This magnificent novel transports readers to the world of a prominent Boston family summering on the New Hampshire coast, and to the social orbit of a spirited young woman who falls into a passionate, illicit affair with an older man, with cataclysmic results.
The Fortune Rock's Quartet collects four of Anita Shreve's most beloved novels-Fortune's Rocks, The Pilot's Wife, Sea Glass, and Body Surfing-for...

Collects brief fictional works and legends by the nineteenth-century New England literary master.

Precious Bane won the Prix Femina Vie Heureuse Prize. In 1957 and 1989 it was made into a BBC television drama. The story is narrated by the central character Prue Sarn, whose life is blighted by having a harelip. Only the weaver, Kester Woodseaves, perceives her inner beauty but Prue cannot believe herself worthy of him. Prue is wrongly accused of murder and only one man can save her and take her away to the happiness she believes she can never possess...

In Mine Till Midnight, no-nonsense Miss Amelia Hathaway has no time for romance—but she can't resist matching wits with a sexy former card sharp named Cam Rohan.
After inheriting a country estate, the Hathaway siblings are trying to recover from their troubled past and make a new start. As the family struggles with unforeseen problems, Cam Rohan keeps stepping in to help . . . and Amelia realizes the unpredictable charmer

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A middle-aged migrant from Eastern Europe moves to London in search of work after losing his wife and job. Lev's London is awash with money, celebrity, and complacency.

With eleven short stories, Sarah Orne Jewett's The Life of Nancy is a serene and heart-touching collection of 19th-century fiction. In A War Debt, Tom Burton finds himself stuck in Boston, as he is the primary caretaker of his grandmother. Though he has long given up the dream of a vacation, he is forced to a long trip to Virginia, when his grandmother admits guilt over possessing an item stolen during the war, and is desperate for it to be returned...

Maria wishes to be a dutiful wife, a task which should prove easy. She's eloped with Phillip Rendell, the knight about whom minstrels sing, and who saved the life of Edward II's half-brother, Richard of Sussex, at the Battle of Bannockburn. But Phillip will not happily settle as husband and lord of Fordwich Castle, and Maria fears he bears the mark of Cain, always seeking something more, something just beyond his reach. And while Maria still desperately...

"When Lady Phoebe Renshaw's sister Julia chooses to marry the much older and wealthy viscount Gilbert Townsend, it is clear the marriage is not a love match. On their wedding night, Julia and Gil have a heated argument aboard his yacht. The the next morning, Gil's body is found in the water and suspicion falls on Julia"--

"It's the spring of 1938 and no longer safe to be a Jew in Vienna. Nineteen-year-old Elise Landau realizes her only means of escape is to advertise her services as a domestic servant in England. Fate brings her ad to the attention of Christopher Rivers, handsome scion of the aristocratic Rivers family and master of Tyneford. An anxious Elise arrives at Tyneford and immediately falls under its spell. When Christopher's young son, Kit, returns home,...

The Rules of Enticement: A woman should never surrender to a man without knowing his intentions. A man should never seduce a woman for the purposes of revenge. Rules of Society After nine years, Hannah Setterington has decided to sell the Distinguished Academy of Governesses and explore the secrets of her past. To that end she has agreed to be a companion to the elderly aunt of Lord Raeburn, a man enshrouded by dark mystery and haunted by the rumor...