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As the formation of Glacier National Park takes Eleanor Briggs and her conservationist father on a journey west to advocate for public lands, her heart carries the weight of a painful past. Since the death of her mother, she has spent her life traveling the country with her father and helping him with his work, but now he’s considering settling down and writing a book—and she’s not sure what that means for her future.

Grace and Hope are identical twin sisters born with the ability to time-cross together between 1692 Salem, Massachusetts, and 1912 New York City. As their twenty-fifth birthday approaches, they will have to choose one life to keep and one to leave behind forever—no matter the cost. In 1692, they live and work in their father's tavern, where they must watch helplessly as the witch trials unfold in their village, threatening everyone. With the help of a handsome childhood friend, they search for the truth behind their mother's mysterious death, risking everything to expose a secret.

When the new provincial governor arrives in Corinth, the esteemed Chief Magistrate Narkis Ligus, father to Mariana and Prima, is delighted. He sees a golden opportunity to propel himself to greater power and fortune by uniting his and the governor’s households through the marriage of one of his beautiful unwed daughters to the governor’s firstborn son.

Elsa Reisner's lifelong dream of working as an ornithologist at the American Museum of Natural History is fading as the job begins to drain her passion. But fate takes an unexpected turn when she is assigned to catalog the bequest of a recently deceased patron whose Gothic country mansion holds secrets and treasures waiting to be discovered.

This is Bo Giertz's masterpiece—written with the doctrinal clarity and purpose of G.K. Chesterton and C.S. Lewis, the historical acumen of Bernard Cornwell, and the psychological insight of Kafka. The result is a Scandinavian Noir that cuts open the soul and lays it at the foot of the cross.

Return to mysterious Measham Hall in this page-turning tale of espionage and intrigue in the years leading up to the Glorious Revolution of 1688. For Nicholas Hawthorne, the Catholic heir to Measham Hall in Derbyshire, subterfuge is part of everyday life. But there are deeper and darker secrets...

The first in a series of novellas featuring Jeff Boon, a Confederate Civil War veteran who returns home after the war to find home is not the way he remembered it. Union raiders struck his home town, burning buildings and killing residents, including his mother. And he finds the survivors are not as he remembered them. War can change people, and he finds it has changed him, too. A stirring novella of the aftermath of war, and the affect it can have on the people who fight the battles, and the people left behind.

Wife. Mother. Homemaker. Detective. Kit Forge wears many hats, and if that’s not enough, she’s partnered with her father to open a new detective agency. It’s hard to be all things to all people, but Kit never shies away from the impossible. Despite her hard work and good intentions, some...

Philo, a fisherman's son lives in Phoenicia in the first century. Evil hangs over the family and it seems to come from his sister. Rumours reach Sidon of a prophet with amazing healing powers, but even the mention of his name has disastrous effect. Philo runs away from home. Wherever he goes he...

Will Faith Perish in the Big Top’s Flames? Introducing a new series of 6 exciting novels featuring historic disasters that transformed landscapes and multiple lives. Whether by nature or by man, these disasters changed history and were a day to be remembered. Evelyn Halstead’s husband...

Regno di Federico II di Svevia, inizio del XIII secolo. Riccardo è un bambino orfano di padre, che vive con la mamma e il nonno in una masseria a qualche miglio a nord di Otranto. Qui trascorre un'infanzia serena in compagnia della sua migliore amica, Idrusa, ma la sua vita è destinata a cambiare radicalmente il giorno in cui il monaco Pantaleone si presenta alla sua porta. Rivelatogli che il padre avrebbe voluto fare di lui un Cavaliere Templare, Riccardo lascia i suoi affetti per seguire il monaco all'Abbazia di Casole, dove avrà l'opportunità di essere istruito.

Dopo Il templare di Otranto: Il mosaico, un nuovo capitolo si apre sulla storia di Riccardo Lupo. Siamo nel tredicesimo secolo e il nostro protagonista, dopo avere scoperto l’identità di suo padre, decide di partire per la VI crociata. Avrà modo di vivere alla corte di Federico II e ammirarne virtù e vizi. Conoscerà suo padre e proverà con tutte le sue forze ad appianare ogni divergenza e a recuperare un po’ del tempo che da bambino aveva perso. Non saranno poche le peripezie che Riccardo dovrà affrontare.

Dall’autore della fortunata saga Blackwater, un altro romanzo impossibile da interrompere. Alla fine del XIX secolo, nel cuore del famigerato Triangolo Nero, una ricca famiglia cerca di affermarsi pretendendo di liberare la città dalla corruzione. Gli Stallworth, guidati con pugno di ferro dal loro patriarca, l’influente e implacabile giudice James Stallworth, coadiuvato dal figlio Edward, predicatore dai sermoni incendiari, e dal genero Duncan Phair, giovane avvocato dalla carriera promettente, hanno un piano impeccabile: estirpare il male annientando una famiglia di corrotti e criminali: gli Shanks.

A family forever changed by the tragedies of WWII. Hannah Elfenbein, a young, pregnant Jewish woman, is arrested in 1942 and sent to the Camp de Rivesaltes transit camp in Southwest France. Drawn to helping other young women escape, she seeks refuge for herself and others at a maternity hospital...

Zwei mutige junge Menschen auf dem Weg zur Wahrheit. Alpen im 12. Jahrhundert. Ein Ordensbruder wird tot in der Kirche aufgefunden, und die kostbarste Reliquie des Bergklosters Tannhöhe ist verschwunden. Der ehemalige Ordensbruder Ansgar erhält vom Abt den Auftrag, das Heiligtum wiederzubeschaffen. Gemeinsam mit der im Kloster Zuflucht findenden Laya folgt er der Spur bis nach Mailand. Dort angekommen müssen Ansgar und Laya feststellen, dass das Geheimnis um die Reliquie größer und gefährlicher ist als gedacht.

When German bombs set London ablaze, BBC radio correspondent Hugh Collingwood reports on the Blitz, eager to boost morale while walking the fine line between truth and censorship. But the Germans are not the only ones Londoners have to fear as a series of murders flame up amid the ashes. The deaths hit close to home for Hugh, and Aleida needs his help to locate her missing son. As they work together, they grow closer and closer, both to each other and the answers they seek. But with bombs falling and continued killings, they may be running out of time.

Stella is the oldest of three sisters and she's got a long history of being the one to protect and provide for her family. When a dangerous threat sent the Fairfax sisters on a wagon train journey west, Stella knew her best bet was to disguise herself as a man to keep herself and her sisters safe. Collin Mason has secrets of his own. And his family isn't short on drama either, not with his troublemaking twin and an older brother about to get hitched. But he's the only one who sees the real Stella—and that she needs help.

From the time she was little, Martha Jankowski has been digging in the dirt, much to the dismay of her mother. Now she dreams of being a paleontologist and is determined to make her parents proud by uncovering the next big discovery. When Martha finds what she hopes to be a fully intact dinosaur skeleton—one that could win her an acclaimed exhibit—she learns another team is competing against her and could steal her chance at being recognized for this momentous discovery.

Seven years ago, a hidden betrayal scattered three young friends living in the shadow of the great Vanderbilt mansion. Now, when Biltmore Industries master weaver Lorna Blankenship is commissioned to create an original design for Cornelia Vanderbilt’s 1924 wedding, she panics knowing she doesn’t have the creativity needed. But there’s an elusive artisan in the Blue Ridge Mountains who could save her—if only she knew where to begin.

Upon uncovering her tyrannical father’s malevolent plot to commit her to an asylum, Beth Rutledge fabricates a plan of her own. She will rescue her mother, who had already been sent to the asylum, and escape together on a wagon train heading west. Posing as sisters, Beth and her mother travel with the pioneers in hopes of making it to Idaho before the others start asking too many questions.