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Smart, capable heiress Emmeline Pershing will do anything to keep her beloved home, and all it takes is an arranged marriage and a teeny white lie to fulfill her family's silly inheritance rules. But now her little fib means that she and her completely unsuspecting husband are going to inherit big trouble.

It's 1815 in the small town of Heron's Creek, Georgia. Mute, medical anomaly, and social outcast Yip Tolroy is born. His father has disappeared under mysterious circumstances, so he is raised by his mother, a powerful, troubled, independent woman who owns and runs a general store. At the age of fifteen Yip's life is altered irrevocably, when he witnesses the discovery of gold, meets his faithful friend and comrade Dud Carter, and commits a grievous crime.

Parents send their daughters to Our Lady of the Nile to be molded into respectable citizens and to escape the dangers of the outside world. Fifteen years prior to the 1994 Rwandan genocide, we watch as these girls try on their parents' preconceptions and attitudes, transforming the lycée into a microcosm of the country's mounting racial tensions and violence.

For forty years Aurilla Cutter has tended a clutch of secrets that have turned her mean. A fatal accident becomes the catalyst for the release of the passions, needs, and hurts in everyone affected by her hidden past. Darlene, a seventeen-year-old widow, struggles to reconnect with her dead husband while proving herself still alive. Soon loss and death work their magic, drawing Darlene into an unlikely affair that threatens to upend Aurilla's family, and sets loose Aurilla's own memories of longing and infidelity.

When her lover Pietro Pante leaves for work in America, Nina Argenta is torn between joining him and her commitment to Italy and her mother as Mussolini's Fascists throw the country into chaos.

Mother and daughter Magdalena and Mila acquire a house in the White Valley of Cornwall in the summer of 1954. Magda has grand plans to restore the house to its former glory as a venue for glittering parties. Her grown daughter, Mila, just wants to escape the scandal in her past and make a safe and happy home for her little girl, Janey, a solitary, precocious child blessed with a vivid imagination, much of which she pours into stories about her magical plush toy, Rabbit. But Janey's rabbit isn't the only magical being around.

Dorset, 1642. When bloody civil war breaks out between the king and Parliament, Jayne Swift, a Dorset physician from a Royalist family, offers her services to both sides in the conflict, regardless of belief. Her recurring companion at every event is a man she should despise because he embraces civil war as the means to an end. She knows him as William Harrier, but is ignorant about every other aspect of his life. His past is a mystery and his future uncertain.

May 1941. Alenka, a young Greek woman, saves the lives of two soldiers during a Nazi attack against Crete. Both men fall in love with Alenka, and their friendship suffers under the strain of their rivalry.

À la naissance de son fils, le duc de Hastings jubilait. Hélas, l'enfant bégaie ! Affront insupportable pour le duc, qui l'a renié sans pitié. Le jeune Simon a donc grandi, solitaire et assoiffé de revanche. Après de brillantes études, il a bourlingué de par le monde jusqu'à la mort de son père, et c'est désormais porteur d'un titre prestigieux qu'il revient en Angleterre où il est assailli par une horde de mères prêtes à tout pour marier leurs filles. Mais Simon ne s'intéresse pas aux débutantes.

"Comme le rapporte la mystérieuse lady Whistledown dans sa chronique mondaine, on a vu, lors du fameux bal masqué des Bridgerton, le cadet de la famille, Benedict, en compagnie d'une ravissante inconnue vêtue d'une robe argentée. Mais à minuit, la belle s'est enfuie. Depuis, la haute société se perd en conjectures sur son identité. Benedict a beau la chercher dans tout Londres, elle semble s'être évaporée à jamais.