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Penny Vincenzi · 626 pages
Routinely making decisions that have dangerous consequences, strong-willed aristocrat's daughter Celia Lytton sets in motion a series of events during World War I that have a particular impact on her family, a destitute woman, and others. (from Amazon)
Prodigal Son
Danielle Steel · 396 pages
Fraternal twin brothers Peter and Michael McDowell have spent a lifetime competing for success and affection before that competition turned into an all-out war and made the brothers mortal enemies. While both Peter and Michael have grown into successful adults, they never managed to leave behind the animosity that took root in their childhood. With the collapse of his career and his marriage, Pete
Do Not Disturb
Tilly Bagshawe · 556 pages
Honor Palmer has always been a fighter. For her father's love, her inheritance, but most of all for control of Palmers, the grand old family hotel that shares her name. A jewel of a building nestled on the East Hampton coast, Palmers was once the most glamorous destination in the world. After decades of neglect, Honor is determined to restore its reputation, its glitz and its guestlist, whatever t
A Dangerous Fortune
Ken Follett · 574 pages
Ondanks tegenslagen en duidelijke tegenwerking slaagt een jonge telg uit een Londense bankiersfamilie er ruim een eeuw geleden in door te dringen tot de top van het bedrijf.
Mightier Than the Sword
Jeffrey Archer · 464 pages
In the aftermath of an IRA bombing, Harry uses his new literary station to raise awareness for his POW friend while Giles works to secure a political career and Sebastian's past threatens his engagement.
The Wheel of Fortune
Susan Howatch · 1,151 pages
Tucked in the hills of South Wales is Oxmoon, the ancestral estate of the Godwin family. In the summers before 1914, music streams through the family home as the Godwins, at the height of their prosperity, dance in the ballroom with their guests. But despite the remarkable talents of heir-apparent Robert Godwin, the fates have a rough, tough ride planned for him and those he loves. Fortunes shift
The Other Boleyn Girl
Philippa Gregory · 664 pages
When Mary Boleyn comes to court as an innocent girl of fourteen, she catches the eye of Henry VIII. Dazzled, Mary falls in love with both her golden prince and her growing role as unofficial queen. However, she soon realizes just how much she is a pawn in her family's ambitious plots as the king's interest begins to wane and she is forced to step aside for her best friend and rival: her powerfully
The Shadow Sister
Lucinda Riley · 498 pages
Star D'Aplièse is at a crossroads in her life after the sudden death of her beloved father--the elusive billionaire, affectionately called Pa Salt by his six daughters, all adopted from across the four corners of the world. He has left each of them a clue to her true heritage, and Star nervously decides to follow hers, which leads her to an antiquarian bookshop in London, and the start of a whole
All Change
Elizabeth Jane Howard · 572 pages
It is the 1950s and as the Cazalets' beloved matriarch, the Duchy, passes away, she takes with her the last remnants of a world of great houses and servants, of class and tradition in which the Cazalets have thrived. Louise, now divorced, becomes entangled in a painful affair; while Polly and Clary must balance marriage and motherhood with their own ideas and ambitions. Hugh and Edward, now in the
Tiny Little Thing
Beatriz Williams · 525 pages
One half of a political power couple struggles to keep up her perfect life despite the unwelcome arrival of her unpredictable sister, Pepper, and an incriminating photograph. "In the summer of 1966, Christina Hardcastle--"Tiny" to her illustrious family--stands on the brink of a breathtaking future. Of the three Schuyler sisters, she's the one raised to marry a man destined for leadership, and wi
The Last Secret of the Deverills
Santa Montefiore · 452 pages
Het is inmiddels 1939 en de vriendschap tussen de drie vrouwen, Kitty, Bridie en Celia, is inmiddels lang niet meer zo sterk als eerst.
Summerset Abbey
T.J. Brown · 292 pages
"Reminiscent of Downton Abbey, this first novel in a new series follows two sisters and their maid as they are suddenly separated by the rigid class divisions within a sprawling aristocratic estate and thrust into an uncertain world on the brink of WWI...Rowena and Victoria, daughters to the second son of the Earl of Summerset, have always treated their governess's daughter, Prudence, like a siste
The Touch
Colleen McCullough · 564 pages
Australia, finales del siglo XIX. Alexander Kinross - un escocés que ha enterrado sus humildes orígenes tras amasar una enorme fortuna en Estados Unidos y Australia- pide la mao de la joven Elizabeth Drummond. Con apenas dieciséis años, ésta se ve obligada a dejar su Escocia natal para casarse con un completo desconocido. Ni la brillantez,k ni el dinero o la insistencia de Kinross logran que la mu
Tyringham Park
Rosemary McLoughlin · 475 pages
It is a beautiful day in 1917, and Tyringham Park is in an uproar after Victoria Blackshaw, an innocent toddler, disappears without a trace. The feverish search for Victoria soon uncovers jealousies and deceits that both the upstairs and downstairs inhabitants of the grand estate have fought for years to keep hidden. As time passes, Victoria's disappearance casts a long shadow over all of their li
Pearl in the Mist
V.C. Andrews · 374 pages
**Fate whisked Ruby from a simple life in the Louisiana bayou. But her new riches bring more treachery than happiness....** Even after a year as a Dumas, Ruby still wonders at the splendor of the family's New Orleans mansion, and rejoices in the love of the father she had never known. But true happiness in her new home is as elusive as a swamp mist. Ruby must carefully avoid a venomous enemy: h
The Magic of You
Johanna Lindsey · 407 pages
As wild and reckless as the most incorrigible of her male cousins, Amy Malory has reached a marriageable age and has set her sights on a most inappropriate mate: the straight-laced American ship captain who once nearly had her Uncle James hung for piracy. Warren Anderson is shocked by the brazen advances of his despised enemy's beautiful niece. Though determined to resist her, he burns for the enc
The House at Riverton
Kate Morton · 192 pages
Summer 1924. On the eve of a glittering society party, by the lake of a grand English country house, a young poet takes his life. The only witnesses, sisters Hannah and Emmeline Hartford, will never speak to each other again. Winter 1999. Grace Bradley, ninety-eight, one-time housemaid at Riverton Manor, is visited by a young director making a film about the poet's suicide. Ghost awaken and old me
The Ideal Bride
Stephanie Laurens · 431 pages
Another chapter of the beloved Cynster dynasty, from New York Times-bestselling author Stephanie Laurens. Michael Anstruther-Wetherby is aristocratic, charming, and connected (to the Cynster family). Only one thing is missing: a wife to accompany -- and ensure -- his success. But standing between Michael and the perfect young lady is her beautiful and strong-minded aunt. Is Michael’s future in jeo
Shanghai Girls
Lisa See · 417 pages
In 1937, Shanghai is the Paris of Asia, a city of great wealth and glamour, the home of millionaires and beggars, gangsters and gamblers, patriots and revolutionaries, artists and warlords. Thanks to the financial security and material comforts provided by their father's prosperous rickshaw business, twenty-one-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger sister, May, are having the time of their lives. Th
The Vacationers
Emma Straub · 372 pages
Celebrating their thirty-fifth anniversary and their daughter's high-school graduation during a two-week vacation in Mallorca, Franny and Jim Post confront old secrets, hurts, and rivalries that reveal sides of themselves they try to conceal.
You Just Can't Get Enough
Cecily von Ziegesar · 210 pages
After a whirlwind first week on the Upper East Side, the Carlyles have made their mark on Manhattan's Golden Mile. Owen is new BFFs with Rhys Sterling, but what will happen when they both fall for the same girl? Baby stole resident it girl Jack Laurent's boyfriend...and then Avery stole Jack's popularity. Now Jack is on the warpath, and she wants nothing more than to send the Carlyle girls packing