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When an accident forces Henriette to reveal her powerful gift for enchantments to Louis, he asks for her help. For she alone can defeat the dark magician threatening his authority.

Absalom Cornet comes to the tiny Arctic town of Vardø from Scotland, where he burned witches in the northern isles. He brings with him his young Norwegian wife, Ursa, who sees something she has never seen before: independent women. But Absalom sees only a place untouched by God, and flooded with a mighty evil.

When ladies' academy dropout Arabella Jardine encounters Gabriel Holmes-Fitzgerald, she soon learns the only thing worse than getting married to an unrepentant rake would be to fall in love with him.

A reserved debutante and a former soldier make an unlikely but fated match as they hasten for the Isle of Skye.

Not far from Luella and Effie Tildon's large family mansion looms the House of Mercy, a workhouse for wayward girls. When the sisters accidentally learn a secret about their father, the brazen older sister, Luella, becomes emboldened to do as she pleases. But then one morning she is mysteriously gone. Effie suspects her father has sent Luella to the House of Mercy, and the only way to free Luella is to get herself committed as well.

While Matthew struggles to come to terms with the fact that Scotland of 1688 bears little resemblance to his lovingly conserved memories, Alex is forced to confront unresolved issues from her past, including her overly curious brother-in-law, Luke Graham. And then there's the further complication of the dashing, flamboyant Viscount Dundee, a man who knocks Alex completely off her feet.

Matthew and Alex Graham go to the West Indies to find a young man neither of them knows but who faces imminent death on a sugar plantation, condemned to slavery for treason. The journey is hazardous and along the way Alex comes face-to-face with a most disturbing ghost from her previous life, a man she would much have preferred never to have met.

By day, Lady Jenny Mackintosh helps her mother manage their Highland estate. By night, she risks her life to aid the Jacobite rebellion. But one night, she runs into a handsome warrior vying for the other side.

This novel based on the real life of Coco Chanel reveals an unseen side to the celebrated icon as she trades fashion for espionage during World War II to protect her name, her business, and her legend.

Lawyer and journalist Matteo Teresi discovers the existence of a secret sect which initiates devout virgins into the rites of married life, preying on their naivete while promising them divine grace.