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Innes Munro has the ability to "read" a person's past simply by touching them, but her gift comes with a heavy price: her freedom. Forced to stay at desolate Castle Girnigoe, Innes never expects to be drawn to the wounded warrior who haunts its dark passages and challenges her at every turn.

Verity Wolf dreams of being a poet - not that she'd ever admit it to anyone. Her best friend, Jess, thinks she's definitely got what it takes while her cat, Zorro, is characteristically indifferent. As for the cute boy she's just met, he's about to discover her best-kept secret. When Verity stumbles on an old, mysterious book, Poemsia, she finds herself suddenly thrust into the dizzying world of social media stardom, where poets are the new rock stars and fame is sometimes just a click away.

In 1917, after Arlene Favier’s home burns to the ground, taking her father with it, she must find a way to support her mother and younger brother. If she doesn’t succeed, they will all be impoverished. Job opportunities are scarce, but then a daring possibility arises: the American Women’s Hospital needs ambulance drivers to join a trailblazing, all-female team of doctors and nurses bound for war-torn France.

To do list: Don't let the fetching American woman charm her way into my heart. Definitely don't give in to spending the night with her as we plot and plan a way into the event of the century. And absolutely don't fall in love. Trouble is - from her smarts to her sass to her wicked, witty mouth - Jess is everything I ought to avoid. But resisting my sexy rival is going to be oh so hard.

Neuer spannender Historienroman von "Herrin wider Willen"-Autorin Martha Sophie Marcus! Lüneburg 1656: Die 17-jährige Susanne Büttner, Tochter eines Salzfassmachers, führt seit dem Tod ihrer Mutter den Haushalt. Ihr Leben ist hart und eintönig, doch dann verliebt sie sich in den Schmiedegesellen Jan, der einen abenteuerlichen Ruf hat. Als ein Verbrechen geschieht und Jan und Susanne in die Aufklärung verwickelt werden, kommen sie sich schnell näher. Gleichzeitig macht der reiche Patriziersohn Lenhardt Susanne den Hof.

Während eines Besuchs auf dem Jahrmarkt trifft Janna Berg auf zwei alte Bekannte: Die Geschwister Alim und Abida sind Mitglieder der terroristischen Gruppierung Söhne der Sonne und scheinen etwas im Schilde zu führen. Der Geheimdienst schickt Markus Neumann, um der Sache auf den Grund zu gehen. Zusammen mit Janna soll er sich als Mitarbeiter des Meinungsforschungsinstituts ausgeben und eine Umfrage unter den Schaustellern durchführen. Rasch finden die beiden heraus, dass die Terroristen offenbar einen Anschlag auf eines der Fahrgeschäfte planen.

Singapore, 1910 - Desperate for a fresh start, Harriet Gordon finds herself living with her brother, a reverend and headmaster of a school for boys, in Singapore at the height of colonial rule. Hoping to gain some financial independence, she advertises her services as a personal secretary. It is unfortunate that she should discover her first client, Sir Oswald Newbold - explorer, mine magnate, and president of the exclusive Explorers and Geographers Club - dead with a knife in his throat.

"Nehmen Sie diesen Umschlag. Bringen Sie ihn nach Bonn zu Axel Wolhagen. Die Adresse finden Sie im Telefonbuch. Händigen Sie nur ihm - niemand anderem - den Umschlag aus. Geben Sie ihn unter keinen Umständen jemand anderem als Axel Wolhagen. Lassen Sie sich seinen Ausweis zeigen. Und kein Wort darüber - zu niemandem!" "Aber..." "Tun Sie es einfach!" Janna Berg, 32, Pflegemutter von achtjährigen Zwillingen, will eigentlich nur ihre Schwester vom Flughafen Köln-Bonn abholen. Doch plötzlich steht ein gut aussehender Fremder vor ihr und drängt ihr einen Umschlag mit einer DVD auf.

On the icy edge of Soviet Russia, bold and reckless Nina Markova joins the infamous Night Witches - an all-female bomber regiment - wreaking havoc on Hitler’s Eastern Front. But when she is downed behind enemy lines and thrown across the path of a lethal Nazi murderess known as the Huntress, Nina must use all her wits to survive. British war correspondent Ian Graham has witnessed the horrors of war from Omaha Beach to the Nuremburg Trials. He abandons journalism after the war to become a Nazi hunter, yet one target eludes him: the Huntress.

Die "Spionin wider Willen" ist wieder im Einsatz! Aus einer Datenbank werden hochsensible Steuerdaten von Bankern und Politikern gestohlen. Rasch führen erste Spuren zu einem bekannten Rheinbacher Steuerberater. Doch dieser ist offiziell über jeden Verdacht erhaben. Das "Institut" steht vor einem Problem, denn die Ermittlungen geraten ins Stocken. Dann stellt sich heraus, dass ausgerechnet Janna Berg, Zivilistin und Pflegemutter zweier Kinder, Verbindungen zu der Zielperson hat. Obwohl es ihm alles andere als recht ist, muss Agent Markus Neumann sie überreden, dem Geheimdienst noch einmal zu helfen.

I'm giving you a chance to achieve every lawyer's dream, said Sophia Weber's old professor. Freeing an innocent man. Thirteen years ago, a 15-year-old girl was murdered. Doctor Stig Ahlin was sentenced to life in prison. But no one has forgotten the brutal crime. Ahlin is known as one of the most ruthless criminals. When Sophia Weber discovers critical flaws in the murder investigation, she decides to help Ahlin. But Sophia's doing her utmost to get her client exonerated arouses many people's disgust. And the more she learns, the more difficult her job becomes.

Princess Theodosia was a prisoner in her own country for a decade. Renamed the Ash Princess, she endured relentless abuse and ridicule from the Kaiser and his court. But though she wore a crown of ashes, there is fire in Theo's blood. As the rightful heir to the Astrean crown, it runs in her veins. And if she learned anything from her mother, it's that a Queen never cowers. Now free, with a misfit army of rebels to back her, Theo must liberate her enslaved people and face a terrifying new enemy: the new Kaiserin.

Five months after the House War, the city of Shallot is on edge. The Great Houses plot and plan against one another, while the magicians rebuild and the common folk fear another outburst of fighting. And one young nobleman has a plan. Rebecca is a half-caste shopgirl in an apothecary, dreaming of an apprenticeship that will allow her to rise out of poverty and finally make a name for herself in a city that has no use for her kind.

The New York Times best-selling authors of The Glass Ocean and The Forgotten Room return with a glorious historical adventure that moves from the dark days of two World Wars to the turbulent years of the 1960s, in which three women with bruised hearts find refuge at Paris’ legendary Ritz hotel. The heiress...the Resistance fighter...the widow...three women whose fates are joined by one splendid hotel.

Six best-selling and award-winning authors bring to life a breathtaking epic novel illuminating the hopes, desires, and destinies of princesses and peasants, harlots and wives, fanatics and philosophers - six unforgettable women whose paths cross during one of the most tumultuous and transformative events in history: the French Revolution.

Abbie awakens in a daze with no memory of who she is or how she landed in this unsettling condition. The man by her side claims to be her husband. He’s a titan of the tech world, the founder of one of Silicon Valley’s most innovative start-ups. He tells Abbie that she is the perfect wife. He says she had a terrible accident five years ago and that, through a huge technological breakthrough, she has been brought back from the abyss. But as Abbie pieces together memories of her marriage, she begins to question her husband’s motives - and his version of events.

Izzy, her boyfriend, and her holiday-crashing neighbor, Etta, are off to the driest, flattest, and most infertile inhabited continent on earth - where even the cutest of creatures might try to kill you. But that’s only the beginning of their problems. A Taste Society courier goes missing. And 26 hours after Izzy lands in Australia, a crocodile is found dead. With a human corpse inside. Not quite the start to her relaxing holiday she’d been hoping for.

Empowering, insightful, and psychology-driven, Beyond Beautiful is filled with proven, no-BS strategies for proactive self-care. This stylish and practical handbook takes a deep-dive into all of the factors that make it hard to feel good about yourself, and offers sage answers to tricky questions. Beyond Beautiful is a much-needed breath of fresh air that will help you live your best life, know your worth, and stop wasting any more precious energy and mental space worrying about the way you look.

Kihrin D’Mon is a wanted man after killing the Emperor of Quur - and not in a good way. So he heads for Jorat, to find the fourth person named in prophesy, who will either save or damn the world. He meets Janel Theranon, who claims she already knows him. And she wants Kihrin’s help in saving Jorat’s capital from a dragon, who can be slain only with his sword’s magic. Unwittingly, Kirin also finds himself at the centre of a rebellion. One which puts him in direct opposition to Relos Var, his old enemy.

Four women - friends, family, rivals - turn to online dating for companionship, only to find themselves in the crosshairs of a tech-savvy killer using an app to target his victims in this harrowing thriller from the New York Times best selling author of See Jane Run and The Bad Daughter.