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Décidée à sauver son père, Alinor tente de séduire Gautier de Fougères pour s'assurer de son aide dans son entreprise, mais sa tentative échoue. En dernier recours, la jeune femme se résout à utiliser la force contre lui. Contrainte de l'affronter les armes à la main, elle est vaincue et le Normand commet une faute irréparable. Entretenant malgré elle une liaison avec l'ennemi, Alinor est déchirée entre sa loyauté envers son père et ses sentiments naissants pour l'envahisseur.

Même si Gautier apaise son épouse saxonne au fil de leurs retrouvailles entre deux missions, de nouveaux obstacles ne cessent de se dresser entre eux. Alinor doit faire face aux manigances de la famille de Fougères, qui vient semer le trouble à Thurston et dans son coeur... Malgré les épreuves et la distance, les liens entre les deux époux se renforcent. Mais c'est sans compter la vindicte d'Odeline de Verneuil, riche héritière normande et pupille de la reine Mathilde, prête à tout pour séparer le couple.

Même si Gautier et Alinor reconnaissent enfin leurs sentiments, le futur du couple est plus que jamais incertain. Tandis qu'Odeline de Verneuil exerce un chantage sur Gautier, ce dernier doit également faire face au danger et démasquer le traître qui se cache dans les rangs de Guillaume de Normandie. Danger qui pourrait bien séparer le couple à tout jamais... Après le départ de Gautier, Alinor, seule et brisée, refuse son sort. Elle s'accroche à une illusion pour ne pas sombrer.

1782-1794. Le Vieux Continent. Arrivée d'Amérique en Languedoc au bras de son époux, Lucien de Maugeois, comte de Boissières, Victoire est précipitée dans un univers dont elle ignorait tout. Les alentours de Nîmes sont loin d'être sa Caroline du Sud. Ici, personne ne l'appelle Moone, le nom fétiche que lui avait donné sa mère adoptive, car nul ne la connaît. Les désillusions s'enchaînent au même rythme que les peines que lui cause son époux. Elle sent s'élever le vent de la révolte. Partout la colère gronde.

France 1945. MPs, Sergeant Jack Reilly and his partner Sergeant Frank Contini, find themselves closing in on a gang of thieves who have been pilfering military goods for the black market. In the course of arresting the villains, Jack is forced to kill one of the criminals. This man happened to be one of two brothers, high ranking members of the Corse Unione, the French mafia. The surviving brother, Guy LeRouche, is tried and convicted with a sentence of death. However, during the trial LeRouche threatens to exact his revenge on Jack and Frank for his brother's death.

In this adventurous novel--set in the ancient Arctic, but told by an inquisitive and entertaining contemporary narrator--a wandering Inuit hunter named Kannujaq happens upon a camp in grave peril. The inhabitants of the camp are Tuniit, a race of ancient Inuit ancestors known for their shyness and strength. The tranquility of this Tuniit camp has been shaken by a group of murderous, pale, bearded strangers who have arrived on a huge boat shaped like a loon.

In April 1860, Dr. Ryder Cole returns home from his studies, sure of his abilities and on fire to serve his country and preserve the Union. A panther attack threatens to cut his life short until a young woman with a rife and a sure-shot eye appears out of the mist. Then she disappears, re-turning as Tom Boyde, his comrade throughout America's Civil War, and as Diana, met in a Washington D.C. whore house. The seven Aprils from 1860 to 1866 tell their tale of love and war, sex and friendship. And the price of crossing gender lines.

Fascinated by the Legend of the Cornwallis Ghost, Becca sneaks into a military base to see the ghost's tombstone. When she finds and follows a secret tunnel to the Officers' Mess, Becca meets a living and breathing Eve, the betrayed young woman who hanged herself and haunts Cornwallis. Trapped in the past with Eve in the days leading up to her tragic death, Becca becomes Rebecca, a woman devastated by a shattering loss and failing marriage. Can Becca unravel the past to give Rebecca and Eve a second chance, and escape with her heart and future intact?

Northern Soldiers killed Liam's parents and left the half white, half Chinese boy for dead. The feared Quantrill's raiders, rescued him to fight for the racially intolerant south. To hide his Chinese roots, he changed his name and posed as an Indian scout. After the war, all Quantrill's men were to be rounded up and hung so he joined a horse drive to Canada. Someone among the Chinese miners murdered the tax collector pitting the Chinese against the white community. Kola is forced to decide which side he will support.

Since the day her oldest sister entered society, Lady Elizabeth, the Earl of Saunton's sister, imagined the pleasures of her first London Season, during which she expected to meet her future husband. Unfortunately, when she is old enough to make her debut, no member of her immediate family is available to chaperone her in London, so she accepts her Great-Aunt Augusta's offer to bring her out in Cheltenham. Elizabeth looks forward to living at Augusta's grand house near the lively, popular town where people drink mineral water at pump houses and enjoy the social life.