In Regency England, a woman risks scandal, disgrace, even her own life for a forbidden passion in this "sure-to-please saga" ( Kirkus Reviews).From the moment the handsome, raffish stranger with the gold earring throws her a kiss, Jessica Frenshaw is enchanted. Rumored to be a half-Spanish wanderer who can predict the future, Romany Jake is unjustly put on trial for murder. After the verdict banishes him from England, Jessica despairs of ...

The first book in Philippa Carr's celebrated Daughters of England series is at once a love story, a mystery, and an epic historical saga set during the tumultuous reign of Henry VIIIDamask Farland, named after a rose, is captivated by the mysterious orphan Bruno. Discovered upon the abbey altar on Christmas morning, then raised by monks, Bruno becomes the great man whom Damask grows to love—only to be shattered by his cruel betrayal.This dramatic coming-of-a...

While the world teeters on the brink of World War I, a young woman's indiscretion leads to a seething viper's nest of blackmail and murderIn 1912, with war looming on the horizon, thirteen-year-old Lucinda Greenham is sent to an exclusive boarding school in Belgium. Her joy in sharing this adventure with her best friend, Annabelinda, is cut short when Annabelinda has a clandestine affair leading to pregnancy. Annabelinda's family arranges a "rest cure" and when the ...

With France on the brink of revolution, one woman finds her destiny as a true daughter of England in the bestselling author's multigenerational saga.Discovering that the man who raised her was not her birth father comes as a great shock to teenage Lottie. She always thought she'd marry her childhood love, Dickon, and stay at the family estate, Eversleigh. But fate takes Lottie across the sea to France and the mysterious palace of Versailles.As the daughter ...

Continuing the romantic multigenerational saga by a New York Times–bestselling author whose novels have sold over 100 million copies.Saraband for Two Sisters: Set in seventeenth-century England, Carr's novel follows the twin daughters of Tamsyn Pennlyon—Angelet and Bersaba Landor—who couldn't be more different. Angelet is sweet, gentle, and submissive. Bersaba is secretive, sensual, and headstrong. When the sisters are separated by forces beyond t...

In Restoration England, a family secret unleashes intrigue, incest, and treachery in this saga by a New York Times–bestselling author.While England continues to be torn apart by political and religious turmoil, fourteen-year-old Priscilla Eversleigh gives herself to fugitive Jocelyn Frinton in a moment of youthful passion. Desperate to conceal her shameful secret from her family, Priscilla journeys to Venice, Italy, where her illegitimate daughter, Carlott...

During the Stuart period, two half-sisters are torn apart by passion in the multigenerational saga by the New York Times–bestselling author.Carlotta, the love child of Priscilla Eversleigh and Jocelyn Frinton, grows up in the shadow of war during the reign of Queen Anne. Carlotta's personal struggle begins when she's abducted by the charismatic Jacobite leader Lord Hessenfield. During her time as his hostage, they fall into a passionate affair. When she's ...

A crime binds a man and woman together in this "entertaining" novel ranging from Victorian England to Australia by a New York Times–bestselling author ( Publishers Weekly).Young Angelet is fascinated by the haunting rumors surrounding the Pool of St. Branok—superstitious tales of its cursed, bottomless waters. The innocent Cornish girl shares the ghostly story with Benedict Lansdon, the handsome, illegitimate grandson of a family friend, and promi...

The riveting Cornwall saga continues with the story of Lucie Lansdon, the sole witness to a horrifying crime much too close to home . . .After her father is murdered, Lucie Lansdon's eyewitness testimony sends a fanatical Irish terrorist to the gallows. Fate claims another victim when Lucie receives news that her fiancé has died in Africa. Reeling from the deaths of the two men she loved most, and convinced that her life is cursed, Lucie finally finds happiness when...

The Jacobite Rebellion sets the stage for a deadly love triangle—"This sweeping story . . . provides some twists along the way" (A Love So True).Clarissa Field never knew her mother, but hears whispers that she was a notorious femme fatale. Unknowingly, the girl follows her mother's passionate path and loses her heart to Jacobite rebel Dickon Frenshaw. But 1715 England is a dangerous place to be a young woman in love. Dickon is caught and exiled to Virgini...

With World War II on the horizon, a British woman risks her life to uncover the truth behind the disappearance of her twin sisterVioletta Denver and her twin sister Dorabella are inseparable—until Dorabella falls in love with Dermot Tregarland. The newlyweds settle in Dermot's isolated ancestral home along the Cornish coast, and Dorabella soon has a little boy. But Violetta can't shake the terrible foreboding she's felt since her sister's marriage. When she hears th...

Three young women bound by ties deeper than blood are swept up in a web of intrigue and betrayal in this haunting gothic taleRebecca Mandeville arrives at Manorleigh with her mother amid rumors that Rebecca's politically ambitious stepfather may have murdered his first wife. Homesick for her native Cornwall, Rebecca feels she'll never belong at Benedict Lansdon's ancestral estate—a place haunted by the phantoms of past crimes. When tragedy strikes, Rebecca struggles...