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Mr and Mrs Henry Granville are preparing to launch their daughters on to the London social scene with an extravagant coming-out ball. The sister's deep jealousy of one another leads to fights between the two, a number of scandals threaten to ruin their reputations and when war is declared, they find themselves in an emergency of another kind.

When the Second World War is declared, rich banker Henry Granville moves his family away from London. Even so, life for them remains turbulent.

The Lazenders, a gilded family, have been the envy and pride of Britain for centuries. But Toby Lazender, their heir, is now mysteriously absent. His sister, Campion, is running the familly estates. But the Fallen Angels - among the most powerful and dangerous men in Europe - are plotting revolution and to succeed they need money and the Lazender fortune can provide it. A web of deceit draws Campion ever closer to a subtle trap. Her only hope of survival lies with the Gypsy - her brother's aloof horse master - a man whose loyalties have always been uncertain.

Calico Road runs through a tiny Lancashire hamlet up on the edge of the moors, miles from anywhere. Its folk are an independent breed - and in 1827 they are a thorn in the side of the vicious mill owner in the valley below.

Now a wealthy young widow, former peasant girl Siana Forbes has overcome her humble beginnings to become mistress of Cheverton Manor, the handsome estate which her infant son, Ashley, will one day inherit.

A selection of short fiction written by Austen when she was a teenager.

Keara Michaels doesn't want to leave home in Ireland, but fate sends her first to Lancashire, then across the sea to Australia, pregnant and penniless. Mark Gibson runs away there when his wife dies and soon employs Keara in his inn. But Theo Mullane is looking for Keara, the woman he loves.

In the early 1900s, the advent of coal and the resulting industrialization of the isolated Cumberland Mountain region of Kentucky and Virginia bring many changes to the feuding Tolliver and Fallin clans. Engineer Jack Hale comes to the region to make his fortune, but stays when he falls in love with the mountains and with a simple mountain girl.

Originally published as : Young lady with red hair.

Both historical novel and family saga and set in 19th-century Chile, this story concerns Aurora del Valle's search for the mystery of her past, a trauma so brutal that it erased from her mind all recollection of the first five years of her life.