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Anna Karenina seems to have everything - beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son. But she feels that her life is empty until the moment she encounters the impetuous officer Count Vronsky.

In 1879, when Anna Buchanan first met Callum MacGhille, she recognized him instantly —he was the man who haunted her dreams. She hadn’t come to Ireland in search of love. She wanted freedom, a life beyond the cage of her father’s garden walls. Yet at Baile Glas, a remote estate bound by secrets, Anna discovers that her dreams are not dreams at all. They are warnings. The visions do not end with Callum. He is only the beginning. At Baile Glas, echoes of the dead stir through locked rooms, shadows slip across corridors, and old stories breathe again.

Wiltshire, December 1915. Widow Olivia Hanbury is persuaded by her cousin Donald to move in with his meek little wife while he is serving in France. When he's wounded and returns home to convalesce, tensions immediately rise between him and lively Olivia. But things begin to look up when Olivia becomes involved in starting the new Women's Institutes and is introduced to Alex, an antiques dealer. Meanwhile, Phoebe Latimer is holding the fort at Greyladies, an ancient manor house, while her husband is away at war. But someone is attempting to rid Greyladies of the German internees based there.

The first book in Anna Jacobs' wonderful Backshaw Moss series. 1935. At thirty-six, Bella Porter is dependent on her abusive cousin, acting as an unpaid servant. When a kind relative leaves her a house in the village of Backshaw Moss, Thomas tries to take it from her, but she defies him and...

The second in the heartwarming Lancashire saga series that began with SALEM STREET, by beloved author Anna Jacobs. In 1845 Annie Gibson can finally leave Salem Street. Her dreams of being able to open an elegant dressmaking salon in the High Street of Bilsden, a Lancashire mill town, have come...

The third of five books in the heartwarming Lancashire-based Gibson Family series. Book three in the heartwarming Lancashire-based Gibson series by beloved saga author Anna Jacobs. It's 1848 and preparations are underway for Annie Gibson's wedding to Bilsden's wealthy millwoner, Frederick Hallam...

The second book in the brand new Backshaw Moss series from million-copy bestseller Anna Jacobs Lancashire, 1930s. When her mother dies, leaving her an old sewing box and a clue to her father's identity, 22-year-old Maisie Bassett is determined to make a fresh start. Changing her name and moving...

Wie verrucht ist der Lord wirklich? Eine junge Miss soll es herausfinden. Der Ruf von Alastair Woodrow, Marquess of Merrypenny, eilt ihm in der Umgebung seines Familiensitzes schon voraus. Es geht das Gerücht um, dass der Marquess jeden zweiten Freitag ausschweifende Maskenbälle im Herrenhaus veranstaltet. Doch niemand weiß etwas Genaues. Deborah Silverfield ist der Marquess durch seinen Lebenswandel zuwider. Deswegen traut sie ihren Ohren nicht, als ihr Ziehvater, der Vikar des Ortes, ausgerechnet sie ins Herrenhaus schickt, um sich um die Tochter des Marquess als Gouvernante zu kümmern.

Uniquely gifted and brave, Georgian Scotland's three MacLeod sisters have managed to both fend off rumors that they are witches and thwart the thieves convinced of hidden treasure within Cairncross Castle, their family fortress—though one by one their hearts are stolen by a trio of sworn...

When Anna Konig first meets Bairn, the Scottish ship carpenter of the Charming Nancy, their encounter is anything but pleasant. Anna is on the ship only to ensure the safe arrival of her loved ones to the New World. Hardened by years of living at sea, Bairn resents toting these naive farmers - dubbed "Peculiars" by deckhands - across the ocean. As delays, storms, illness, and diminishing provisions afflict crew and passengers alike, Bairn finds himself drawn to Anna's serene nature.

Manchmal macht Liebe blind. Aber manchmal schenkt sie Augen zum Sehen.Gordon Kendrix, Earl of Dunmore, will einen Abend im geheimen Ladys Rose Club verbringen. Als dort nach einem Mann gesucht wird, der bereit ist, eine Lady mit verbundenen Augen auf ihrem Zimmer zu treffen, reizt es ihn und er...

'Alison Weir transforms Henry VIII's much-maligned fourth wife into a woman of passion, courage and mystery' Tracy Borman Alison Weir, historian and author of the Sunday Times bestsellers Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen, Anne Boleyn: A King's Obsession and Jane Seymour: The Haunted Queen...

Eigentlich ist er ihr Vormund, aber wer kann sich vor der Liebe wehren? Vor allem, wenn der Earl ein wahrer Märchenprinz zu sein scheint. Gäbe es da nicht ein düsteres Geheimnis im Herrenhaus … George Cockridge, Earl of Townfield, finanziert schon seit vielen Jahren die schulische Ausbildung für die Tochter seines verstorbenen Militärkameraden. Um so überraschter ist er, als er eines Tages eine hübsche, junge Dame in der Eingangshalle seines Herrenhauses antrifft. Patience Danford, ist gerade einundzwanzig Jahre geworden. Alt genug endlich das Mädchenpensionat zu verlassen.

Eine Lady, verzweifelt auf der Suche nach einem Ehemann.Eine Liebe, die gegen alle Konventionen verstößt.Ein Familiengeheimnis, das das Leben aller für immer verändern könnte.Lady Willow Humber, die von den Gentlemen in mehreren Londoner Ballsaisons schändlich übersehen wurde, kommt in...

Anna Karenina is beautiful, married to a successful man, and has a son whom she adores. But a chance meeting at a train station in Moscow sets her passionate heart alight, and she is defenceless in the face of Count Vronsky's adoration. Having defied the rules of nineteenth-century Russian society, Anna is forced to pay a heavy price.

It tells of the love affair between Anna and Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and must endure the hypocrisies of society. Set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Russia, faith is challenged, bonds are broken, love dies and is reborn.

When their father dies, none of the three Harcourt girls are particularly upset. The loss of the family's income, however, is not something so easily overcome. When their mother Anna discovers that they have been left penniless, she decides to move them out of London and back to her hometown in Scotland.

"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." This is the famous opening sentence of Tolstoi's epic love story between Anna Arkadyevna Karenina and her Count Vronsky. Anna Karenina (1877) by Leo Tolstoy is a classic story of love and tragedy against the backdrop...

Liverpool, 1925. Fourteen-year-old Lillian Taylor has spent her childhood in a loveless orphanage after the death of her mother. When a well-dressed young woman claiming to be her aunt arrives and whisks her away to her large townhouse, Lillian hopes it signals a change in her fortunes. However there's more to Aunt Joan than meets the eye and when Joan discovers Lillian's budding romance with one of her coworkers she swiftly threatens his family. Events take a tragic turn when Joan becomes ill and reveals the secrets she's been keeping that will change Lillian's life forever....

Brussels, April 1915. A beautiful young woman finds herself on the run from the enemy. Also being pursued is Ned Scott, a British army major who has been badly injured. The pair find themselves at a hospital run by the famous Edith Cavell, who agrees to treat the major while offering them both refuge and a false identity - she names the young girl Anna.