The assignment also offers ben the chance to be near Lord Westerham’s middle daughter, Pamela, whom he furtively loves. Lake union. Can he, love, family, with pamela’s help, writer rhys Bowen crafts a sweeping and riveting saga of class, stop them before England falls?Inspired by the events and people of World War II, and betrayal.

But pamela has her own secret: she has taken a job at Bletchley Park, the British code-breaking facility. As ben follows a trail of spies and traitors, he discovers that some within the realm have an appalling, which may include another member of Pamela’s family, history-altering agenda. Instantly absorbing, romantic, suspenseful, and stylish—like binge-watching a great British drama on Masterpiece Theater.

Lee child, the macavity award for best historical novel, new York Times bestselling authorWinner of the Agatha Award for Best Historical Novel, and the Left Coast Crime Award for Best Historical Mystery. World war ii comes to farleigh place, the ancestral home of Lord Westerham and his five daughters, when a soldier with a failed parachute falls to his death on the estate.

. After his uniform and possessions raise suspicions, MI5 operative and family friend Ben Cresswell is covertly tasked with determining if the man is a German spy.

The Tuscan Child

Joanna soon discovers that some would prefer the past be left undisturbed, but she has come too far to let go of her father’s secrets now…. In it is a startling revelation. Still dealing with the emotional wounds of her own personal trauma, Joanna embarks on a healing journey to Tuscany to understand her father’s history—and maybe come to understand herself as well.

Badly wounded, he found refuge in a ruined monastery and in the arms of Sofia Bartoli. From new york times and wall street journal bestselling author Rhys Bowen comes a haunting novel about a woman who braves her father’s hidden past to discover his secrets… “Pass the bread, the olives, and the wine.

But the love that kindled between them was shaken by an irreversible betrayal. Nearly thirty years later, joanna, Hugo’s estranged daughter, has returned home to the English countryside to arrange her father’s funeral. Oh, and a copy of The Tuscan Child to savor with them. Nprin 1944, british bomber pilot Hugo Langley parachuted from his stricken plane into the verdant fields of German-occupied Tuscany.

Among his personal effects is an unopened letter addressed to Sofia.

The Storyteller's Secret: A Novel

Desperate to assuage her deep anguish, she decides to go to India to uncover answers to her family’s past. Intoxicated by the sights, and sounds she experiences, smells, Jaya becomes an eager student of the culture. But it is ravi—her grandmother’s former servant and trusted confidant—who reveals the resilience, secret love, struggles, and tragic fall of Jaya’s pioneering grandmother during the British occupation.

An amazon charts and Washington Post bestseller. From the bestselling author of trail of Broken Wings comes an epic story of the unrelenting force of love, the power of healing, and the invincible desire to dream. Nothing prepares jaya, a new York journalist, for the heartbreak of her third miscarriage and the slow unraveling of her marriage in its wake.

Through her courageous grandmother’s arrestingly romantic and heart-wrenching story, Jaya discovers the legacy bequeathed to her and a strength that, until now, she never knew was possible.

Beneath a Scarlet Sky: A Novel

He’s a normal italian teenager—obsessed with music, food, and girls—but his days of innocence are numbered. Pino lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. When his family home in milan is destroyed by Allied bombs, Pino joins an underground railroad helping Jews escape over the Alps, and falls for Anna, a beautiful widow six years his senior.

In an attempt to protect him, pino’s parents force him to enlist as a German soldier—a move they think will keep him out of combat. Soon to be a major television event from Pascal Pictures, starring Tom Holland. Based on the true story of a forgotten hero, the usa today and #1 Amazon Charts bestseller Beneath a Scarlet Sky is the triumphant, epic tale of one young man’s incredible courage and resilience during one of history’s darkest hours.

Soon to be a major television event from Pascal Pictures, starring Tom Holland. Based on the true story of a forgotten hero, the usa today and #1 Amazon Charts bestseller Beneath a Scarlet Sky is the triumphant, epic tale of one young man's incredible courage and resilience during one of history's darkest hours.

. But after pino is injured, general hans leyers, he is recruited at the tender age of eighteen to become the personal driver for Adolf Hitler’s left hand in Italy, one of the Third Reich’s most mysterious and powerful commanders. Now, with the opportunity to spy for the allies inside the German High Command, Pino endures the horrors of the war and the Nazi occupation by fighting in secret, his courage bolstered by his love for Anna and for the life he dreams they will one day share.

Fans of all the light we cannot see, suspense, The Nightingale, and Unbroken will enjoy this riveting saga of history, and love.

Murphy's Law: A Molly Murphy Mystery Molly Murphy Mysteries

With the sweeping skyline of 19th century new York and the gritty, pulsating underworld of recently arrived immigrants forming a vivid backdrop, Rhys Bowen transports readers back in time to America's not-so-distant past. The first entry in the molly Murphy series is a fascinating look at our immigrant history as well as an intensely absorbing page-turner.

She couldn't have known how right she was until the day she became a murderer, albeit in self-defense. Under a cloud of suspicion, and due largely to a growing mutual attraction between Molly and the handsome police captain in charge of the case, she is allowed to leave Ellis Island for Manhattan. Under drastic circumstances, Molly is forced to strike out into a new world.

With the police right behind her, Molly's only chance at escape is a false identity and a steamship that will take her far, far away: to America. Alone in a new country with no one to lean on, Molly hits the vibrant streets of New York intent on finding out what really happened. Unfortunately, she's got a mission she couldn't have anticipated: clear her own name of murder.

Unfortunately for molly, before she is able to leave the island a man is brutally murdered, his throat cut from ear to ear, and coincidence and fate make her a suspect in a crime she didn't commit. When her ship sails into new york harbor, with the majestic figure of the Statue of Liberty providing comfort and inspiration, Molly is sure her whole life is in front of her.

She is just one among thousands of immigrants on the tiny island, awaiting their fate with anxiety and hope.

Hearts of Resistance

Together the three women form a bond that will last a lifetime. But amid the turmoil and tragedy of warfare, all three risk losing everything—and everyone—they hold dear. At the height of world war ii, three women must come together to fight for freedom, for the men they love—and for each other. 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.

. 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. For rose, the resistance is a link to her late husband, and a way to move forward without him. Will their united front be strong enough to see them through? Soon to be a major television event from Pascal Pictures, starring Tom Holland.

Based on the true story of a forgotten hero, the usa today and #1 Amazon Charts bestseller Beneath a Scarlet Sky is the triumphant, epic tale of one young man's incredible courage and resilience during one of history's darkest hours. Alongside her childhood friend, French-born Rose, she quickly rises up the ranks of the freedom fighters.

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An American Princess: The Many Lives of Allene Tew

A wall street Journal and Amazon Charts bestseller. Two-time man booker prize winner hilary mantel names an american princess as one of her favorite book of the year: “light and gracefully written, impetuous, Allene Tew was beautiful, it dances through a century of history…” The GuardianBorn to a pioneering family in Upstate New York in the late 1800s, and frustrated by the confines of her small hometown.

And from the hopes of a young girl from Jamestown, New York, Allene Tew would become the epitome of both a pursuer and survivor of the American Dream. Soon to be a major television event from Pascal Pictures, starring Tom Holland. Based on the true story of a forgotten hero, the usa today and #1 Amazon Charts bestseller Beneath a Scarlet Sky is the triumphant, epic tale of one young man's incredible courage and resilience during one of history's darkest hours.

At eighteen, she met tod hostetter at a local dance, having no idea that the mercurial charmer she would impulsively wed was heir to one of the wealthiest families in America. Never once did she look back. From the vantage point of the American upper class, Allene embodied the tumultuous Gilded Age. But when he died twelve years later, Allene packed her bags for New York City.

Over the course of four more marriages, she weathered personal tragedies during World War I and the catastrophic financial reversals of the crash of 1929. From the castles and châteaus of Europe, she witnessed the Russian Revolution and became a princess.

White Rose, Black Forest

Hunted by the gestapo, can they trust each other enough to join forces on a mission that could change the face of the war and their own lives forever? Soon to be a major television event from Pascal Pictures, starring Tom Holland. Based on the true story of a forgotten hero, the usa today and #1 Amazon Charts bestseller Beneath a Scarlet Sky is the triumphant, epic tale of one young man's incredible courage and resilience during one of history's darkest hours.

Now, as deep drifts of snow blanket the Black Forest, German dissenter Franka Gerber is alone and hopeless. An amazon Charts bestseller. In the shadows of world War II, trust becomes the greatest risk of all for two strangers. December 1943. Fervor and brutality have swept through her homeland, taking away both her father and her brother and leaving her with no reason to live.

That is, until she discovers an unconscious airman lying in the snow wearing a Luftwaffe uniform, his parachute flapping in the wind. But when it turns out that he is not who he seems, Franka begins a race against time to unravel the mystery of the airman’s true identity. In the years before the rise of Hitler, the Gerber family’s summer cottage was filled with laughter.

Unwilling to let him die, Franka takes him to her family’s isolated cabin despite her hatred for the regime he represents.

The Victory Garden: A Novel

Emily’s lover has not only died a hero but has left her terrified—and with child. Since no one knows that Emily was never married, she adopts the charade of a war widow. As emily learns more about the volatile power of healing with herbs, the found journals will bring her to the brink of disaster, but may open a path to her destiny.

It’s here that emily discovers the long-forgotten journals of a medicine woman who devoted her life to her herbal garden. The journals inspire Emily, and in the wake of devastating news, they are her saving grace. She is convinced by a cheeky and handsome Australian pilot that she can do more, and it is not long before she falls in love with him and accepts his proposal of marriage.

When he is sent back to the front, Emily volunteers as a “land girl, ” tending to the neglected grounds of a large Devonshire estate. Soon to be a major television event from Pascal Pictures, starring Tom Holland. Based on the true story of a forgotten hero, the usa today and #1 Amazon Charts bestseller Beneath a Scarlet Sky is the triumphant, epic tale of one young man's incredible courage and resilience during one of history's darkest hours.

From the bestselling author of the Tuscan Child comes a beautiful and heart-rending novel of a woman’s love and sacrifice during the First World War. As the great war continues to take its toll, headstrong twenty-one-year-old Emily Bryce is determined to contribute to the war effort.

Finding Rebecca

Managing the river of tainted money flowing through the horrific world of Auschwitz may give him unexpected opportunities. As christopher searches for Rebecca, he struggles to not only maintain his cover, but also the grip on his soul. But when world war ii finally strikes the island of Jersey, the Nazi invaders ship Rebecca to Europe as part of Hitler’s Final Solution against the Jewish population.

After christopher and his family are deported back to their native Germany, he volunteers for the Nazi SS, desperate to save the woman he loves. Nothing could keep christopher and Rebecca apart: not her abusive parents, or even the fiancé she brought home after running away to England. But will it give him the strength to accept a brave new fate that could change his life—and others’ lives—forever?Revised edition: This edition of Finding Rebecca includes editorial revisions.

Soon to be a major television event from Pascal Pictures, starring Tom Holland. Based on the true story of a forgotten hero, the usa today and #1 Amazon Charts bestseller Beneath a Scarlet Sky is the triumphant, epic tale of one young man's incredible courage and resilience during one of history's darkest hours.

He is posted to auschwitz and finds himself put in control of the money stolen from the victims of the gas chambers.

Evans Above Constable Evans, Book 1

The first constable evans mystery!constable evan evans expected the idyllic Welsh village of Llanfair to be a calm oasis far away from the violent crime of the big city—until a string of murders puts every charming eccentric under suspicion. Little llanfair has its share of characters—two ministers vying for the souls of their flock, Evans-the-Milk, and three other Evanses: Evans-the-Meat, one lascivious barmaid, and Evans-the-Post.

But before evan—now knows as evans-the-Law—can enjoy Llanfair's tranquillity, he's called to the scene of a crime as brutal as any in the big city. Soon to be a major television event from Pascal Pictures, starring Tom Holland. Based on the true story of a forgotten hero, the usa today and #1 Amazon Charts bestseller Beneath a Scarlet Sky is the triumphant, epic tale of one young man's incredible courage and resilience during one of history's darkest hours.

Two hikers have been murdered on the trails of the local mountain, and now Evan must hunt down a vicious killer in a town where one of his lovable new neighbors could prove to be deadly.