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Never pretty enough to please her gorgeous mother, Allie will do anything to gain her approval - even marry a man she doesn't love. Lt. Walter Novak - fearless in the cockpit but hopeless with women - takes his last furlough at home in California before being shipped overseas. Walt and Allie meet at a wedding and their love of music draws them together, prompting them to begin a correspondence that will change their lives. As letters fly between Walt's muddy bomber base in England and Allie's mansion in an orange grove, their friendship binds them together.

Selah Banning has come of age on the West Indies island of Nevis, shaped by experiences far beyond the typical upbringing of a young British lady in 1776. She never anticipated that the most tumultuous time of her life might await her in the year ahead. Jedediah Reed, a young Methodist preacher with a call to serve the slaves of Nevis, has settled at Selah's family's plantation, the Double T. As Selah's heart is drawn to the same people, their shared purpose brings them together - despite her guardians' concern with a romance that promises little security for the future.

Lt. Raymond Novak prefers the pulpit to the cockpit, but at least his stateside job training B-17 pilots allows him the luxury of a personal life. As he courts Helen Carlisle, a young war widow and mother who conceals her pain under a frenzy of volunteer work, the sparks of their romance set a fire that flings them both into peril. After Ray leaves to fly a combat mission at the peak of the air war over Europe, Helen takes a job in a dangerous munitions yard and confronts an even graver menace in her own home.

Cuatro bellas jóvenes están unidas por un mismo objetivo: valerse de su complicidad y sus armas femeninas para conseguir marido. Una de ellas, Annabelle, intenta seducir a un aristócrata con la intención de salvar a su familia. Pero el destino siempre sorprende...

En la China del siglo XVII, los manchúes se han alzado con el poder tras derrocar a la dinastía Ming. Ajena al cataclismo político, la joven Peonía vive con su próspera familia en una hermosa casa junto al Lago del Oeste de Hangzhou. Educada de forma exquisita para convertirse en una esposa dócil y culta, Peonía espera emocionada la celebración de su decimosexto cumpleaños.

After serving in the Civil War as part of a Minnesota infantry regiment, Zachary feels compelled to head further west to follow the call of God tugging on his heart. He has finally completed correspondence school and earned a certificate to become a preacher. He accepts a minister’s position in the small town of Blossom in Dakota Territory, but there’s a catch.

Rescuing the man tied to a tree seemed like a rational decision. Claire is a smart, capable bookkeeper who happens to work at a martial arts academy. She has no idea the door she walked through to save the bound man would leave her trapped in 13th-century Scotland.

Florenz, 1494: Lisa Gherardini und Giuliano aus der mächtigen Dynastie der Medici sind heimlich ein Liebespaar. Als die Medici aus der Stadt vertrieben werden, zwingt Lisas Vater die junge Frau zur Heirat mit dem viel älteren Seidenhändler Francesco del Giocondo. Doch ihr Herz hängt an ihrem Geliebten. Venedig, 1495: Leonardo da Vinci ist der berühmteste Künstler seiner Zeit. Als Giuliano de' Medici ihn bittet, Lisa zu porträtieren, um seiner Geliebten auf diese Weise Nachrichten zukommen zu lassen, geht Leonardo auf das riskante Spiel ein.

Ottuagenaria e tormentata dai rimorsi, Giglio Bianco ripensa al proprio passato e a Fiore di Neve, l'amica scomparsa da molti anni che ha avuto un ruolo cruciale nella sua esistenza. Poiché le rimane solo il dono del tempo, vuole onorarlo raccontando la storia della sua laotong - la compagna di parole segrete - e del tragico equivoco che ha amaramente segnato un legame lungo una vita. Ha inizio così una vicenda di intensa drammaticità ambientata nella Cina del XIX secolo, quando mogli e figlie ancora avevano i piedi bendati e vivevano in uno stato di isolamento pressoché totale.

Love united them. Destiny drove them apart. When Avicia, a Norman noblewoman, makes a careless but costly mistake with a prized falcon, the brutal punishment nearly claims her life. Her Saxon lover, Edric of Newington, witnesses her ordeal but cannot share her fate. Another destiny awaits him in England, and the prospect of a loveless marriage. Swept away in the arms of another, Avicia enters the treacherous court of Duke William of Normandy. Through the years, Edric and Avicia reunite in a timeless, forbidden love, but a bitter rivalry for the English throne divides them.

Chelsea Wickersham seeks a new start. The conservative English governess agrees to tutor the long-lost heir of the mysterious Cane estate. But when she arrives expecting to find a boy to teach, she is instead introduced to a strange and terrifying sight: Sullivan Cane, a feral, uncivilized man. But Cane is craftier than any beast. Taken from his island hideaway, forced to return to his family estate in Scotland, he strives to outwit his calculating brethren.

Cora is about to discover who she truly is. It’s the summer of 1913, and Cora Kensington’s life on the family farm has taken a dark turn. Not only are the crops failing, but someone dear to Cora is failing as well. One fateful afternoon, a stranger comes to call, and Cora discovers a terrible secret about her past… a secret that will radically change her future. Cora is invited to take the “Grand Tour” of Europe, a trip intended to finish a person’s education and solidify an understanding of refinement and ancient culture.

En pirrende romantisk fortælling om forbudt kærlighed i 1800-tallet, og en mørk og tænksom helt, der næsten mister den kvinde, han elsker, fordi han ikke føler sig god nok til hende. Efter med nød og næppe at have overlevet et grimt tilfælde af skarlagensfeber sætter Winnifred Hathaway sig to mål i livet: at blive sund og rask igen - og at finde ud af, om Kev Merripen er lige så glad for hende, som hun er for ham. Kev Merripen med romarødderne blev en del af Hathaway-familien som barn.

In una fredda notte in cui la Storia faceva le prove generali di Rinascimento, mentre i signori d’Italia s’annientavano a vicenda per l’effimero controllo dei labili confini dei propri Stati, un giovane diplomatico pontificio dal passato misterioso preferiva di gran lunga cimentarsi nell’arte della seduzione più che in quella bellica. Chi era costui?

On the fateful night of the Titanic disaster, heiress Loretta Linden made sure her friends and fellow passengers got to the lifeboats before she even thought of herself. Her soft heart is legendary - and her desire to help others is her great passion. She will not rest until her little band is safely reunited in her native San Francisco - where she meets the dashing Captain Quarles.

Elizabeth thought she was lost in Venice - but the stakes have been raised. Now she's at the foot of Mount Vesuvius, the infamous volcano that utterly destroyed the Roman city of Pompeii. And it looks as if time is running out.... Pompeii Destiny is book three of a gently cliff-hangered short story series. The sequence will lead up to a happily ever after ending. From Renaissance Venice to troubled Scotland, from the Civil War to the Wild West, Elizabeth and Robert find and re-find each other. The series has clean romance and is suitable for teens and up.

1781. On opposite sides of the War of Independence, British Captain Jacob Vaughan and Claire Monroe find themselves thrust together by chance and expediency. Captain Vaughan comes to a stately North Carolina manor to catch a spy. Instead, he finds himself in bedlam: The head of the household is an old man ravaged by madness, the one sane male of the family is the very man he is hunting, and the household is overseen by his beguiling sister, Claire.

Set on the shores of the Albemarle Sound, April Harrington has fond memories of summers at her family home, Bliss. After her fairytale wedding disintegrates, it becomes her refuge - the one place where she can attempt to pull the unraveling threads of her life back together. Unbeknownst to April, the stately house has been neglected in recent years. The once-sturdy roof is leaking in a few dozen places, and the wharf is rotting. Nothing is the same as she remembers.