In 1917, deep in the snowy mountains of occupied Korea, an impoverished local hunter on the brink of starvation saves a young Japanese officer from an attacking tiger. In an instant, their fates are connected, and from this encounter unfolds a saga that spans half a century. In the aftermath, a young girl named Jade is sold by her family to Miss Silver's courtesan school, an act of desperation that will cement her place in the lowest social status....

In the middle of a terrifying air raid in Japanese-occupied Taiwan, Saburo, the least-favored son of a Taiwanese politician, runs through a peach forest for cover. It's there that he stumbles upon Yoshiko, whose descriptions of her loving family are to Saburo like a glimpse of paradise. Meeting her is a moment he will remember forever, and for years he will try to find her again. When he finally does, she is by the side of his oldest brother and greatest...

What would you do if your life was a web of lies?Thirty-two-year-old celebrity, Sheetal Dhanraj, is married to millionaire Rakesh Dhanraj and mother to their eight-year-old son. The women of Raigun, India, envy Sheetal's good fortune and ability to balance career, marriage, motherhood and uphold Indian values to perfection.However, behind the closed doors of the marble Dhanraj palace Sheetal yearns for love but is trapped in an abusive and unfaithful...

DYNASTIES is a January 2023 International Book Of The Month Pick by the International Pulpwood Queen & Timber Guys Book Club Reading Nation "Dynasties kept me captivated from the first sentence to the very end. An enticing Downton Abbey-style saga but set in India! I simply adored it and I cannot wait to read the next book in the series. "-Barbara Bos, Managing Editor, BooksByWomen "With stories that take us into the culture and dynasties of India,...

The classic eighteenth-century saga-a masterpiece of Chinese literature- about an aristocratic family and a forbidden love during the Qing dynasty. Considered one of the four great classical novels of Chinese literature, The Dream of the Red Chamber is believed to be a semiautobiographical account of author Cao Xueqin and his aristocratic family's rise and fall, and focuses particularly on the women in his life, including servants. Originally circulated...

Newly graduated from high school with her whole world in front of her, Isabella has everything she could ever ask for until she meets Sebastian.A boy whose life is falling apart before his eyes.A boy who is not in high society and, therefore, her mother would never approve.A boy who seems to put her at ease like no one else has ever done.The Skyline Mansion series introduced Isabella and Sebastian in their late twenties after they had drifted apart,...

Tehran, Iran 1979: Simmering religious tensions explode and the Shah is forced to flee Iran. A British helicopter company-secretly owned by the Noble House of Hong Kong-with a fleet of helicopters registered in Iran faces bankruptcy if their copters are claimed or destroyed by the uprising. The pilots need to escape, but they've built lives in Iran, some even have families. Finnish pilot Erikki Yokkonen has married Azadeh, an Iranian woman of noble...