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When a couple is forced to marry to gain an inheritance, a family secret comes to life which threatens to destroy their marriage of convenience.

Strong-willed and free spirited, Marjory de Warenne long ago gave her body and soul to the charming and beguiling Guy de Beauchamp. But her family never approved of the pairing.

In the prim and proper days of England's past, sexy vixen Catherine "Cat" Seton Spencer designs dresses for Queen Elizabeth.

It is 1322, and the Marcher lords are rebelling against King Edward II. Lady Brianna de Beauchamp, daughter of a powerful Marcher, knows she should not involve herself in the battle.

When the betrothal of Elizabeth Velvet Cavendish and Robert Greysteel Montgomery is arranged by their parents, the union seems doomed from the start.

A brutally beaten warrior arrives at Castle Calon and Lady Morwenna cannot deny her feelings for him despite her suspicion that he is the lover who betrayed her years ago.

In 985 A.D. the life of a Viking thrall in newly settled Greenland is harsh and unforgiving.

London's Great Plague of 1665 devastated the city, as Europe's final bubonic outbreak killed thousands of helpless citizens.

The House of Seven Gables, a fixture in Hawthorne's Salem, serves as the ancestral home of the fictional Pyncheon family--whose distinguished legacy is tainted by pious thievery.

It is 1758, and the flames of the Seven Years' War are burning hotter than ever.

In these tales, Lord John vows to avenge a murder, investigates a terrifying "night-hag" on the battlefields of Europe, and discovers treason in His Majesty's ranks.

In prehistoric times, Mount Kilamanjaro is known as Great Sky Mountain to the peace-loving Ibandi people.

Caught on the front lines of the Great War and torn by feuding families, the French village of Briecort is rocked by fear, suspicion, and blame.

Hurricane Katrina bares down on New Orleans, evoking in 95-year-old Louis Proby memories of the fateful--and life-defining--flood of 1927.

In 1897, in the rural southwestern area of Alabama known as Mitcham Beat, an aspiring politician is mysteriously murdered.