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New beginnings. Shocking revelations. Unexpected endings. As spring turns into summer, Elizabeth relishes her new role as a young wife, while her sister, Diana, searches for adventure abroad. But when a surprising clue about their father's death comes to light, the Holland girls wonder at what cost a life of splendor comes.

Two months after Elizabeth Holland's dramatic homecoming, Manhattan eagerly awaits her return to the pinnacle of society. When Elizabeth refuses to rejoin her sister Diana's side, however, those watching New York's favorite family begin to suspect that all is not as it seems behind the stately doors of No. 17 Gramercy Park South.

Can their love survive a war? It's 1945, and Lorna Anderson's life on her father's farm in Scotland consists of endless chores, rationing and praying for an Allied victory. So when Paul Vogel, a German prisoner of war, is assigned as the new farmhand, Lorna is appalled. How can she possibly work alongside the enemy when her own brothers are risking their lives for the country? But as Lorna reluctantly spends time with Paul, the more she sees the boy behind the soldier.

Hazel Sinnett is alone. She's half-convinced the events of the year before—the immortality, Beecham's vial—were a figment of her imagination. She doesn't even know if Jack is alive or dead. All she can really do is run her free clinic, helping people and maintaining Hawthornden Castle as it starts to decay around her. When saving a life leads to her arrest, Hazel seems doomed to rot in prison until a message intervenes: Hazel has been specifically requested to be the personal physician of Princess Charlotte, the sickly daughter of King George IV.

In A Foul Thing, Roma and Juliette have established themselves as the heads of an underground weapons ring in Zhouzhuang, making a living the way they do best while remaining anonymous in their peaceful, quiet life. In This Foul Murder, Benedikt and Marshall have been summoned by Roma to find the elusive scientist, Lourens, and bring him to Zhouzhuang. Time is of the essence aboard the week-long Trans-Siberian Express, but when someone is murdered on board, Benedikt and Marshall convince the officer in charge not to stop the train so that they aren't thrown off-schedule.

In A Foul Thing, Roma and Juliette have established themselves as the heads of an underground weapons ring in Zhouzhuang, making a living the way they do best while remaining anonymous in their peaceful, quiet life. But when they hear about several Russian girls showing up dead in nearby towns, they decide to investigate—and ultimately discover that this mystery is much closer to home than they ever imagined.

Luxe Revelle, star of her family’s fantastical show, knows the splendor is just an illusion. With Prohibition threatening their livelihood, her family struggles to make a living, watering down champagne and patching holes in their sequined costumes. So when the son of Charmant’s wealthiest family makes her an offer—everything the Revelles need to stay in business, in exchange for posing as his girl and helping him become mayor—she can’t refuse.

Hazel Sinnett is alone and half-convinced the events of the year before—the immortality, Beecham’s vial—were a figment of her imagination. She doesn’t even know if Jack is alive or dead. All she can really do now is treat patients and maintain Hawthornden Castle as it starts to decay around her. When saving a life leads to her arrest, Hazel seems doomed to rot in prison until a message intervenes: Hazel has been specifically requested to be the personal physician of Princess Charlotte, the sickly granddaughter of King George III.

Far from the shores of England, another Elizabeth was born to rule a nation.... The daughter of Peter the Great, Elizabeth is a princess by birth yet a warrior by blood. Never content to be a pawn in the game of men, Elizabeth is destined to sit upon a throne. But when her father’s sudden death leaves her mother and sister at the mercy of the scheming Privy Council, she will have to abandon her beloved Russia in order for her family to survive. This is not a fairy tale. And Elizabeth is not an average princess.

It’s Germany, 1938: A nation on fire with rampant nationalism and virulent antisemitism. Forced to follow a mandatory decree, 15 year old orphan Kat Mueller must leave the remote farm where she was raised and report to the local Bund Deutscher Mädel (BDM) camp, the female version of the Hitlerjugen Hitler Youth.

In this Jazz-Age mystery, eighteen-year-old Piper Sail must explore the dark underbelly of 1920s Chicago to solve the disappearance of her best friend.

At long last, the wedding day has arrived. The Jinn queen and the enigmatic ruler of Tulan are to be married in a magical, enchanted ceremony—but Cyrus, tethered by a blood oath to his bride-to-be, can find nothing to celebrate in this union. He’s falling ever more deeply in love with the one person oathbound to kill him. Sworn to an ancient, unbreakable magic, Alizeh can only fulfill the prophecy to free her people by ensuring Cyrus dies by her own hand. And Cyrus is forced to await his end all while Prince Kamran inches closer, ready to take his place by Alizeh’s side.

Marigold Bloom is bloemist in de winkel van haar familie. Nadat haar verloofde het uitmaakt ziet het er echter niet zo goed uit voor Mari of voor de bloemenwinkel. Wanneer Mari per toeval kennismaakt met de verschrikkelijk knappe maar extreem humeurige Oliver Lockhart komt ze op het pad van detectivebureau het Vogelhuis. De vrouwelijke detectives daar rekruteren haar onmiddellijk voor een speciale klus: de vermiste zus van Oliver terugvinden. Om haar te vinden moeten Mari en Oliver doen alsof ze pas verloofd zijn.

Seventeen-year-old Anna Elizabeth Owens is a typical teenage girl growing up in Morrisville, North Carolina, until the day her great-grandmother requests her presence at her bedside. In her late seventies, the older woman has a special gift for Anna and she shares a mysterious message.

Flora and Henry were born a few blocks from each other, innocent of the forces that might keep a white boy and an African American girl apart; years later they meet again, and their mutual love of music sparks an even more powerful connection. But what Flora and Henry don't know is that they are pawns in a game played by the eternal adversaries Love and Death, here brilliantly reimagined as two extremely sympathetic and fascinating characters.

When fourteen-year-old Irene Sauvelle moves with her family to Cape House on the coast of Normandy, she's immediately taken by the beauty of the place - its expansive cliffs, coasts, and harbors. There, she meets a local boy named Ishmael, and the two soon fall in love. But a dark mystery is about to unfold, involving a reclusive toymaker who lives in a gigantic mansion filled with mechanical beings and shadows of the past.

De achttienjarige Isobel 'Izzy' Stanhope heeft geheimen. Zo is ze smoorverliefd op een jonge hertog die niet eens weet dat ze bestaat. Ook is haar familie berooid achtergebleven nadat Izzy's vader overleed, maar niemand uit de hogere elite mag dat weten. En dan is er nog haar baan bij de Aviary (Volière), een onderzoeksbureau volledig gerund door vrouwen en gespecialiseerd in het opgraven van schandalen en louche zaken van machtige mannen.

In Gladiator, Goddess, Gia dreams of being a female Gladiator, but there is no such thing. When she wins the favour of Claudia – the beautiful daughter of the Emperor – her star begins to rise in the arena, but so does the risk to her life. Together, the girls must battle conspiracies to overthrow the Empire, and their growing feelings for one another. Feelings the Goddesses had not planned on.

Paris, 1572. Seventeen-year-old Jacqueline “Jac” d’Argenson-Aunis is lady-in-waiting to her best friend and former lover, the French Princess Marguerite “Margot” de Valois, but she dreams of more. If Jac plays her cards right, one day, she’ll become a full member of the Societas Solis, a secret society of spies. But it’s hard to think about her own ambitions while France is on the brink of war, and the only thing that might save the country is an alliance—a marriage between the Catholic Princess Margot and Henry, the awful son of the Huguenot queen.

Ein Austauschjahr in London – ihr Leben könnte nicht besser sein, denkt Zoe. Doch dann wacht sie nach einer Party auf und ist plötzlich im Jahr 1816 gelandet, als Dienstmädchen der schüchternen Miss Lucie! Die hat eine Heidenangst vor ihrem Debüt bei der Ballsaison. Aber keine Sorge, Zoe weiß Rat. Der erste Ball rückt näher, Zoe lässt Miss Lucie erstrahlen und trifft dort auf den jungen Lord Falcon-Smith. Wie sich herausstellt, ist er ebenfalls ein Zeitreisender. Um wieder in ihre Zeit zurückzukehren, müssen Zoe und der gutaussehende Lord zusammenarbeiten und das Geheimnis des Zeitenspiegels ergründen.