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1934. Opal Laplume’s star is on the rise when she gets a job making costumes for Hollywood’s biggest talkie star, Jane Margeaux. But when Jane is fatally shot on set by a prop gun, and security guard Augusto finds a bullet missing from his pistol, it falls to Opal to save her favorite new friend from a wrongful murder accusation.

Nobody was surprised when Clemmie Crowe passed away–she’d been sick for a long time. But Bella Winter isn’t sure it’s as simple as it seems. Why was Clemmie so agitated the day she died–and why did she ask a local policeman to call on her?

The little girl’s body rests gently against the trunk of an old fir tree, her small hands laid delicately in her lap. From the day she became a Special Agent, Zoe Storm vowed to seek justice for the innocent. And for this little angel, her promise burns brighter than ever.

When Pascal kisses Noemi and presses his mother’s locket into her hands, it is a moment she has been longing for her whole life. But when war is declared, overnight their love becomes forbidden–Noemi is Jewish, while Pascal is being pressured to become a Hitler Youth officer by his father. When Noemi’s parents are captured and taken to Dachau, she knows her hometown is no longer safe.

You are at work, on a hot summer afternoon, when the phone vibrates in your handbag. Your heart beats faster as you scrabble to find it because somehow, even before you answer it, you know. It’s the call every mother fears. It’s the call you’ve been waiting for. Your daughter is in hospital. She was found this morning, confused and alone. She doesn’t remember anything. You wish you had never let her go away for the weekend. You can’t understand why her brother wasn’t watching over her like he promised, why he didn’t protect her.

When I get the keys to Forest Farm, my boyfriend Charlie’s family home, I know I am the luckiest girl alive. This gorgeous five-bed farmhouse with its sweeping gravel drive has been given to us no questions asked. And with Charlie’s parents living so close, I feel like the door has been shut on the secrets of my past and I’ve been welcomed into a brand-new family.

Madison hesitates before hitching her pink tulle prom dress and running as fast as she can into the wilderness. The ripped edge of her skirt snags on a tree root and she falls to the forest floor. As she catches her breath, she hears the unmistakable sound of heavy boots closing in on her. He knows where she is…

Newlyweds Lady Swift and Detective Hugh Seldon are honeymooning in the most romantic city on earth. Clifford, her butler, has come along for the trip to make sure everything goes to plan for the happy couple. And Gladstone, the mischievous bulldog, to make sure it doesn’t!

When the call comes in about a lonely woman found burned to death in a deserted cottage, Detective Lottie Parker is first on the scene. Her investigation swiftly reveals the victim has no family to mourn her. As a young girl, she was abandoned by her parents and hidden away at the Sisters of Forgiveness Convent. Has something in her tragic past led to her murder?

Eine von uns lügt. Eine kennt die Wahrheit. Und eine wird für ihre Taten bezahlen müssen … Ehefrau: Ich könnte nicht stolzer auf meine kleine Familie sein – meinen charmanten Mann und meinen liebenswürdigen Sohn. Also ignoriere ich die nächtlichen Telefonate meines Ehemannes und die Blicke, die er anderen Frauen zuwirft. Nichts wird mein perfektes Leben zerstören … Mutter: Ich habe mir so sehr ein Baby gewünscht, und als mein kostbarer kleiner Junge auf die Welt kam, schwor ich mir, alles zu tun, um ihn zu beschützen. Jetzt ist er ein Teenager und trifft seine eigenen Entscheidungen.

When midwife Zoe Padbury moves into Kestrel Cottage, high on a misty hill above the village of Thimblebury, everyone rallies round to make sure she doesn’t feel lonely. And as she begins her job at the doctor’s surgery, dealing with expectant mums and helping to bring newborns into the world, warmth begins to flood back into her battered and broken heart.

Chestnut-haired Corporal Effie Weston has grit beyond her twenty years. Determined to do her duty, she has joined up to the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force to defend London’s East End from the Blitz. She and her new friends Alice, Nell and George know their work is as vital as any man’s. They must rely on every bit of their training–as well as each other–to face the dark days of war.

When Theo died, I swore I would never remarry. But then I meet Parker, and I find I can’t say no to a second chance at happiness. But after we get engaged, strange things start happening. I find Theo’s sweater hanging in the wardrobe, and his wedding band on the bathroom sink. Our old wedding album is on the coffee table, and I can smell my late husband’s cologne in the air.

Deutschland, 1943: Vor zwei Jahren gab das Schicksal der Jüdin Margarete Rosenbaum die Chance den Nazis zu entkommen, indem sie vorgab, eine von ihnen zu sein. Doch jetzt muss sie eine folgenschwere Entscheidung treffen … Margarete lebt so, wie Annegret Huber es auch getan hätte, in einem prächtigen Gutshaus vor den Toren Berlins. Sie ist die Erbin eines riesigen Vermögens und hat alles in ihrer Macht Stehende getan, um die Bedingungen in der nahegelegenen Waffenfabrik zu verbessern und das Leid der Gefangenen zu lindern.

Deutschland, 1944: Der Krieg wütet noch immer und die junge Jüdin Margarete versteckt sich vor den Nazis. Und mit jedem Tag, der vergeht, wird ihr Leben gefährlicher. Gelingt es ihr einem grausamen Schicksal zu entfliehen? Seit Beginn des Krieges lebt Margarete Rosenbaum unter falscher Identität unter den Nazis. Doch insgeheim versucht sie – mithilfe von Stefan, einem schwedischen Widerstandskämpfer, zu dem sie sich immer mehr hingezogen fühlt – die jüdischen Arbeiter zu befreien und die Arbeit der Waffenfabrik zu sabotieren, für die sie eigentlich zuständig ist.

Whitney Falls was supposed to be the perfect place for me to disappear, with its quiet leafy streets and tulip-lined gardens. I didn’t intend to make any new friends. But when the pastor’s wife saves me from an accident, I can’t help but fall into her orbit. Soon enough, I become a regular at church, and the pastor and his wife welcome me into their home with open arms. But the more time I spend with them, the more I begin to feel something isn’t right.

1945, Auschwitz: I stumble out of the gates, tightly grasping the hands of two smaller children. Hunger swirls in my stomach and the barren landscape swims before my eyes. I can barely believe it. We’re free. We survived. But what happens now… Sixteen-year-old Tasha Ancel turns to take one last look at the imposing place that stole her freedom and her childhood. She has no idea how she continued to live when so many others did not. For the first time in months, her heart beats with hope for her future and that of the smaller children who cling to her now.

Two days ago, the Wilson family checked into the imposing, glass-fronted Lodge, surrounded by snow and perched perilously on the edge of a cliff looking out to a gray sea. Not everyone was looking forward to the family get-together. But mother-in-law Angela insisted the winter trip would help heal their rifts....

Before my husband died, we were the perfect couple. Or so I thought. When a woman claiming to have been his mistress shows up on my doorstep with a child she says is his, I know she must be lying. Who is she and what does she want?

»Ich habe ständig das Gefühl beobachtet zu werden – wenn ich die Jungs zur Schule bringe oder im Supermarkt vor dem Weinregal –, aber wenn ich mich umdrehe, ist dort niemand …« Als Darcys Sohn auf dem Spielplatz von einem Klettergerüst fällt, steht ihre Welt still. Hilflos umklammert sie seinen reglosen Körper, bis sie plötzlich zur Seite geschoben wird und nur zusehen kann, wie George, ein Arzt aus der Gegend, ihrem Kind das Leben rettet. Wie Darcy ist George alleinerziehend, und mit den funkelnden braunen Augen und seiner charmanten Art scheint er zu gut, um wahr zu sein.