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A warm-hearted and nostalgic festive family saga - Will Tilly finally find a family to call her own? As Christmas grows nearer, Tilly, a young maid, is sent away from her home in London to care for a sick child in an old cottage on the Isle of Sheppey, and she little imagines how her life will...

Norfolk, 1939. When the residents of Great Plumstead, a small and charming community in Norfolk, offer to open their homes to evacuees from London, they're expecting to care for children. So when a train carrying expectant mothers pulls into the station, the town must come together to accommodate their unexpected new arrivals....

Daisy’s War is a historical romance set on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent during World War Two. Daisy is too young to join the WAAFs like her glamorous sister Sylvia and opts instead to work in the NAAFI which serves the sailors and soldiers stationed in the dockyard and garrison with snacks, cigarettes and toiletries.

'Bright, pacy... Fans of Downton Abbey will adore this, and it would be surprising if the book weren't made into a luscious mini-series'The Sunday Times 'A captivating and page-turning novel about a fascinating family. Fantastic' Sinéad Moriarty Step inside the extraordinary world of the Bright...

A moving and tragic cross-cultural love story for readers of Dilly Court and Kitty Neale. Oxfordshire, 1917 Ellen is growing up in the Oxfordshire countryside. The granddaughter of a Methodist preacher and intending to marry Charlie, a boy from the local village, Ellen's life is mapped out for...

A patriot soldier in the ragtag Continental army, Philip Kent defies the rule of the British crown, fighting for the future of his adopted American homeland and the future of his wife and newborn son. And when Philip's heroism draws the attention of General George Washington, he is sent on an overwhelmingly risky mission vital to the success of the Revolution. But no sacrifice is too great for freedom . . .

Pacifist Franz Hasel was drafted into one of Hitler’s elite troops to build bridges at the front lines. Just before he was sent deep into Russia - where all but seven of his 1,200 man unit would die - he secretly discarded his gun, fearing that, as the company sharpshooter, he might be tempted to kill. In Russia he faced a new problem: how to warn the local Jews before the SS got to them.

This addictive John Jakes adventure blends the Kents’ ruthless push for an empire with murderous betrayal and the Civil War’s life-altering culmination. With the Civil War reaching its gory climax, the divided Kent family is pushed to the edge of complete destruction. With the advent of the transcontinental Union Pacific Railroad, the Kents continue to fight for their foothold among America’s wealthy founding families. While their private, insular war rages, young Jeremiah Kent is tempted by a calculating Southern belle into a trap of deceit, lust, and murder.

At sixty years old, Gideon Hood Templar rides into Mexico on his final adventure. In doing so a rediscovery occurs involving redemption, faith and honorable enemies who become more honorable friends. Making their way across the Estado de Chihuahua and into Texas through the unpredictable fog of rebellion, Gideon and his little band of refugees pit themselves against an unforgiving desert, bandits, the American army and a special Mexican cavalry unit tasked with the capture of those he is responsible for.

With the coming of the Olympic Games to Berlin, a false air of civility has taken over as the government extends a welcome to the world. But below the surface, the police state remains, and hundreds of so-called “undesirables” are rounded up and held in a newly constructed concentration camp in the city. In desperation, one of the prisoners reaches out to the Ritter family, and Maureen and her band of subversives will undertake a mission of mercy that could see them all end up as victims of the dreaded Gestapo.

Following #1 Sunday Times bestseller The Burning Chambers, New York Times bestseller Kate Mosse returns with The City of Tears, a sweeping historical epic about love in a time of war. Alliances and Romance August 1572: Minou Joubert and her husband Piet travel to Paris to attend a royal wedding...

Vienna, 1948: The war is over, and as the initial phase of denazification winds down, the citizens of Vienna struggle to rebuild their lives amid the rubble. Anna Beer returns to the city she fled nine years earlier upon discovering her husband’s infidelity. She has come back to find him and, perhaps, to forgive him. Traveling on the same train from Switzerland is 18-year-old Robert Seidel, a schoolboy summoned home to his stepfather’s sickbed and the secrets of his family’s past.

Jason figured it out, but not in time to change the future. He must pass his notes and the task of stopping World War III on to Angel. Once drafted into the military together in a parallel universe, the two are now friends in juvenile detention lockup before they meet in bootcamp. Angel only knows the poor, abused life he's had so far, but the time machine his dying friend wants him to build from his notebooks could change all of that.

When a cryptographer is murdered, Thomas Charles is sent on a secret mission to uncover the killer – and it’s the perfect opportunity to rekindle his romance with Cat Carlisle, the woman who helped uncover a double agent and solve her own husband’s murder. The victim’s niece – and the police’s top suspect – is Cat’s childhood friend and she begs Cat for help. 

The Spy unfolds during the merciless winter of 1778–1779, when the American Revolution hangs in the balance on the western frontier. At its heart is Thomas Wright, a 12-year-old orphan forced to grow up fast in a land ruled by cold, hunger, and danger.

A fictional account of a typical small town American family facing hard decisions after the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan. Being forced to navigate the difficult days which would shape the course of their lives, this coming of age family story typifies those events that were played out in many small towns across the United States during World War II.

Harriet Parker receives a letter out of the blue from her dead mother, demanding her presence in Amsterdam. The letter hints at a family secret that has lain buried for decades. Feeling compelled to delve into her family history, Harriet finds herself sucked into a tale of treachery and lies in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam. As she puts her life on hold to probe her family background Harriet begins to question all she holds true.

It is 1944, and Twyla Campbell has been transporting fighter planes to Alaska for the Army Air Force, President Roosevelt, and Premier Stalin. In Fairbanks she befriended Marina, a Russian pilot with indefatigable courage and an odd sense of humor. When tragedy struck again, Twyla boarded a transport, only to find herself arrested on the Eastern Front scheduled for execution.

Former U.S. Army helicopter pilot Jim Taylor and a small group of survivors are trapped in his powerless, sweltering-hot, high-rise condo overlooking the bloodbath unfolding in the streets 20 floors below. The undead horde is climbing the fire escape stairs toward them, and the group must escape. The only safe place is up, but only six floors remain between them and the roof. Then what? Meanwhile, mankind’s only salvation is an antidote sitting a few hundred miles south in a remote jungle lab where the virus was developed—and accidentally released. And time is running out

Volume two in the series An American Family follows the Snow family on to the bloody streets of London during Tudor times where they experience the dreaded plagues, horrible executions, and persecution for their religious beliefs. There are ghosts in the monastery and scandals afoot, and an intimate look into the lives of the Tudor royal family. You won't want to miss this chapter in the story of one of America's founding Pilgrim families.