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Gleeful and noisy celebrations greeted several dozen nervous young women when they stepped ashore in Victoria in September 1862, through a jostling crowd of boisterous, eager men.

An exploration of Canadian Remembrance Day history, customs, and traditions. Who are the people who offered their lives in war? Why do we remember them? How do we honour their memory?

Vancouver Island in the late nineteenth century was a major port of entry for people from all walks of life.

Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands are home to over two dozen active lighthouses.

A line of nervous young women got off a ship in Victoria Harbour in 1862 and had to walk the gauntlet between two rows of jostling, eager men.

An American psychologist accepts an invitation to her estranged husband's isolated English estate in this suspenseful tale by an Edgar Award-winning author.

A woman investigates the mysterious death of her mother in Santa Fe in this New York Times bestseller by a "master of suspense" (Mary Higgins Clark).

A woman is forced to face the tragedies of the past when she's summoned back to her Colorado home in this novel from "a master of suspense " (Mary Higgins Clark).

The wife of a scientist fights for her marriage-and her husband's sanity-in postwar Japan in this novel by "a superb and gifted storyteller" (Mary Higgins Clark).

A millionaire's Florida estate becomes a sinister trap for his bride in this classic gothic romance from "a superb and gifted storyteller" (Mary Higgins Clark).

A New York designer is reunited with her estranged family in Arizona after her father's murder in this novel of "romantic suspense at its wildest" (Cosmopolitan).

A Manhattan editor investigates her sister's suspicious death in Istanbul in this novel by the New York Times-bestselling "queen of the American gothics" (TheNew York Times).

A bride is swept up in family secrets and the blood diamond trade when she returns to South Africa in this novel by a New York Times-bestselling author.

A governess becomes entangled with a dysfunctional and dangerous family in this novel by a New York Times-bestselling "master of suspense" (Mary Higgins Clark).

A man's death in the Smoky Mountains raises the suspicions of his estranged wife in this suspenseful novel by a New York Times-bestselling author.