Winter Women

Florence Beaumarie möchte mit ihrem charmanten Freund Charles Florentin entspannte Tage in dessen Landhaus im idyllischen Saignon im Luberon verbringen. Die ehemalige Pariser Kommissarin hofft auf stille Stunden vor dem Kamin, Wanderungen über winterliche Lavendelfelder und die Gelegenheit, ihre Beziehung zu Charles auszuloten. Doch schon am Tag ihrer Anreise wird eine junge Frau vor dem Polizeikommissariat von Avignon erschossen. So schnell ist es mit der Idylle vorbei. Die resolute Madame Beaumarie nimmt die Ermittlungen auf und stößt auf einige Überraschungen.

It is 1965 and young Alexandra Crewe obediently marries the man her father has selected for her. But, very soon, both she and her husband Laurence realize that their marriage is a disaster. When real love finds Alexandra, plucking her out of her unhappy existence, she is powerless to resist. Her home becomes Fort Stirling, a beautiful Dorset castle, but Alexandra fears that there will be a price to pay for this wonderful new life. When tragedy strikes, it seems that her punishment has come – and there is only one way she can atone for her sins.

Halina Shore is a Polish born forensic dentist living in Australia. When she travels to Poland to take part in the investigation of a war crime, she finds herself at the center of a bitter struggle in a community that has been divided by a grim legacy. As the investigation proceeds, her professional assignment becomes a confronting personal odyssey as the truth about her own past begins to emerge.

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Laura is excited to spend Christmas as usual with her beloved aunt Hedda and her friends. But her festive mood soon turns sour as she finds both old faces and new are keeping secrets from her. When a fire claims the life of her best friend, the beautiful and talented Iben Jensen, the scars of that night will remain with Laura for the rest of her life.

Ralph, Marnie and Oliver once knew each other as childhood friends. Now they meet again in Ralph's secluded cottage to share the precious days that Ralph has left.

In 1917, Madeline Fairbanks is an herbalist healer devoted to the people of Jamesville, a dying town in the Southern Appalachians. Renetta Morgan—with whom it is taboo to fraternize because of race—is her apprentice. Maddie’s precocious granddaughter, Hannah Tillman, is mesmerized by an ancestral box in Maddie’s possession that contains hints of a mystical heritage.

The moment Marian Larsen sees the patrol car stop outside her house, she feels a shiver of foreboding. The news is even worse than she feared. Marian's husband and young daughter have been in a snowmobile crash. Dan is paralyzed and Laura is dead, her body broken on the icy ground...with a chilling secret. Friends and colleagues in Marian's Minnesota hometown rally around to try and ease her grief. But soon there are more horrible accidents. Then the rumors start - that these are not coincidences at all, that someone is picking off victims one by one.

She lives in a tiny one-bedroom house, sleeping on the couch while her sick mother sleeps in the room. With nobody else to take care of his mom, this 20-year old has no time for anything other than work. But when a sexy older man stops by her gas station, she’s instantly smitten.

Thirty-four-year-old Angie Dugan struggles with many things - anxiety, her career as a social worker in a retirement home, and her difficult family. Her biggest struggle, though, is finding love. When she meets Matt, she's swept away by his attention. As issues from his past come up, she wonders if she can trust him. Should she break it off, or give him another chance? In the end, all she can do is listen to her heart, and evaluate what she wants most.

Do you remember your mother telling you when you were little that you’d never meet Mr. Right if you were spending all your time and energy with Mr. Wrong? And what about the book out a few years ago that created such a hoopla with the single crowd – He’s Just Not That Into You? The two main characters in Winter Interlude either didn’t heed their mother’s advice or haven’t read the book.

She’s an irresponsible, flighty brat. He’s a hardworking man who doesn’t put up with brats. Age gap or not, he’s going to teach her. He has one goal: to tame this brat by breeding her!

Fate brought us together, but the sins of my past threaten to rip us apart. In a city ruled by corruption and powerful men, only the ruthless survive. And that's just what I am. Like father, like son. The life I lead is riddled with black tie affairs and dark secrets. simple mistake destroyed a woman I knew nothing about. She was only a name and a beautiful face in a photograph. Her fairytale life was shattered, but I didn't give a damn. Or at least I thought I didn't care, until she stumbled into me.

Eine Geschichte über die Bedeutung von Verlust und den unschätzbaren Wert von Freundschaft und Liebe von Bestsellerautorin Kristina Moninger. Wenige Sekunden sind genug, um einem anderen Menschen Hoffnung zu geben und die eigene für immer zu begraben. Sekunden, nach denen für Sandra und ihre Familie nichts mehr ist, wie es früher war, und sie die schwerste Entscheidung ihres Lebens getroffen hat: Sie muss ihren Sohn Jonah loslassen, damit ein anderes Kind weiterleben darf.
Katharina bangt um ihre jüngste Tochter Mila. Das Kind hat einen schweren Herzfehler und lebt nach mehreren erfolglosen Operationen mit einem externen Kunstherz.

Mason Thatcher gave me chills when I first laid eyes on him. The good kind. The kind that makes your body ache and your heart hammer. What's better is that he looked at me the same way. There was a hunger in his eyes that wouldn't be sated and a confidence in his stride that told me I could never run from him. Back then I didn't want to. It's not fair that his touch eased my pain. That his lips on mine made my worries vanish. That his love gave me a reason to breathe again. With him I felt complete, as if fate had given me a second chance.

Zwei Schwestern kämpfen im Hungerwinter 1946/47 gemeinsam ums Überleben. Die eisige Kälte hat ganz Deutschland im Griff, und Silke Bensdorf und ihre Schwester Rosemarie müssen von dem Bauernhof fliehen, auf dem sie untergebracht waren. Die beiden jungen Frauen schlagen sich bis nach Hamburg durch, in der Hoffnung, dort Arbeit zu finden. Aber die Stadt liegt in Trümmern, und die Briten haben einen Zuzugsstopp verhängt - an eine Unterkunft und Essensmarken kommen sie nur noch über den Schwarzmarkt.

Delaney does something adventurous. Her only sexual partner left her feeling unsatisfied, and when a friend gives her a gift certificate for an erotic massage, that seems like just the thing to make her feel adventurous and sexy.

They know their love is forbidden but when this older man takes control, there’s nothing she can do but do exactly what he wants. He wants her. All of her. And he’ll have it.

After a hit-and-run car crash, Caitlyn's life is put on hold. Her broken leg refuses to heal, and she is questioning her future career plans as a doctor. She realizes the only way forward is to find out what happened, who hit her and left her to die, and—most importantly—who was at fault. She dusts off her (very average) hacking skills, and enlists the help of Thomas Dean, a former cop turned PI, and a permanent wheelchair user after a spinal cord injury. He hopes he still has what it takes to get the job done.

Decades after her divorce, a lady returns to the village of her tumultuous marriage. A railway carriage hosts a charged schoolboy encounter. A murder raises fears of blackmail. A woman waits anxiously in a café before eloping to Paris. Another steals a friend's kitchen knife. In these bittersweet tales, the author of Lolly Willowes reveals her mastery of the short story, celebrated by the New Yorker for decades. Sylvia Townsend Warner is a tragicomic chronicler of the heart's entanglements.