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Bad Kreuznach 1850: In der aufstrebenden Kurstadt verlieben sich die Schwestern Anne und Sophie in den englischen Gast James Bennett. Es ist für beide der Beginn einer heimlichen Leidenschaft: Anne ist verheiratet und Mutter einer kleinen Tochter, während die viel jüngere Sophie sich nicht traut, dem überaus charmanten jungen Mann ihre Gefühle zu offenbaren. Die Katastrophe ist unausweichlich, als James beide Schwestern zurückweist. Erst zwei Generationen später kommt ans Licht, was damals geschah.

In the summer of 1922, Robert Shannon, a young American hero of the Great War, lands in Ireland. A Marine chaplain, he was present at the frightful Battle of Belleau Wood, and he still suffers from shell shock. His mentor hopes that a journey Robert had always wanted to make to find his family...

Sparkles with all of the passion, extravagance and scandal of a grand and glorious era… As opulent and passionate as the 18th century it celebrates, Through a Glass Darkly will sweep you away to the splendors of a lost era. From aristocrats to scoundrels, its rich, vivid characters create...

The long-awaited prequel to Koen’s beloved Through a Glass Darkly, Dark Angels is a feast of a novel that sparkles with all the passion, extravagance, danger, and scandal of seventeenth-century England. Alice Verney is a young woman intent on achieving her dreams. Returning to England after a...

New York Times bestselling author Amanda Quick returns with a thrilling new venture into romance and mystery, featuring the most unusual, highly compatible--undeniably combustible--pairing of Tobias March and his mesmerizing partner, Lavinia Lake. An invitation to a country house party at...

Brandstiftung in der Domstadt? Bei einem mysteriösen Feuer im Kloster der Machabäerinnen kommt die Oberin zu Tode. Verdächtigt wird eine kranke Pilgerin, die vor einigen Tagen von Myntha, der Tochter des Mülheimer Fährmanns, aus den Fluten des Rheins gerettet wurde. Myntha glaubt nicht an die Schuld der Pilgerin, zumal bekannt wird, dass die Oberin unmittelbar vor ihrem Tod mit einem Mann über die Qualität von Weihrauch gestritten haben soll.

To look at one was to see the other. For family, even the girls' own father, it was a constant guessing game. For strangers, the surprise was overwhelming. And for the twins Olivia and Victoria Henderson, two remarkable young women coming of age at the turn of the century, their bond was...

“Ingenious . . . Mary B is a tribute not just to [Jane] Austen but to defiant women of any era.”—USA Today The overlooked middle sister in Pride and Prejudice casts off her prim exterior and takes center stage in this fresh retelling of the classic novel. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF...

Set in the glamorous 1920s, A Fine Imitation is an intoxicating debut that sweeps readers into a privileged Manhattan socialite's restless life and the affair with a mysterious painter that upends her world, flashing back to her years at Vassar and the friendship that brought her to the brink of...

One of History’s Most Sacred Treasures. . . An Age-Old Secret Conspiracy. . . Now the Truth Is Revealed. . . . Marco Valoni, chief of Italy’s Art Crimes Department, is convinced that a fire in the Cathedral of Turin that leaves a strangely mutilated, unidentifiable body on the scene was no...

Ein farbiges Historienpanorama - leidenschaftlich erzählt, voller Dramatik und Kraft. Andalusien, 1568. Nach Jahren der Unterdrückung erheben sich die spanischen Muslime gegen ihre christlichen Peiniger. Unter den Aufständischen ist auch der junge Maure Hernando, der sein Volk und seine Kultur vor dem Untergang retten will. Doch die Revolte wird bald zum blutigen Glaubenskrieg, und angesichts der von beiden Seiten begangenen Grausamkeiten wächst in Hernando das Bedürfnis nach Frieden und Aussöhnung der Religionen – ein Ziel, dem er fortan sein Leben widmet.

In this gripping debut thriller from James M. Tabor, a brilliant and beautiful scientist and a mysterious special ops soldier must lead a team deep into the Earth on a desperate hunt for the cure to a deadly epidemic. When she was unjustly fired from a clandestine government laboratory...

A mother who cannot face her future. A daughter who cannot escape her past. Lady Elisabeth Kerr is a keeper of secrets. A Highlander by birth and a Lowlander by marriage, she honors the auld ways, even as doubts and fears stir deep within her. Her husband, Lord Donald, has secrets of his own...

From the author of bestselling Invisible Man—the classic novel of African-American experience—this long-awaited second novel tells an evocative tale of a prodigal of the twentieth century. Brilliantly crafted, moving, and wise, Juneteenth is the work of an American master. "Tell me what...

Twelve-year-old Aaron Broom is protecting his father’s car from repossession when he witnesses a jewelry store robbery gone wrong. To Aaron’s shock, his father, a struggling salesman in the wrong place at the wrong time, is fingered as the prime suspect in the murder. Aaron—precocious...

Macon Fallon had never needed more than a deck of cards, a fast horse, and a ready gun; he was counting on those things now as he led an unsuspecting group of settlers to an abandoned mining town. But while Fallon prepared to pass the ghost town off as a gold mine in the making, a funny thing...

Wien, 1920: Während die Stadt immer noch mit den Folgen des Krieges zu kämpfen hat, wird August Emmerich endlich in die Abteilung Leib und Leben versetzt. Doch während seine Kollegen dort den aufsehenerregenden Mordfall an dem beliebten Stadtrat Richard Fürst bearbeiten, müssen Emmerich und sein Assistent Ferdinand Winter den Babysitter für die berühmte Schauspielerin Rita Haidrich spielen, die um ihr Leben fürchtet.

Set in the 1950s, Lady Be Good marks Amber Brock's mesmerizing return, sweeping readers into the world of the mischievous, status-obsessed daughter of a hotel magnate and the electric nightlife of three iconic cities: New York, Miami, and Havana. Kitty Tessler is the winsome and clever only...

"Superbly written, with that sensitivity to sunset and afterglow that has always been Miss Cather's." —The New York Times Willa Cather wrote Shadows on the Rock immediately after her historical masterpiece, Death Comes for the Archbishop. Like its predecessor, this novel of seventeenth-century...

Endlich komplett! Harris' Bestseller-Reihe um den klugen Politiker und brillanten Redner Cicero. Cicero, größter Redner seiner Zeit, weilt mit seinem Sekretär Tiro im Exil. Da er seinen politischen Feind Caesar zu unterstützen verspricht, kann er nach Rom zurückkehren, wo er sich wieder zu öffentlichem Ansehen emporkämpft. Genial und fehlbar, angsterfüllt und doch unbändig mutig - der mit sich ringende Mensch hinter dem Politiker Cicero macht die Geschichte so unwiderstehlich.