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Outlander meets What the Wind Knows with a dash of The Tudors Claudia, Alex, and Marie embark on a perilous journey back through the swirling mists of time, their hopes pinned on averting a looming tragedy. As they navigate the tangled web of history, vivid memories of Alex and Claudia's...

A stirring, intimate novel inspired by the life of Marina’s paternal grandmother. Born into the elegant comfort of upper-class Russian society at the turn of the twentieth century, Zina yearns for independence and a life she can call her own. After the Bolsheviks topple the Czarist government...

1941, Giggleswick: Flora Whittaker runs The Cunning Vixen Inn, a small pub in the centre of the village. When her husband, Bill, re-enlists in the war, he leaves Flora to run the pub with the help of young May, the next-door neighbour’s daughter. Flora has several money-saving and illegal...

A compelling and lavish novel from the NYT bestselling author about a young woman striving to forget her part in the war by building life anew as the publicist at the just-launching House of Dior in Paris 1943. After spearheading several successful advertising campaigns in New York, PR wizard...

A HELLO SUNSHINE x REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK A thrilling tale of secretaries turned spies, of love and duty, and of sacrifice--inspired by the true story of the CIA plot to infiltrate the hearts and minds of Soviet Russia, not with propaganda, but with the greatest love story of the...

For fans of KJ Charles's The Magpie Lord and Freya Marske's A Marvellous Light, this Lammy-nominated twentieth-century American romance follows a graduate student through a magical, queernorm version of the 1960s as he joins forces with an archivist to fight a god. Fall, 1969. Ulysses Lenkov...

Inspirado nos acontecimentos verídicos em torno da destruição da cidade de Iola nos anos 1960, Siga como um rio é a história de um amor avassalador, de pessoas que seguem em frente, fluindo e carregando tudo pelo caminho, ainda que diante de tantos obstáculos. Victoria Nash é apenas uma adolescente na década de 1940, mas já é responsável por todos os afazeres da casa, numa fazenda de pêssegos na cidadezinha de Iola, no Colorado – a única mulher num lar de homens cheios de problemas.

After spending her childhood in Haddon House Children's Hostel, Alice Tucker is selected to go into service at Holmorton Lodge. Left behind in the workhouse after the death of her father and the disappearance of her mother, the only clues to Alice's past lie in hazy childhood memories. Now, ten years later, she longs to uncover the truth about her family and who she really is. When a chance discovery leads her from a Welsh nursing home to a solicitor's office in Manchester, Alice begins to unravel a story far more tangled than she imagined.

England, 1948. It’s been ten years since Lola arrived from Germany as a Jewish refugee. Even now, she can’t think about the family she lost, or her heartbreak will destroy her. Instead, Lola looks to the future: the new family she’s found working in a job she adores as an airline stewardess, and the butterflies she feels around handsome pilot Brian – though the thought of opening her heart again terrifies her.

A sweeping and emotional World War II novel for readers of Soraya M. Lane and Veronica Leigh. ‘Heartbreaking and hopeful’ Kate Galley 'An engaging story of fortitude … and unexpected love' Anita Frank 'A moving story of love, sacrifice and survival' Suzanne Fortin 'A gripping and original...

Epic Love. Tragic Loss. Beautiful Friendship. The entrancing story of an orphan who grows up surrounded by the beautiful and the broken in the world's most infamous hotel. After her parents' deaths, Aria Jones is sent to live with her reclusive starlet aunt at the Chateau Marmont, the hotel on...

The Alice Network meets The Nightingale in this romantic and suspenseful novel about a female spy who must push herself to her very limits to save herself and everything she holds dear—from nationally bestselling author and master of historical fiction C.C. Humphreys. It’s 1939, and...

France, 1940. A hotel on the border. One woman will risk everything in the name of freedom. 'The characters were compelling, the romantic aspect wonderful, and the tension never let up as I raced through the pages' Jill Mansell, Sunday Times bestselling author 'A thrilling page-turner charting...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Always and Blackberry Winter, a sweeping World War II saga of thwarted love, murder, and a long-lost painting. In the summer of 1942, twenty-one-year-old Anne Calloway, newly engaged, sets off to serve in the Army Nurse Corps on the Pacific island of...

Entrelaçando fundo e figura de modo sutil, o autor fala de um momento crucial da vida social brasileira, ao mesmo tempo em que narra uma surpreendente história de amor. Posfácio de José Paulo Paes. O romance entre o sírio Nacib e a mulata Gabriela, um dos mais sedutores personagens...

"This BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN HISTORICAL is a SUMPTUOUS, PAGE-TURNING DELIGHT filled with an enticing mix of FORBIDDEN ROMANCE and buried secrets.” —Ellen Marie Wiseman, New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Girls of Willowbrook Duty, desire, and deception reside under one roof. Standing...

All he needs is to find her. First, he must remember who she is. Jenny Ashcroft's "Meet Me in Bombay is a powerful, poignant and deeply emotional tale of love, mystery, loss and joy." –Kate Furnivall, New York Times bestselling author It's New Year's Eve in Bombay, 1913, and Madeline Bright...

'[a] beautifully written novel that brims with art, beauty, love, family, passion and secrets' - Books+Publishing Two summers, decades apart. Two women whose lives are forever entwined. And a house that holds the secrets that could free them both. At twenty-six, Lillian feels ancient and...

A "remarkable novel of family and love during a time of war,"* Jenny Ashcroft's Under the Golden Sun follows a soul-searching young woman who takes a leap of faith and discovers a place to call home and someone to share her heart. England, 1941. The world is at war. London is under siege as the...

"The Glittering Hour is an exceptional novel about choosing how to live amid powerful grief and true love." — Bookpage Award-winning author Iona Grey's next unforgettable historical about true love found and lost and the secrets we keep from one another Selina Lennox is a Bright Young Thing...