Winter Women

As the holiday season lights up Seattle's famed Pike Place Market, Pepper Reece's beloved Spice Shop is brimming with cinnamon, nutmeg, and shoppers eager to stuff their stockings. Add to the mix a tasty staff competition—a peppermint bark-off—along with Victorian costumes for this year's Dickensian Christmas theme, and Pepper almost forgets to be nervous about meeting her fisherman boyfriend's brother for the first time. But when a young woman working in her friend Vinny's wine shop is brutally assaulted, costumed revelers and holiday cheer are the last things on Pepper's mind.

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.

Poland, 1943: Please don't do this! Her shrill cry pierces the night air, the screams breaking the silence of the falling snow. But the man she calls to does not turn, vanishing into the darkness with a child clasped in his arms.

Rhett Carson was as cold as the ice on which he skated. He was as calloused as the hands that shot the goals that won world championships. He was also damaged. And broken. And he didn't know it, but I knew all about him...and his unfortunate connection with my estranged older brother. I knew why he was so bitter and angry. I knew why he was so cold hearted. But I didn't know why I let myself fall in love with him. And I didn't know why I couldn't stop - even when he told me to.

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.

When a team of sled dogs uncovers the remains of a murder victim, the annual sled dog festival brings a string of suspects. In this frozen tundra, can Katie stop the killer before he chooses his next victim?

When a string of bodies are discovered high up in the branches of trees near the Canadian border, FBI Special Agent Katie Winter is called in to hunt down the killer responsible for the bizarre crime. What can his signature mean? And where will he strike again?

A string of murders around a frozen lake on the American-Canadian border leads the FBI and Canada to create an elite unit to tackle cross-border killers. FBI BAU Special Agent Katie Winter, originally from the Upper Peninsula and accustomed to its harsh winters and rough terrain, is the perfect candidate—yet with the childhood disappearance of her sister still haunting her, it was the one place Katie had hoped never to return.

At seventeen, Charlie Coleman was on top of the world. He was captain of the football team, dating the smart and beautiful Shawna David, and on his way to becoming another pillar of his Nantucket community, just like his father before him. But all that changed in the blink of an eye. It's been thirty years since the accident, and Charlie is still overwhelmed with guilt. Why has he been blessed with so much—a gorgeous wife, three children, and two grandchildren, while Nora is left with nothing? Why did he escape that night with his life?

When her Great-Aunt Jessabelle passes away and leaves her home to Samantha, Sam and her daughters, Darcy and Rachelle, begin refurbishment on The Jessabelle House, a glorious house not far from the town of Siasconset on Nantucket. Once there, Samantha discovers her aunt's diaries, which reveal dramatic secrets from the past—and still more reasons not to trust the Colemans.

Berlin, Sommer 1949: Die Redakteurin Vera Lessing hat während des Zweiten Weltkrieges ihre Eltern und ihren Mann verloren. Sie will vor allem eines - die traumatischen Erlebnisse für immer hinter sich lassen. Doch als ihr Jugendfreund und Kollege Jonathan auf mysteriöse Weise ums Leben kommt, wird sie unweigerlich in seine Arbeit hineingezogen. Jonathan hat Recherchen über ehemalige Kriegsverbrecher betrieben. Gleichzeitig stand er im persönlichen Kontakt mit einer jungen Frau namens Marie Weißenburg, eine Sekretärin im Stab Konrad Adenauers.

The name on the screen was "Absinthe". But I knew her as the sultry voice blowing up my phone for late-night chats about Proust and Hemingway interspersed between the filthiest little...mutually satisfying exchanges...I'd ever experienced in my life. We'd never met. Until the day she walked into my office, her cherry lips wrapped around a candy apple sucker and an all too familiar voice that said, "You wanted to see me, Principal Hawthorne?"

Noch kurz vor seinem Tod nimmt ihr Vater den Schwestern Nina und Meredith das Versprechen ab, sich um die pflegebedürftige Mutter zu kümmern. Doch der Versuch, dieses Versprechen einzulösen, gerät zur Zerreißprobe – die Mutter war ihr Leben lang kalt und abweisend zu ihren Töchtern, was bei Meredith und Nina tiefe Spuren hinterlassen hat. Denn auch sie haben Schwierigkeiten, Nähe zuzulassen, und drohen die Liebe ihrer Männer zu verlieren. Doch dann kommen sie dem Geheimnis der Mutter auf die Spur, das sie in eine weit entfernte Vergangenheit führt.

Ivy Gover, a curmudgeonly middle-aged charwoman with some slightly witchy talents, inherits a rural cottage in Buckinghamshire and takes up residence near the tiny village of Little Warby. Having settled in with a rescued dog and a pet pigeon, she manages, despite her anti-social instincts, to have surprising effects on her new neighbors. But her biggest challenge will likely be the twelve-year-old runaway who shows up at her door.

Ruth Winters is retired, widowed, and resigned to spending the rest of her life alone in her suburban home. She likes her routine and uses it to avoid having to spend time with other people. She probably wouldn’t call herself fulfilled, but it’s too late now to go chasing happiness. Then three things happen at once: a beloved niece makes a big announcement, an old flame reaches out, and her estranged sister receives life-changing news.

Candy is as sweet as her name, but she has a really hard time fitting in with people her age. She feels lonely and lost, and when she moves to college and moves in with her aunt and uncle, she hopes college friends will be different. Instead, she finds the next-door neighbor, a sexy-as-hell stockbroker twice her age. Has she finally found her connection? She can’t take her eyes off him, and in an unexpected moment of passion, she can’t keep her hands off him either. Lucky for Candy, this sexy older man wants more.

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.

Grateful to her twin for keeping Mustang Ridge in the family, Jenny Skye agrees to return home for a month so that her sister can get away. It's the middle of winter, and only a few year-round staffers, her family, and the animals will be there. But the globetrotting videographer is soon in way over her head at the dude ranch, dealing with reservations, her redecorating-obsessed mother, and the town's hunky new veterinarian.

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.

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.