Historical Romance Saga

Yorkshire, 1864. The daughter of a wealthy Yorkshire landowner, Anna Thornton leads a privileged life but longs to be accepted for the independent woman she is. When she meets Matt Cowan, she thinks she has met her soul mate. However, he’s not the man she thinks he is. After he sets sail for South America, Anna discovers she’s pregnant. Heartbroken, she flees her family home to keep her child’s illegitimacy a secret. As she starts to settle into her new life, Brenton O’Mara - who has turned his back on his father’s wealth - seeks work as a labourer at Anna’s new home....

Spending five months eating trail dust wasn't Leo Spencer's first choice. Or his second. He's not one to run away, but some situations can't be fixed and his family—two brothers and a sister—needs to start over. Which is how he finds himself on a westbound wagon train. Evangeline has a secret, one that has sent her on a journey across the plains on the Oregon Trail. When her father is badly hurt and she needs help, Leo is there. A deal is struck, and the two unlikely friends form an alliance . . . that leads to more.

Maureen Jackson knew life as a trainee nurse wouldn't be easy, but she didn't expect her hospital to be badly bombed on her first shift. Plus Maureen still has her family and friends in Mulberry Lane to keep her busy - she's needed as much there as she is by her patients. Running the pub on the corner of Mulberry Lane, Peggy Ashley is used to taking in all sorts of waifs and strays. But the arrival of a dashing American captain has got tongues wagging about Mulberry Lane's favourite landlady....

It’s February 1942, and as the Americans finally join Britain and her allies, 23-year-old Francesca Fabrino is doing her bit for the war effort in a factory in East London. But her thoughts are constantly occupied by recently married Charlie Brogan, who is fighting in North Africa with the Eighth Army. When Francesca starts a new job for the BBC Overseas department, she meets handsome Count Leo D’Angelo and begins to put her hopeless love for Charlie aside.

Die Katharer sind vernichtet, der Süden Frankreichs, Papst und König unterworfen. Baron Olivier de Termes muss Frau und Kind verlassen und seinen Kreuzzugseid einlösen, um seiner Ächtung als Ketzer zu entgehen. Denn König Ludwig IX. von Frankreich zieht in den Kampf für das Heilige Land. Die Kreuzritter erdulden unsägliche Strapazen und Leid und Olivier gewinnt das Vertrauen des Königs. Doch er verliert das seines Sohnes und seiner Landsleute, mit denen er einst für die Freiheit ihres Glaubens und Landes gekämpft hatte.

Okzitanien im 13. Jahrhundert. Der zehn Jahre alte Olivier erlebt zusammen mit seiner Familie den Ausbruch des Kreuzzuges gegen die Katharer. Sie fliehen ins nahe gelegene Reich des Königs von Aragon, während sein Vater auf der Festung Termes in Languedoc zurückbleibt. Olivier wächst fortan bei seinem Stiefvater und seinem Onkel, einem berühmten Katharer, im Exil auf. Nach seiner Ausbildung zum Ritter am Hofe von Barcelona und seinem ersten Abenteuer als Beschützer von geheimen katharischen Schriften wird Olivier zum rebellischen Freiheitskämpfer. Er lernt auf vielfältige Weise die Liebe kennen.

On a muggy August day in 2002, Alex Lind disappears without a trace. On an equally stifling August day in 1658, Matthew Graham finds her on an empty Scottish moor. Life will never be the same for Alex—or for Matthew.Due to a series of rare occurrences, Alexandra Lind is thrown three centuries backwards in time. She lands at the feet of Matthew Graham—an escaped convict making his way home to Scotland in this the year of our Lord 1658.

In 1894, while penniless 19-year-old Tom Bridger works at a Michigan furniture company that fuels his ambitions, he falls in love with beautiful, sophisticated Antonia Dalzell. But his real talent is inventing machines. He’s secretly working on an electrical replacement for the horseless carriage. So is his friend, engineer Henry Ford. With America still a bit player on the burgeoning automotive stage, Tom dreams of creating a company to rival the dazzling car manufacturers of Europe.

Edith and Ada run Jimmy's Hope House, where they care for unmarried mothers and where Edith, a doctor, offers free medical help to the poor of London's East End. Both are struggling to overcome trauma from their past. For Edith there is the constant ache and yearning for her twin girls, Elka and Ania, from whom she was separated in 1918. For Ada there is the threat of her sister returning.... As the Nazis strengthen their grip on Poland, sisters Elka and Ania are forced to make a difficult decision: travel to England to find their birth mother or stay and fight?

Amanda Burke, filha de um vigário, tinha pouco contato com outros homens. Mas tudo isso muda no dia em que ela cuidava de seu jardim e o dissoluto Lorde Ravenscar, ao vislumbrar sua beleza fascinante, decidiu que ela deveria ser sua mulher. Enquanto a família da jovem fica surpresa, mas satisfeita, com essa proposta de casamento repentina, a doce Amanda está horrorizada! Jamais ela poderia compartilhar o resto de seus dias com um homem tão desprezível. Quando menos esperava, Amanda se apaixona pelo gentil Peter Harvey, um estranho misterioso que se refugia no jardim de seu pai.

Liverpool, 1925. Fourteen-year-old Lillian Taylor has spent her childhood in a loveless orphanage after the death of her mother. When a well-dressed young woman claiming to be her aunt arrives and whisks her away to her large townhouse, Lillian hopes it signals a change in her fortunes. However there's more to Aunt Joan than meets the eye and when Joan discovers Lillian's budding romance with one of her coworkers she swiftly threatens his family. Events take a tragic turn when Joan becomes ill and reveals the secrets she's been keeping that will change Lillian's life forever....

Eine junge Frau sucht ihr Glück in der Neuen Welt. Pennsylvania, 1861: Die junge Esther wächst behütet in einer Amisch-Gemeinde auf, doch der Sezessionskrieg spaltet das Land. Sie fühlt sich machtlos, während plündernde Soldaten von Hof zu Hof ziehen und der Krieg immer näher rückt. Eines Tages findet sie den schwer verletzten Soldaten Jack auf ihrem Land. Obwohl er ein Feind ist, kümmert Esther sich um ihn und pflegt ihn gesund, bis er wieder zu Kräften kommt. Allmählich verlieben die beiden sich ineinander - doch sie wissen, diese Liebe muss ein Geheimnis bleiben.

On Christmas morning Kitty Doherty gives birth to her baby - who is immediately taken away for adoption in America. But Kitty's life is hanging by a thread, her only hope a dangerous journey through snow to Ballymara and her Irish family. Meanwhile, in Chicago, Sean and Alice try to set up a new life far away from the families they have deserted in Liverpool.

London, 1940. When nurse Elsie offers to send a reassuring letter to the family of a patient, she has an idea. She begins a book of last letters: messages to be sent on to wounded soldiers’ loved ones should the very worst come to pass so that no one is left without a final goodbye. London, present day. Stephanie has a lot of people she’d like to speak to: her estranged brother, to whom her last words were in anger; her nan, whose dementia means she is only occasionally lucid enough to talk.

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.

Russia, 1917. Petrograd is on the eve of revolution. For Countess Sophia Orlova, the city of her childhood—the only home she has ever known—has become her deadly enemy. The mob are ready to get rid of anyone connected to the old regime, including Sophia. When rebels threaten to shoot Sophia and her husband, they are saved by Nikolai, a fervent supporter of the revolution. Determined to help Nikolai’s cause, Sophia sets up a hospital wing in the house, nursing injured victims by his side.

A lo largo de una trama que discurre con la precisión de un mecanismo de relojería, Jane Austen perfila una galería de personajes que conforman un perfecto y sutil retrato de la época: las peripecias de una dama empeñada en casar a sus hijas con el mejor partido de la región, los vaivenes sentimentales de las hermanas, el oportunismo de un clérigo adulador...

It's 1939, and the Brogan family of London's East End are ready to show Hitler what for. But things don't seem so rosy when rationing, evacuation and air raids start to put this larger-than-life family to the test. When a mysterious young man arrives at the Brogans' local parish church, he provides just the dazzling distraction they need - and, for eldest daughter Mattie, the promise of more than she'd ever wished for. But as the pair fall deeper in love, they are drawn into secret dangers, rife on the very London streets they call home.

When Hazel is given the chance to parachute into Nazi-occupied France, she seizes the opportunity to do more for the British war effort than file paperwork. Alongside her childhood friend, French-born Rose, she quickly rises up the ranks of the freedom fighters. For Rose, the Resistance is a link to her late husband, and a way to move forward without him. What starts out as helping downed airmen becomes a bigger cause when they meet Sophia, a German escapee and fierce critic of Hitler who is wanted by the Gestapo.

Little Billy, Polly's son, is the light of her life. It's for his sake that she puts up with an unkind mother-in-law and life on an isolated farm. When Billy is knocked down by a car, his father is killed attempting to save his life, and Polly, cast off by her husband's family, is left with a child who may never walk or talk again. Polly turns to her own family for support, but they are unable to outmanoeuvre the malicious Dr Browning-Baker, who is determined to have Billy taken away from his mother, depriving him of the exercises and stimulation that are his only hope.