From the bestselling author of KATHERINE, this is the spellbinding story of a young French prince and a Cornish girl caught up in the intrigue of the 10th Century English Court.

Katherine comes to the court of Edward III at the age of fifteen, and she turns the head of the King's favourite son John of Gaunt. But he is married, and she is soon to be betrothed. A few years later their paths cross again and this time their passion for each other cannot be denied or suppressed.

Tudor England brought to life in all its glory and bloodthirstiness, now packaged as one of Hodder's 'Great Reads'

It is May of 1844. 18-year-old Miranda Wells receives a letter from Nicholas Van Ryn, a distant cousin, inviting her for a visit. Happily accepting the invitation, she travels to Dragonwyck, his manor of Gothic magnificence and eerie manifestations. What evil could possibly befall Miranda in a rich gentleman's house on the Hudson River?

Theodosia's father is Aaron Burr, Thomas Jefferson's vice president, most famous for his great duel with Alexander Hamilton. With charm and tenderness he holds sway over young Theodosia's heart, but his arrogance forces her to choose between the man he insists she marry and her love for a young soldier who will turn out to play a decisive role in her father's fate.

Amanda Lawrence, a sheltered young woman meets Jonathan Dartland on board the Bremen returning to America from Europe. Her father died of a heart attack sometime after the 1929 stock market crash, and she can't afford to return to Vassar to complete her studies. Jonathan, a mining engineer, is on his way home from a mining job in South Africa. He is different than the carefree playboy types she knows. His mother is part Apache Indian, and her family is somewaht scandalised when she falls in love with him. They marry and head off to Lodestone, Arizona where he has a new position as mine...

'The Hearth and the Eagle' is the story of the Honeywood family of Marblehead, Massachusetts. Most of the story takes place in the mid-19th to the early 20th century. Hester Honeywood is the young daughter of Roger, an ineffectual dreamer, and his practical hardworking wife, Susan. Hester, like many young people, longs for a more exciting life beyond the seacoast town where her family runs an inn, the Hearth and Eagle.