Historical Manners

May-Day is coming and the village is bustling with preparations—and mishaps. Vivienne seems to be the continued target of strange attacks as she navigates an unexpected friendship with a young woman who shares her own unnatural power. Will, though encouraged by his mentor to leave on another secret mission, is determined to stay and keep Vivienne safe—even if that means tolerating the presence of Tom, his housekeeper's mischievous, portal-hopping nephew who insists on being the friend Will never asked for. When Tom helps Vivienne open her locket and Will discovers his great-...

Fourteen-year-old Lisa Jura was a musical prodigy who hoped to become a concert pianist. But when Hitler's armies advanced on pre-war Vienna, Lisa's parents were forced to make a difficult decision. Able to secure passage for only one of their three daughters through the Kindertransport, they chose to send gifted Lisa to London for safety. As she yearned to be reunited with her family while she lived in a home for refugee children on Willesden Lane, Lisa's music became a beacon of hope.

Colorado, Winter 1879. Der junge Arzt Allan Kerrish ist auf der Flucht vor den Männern von Senator Cahill. Auf seinem Weg durch die verschneite Landschaft rettet er Catherine Archer das Leben. Ihr Mann wurde ermordet, und die Täter sind mit der Besitzurkunde für die Archer-Goldmine über alle Berge. Der Doktor und die Witwe landen in dem trostlosen Goldgräbernest Three Oaks - einem gesetzlosen Ort, in dem allein das Recht des Stärkeren zählt. Folge 6 - Cahills Männer: In einem blutigen Kampf haben Jordans Männer das Camp der Goldgräber eingenommen.

When Amy and Effie Tribble, two charming but impoverished spinster sisters, lose out on an inheritance, they place this advertisement in The Morning Post and hire themselves out as professional chaperones. Fiona has been sent to them by her guardians as a last resort, for at 19, the beautiful and wealthy Scottish heiress still has no prospect of a suitable marriage. The Tribbles are puzzled, however, by their charge's demure perfection, until they take her to her first ball and they are forced to confront the truth about her past!

1348: Auf der Flucht vor ihrem gewalttätigen Mann findet Gemma Schutz bei einer vermögenden Witwe...

England, September 1939: Lily Shepherd boards a cruise liner for a new life in Australia and is plunged into a world of cocktails, jazz and glamorous friends. But as the sun beats down, poisonous secrets begin to surface. Suddenly Lily finds herself trapped with nowhere to go.... Australia, six-weeks later: The world is at war, the cruise liner docks, and a beautiful young woman is escorted onto dry land in handcuffs. What has she done?

London, the 1720s. Welcome to Romeville, the underworld of that great city. The financial crash caused by the South Sea Bubble sees the rise of Jonathan Wild, self-styled Thief-taker General who purports to keep the peace while brutally controlling organised crime. Only two people truly defy him: Jack Sheppard, apprentice turned house-breaker, and his lover, the notorious whore and pickpocket Edgworth Bess.