of Moonshadow Manor? When spirited Rosina Wills is driven from her London home by a conniving stepmother, she seeks refuge in the wild heart of Dartmoor. But Moonshadow...

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...

At first glance I probably seem like any good-looking guy in their late twenties. I have an obscene amount of confidence, a tattooed body sculpted by the Nordic gods, and I love the ladies as much as they love me. But I'm not the average single guy. I'm Crown Prince Magnus of Norway, and my latest scandal just landed my entire royal family in hot water. Now the only way the monarchy can save face is for me to smarten up - publicly. If I don't, I'll no longer be heir apparent to the throne. So it's either I abdicate my future role as King, or I get married.

For a thousand years, Doro has cultivated a small African village, carefully breeding its people in search of seemingly unattainable perfection. He survives through the centuries by stealing the bodies of others, a technique he has so thoroughly mastered that nothing on Earth can kill him. But when a gang of New World slavers destroys his village, ruining his grand experiment, Doro is forced to go west and begin anew. He meets Anyanwu, a centuries-old woman whose means of immortality are as kind as his are cruel. Now they begin a struggle that will last centuries.

Richard de Claiborne, the dark earl of Dunsmore, serves King Edward Plantagenet well. Sworn to obey his king's every order, he nevertheless chafes at the command he wed the daughter of his enemy - a man who slew his father in cold blood. But King Edward wants peace in his lands, and he will stop at nothing to get it. If he has to order his most powerful Marcher lord to marry a Welsh princess, he considers it a small price to pay. Princess Gwenllian is a political pawn. When she's forced to marry the evil Black Hawk de Claiborne, she quakes at his fierceness and brutality.

Henry Gauthier: Bassist. My brother's best friend. And my first love. He's also the man I grew to hate after a one-night stand went horribly wrong. I've spent the last three years successfully dodging him. Now, fresh out of a bad relationship and living in a new city, I finally feel like I'm starting to get myself together. And when an opportunity to produce Wild Minds' newest album presents itself, I can't help but jump at the chance of a lifetime. Even if it comes with a caveat. Three weeks in Hawaii, an impossible to meet deadline, and Henry Gauthier.

In New Orleans in 1937, a man and woman embark on a headlong flight into the wilderness of illicit passion. In Mississippi ten years earlier, a convict risks his one chance at freedom to rescue a pregnant woman. From these separate stories Faulkner composes a symphony of deliverance and damnation.

Beauty and the Beefcake is a vegan-friendly standalone romantic comedy featuring a hockey player whose vocabulary is the only thing smaller than a hockey puck, a book smart but aimless ventriloquist with too many voices in her head, a dilapidated old house that may or may not be haunted, and no cheating or cliffhangers.

Thirteen years after the railway thundered into the Scottish Borders, life has changed forever. But for the children left behind by the men who built it, some legacies run deeper than iron and steam. Their bond carries them from childhood mischief in the windswept hills to the bustling cosmopolitan cities of Edinburgh, London, and Paris, where love, loss, and the pull of the past shape their paths. As secrets surface and loyalties are tested, Kitty and Marie must decide what endures when everything else changes.

From a bestselling Australian author comes a gripping novel of espionage, passion and sacrifice set in the Middle East during World War I. Based on an astonishing true story, it asks what are you willing to die for? For readers of Geraldine Brooks, Heather Morris and Alli Parker. During a train...

Maizie is struggling to keep the Paris Hotel open whilst her husband is in the army during World War 2. A French soldier stays at the hotel after Dunkirk, they fall in love...and she becomes pregnant. After he leaves for France, she realises she can't follow him.

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.

Siobhan Clough and her children are enjoying a holiday on the English coast. With them is Mary McCarthy and her volatile son, Liam. All is well until the arrival of Siobhan’s husband, George. A man of strong views and temper, he browbeats his wife, belittles his daughter, Christine, and treats Liam like a servant. A year later, Liam unexpectedly comes face to face with the father he has never known. Liam wants nothing to do with him, but when George Clough throws him out, he has little choice but to enter his father’s dangerous world of Irish politics.

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.

Nach dem texanischen Unabhängigkeitskrieg von 1836 ist Walther Fichtner ein einflussreicher Mann in Texas geworden. Als seine zweite Frau, die Indianerin Nizhoni, ihre Tochter zur Welt bringt, scheint das Glück vollkommen. Bald aber ziehen Schatten über Texas auf, denn der Nachfolger von Präsident Sam Houston will die Komantschen aus ihren Jagdgründen vertreiben und betreibt im großen Stil Spekulation auf das Land der Indianer. Walthers Todfeind beteiligt sich daran und beginnt die Fehde gegen ihn mit einem Überfall auf dessen Ranch.

Deutschland 1938. Alle Zeichen stehen aus Sturm, doch Politik kümmert die junge Belle Lombard wenig. Ihre ehrgeizigen Pläne gelten einzig den Filmstudios in Berlin und dem vermeintlichen Mann ihrer Träume. Ihre Mutter Felicia verteidigt indessen als erfolgreiche Unternehmerin rücksichtslos ihre Interessen, sogar gegen die eigenen Gefühle. Doch das Chaos macht auch vor der weitverzweigten Familie der beiden Frauen nicht halt ...

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.

Zwischen Lieben und Hoffen - Teil 3 der Erfolgsserie. Berlin 1924: Die Metropole rast dem Höhepunkt der verrückten Goldenen Zwanziger entgegen. Der Überlebenskampf der Menschen wird zu einem wilden Tanz, bei dem die Hemmungen fallen und niemand an Morgen denkt. Immer mehr Fremde suchen in der Stadt das billige Vergnügen. Etwa auch die aparte junge Frau, die in den Urbanhafen geworfen wurde? Polizeiärztin Magda hat es nicht geschafft, ihr das Leben zu retten, und macht sich deshalb schwere Vorwürfe.

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?

Billionaire Hayes Rivers came into my life like a hurricane. Heir to an oil empire, he was sexy and seductive, controlling and scorching hot. I craved every touch, every filthy promise that fell from his beautiful mouth, knowing he could break me. My past had left me battered and bruised, with scars he was determined to heal.