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During the reign of Louis XV, impoverished teenage girls are sent to a villa to be trained as potential courtesans for the King.

Hannah Elias is one of the richest black women in America in the early 1900's, but an unsolved murder reveals her real identity and thousands accuse her of stealing her fortune from whites.

It's 1959 and a new killer dubbed The Florist haunts the streets of London.

Though her name is synonymous with elegance and chic, the iconic Coco Chanel had a complicated dark side, and in late August 1944, she was arrested and interrogated on charges of treason to Fr

As the daughter of immigrants who came to America for a better life, Annie Inoue was raised to dream big.

In 1927, seventeen-year-old Elsie and three other teenage girls compete for the heart of a boy who will be president.

On a sweltering day in August 1942, Frankie Washburn returns to his family's rustic Minnesota resort for one last visit before he joins the war as a bombardier.

In 1835, London is awash with new ingredients, but no one knows how to use them. Eliza Acton hires young Ann Kirby to help her write a cookbook.

Henry "Hal" Courtney, son of pirate and merchant Sir Frances Courtney, was raised at sea.

High on a cliff in Hawaii in 1807, Hiapo Opukahaia, an irrepressibly curious native boy, dives into the sea and swims to an American merchant ship anchored offshore, embarking on an extraordinary a

Kit Webb has left his thieving days behind him, but when a handsome yet arrogant aristocrat storms into his shop needing his help, Kit realizes he may be unable to deny whatever this man desires.

1860, Louisiana. After serving as mistress of Le Petit Cottage for more than six decades, Madame Sylvie Guilbert has decided, in spite of her family's indifference, to sit for a portrait.

The Five Nations of the Iroquois have been at war with one another for far too long.

Growing up, David Almerin Ames and his brothers believed the wild patch of Maine where they lived along the Penobscot River belonged to them.

Late one night in April 1958, a filing assistant for Miss Brickett is murdered.