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In London, a woman escapes from a burning warehouse only to realize she doesn't know her own identity. Nor does she know why two very different men want her, the devilishly handsome Scotsman Ian MacVane and Lord Lucas Chesney, the nobleman who claims to be her betrothed. All of her beliefs are tested as she seeks the truth about her past, and finds an unexpected passion within.

Filled with dreams of a better life, seventeen-year-old Genevieve Elliot makes the perilous journey from England to colonial Virginia, where she and handsome frontiersman Roarke Adair tame the savage wilderness and survive the sorrows of war to make a home.

Jessica Darling was content as the governess of two motherless children, until their long-lost father returned unexpectedly to take them. Fletcher Danforth, imprisoned for five years in the colonies, felt little love for anyone, except his son and daughter. But Fletcher discovers the healing power of Jessica's love, only to realize he may have lost all hope to win her heart.

Lianna of Bois-Long meets a stranger in a sunny forest glade and is seduced by the heat of his tender gaze and strong embrace. Then her forest lover is revealed as the English nobleman who has come to claim her ancestral home. Can she forgive his deception, or will pride keep her from the man who stole her heart?

One evening, Lady Delilah Chambers comes under attack by a gang of ruffians, and fends them off with the help of a handsome gentleman. But she is shocked when she meets the duke who is set on wedding her stepdaughter.

The emperor's reign has lasted for decades, his mastery of bone shard magic powering the animal-like constructs that maintain law and order. But now his rule is failing, and revolution is sweeping across the Empire's many islands. And when the emperor refuses to recognize his daughter, Lin, as heir to the throne, she vows to prove her worth by mastering bone shard magic, but such power carries a great cost, for herself and her people.

Brilliant and ambitious dressmaker Marcelline Noirot is London's rising star. And who better to benefit from her talent than the worst-dressed lady in the town, the Duke of Clevedon's intended bride? Winning the future duchess's patronage would mean prestige and fortune for Marcelline and her sisters. To get to the lady, though, Marcelline must win over Clevedon, whose standards are as high as his morals are not.

In 1776, Frannie escapes from a brutal stepfather by assuming the identity of a drowned girl. Now a society girl in New York, she risks eavesdropping on British officers to pass information to George Washington's spy ring. Frannie believes in the fight for American liberty, but what will it cost her?

Raised on a vast Australian sheep farm, the beautiful Grace Woods is compelled to travel to tumultuous, postwar Paris in order to start a new life. While working as a glamorous model for Christian Dior, Grace mixes with counts and princesses, authors and artists, diplomats and politicians. Amongst those she befriends are Pablo Picasson, Julia Childs, and the future Jackie Kennedy. But when Grace falls in love with the handsome Phillippe Boyer, she doesn't know that he is leading a double life, nor that his past might hold secrets and lies that will turn her life upside down.

China, December 1941. Having left an unhappy life in England for a teaching post at a missionary school in northern China, Elspeth Kent is now anxious to return home to help the war effort. But as she prepares to leave China, a terrible twist of fate determines a different path for Elspeth, and those in her charge.