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In 19th Century Paris, two society women--one American, the other French--decide to liberate themselves. They buy land in Kansas, build a house each and proceed to farm, occasionally joined by friends from Europe. The experiment fails, the women defeated by prairie hardship and the hostility of neighbors.

In China, at a time when few girls are taught to read or write, Ruby dreams of going to the university with her brothers and male cousins.

A tale inspired by the post-Crusades era finds Knight Templar Will Campbell returning to the west to discover that the Temple has forged an alliance with the hated King Edward of England and is aiding the monarch's plot to wage war on Scotland.

"Eve's most treasured gift from her beloved adopted father was a hand-written Indian recipe book. Grieving his death, she begins to grind and mix the spices penned so carefully in the recipes....Her father never spoke of her birth mother, finding it too painful to talk about his time in India. But now he's gone, Eve is desperate to understand where she comes from. Will finding her birth family, lost for so long, help Eve to find her place in the world,...

In Vienna in 1938, in the shadow of an increasingly dangerous Nazi Germany, twelve-year-old Greta pursues her dream of becoming a concert pianist like her dead brother Kurt, despite a lack of support from her widowed mother.

Three eras. Three women desperate for hope. Three reasons to believe it won't come in time.

A captivating novel based on the story of the extraordinary real-life American woman who secretly worked for the French Resistance during World War II--while playing hostess to the invading Germans at the iconic Hotel Ritz in Paris--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator's Wife and The Swans of Fifth Avenue. In March 1940, the Nazis sweep Paris and immediately take up residence in one of the city's most iconic sites: The Hotel Ritz....

John Pilate is ready to make amends……unfortunately, that’s tough to do when you’re buried alive. John Pilate, lonesome for his family, vows to get in shape and turn his life around. Everything is starting to fall into place...until a diabolical new foe arrives in Key West, daring Pilate to ignore him at his peril. Soon locked in a breathless battle for survival, Pilate confronts the most dangerous enemy of all...his fear. Pilate’s Shadow...

"Black Shell, an exiled Chickasaw trader, is fascinated by the pale, bearded newcomers who call themselves "Kristianos," and not even the wise counsel of Pearl Hand, the extraordinary and beautiful woman who has consented to be his mate, can dissuade him. It will unfortunately take a first-hand lesson in the Kristianos' unfathomable brutality for Black Shell to fully comprehend the dangers that these invaders pose to his people's way of life. While...