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Rosemary Chivers is haunted by the choices she made as a teenager—and by those made for her by a controlling mother. Now, in the Cold War era of conformity and suspicion, Rosemary is a modern new teacher at a school for troubled girls, where she challenges the narrow curriculum meant to tame restless young minds. She also keeps a devastating secret. She knows one of the students is the child she gave up. But which one?

Isoline Beresford has beautiful yet haunting dreams. In them, a man she doesn't know is calling to her. She's inexplicably, inexorably drawn to him, until he's more real to her than her own fiancé. When she calls off her engagement, her enraged father sends her to live with her 90-year-old grand-aunt, the Dowager Countess Bellamira Granville. If she won't do her duty at home, he reasons, perhaps she can at least convince Lady Granville to leave her fortune to Isoline. But life at Thornrush Manor is not what Isoline expected. Her aunt is as spry and elegant as a woman half her age.

Not long ago, there was nothing I couldn’t have. Now, I don’t even have the choice of whom to marry. To save my father’s life and our family’s legacy, I have to marry a cruel man who wants me only as a trophy. Henry Asher was just supposed to be a summer fling, but we fell in love. We thought we would be together forever, but life got in the way. After we broke up, I vowed to never tell Henry the truth about my engagement. What happens when the lies that were supposed to save me start to drown me?

Giulias Leben scheint auf den ersten Blick perfekt. Sie hat in Süditalien nicht nur ihren Traumjob, sondern in dem attraktiven Lorenzo auch die Liebe gefunden. Als die junge Frau jedoch erfährt, womit er sein Geld verdient, zögert sie, seinen Heiratsantrag anzunehmen, denn ein Leben an der Seite eines Mafioso will sie sich nicht vorstellen. Bevor sie sich entscheiden kann, überschlagen sich die Ereignisse: Der Tod eines jungen Mannes bringt ihr Leben in Gefahr.