Kerstin Kvist, a young nurse fresh out of school has been hired for a position with the Cosway family, residents of the Old Hall in Essex for generations. She is soon introduced to her "charge, " John Cosway, a thirty-nine-year-old man whose strange behavior is vaguely explained by his mother and sisters as part of the madness that runs in the family. Bitter wrangling among Julia Cosway and her four grown daughters becomes increasingly evident. But...

In order to save her beloved home at Friarsgate, Elizabeth Meredith find a suitable husband in the court of King Henry VIII. Impatient with fancy manners and careful speech, she befriends Anne Boleyn and flirts with Flynn Stewart, bastard brother of King James of Scotland. Her admitted weakness for Scots sends her into the arms of Baen MacColl, but she fears that his loyalties may lie elsewhere.

"Summoned to the Marquis d'Arc's remote French chateau in 1882 as companion to his daughter Lucy, twenty-year-old American Ellen Edmon finds intrigue, romance, adventure, and danger there and in Paris, heart of the French fashion scene. Once there, Ellen discovers that everything is not as it appears on the surface, and also finds herself falling for the attractive estate manager, who carries secrets of his own. As the tension grows more unbearable,...

"Set in early 1941 in Britain when the war seems endless and, perhaps, hopeless. London is on fire from the Blitz, and gardener Gwen Davis has fled the devastated city for the Devon countryside. She volunteers for the Women's Land Army, an organization devoted to growing crops for the war effort." -- Jacket.