Lace is a thing like hope.It is beauty; it is grace.It was never meant to destroy so many lives.The mad passion for forbidden lace has infiltrated France, pulling soldier and courtier into its web. For those who want the best, Flemish lace is the only choice, an exquisite perfection of thread and air. For those who want something they don't have, Flemish lace can buy almost anything-or anyone.For Lisette, lace begins her downfall, and the only way to ...

"A well-paced and interwoven story... Anthony creates a narrative that subtly educates, poses stimulating questions and entertains."—KirkusIn a world where saints, martyrs and miracles are real — in the darkest hour of the Dark Ages — a holy relic offers hope.Sister Juliana does. She's seen miracles happen as she tends Saint Catherine's altar and guards her relic. Yet she doesn't quite dare to believe that even Saint Catherine could help her atone ...

"Randel's gorgeous debut novel seductively pulls back the curtain to reveal the heartbreaking world of...China."—Stephanie Dray, NYT bestselling Author of America's First DaughterA thrilling work of historical fiction, bringing romance, intrigue, and the unexpected rise of an Empress to intoxicating life under the inscrutable moon.In Tang Dynasty China, a concubine at the palace learns quickly that there are many ways to c...

"Johnson is clearly striding in the footsteps of authors like Geraldine Brooks and Diana Gabaldon in her juxtaposition of the modern and historical."—New York Journal of BooksThree men are trapped in time. One woman could save them all.Historian Lia Carrer has finally returned to southern France, determined to rebuild her life after the death of her husband. If nothing else, her trip could grant her perspective on the region's trad...

"An enigmatic woman comes between a toxicologist and a murderer in this hypnotic and disturbing thriller" set in the shadowy fog of San Francisco ( Guardian, UK).Caleb Maddox is a San Francisco toxicologist studying the chemical effects of pain. He's out drinking after a bad breakup when a hauntingly seductive woman sits down beside him. He talks to Emmeline over absinthe, but their encounter is fleeting. She brushes her lips on his ear and disappears. He ...

The strange odysseys of two young women animate this "hypnotic and glowing" American gothic novel that blurs the line between the real and the supernatural (Gregory Maguire, The New York Times Book Review).A New York Times Editors' ChoiceA Paris Review Staff PickRuth and Nat are seventeen. They are orphans living at The Love of Christ! Foster Home in upstate New York. And they may be able t...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER. The first in the Kopps Sisters Novel Series, Girl Waits with Gun is an enthralling work of historical fiction based on the forgotten true story of one of the nation’s first female deputy sheriffs.Constance Kopp doesn’t quite fit the mold. She towers over most men, has no interest in marriage or domestic affairs, and has been isolated from the world since a family secret sent her and her sisters into hiding fifteen years ago. One day a belligerent and powerful s...

They said the killings were the word of Satan. But Beatrice Scarlet, the apothecary's daughter, detects the hands of men...New Hampshire, 1756: The god-fearing farmers of Sutton are suffering divine punishment for unknown sins. Crops fail, cows die and fish are poisoned by their water. Six pigs, slaughtered in their sty, bear the mark of the devils in their mouths.But to Beatrice Scarlet, the apothecary's daughter, the truth is much more chilling. Somewhere in this...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER, New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and a Best Book of the Year from NPR, Boston Globe, BuzzFeed, and others. The mesmerizing story of one woman's rise from circus rider to courtesan to world-renowned diva—"a brilliant performance" (Washington Post).The Queen of the Night tells the captivating story of Lilliet Berne, an orphan who left the American frontier for Europe and was swept into the g...

A presence lurks in New York City’s New Amsterdam Theatre when the lights go down and the audience goes home. They say she’s the ghost of Olive Thomas, one of the loveliest girls who ever lit up the Ziegfeld Follies and the silent screen. From her longtime home at the theater, Ollie’s ghost tells her story from her early life in Pittsburgh to her tragic death at twenty-five. After winning a contest for “The Most Beautiful Girl in New York,” shopgirl Ollie modeled for the most famous artist...

Andreas Egger knows every path and peak of his mountain valley, the source of his sustenance, his livelihood, his home.Set in the mid-twentieth century and told with beauty and tenderness, Robert Seethaler's A Whole Life is a story of man's relationship with an ancient landscape, of the value of solitude, of the arrival of the modern world, and above all, of the moments, great and small, that make us who we are.

One lost summer is time best left forgotten... When Minneapolis attorney, Billie Fredrickson, inherits her uncle's small California winery, she has no intention of actually moving to the west coast and starting a new life. Her only thought is to get it off her hands as quickly as possible. But her return to the winery after an absence of twenty years opens up more than the reading of her uncle's will. Childhood memories, long-buried, begin to surface, prompting questions that no one is abl...