"A novel of the friendship and creative partnership between two of Hollywood's earliest female legends--screenwriter Frances Marion and superstar Mary Pickford"--

Violet Hargreaves is the lonely daughter of a widowed industrialist, and an aspiring Pre-Raphaelite painter. One day, the naïve eighteen-year-old meets the mysterious and handsome Edwin on the beach. He promises her a world beyond the small coastal village she's trapped in. But after she ignores warnings about Edwin, a chain of terrible events begins to unfold for Violet... For thriller-writer Ella Daniels, the house on the cliff, where she's moved...

When Alice, a divorcee of five years, discovers a photograph among her late father's possessions, she wants to know more. Her father's handwriting tells her that the girl in the picture is her great-great-grandmother. The child on her knee, her son. Set in the county of Lancashire, and in two time-periods, the story of the girl in the picture, Mary Ellen, is of her time in domestic servitude. The contemporary story is an evolving love story between...

From acclaimed biographer Paula Byrne, the sensational true tale that inspired the major motion picture Belle (May 2014) starring Tom Wilkinson, Miranda Richardson, Emily Watson, Penelope Wilton, and Matthew Goode-a stunning story of the first mixed-race girl introduced to high society England and raised as a lady. The illegitimate daughter of a captain in the Royal Navy and an enslaved African woman, Dido Belle was sent to live with her great-uncle,...

What's a nice farmboy from Bookbinder, Kansas, tough but fair, doing as the only Private Eye in the South Pacific? A minor disagreement with the fine Police Officers of Cologne, Germany... 23 years as a Sergeant-Major in the French Foreign Legion... A sardonic eye for the vagaries of human nature... Nothing in Tahiti is too strange for Caneili! Included in this volume are: THE STOLEN GRANDFATHER FIRE IN THE ISLANDS THE MISSING HOUSE CRIME WAVE...

Why did Melinda's grandmother send her away so abrubtly? Years later, while visiting the old homestead, she finds a clue in an old photo album. Melinda can't believe her eyes. The little girl in the picture hasn't changed a bit in the last 50 years!

From the bestselling author of The Girl In The Picture comes a beautiful new timeslip novel. Berkshire, 1944. When Will Bates offers to take ATA pilot Lilian Miles to the dance, he sends her heart into a flutter. But as their relationship progresses, Lilian can't help but get cold feet. Deep down she's always known that the secrets locked in her past would weigh heavily on her future happiness... London, 2018. Helena Miles loves nothing more than...

From Matt Birkbeck, investigative journalist and executive producer of Netflix's #1 movie Girl in the Picture, a revelatory father/surrogate son story that takes readers deep inside the inner workings of the mob through the eyes of William "Big Billy" D'Elia, the right-hand man to legendary mafia kingpin Russell Bufalino, who ran organized crime in the US for more than fifty years. William "Big Billy" D'Elia is Mafia royalty. The "adopted" son of...

Don't miss the gripping new historical novel from the USA Today bestselling author of The Secret of the Chateau and The Forgotten Secret. A country rebellingIt's 1916 and, as war rages in Europe, Gráinne leaves her job in a department store to join Countess Markiewicz's revolutionary efforts. It is a decision which will change her life forever. A rebellion is brewing, and as Dublin's streets become a battleground, Gráinne soon discovers the personal...

When four lifelong friends travel to New Orleans for the annual Essence Festival, sisterhoods are rekindled, wild sides are rediscovered, and there₂s enough dancing, drinking, brawling and romancing to make the Big Easy blush.