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The sisters at a lonely Cornish convent share a chilling secret they cannot confess...Sister Sophia is dead. Another disappears. And a mysterious last letter from a dying nun is sent to the prioress. Sister Joan has faced her own demons. Now she is sent to the convent to investigate, as well as teach the local children. There are whispers of virgin sacrifice and suicide, and the mother prioress certainly wears pink nail varnish. And who is the young man hiding in the bracken?

Richard Christopher Radcliffe, the Marquess of Sunderland, the man Miss Cassandra Carlyle has loved since she was a little girl, has returned—with his betrothed in hand. Lady Desiree was the picture of grace, beauty and perfection, everything that the naïve, unsophisticated young Cassandra was not. Dejected and brokenhearted, Cassandra asked her family to take her to London for her first season. With the aid of her friend, Jeremiah Devlin Huntington, Marquess of Waterford, she soon found herself touted as the darling of the ton.

Edward Devlin Huntington, Earl of Calverston, has been friends with Diana since childhood. As the years went by, their friendship blossomed into young love that each found hard to deny. But when Diana debuted in her first London Season, she instantly became the diamond of the ton. Discouraged, Edward sailed to America to manage a trading company in New York and make a name for himself. Seven years later, he returned home a different man: distinguished, worldly, successful, and breathtakingly wealthy. His only conundrum was, did Diana still hold a place in her heart for him?

Allayne Carlyle, the only son and heir of Viscount Rose, is in a conundrum. All his friends are happily married, and his mother has decided it is time for him to do the same deed. Why would he want to get leg-shackled, when there are too many alluring widows to bed, and even more beautiful actresses to pursue? Lady Alexandra Davenport, the only daughter of the Earl of Weston, is in a similar predicament. She has been cleverly avoiding the matrimonial trap, but now that her twenty-fifth birthday has come around, her father has finally put his foot down.

Lord Rosemorran has purchased a wax figure of a beautiful reclining woman and asks Stoker to incorporate a clockwork mechanism to give the Rosemorran Collection its own Sleeping Beauty in the style of Madame Tussaud’s. But when Stoker goes to cut the mannequin open to insert the mechanism, he makes a gruesome discovery: this is no wax figure. The mannequin is the beautifully preserved body of a young woman who was once very much alive. But who would do such a dreadful thing, and why?

January 1889. As the newest member of the Curiosity Club - an elite society of brilliant, intrepid women - Veronica Speedwell is excited to put her many skills to good use. As she assembles a memorial exhibition for pioneering mountain climber Alice Baker-Greene, Veronica discovers evidence that the recent death was not a tragic climbing accident but murder.

Veronica’s natural-historian beau, Stoker, has been away in Bavaria for months and their relationship is at an impasse. But when Veronica shows up before him with his brother, Tiberius, Lord Templeton-Vane, he is lured back home by an intriguing job offer: preparing an iguanodon for a very special dinner party.

Howard Roark es un arquitecto joven y osado. Es individualista, inconforme, y está dispuesto a enfrentarse al establishment de la vieja profesión, los arquitectos que prefieren la resignación a la integridad, que rechazan las innovaciones y cuya única ambición es rendirse al gusto de las masas.

London, 1889. Veronica Speedwell and her natural historian beau Stoker are summoned by Sir Hugo Montgomerie, head of Special Branch. He has a personal request on behalf of his goddaughter, Euphemia Hathaway. After years of traveling the world, her eldest brother, Jonathan, heir to Hathaway Hall, was believed to have been killed in the catastrophic eruption of Krakatoa a few years before. But now a man matching Jonathan’s description and carrying his possessions has arrived at Hathaway Hall with no memory of his identity or where he has been.

Come on a whirlwind ride across time and place with one of the most recognizable figures of Western history - Joan of Arc. We all know of her, but few know the details of her life. Travel back in time, through the words of the maid, in a series of imaginary interviews conducted by the author. Join her on her journey from shepherdess to warrior woman, to her rise to sainthood. Enjoy Joan’s own words, recorded through two arduous trials. Listen to her own descriptions of the many battles and political maneuvers she lived through and starred in.

When we came to America, we brought anger and socialism and hunger. We also brought our demons. In Burning Girls and Other Stories, Veronica Schanoes crosses borders and genres with stories of fierce women at the margins of society burning their way toward the center. This debut collection introduces listeners to a fantasist in the vein of Karen Russell and Kelly Link, with a voice all her own.

Lady V. ha resuelto ser una mujer sofisticada, sin ataduras, desdeñosa de los compromisos. No le importan, incluso, las maledicencias y las murmuraciones que se hacen sobre su nombre. La libertad en su vida cotidiana, la liberalidad en el amor, la espontaneidad de sus decisiones la guían hasta que optar se le haga ineludible: hasta que su deseo la obligue a elegir.

Wolf Lennox, conte di Blackwood e potente magnate della Lennox Industry, è uno scozzese dall’animo arido. Cinico e arrogante, si divide tra Edimburgo, Londra e New York, gestendo la vita privata come gli affari. Solo due cose per lui sono più importanti del titolo e del potere: la famiglia e il castello di Blackwood, la sua casa.Rose McGregor è una giovane donna al servizio dei Lennox. Rimasta presto orfana, vive grazie alla generosità della nobile famiglia, che le ha dato un lavoro e un tetto sulla testa. Diciannovenne pura e ingenua, fin da bambina custodisce un segreto.

Two time periods. Two coasts. Lives intertwined and impacted forever. Greed, societal forces, religion, eugenics, and racial prejudice came together in a shameful and shocking way on a small, wooded island off the coast of Maine in the early 1900s. The atrocious events that occurred on Malaga Island continue to echo through the years. Their impact is felt in many ways and by many lives.

1937. Alix St. Pierre tiene dieciocho años y nada en los bolsillos. El sueño de conquistar París acaba de comenzar. 1943. Alix ahora es refinada, independiente y audaz. Experta en relaciones públicas en Nueva York, ha lanzado varias campañas publicitarias en la alta sociedad de la moda. Mientras tanto, una nueva organización de inteligencia del Gobierno de EE. UU. necesita espías para terminar con Hitler.

Una decisión traza una línea que divide un antes y un después. A una decisión se enfrenta nuestra heroína: con qué hombre quedarse –el fortachón, el melancólico, el tierno, el astuto, el galante–, pero también debe decidir quién es y qué hacer con su pasado. Emily Randolph trabaja en la Agencia de Detectives Essex: en poco tiempo se ha transformado en alguien indispensable para la organización.

Cecily Miller ha sido criada en la abundancia. Hija de un pastor, sin embargo, también ha sido criada en el afecto por el prójimo. Cosa que, para ella, se limita, simplemente, a las reuniones de caridad, entre pares, entre personas que viven sin sobresaltos; de ser posible, lejos de aquellos a quienes buscan ayudar. Sin embargo, la perspicacia de su familia y un golpe del destino la ponen frente a frente con lo que no conoce y que, en el fondo, la aterra.

After 20 winters on the road, Tanyth Fairport makes one last pilgrimage in her quest to learn all she can about the herbs and medicinal plants of Korlay before settling down to write her magnum opus. Her journey is interrupted when she decides to help a small village and learns that much of what she knows of the world may not be quite as it seems.

Lovisa Broman is the cherished daughter of a government minister who, unusually, nurtured and educated her to succeed him. When Lovisa's father suddenly dies, everything changes. She and her mother are forced to flee from Stockholm to a castle in the countryside, where her mother will remarry to secure their future. But once there, everything takes a whole new turn, while Lovisa is irresistibly drawn to the young coachman…

Tanyth Fairport makes her way through the Lammas Wood to discover the last of the Old Witch Women isn't exactly what she expected. When greedy businessmen from the mainland threaten those she loves, Tanyth must put aside her fear, and give herself over to her gifts. A journey 20 winters in the making may come to naught, when Tanyth learns the secret of The Hermit of Lammas Wood.