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A woman inherits a legacy of greed, guilt, and deadly danger when her father - a former SS Commander - bequeaths a priceless treasure. Twenty-five years after fleeing Germany, Paul Weiss lives a quiet life in Spain. Throughout his years of exile, he's kept a single photograph of a three-year-old girl. Now, he will set in motion a series of events that will reunite him with his long-lost daughter. All Paula Stanley knows about her father is that he...
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Louise de Bernard's long-ago past in Nazi-occupied France comes back to haunt her when a woman shows up on her doorstep demanding payback. On a tranquil tree-lined street in Paris, a woman exits a taxi. She has come from Bonn, Germany, on a mission of desperation and revenge. And in a house on the Rue de Varenne, a wife and mother is about to relive the past she thought she'd left far behind. In 1944, in Nazi-occupied France, circumstances forced...
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Katherine Dexter's brother is dead. It was heroin that killed him, but Katherine can't help but blame his death on the organized crime so rife in Italy. The drug trade may not make much money for the small-time pushers, the petty crooks, and the addicts. But for the men at the top - men like the Malaspigas, who run their yachts and their big houses on the profits of other people's misery - drugs are big money. The Bureau of Narcotics are determined...
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A former member of the French Resistance encounters an SS officer who interrogated her twenty years earlier in this novel that's part thriller and part love story Twenty years after World War II, at a smart cocktail party in New York City, architect Karl Amstat finds himself face-to-face with Terese Masson. A courier in the Resistance, then eighteen-year-old Terese had been questioned by SS officer Alfred Brunnerman. The scion of an elite family,...
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Max has been having the same dream ever since the end of the war. The horrifying final moments in the Führer's Bunker, the brutal beating, the dying man - and his last desperate words. Years later Max hears the same words on the lips of another dying man, and finds himself caught in a chilling search for Hitler's last legacy - the Führer's final evil bequest. The dream is no longer a dream but a nightmare, and Max must try to live through it...
6) The legacy
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When Christina Nordohl meets wealthy English widower, Richard Farrington, in Stockholm, it changes her life. They fall in love, and she returns to England with him as his wife. On his death twelve years later, Richard bequeaths Christina and her young daughter a great house, land, money, and a priceless Hebrew manuscript. But Richard's legacy comes with a downside in the form of his turbulent, hate-filled son, Alan, who has been disinherited. At his...
7) The relic
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Lucy and Dimitiri go against the KGB and death to bring St. Vladimir's Cross back to the Soviet Union and save the country from Civil War.
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Davina Graham series volume 2
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MI6 agent Davina Graham plunges into a hotbed of international intrigue when she penetrates the inner sanctum of one of the US president's top aides, and tracks an elusive criminal from the White House to Moscow to Mexico City.
Still reeling from the murder of her husband, Ivan Sasanov, at the hands of the KGB, British Intelligence agent Davina Graham has been called back into active service to head off a potential international crisis. The...
9) The legend
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Peter Arundsen is bored - bored with his conventional wife, and bored with his conventional city job. He hankers after his dangerous past, when he was a spy with the SIS, and cherishes his contact with ex-colleagues at weekend parties hosted by their old chief, Philip Wetherby. When one of these parties is overshadowed by news of a defection, Arundsen resists Wetherby's request to investigate. But he cannot resist Wetherby's beautiful and mysterious...
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A wife and mother becomes the target of terrorists in this mesmerizing thriller that sweeps from Iran to England to the South of France. Eileen Field, the unhappy, neglected wife of the chairman of the world's most powerful oil conglomerate, arrives in Tehran with her husband, Logan Field, for a reception honoring the Shah's minister of the economy. Logan needs the Shah on his side in order to win the bid to build a refinery in Iran. At the hotel,...
11) The assassin
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A woman swept into a dangerous world of international espionage can trust no one - least of all the assassin she has fallen in love with - in this intricate thriller by master storyteller Evelyn Anthony. When Elizabeth Cameron leaves Rome for the Middle East at her uncle Huntley's request, she has no idea that she's about to become a pawn in an international conspiracy that threatens her life and everything she believes America stands for. Huntley...
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In this book, Angela Drummond, a British nurse, and Steven Falconi, an American soldier and scion of a Mafia family, meet amid the ravages of World War II. They fall deeply in love, Angela becomes pregnant, and they marry. But Angela discovers Steven's Mafia connection and vanishes. Believing Angela to be a victim of a bombing, Steven, grief stricken, returns to America. They live separate lives, but neither of them can forget their wartime love....
14) Exposure
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When Julia Hamilton is hired as an investigative reporter and is to search the background of media tycoon Harold King, she finds secrets buried for fifty years.
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A widow attempts to fulfill her dead husband's last request-to enter his prize horse in the Derby-and plunges into a deadly world of blackmail, revenge, and murder Less than a year after arriving at his sprawling ancestral estate as his secretary, Isabel Cunningham marries the much-older Charles Schriber. But now Charles is gravely ill, and before he dies, he asks one last thing of his wife. Determined to honor her husband's deathbed wish, Isabel...
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The wife of a prominent British politician returns to Ireland to find her missing half-brother - and plunges into a hotbed of political unrest and murder. The wife of an important British Cabinet minister, Claire Fraser lives the kind of life that fills the society pages. But when the disappearance of her half-brother, Frank Arbuthnot, makes international headlines, she abandons her very public life in London to search for him in her native Ireland....
17) The doll's house
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A female Intelligence agent is dispatched to spy on a group of retired spooks engaging in international terrorism in this post-Cold War thriller. After three decades serving king and country, fifty-one-year-old Harry Oakham is put out to pasture with a miserly pension. But the former civil servant has his own ideas for his so-called retirement. He settles into a luxury hotel in the English countryside and rounds up a disgruntled crew of the world's...
18) The return
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A gripping, inventive thriller about justice and retribution set in Paris thirty years after World War II. Anna Martin is ready to put the past - and her unsuccessful marriage - behind her and start over with Nicholas Yurovsky. A titled aristocrat from a distinguished family that dates back to czarist Russia, Nicholas never talks about his past. Then Anna gets a call from her ex-husband. Left-wing journalist Paul Martin warns Anna about a plot spearheaded...
19) Blood Stones
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The diamond industry explodes in anarchy when a cache of rare gems is discovered in Russia in this intellectual thriller. At London's Diamond Enterprises, a major crisis is brewing: In the tundra of northern Russia, a newly discovered mine is producing a cache of flawless, five-carat red diamonds. These dazzling "blood stones" are beyond price, and powerful jeweler Ivan Karakov is about to sign an exclusive contract with Moscow to sell the gems. He...
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British history comes to vivid life in these three novels of royal love and intrigue by an international bestselling author. Victoria and Albert: Drawn from Queen Victoria's diaries and correspondences, Evelyn Anthony's novel reimagines the story of how a sheltered eighteen-year-old girl ascended to the British throne, became a major force in politics, and fell in love with her cousin, Prince Albert. Anne Boleyn: Sixteenth-century history comes thrillingly...
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