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The second sister from a somewhat scandalous aristocratic family, the purveyors of one of London's most fashionable shops, finds passion and a love as sumptuous as the gorgeous gowns she creates.

Catherine Marks is a paid companion to the Hathaway sisters, but their older brother Leo is thoroughly exasperating.

In 1927, as Natalia Faber travels from Berlin to Prague with her mother, she learns the truth about her father and meets Dr.

An awkward misfit and a temperamental sea captain sail from Boston to Rio de Janeiro aboard the Swan.

Virginia, 1854. Hunter Calhoun, a widower shadowed by the scandal of his wife's death, buries himself in his hobby of breeding racehorses, neglecting his young family.

Antoinette and Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel set out with a determination to prove themselves. Their journey propels them out of poverty and into extravagance.

Washington, DC, 1870s. At a glittering White House gala, Abigail Cabot discovers the man of her dreams. Only, he's not interested, yet.

Helena Cabot Barnes discovered too late that her husband is a dangerous man. Fearing for her safety, she ends her marriage and flees to legendary Moon Lake Lodge. But Helena can't outrun her past.

1560: Amy Robsart hatches a desperate scheme to escape a loveless marriage, the consequences of which will echo through the centuries.

Gifted physician Blue Calhoun runs a medical practice in San Francisco while raising his son alone. Then a female fugitive with a gunshot wound shows up.

What makes Esther, born and bred in London, a proud Suffragette, suddenly leave the city and escape to Elm Heath?

Years before the Great War summoned Bess Crawford to serve as a battlefield nurse, the indomitable heroine spent her childhood in India under the watchful eye of her friend and confidant, the young

For a young woman of exceptional intelligence and courage, being sequestered from the dangers of WW2 on the idyllic island of Bermuda is maddening.

One would hardly think an outlying college town on the prairies would be the place a woman from the 15th century would choose to reveal her story, but when janine begins to discover the story of ma

Based on true events around the India-Pakistan partition in 1947, the book traces the life of a young English woman and her Muslim husband.