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When Tessa arrives at the little house by the lake with her two children, it is an escape. The rental house may be a bit small – but it’s theirs for the summer. A place to hide.... However, their isolation is disrupted by the family from the big house next door. Three children and their glamorous mother Rebecca – who seems determined to invite Tessa into their lives.

Wealthy, New York City girl Claire Lindell wasn't looking for a Christmas miracle or happiness when she abruptly decided to hole up for the holiday at her godmother's cottage in a little Yorkshire village, and lick her wounds, from a near disastrous romantic decision. After her car skids into a snow bank, Claire may have accidently found her perfect Christmas and the family and love she's craved, when she offers Noah Bradford of Ayesgill Farm help to push the back end of one of his sheep out of the icy mud, even if she's going to ruin a brand new pair of Prada boots during the rescue.

Two women’s lives are forever entwined by the love for the same child and by the agonizing choices they will both have to make. A Mother’s Choice will make listeners ask themselves what it truly means to be a parent and whether they could make an ultimately selfless decision when it comes to their child’s future.

Just like the whole town of Starr’s Fall, thinks Laurie Ellis – as she and her beloved dog Max head to collect the store keys. Maybe she has seen better days, too, but she’s certainly ready for a new start—and to leave her past behind. Still Laurie wonders whether she made a terrible mistake in coming to lovable but shabby Starr’s Fall. Will she even find customers for her pet store and bakery, never mind a community to welcome and accept her?

It only took a moment for everything to go wrong. In the blink of an eye, the birthday party became a nightmare when we heard the screams… How did this happen? And who is to blame? I’m so happy as I walk to pick up my son from the party. It’s his first since we moved here, and I know he’s found it hard settling in. Just as I’ve found it hard to make friends among the mothers at the school gates. But as I turn the corner, my heart stops. Instead of the picture-perfect birthday party I left earlier, there’s an ambulance.

"Ich möchte, dass Sie mich heiraten." Milly ist schockiert. Seit einem halben Jahr arbeitet sie als Haushälterin in der Villa von Alexandro Santos. Aber noch nie hat sie ihn gesehen. Jetzt macht ihr der geheimnisvolle Milliardär im Dämmerlicht des Salons dieses skandalöse Angebot: Er braucht eine Ehefrau und möglichst schnell einen Erben. Milly versteht überhaupt nicht, warum er nicht eine Frau aus seiner Gesellschaftsschicht nimmt! Doch dann wendet Alexandro sich ihr zu - und ihr wird klar, warum er sich ein halbes Jahr vor ihr versteckt hat.

Germany, 1939: When Rosa Herzelfeld boards the SS St Louis, she doesn’t believe its promise of freedom. Surely there can be no escape from the Nazis, not even on the other side of the world. Besides, she knows that no matter how far she travels, there is no escaping her past....

When Rachel Mowbray left behind her family farm in North Yorkshire at eighteen, she never planned on returning. But when her ex-childhood sweetheart calls and insists she returns due to her father's declining health, she travels north. Every moment home reminds Rachel why she left—her sister Harriet is both hostile and cold, her father barely communicates with anyone, and the house feels stuck in time. Plus, her old neighbor and ex, sheep farmer Ben Mackey, still has the power to make her pulse race…a decidedly unwelcome realization!

Libby Trent has worked hard to make a good life for herself. She has a happy, messy home in Virginia, full of family and laughter. And a job she’s enormously proud of at a charity helping the disadvantaged, that suits her strong sense of what’s right and wrong. But everything changes the day she’s contacted by a government official asking questions about a man named Hans Brenner, a Nazi who escaped Germany after the Second World War. A war criminal guilty of the most heinous deeds. And the man they suspect is Libby’s own father.

The Penryn family have always been eccentric—living in a dilapidated castle in the wilds of Cumbria with an orchid-mad father and a classicist mother who likes to re-enact Greek myths, who wouldn’t be? Well-heeled Londoner Althea Penryn doesn’t expect a divorce and job hunt over the Christmas holidays, but her husband claims he’s done and the prenup is solid. She packs up her reluctant teenage children and heads home to Casterglass Castle to confront the ghosts of her past—including the real one her mother claims lives in the old guard tower.

Poruszająca historia o odwadze trzech sióstr, które zaryzykują wszystko, włącznie z własnym życiem, by ocalić ukochanych ludzi i kraj przed niewyobrażalnym złem nazistowskich rządów. ROK 1938, AUSTRIA. Johanna, Birgit i Lotte wiodą spokojne życie, pracując w warsztacie zegarmistrzowskim ojca i pomagając mamie w prowadzeniu domu. W kraju zachodzą zmiany. Każdego dnia ich serca są łamane na nowo, a życie ukochanych przyjaciół i rodziny jest zagrożone.

When Rosie Lyman and her cousin Violet join the Canadian Women’s Army Corps, Rosie is uncertain about leaving her life in Ontario behind and entering a new and challenging world of duty and service. From the moment Rosie signs up, the intensity of the work pushes all thoughts of home from her mind. And when she is selected for officer training and a placement overseas in London, Rosie finds herself swept up into an exciting world of classified postings she could never have imagined....

England, 1868: Orphaned and penniless, eighteen-year-old Sarah is left the sole guardian of her beloved little sister Lucy—who she’s vowed to protect at all costs. With nowhere left to turn, she is forced to accept mysterious widower James Mills’s proposal of marriage. She believes being his bride can’t possibly be as bad as the threat of the workhouse. But nothing prepares her for the darkness of her marriage, the shocking secrets of her new family, and the lengths she will have to go to keep her sister safe…

England, 1918. As war ends, across the world people are trying to heal and recover. But Eleanor still feels broken. The loss of her beloved brother, killed just days before the Armistice was signed, feels impossibly unjust. Spending her time in the neglected garden behind their house, she fears her heart will never recover. Then her father hires a man to help restore the garden to its former glory.

England, 1766: Abigail is happily married to James, a tobacco trader turned sea captain, and is looking forward to starting a family and settling down in Whitehaven, deep in the Lake District. But after a series of devastating losses, she finds herself in turmoil, with her future suddenly seeming unknown…

"Sie gehört zu mir!" Milliardär Rico Falcone weiß genau, dass die hinreißende Fremde kein geladener Gast der Party ist. Doch ihr exotischer Zauber fasziniert ihn. Also gibt er sie als seine Begleitung aus - und lädt sie kurzerhand in sein Penthouse über den Dächern von Rom ein. Doch kaum hat er sie sinnlich verführt, verschwindet sie schon wieder spurlos aus seinem Leben. Die Erinnerung an das Gefühl, sie in seinen Armen zu halten, lässt Rico nicht los! Himmel und Hölle setzt er in Bewegung, um die namenlose Schöne wiederzufinden.

Seit drei Jahren ist Daisy mit dem griechischen Multimilliardär Matteo Dias verheiratet. Und genauso lange lebt sie allein auf einer Insel in der Ägäis; eine unglückliche, einsame Braut, denn von Liebe war bei ihrem Arrangement keine Sekunde die Rede! Doch nun überrascht sie ihren gefühlskalten Ehemann in Athen und stellt ihm ein Ultimatum. Sie verlangt etwas von ihm, das die sorgsam errichtete Mauer um Matteos Herz gefährlich zum Wanken bringt: Sie will endlich eine Hochzeitsnacht, eine Familie - eine echte Ehe, entgegen aller Abmachungen.

When Sophie Weiss boards the SS St Louis, she has no reason to stay in Germany. The Nazis have taken everything from her, and her only hope is escape. But when she meets fellow Jewish refugees Rosa, Hannah and Rachel on board, the friendship they form gives Sophie hope that there can be happiness in her future, after all.

When Rosie Lyman travels to the Lake District as a volunteer to help children rescued from the horror of the concentration camps after World War II, she hopes that by caring for the young orphans, she can distract herself from the loss of the man she loves and her beloved daughter.

Persephone is the youngest Penryn, and she’s always felt like an afterthought. As her siblings ventured out one by one, she was left behind, learning to rely on herself. Now that they’ve all returned and are on a mission to save their home, she’s reluctantly falling in with their plans and keeping her distance, especially when an Oxford-educated intern arrives wanting to learn how to save one’s ancestral home.