Historical Family Saga

On the eve of the Battle of Waterloo, two families meet at the Duchess of Richmond's Ball. From this moment on, their stories will be linked by a secret. Julian Fellowes's Belgravia is a story in 11 episodes published week by week in the tradition of Charles Dickens. Belgravia is the story of a secret. A secret that unravels behind the porticoed doors of London's grandest postcode. The story behind the secret will be revealed in weekly bite-sized instalments complete with twists and turns and cliff-hanger endings.

The Awakening Land trilogy traces the transformation of a middle-American landscape from wilderness to farmland to the site of modern industrial civilization, all in the lifetime of one character. The trilogy includes The Trees (1940), The Fields (1946), and The Town (1950) and follows the varied fortunes of Sayward Luckett and her family in southeastern Ohio. The Town tells how Sayward completes her mission and lives to see the transition of her family and her friends, American pioneers, from the ways of wilderness to the ways of civilization.

For childhood friends Leo Kelly, Jane Devlin, and newly ordained "Packy" Keenan, the summers they spent at the lake together were times of pure magic. And no summer was more enchanting than the summer of 1948 - until a tragic car wreck killed two of their friends.

Beth Cohen wants to make the most of the months she has left with her elderly father, Max. His only request of his daughter is to go through the long-forgotten box of memorabilia from his days as a medic on the western front. Then, among his wartime souvenirs, Beth finds a photograph of her father with an adoring and beautiful stranger - a photograph worth a thousand questions.

Experience Music. Follow Freedom. Search for Bliss. Find Love. Society and her parents have chartered a life path for Peggy McIntyre. But with her inherited Scottish stubbornness and Irish wanderlust and beautiful songbird voice, she has different plans. In Summer of Love, Peggy escapes to New York in search of freedom, music, bliss and love in the middle of the flower child peace movement of the late 1960's. Can she find real love in the sea of free love or is it just a generational illusion? This is the third book in the Timeless American Historical Romance series, featuring members of ...

The first novel in The Century Trilogy, it follows the fates of five interrelated families - American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh - as they move through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage.

The Powell brothers - Muir and Moody - are as different as Cain and Abel. Muir is an innocent, a shy young man with big dreams. Moody, the older and wilder brother - embittered by the death of his father, by years of fighting his mother, and by his jealousy of Muir's place in the family - takes to moonshine and gambling and turns his anger on his brother. Muir escapes by wandering, making his way around the country in attempts to find something - an occupation, a calling - to match his ambition.

From USA Today Bestselling Author, Uvi Poznansky, comes a memorable wartime love story: Fooling Nazi espionage may cost Lenny the trust of the girl who captured his heart. Will Natasha discover his secret D-Day reports, disguised as love letters to another woman? In these letters, Lenny gives the enemy misleading information about allied plans. Once Natasha arrives in London, he takes her for a ride on his Harley throughout England, from the White Cliffs of Dover to a village near an underground ammunition depot in Staffordshire. When he is wounded in a horrific explosion, she brings him ...

The Sudkan Trilogy – the story of destiny, love and duty, set in the Middle Ages of Utopia’s history. Set in Utopia’s Southern hemisphere, the Island of Hexia is rich in gold and silver but constantly plagued by power struggles between its Overlords, whose ancestors were rulers of mainland Torana until exiled. In his bid to unit Hexia, Iohn, the Lord Protector, is caught between open rebellion against his nephew, Otho, the minor First Lord, now fast approaching the age of majority, or submission which will loose him power, influence, even his life. Then from the North comes a young ...

Hart’s Valley (6 x 9 Edition) By MQ Ashcraft Hart’s Valley is the tale of a young woman's remarkable journey to mastery in the field of medicine set against the backdrop of the late 1800s. From her daring rescue from renegades on the border to her blossoming love with her rescuer, embark on a powerful journey of resilience and passion. Isabell, a spirited Castilian, exemplifies unwavering determination in the face of adversity, bolstered by the steadfast support of her beloved Jeff Hart. Isabell's brilliance shines through her profound insights, relentless curiosity, and innovative ...

When he was just a boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents on the coast of East Africa by German colonial troops. After years away, fighting against his own people, he returns home to find his parents gone and his sister, Afiya, abandoned into de facto slavery. Hamza, too, returns home from the war, scarred in body and soul and with nothing but the clothes on his back—until he meets the beautiful, undaunted Afiya.

A letter…a garden…a journal…a chance at love …Secrets on River Road Madison Franklin is summoned to Wyndam House in the late spring of 1920 by her estranged great-aunts. She goes for several reasons, but the most important is curiosity about her grandmother’s family. Why did she not know the Charleston side of the family and why wasn't her mother talking about it? While attempting to unravel the Wyndam past, Madison meets Conner Montgomery, an intriguing neighbor who seems to know more than he’s willing to say. The two become fast friends and as their relationship grows, they ...

Bournville is a rich and poignant new novel from the bestselling, Costa award-winning author of Middle England. It is the story of a woman, of a nation's love affair with chocolate, of Britain itself.

Are generations of Snee-Kinsman women actually cursed, or is it just bad luck? A paranormal family saga beginning in 1860 following one family’s journey of tragedy, resiliency and triumph. Their stories are told in three short read books. Book 1 – Curse of the Emerald Ring – 1860 - 1940 *Two spiteful and competitive witches place a curse on each other’s female children. * To punish his wayward daughter, an angry father casts the family curse in stone – an emerald stone. * The ring with the emerald stone is to be worn by the women of the Snee-Kinsman family and passed down from ...

Poised, calculating, and ruthlessly charming, Prince Rolfe of Ruthenia takes beautiful Angeline Fortin captive, mistaking her for her cousin and compromising her beyond redemption. Escape from the prince is impossible, and Rolfe begins to torment her senses at every turn. At last, captured and captivated, Angeline can't resist Rolfe's masterful seduction, and the prince discovers the only woman he's ever encountered who can meet him passion for passion. But Rolfe is on a mission to find his brother's killer, and in a critical moment of mortal danger, it's Angeline herself who holds his life - and heart - in her delicate hands.

Molly Farmer saw the writing on the wall and feared the worst. Her husband wanted out. She knew he secretly resented her for not being able to bare him the children he wanted. Times were tough, and he wanted a son to help on the failing farm. But did their marriage mean so little to him? Apparently so, yet divorce wasn’t an option for people of their means. So what he did next broke her heart, if it couldn’t break her spirit. Auctioned off, as was occasional custom for some women in those days, she legally married her new husband. Immediately, she began packing up to move with him as he...

When Skye left 1927 to go back to the year 1907, she discovered she was not as happy to be home as she had first thought she would be, because leaving the future meant she had to leave behind a handsome stranger named Remington Hart. She felt his presence and saw him in her dreams every night, but knowing he was unattainable because he was from another decade, she forced herself to go on with her life. Chastising herself for always longing for adventure, she convinced herself to be satisfied with where she was at the moment and enjoy the life she had. To ease her brother's worries for her ...

Destined to be a classic, Sweeping Up Glass is a tough and tender novel of love, race, and justice, and a ferocious, unflinching look at the power of family. Olivia Harker Cross owns a strip of mountain in Pope County, Kentucky, a land where Whites and Blacks eke out a living in separate, tattered kingdoms and where silver-faced wolves howl in the night. But someone is killing the wolves of Big Foley Mountain - and Olivia is beginning to realize how much of her own bitter history she’s never understood: Her mother’s madness, building toward a fiery crescendo.

Two years have done little to ease veterinarian Audra Hughes' grief over her husband's untimely death. Eager for a fresh start, Audra plans to leave Portland for a new job in Philadelphia. Her seven-year-old son, Jack, seems apprehensive about flying - but it's just the beginning of an anxiety that grows to consume him. As Jack's fears continue to surface in recurring and violent nightmares, Audra hardly recognizes the introverted boy he has become.

Jack Lester has to find a bride...But where can he find the perfect woman? She has to be attractive, kind, a good conversationalist...and most important, she has to accept him as he is: devilishly handsome, charming and, as far as anyone knows, poor as a church mouse! If London society discovers his hidden wealth, he'll never find the right wife.