Vanessa Lafaye

Rebecca Mascull

'Exquisite' Veronica Henry Before A Christmas Carol there was... Miss Marley A seasonal tale of kindness and goodwill

Miss Marley: a Christmas Ghost Story - a Prequel to a Christmas Carol

Tensions simmer as a small town, already divided by race, is torn apart by the deadliest of hurricanes . . . THE HELP meets TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD in this powerfully emotional and gripping debut novel. In the small town of Heron Key, where the relationships are as tangled as the mangrove roots in the swamp, everyone is preparing for the 4th of July barbecue, unaware that their world is about to change for ever. Missy, maid to the Kincaid family, feels she has wasted her life pining for Henry, who went to fight on the battlefields of France. Now he has returned with a group of other desperate, destitute veterans, unsure of his future, ashamed of his past. When a white woman is found beaten nearly to death, suspicion falls on Henry. As the tensions rise, the barometer starts to plummet. But nothing can prepare them for what is coming. For far out over the Atlantic, the greatest storm ever to strike North America is heading their way...

Summertime

1993, Key West, Florida. When a Ku Klux Klan official is shot in broad daylight, all eyes turn to the person holding the gun: a 96-year-old Cuban woman who will say nothing except to admit her guilt. 1919. Mixed-race Alicia Cortez arrives in Key West exiled in disgrace from her family in Havana. At the same time, damaged war hero John Morales returns home on the last US troop ship from Europe. As love draws them closer in this time of racial segregation, people are watching, including Dwayne Campbell, poised on the brink of manhood and struggling to do what's right. And then the Ku Klux Klan comes to town... Inspired by real events, At First Light weaves together a decades-old grievance and the consequences of a promise made as the sun rose on a dark day in American history.

Isle of Bones

Under a Dark Summer Sky is a stunning debut novel, at once a love story set in a time of great turmoil and a vivid depiction of a major natural disaster. Florida, 1935. In Heron Key, relationships are as tangled as the swamp's mangrove roots. It's been eighteen long years since Henry went away to war. Still, Missy has waited, cleaning the Kincaids' house and counting the stars. Now he's back, but she barely recognizes the desperate, destitute veteran he's become — unsure of his future, ashamed of his past. When a white woman is found beaten nearly to death after the Fourth of July barbecue, suspicion falls on him immediately. As tensions rise in the small community, the barometer starts to plummet — a massive hurricane is on its way. Based on real historical events,Under a Dark Summer Sky evokes what happens when people, sweating under the weight of their pasts, are tested to the absolute limits of their endurance.

Under a Dark Summer Sky

Una storia di bontà, gentilezze e fantasmi. Mentre guarda una casa di bambola nella vetrina del negozio di giocattoli, Clara Marley pensa che il suo desiderio più grande è sentirsi di nuovo parte di una famiglia. Ma questo ormai non può più succedere, perché Clara e Jacob Marley sono tragicamente rimasti orfani e vivono di espedienti nella Londra di inizio Ottocento, rubacchiando un tozzo di pane tra i rifiuti e dormendo per strada. Ogni notte, prima di addormentarsi, Jacob, il fratello maggiore, promette alla sorella: “domani andrà meglio”. E proprio per mantenere lapromessa, quando gli si presenta l’occasione, la coglie, anche se il prezzo da pagare è troppo alto. E così Jacob intraprende un cammino che lo porta a diventare socio in affari di Ebenezer Scrooge. Ogni giorno che passa Jacob costruisce una fortezza fatta di denaro per tenere il resto del mondo fuori. Solo Clara può salvarlo dall'orribile destino che lo attende se non permetterà all’amore e alla gentilezza di albergare di nuovo nel suo cuore..."

Il segreto del Canto di Natale

Les brumes de Key West

Meet Alicia Cortez: survivor, healer...murderer? 1993, Key West, Florida. When a Ku Klux Klan official is shot in broad daylight, all eyes turn to the person holding the gun: a 96-year-old Cuban woman who will say nothing except to admit her guilt. 1919. Mixed-race Alicia Cortez arrives in Key West exiled in disgrace from her family in Havana. At the same time, damaged war hero John Morales returns home on the last US troop ship from Europe. As love draws them closer in this time of racial segregation, people are watching, including Dwayne Campbell, poised on the brink of manhood and struggling to do what's right. And then the Ku Klux Klan comes to town... Inspired by real events, At First Light weaves together a decades-old grievance and the consequences of a promise made as the sun rose on a dark day in American history.

At First Light

Eine Zeit voller Hass und Ungerechtigkeit. Eine Stadt, so wild wie wunderschön. Und eine Liebe, kompromisslos und herzzerreißend. Florida, 1919. Die zweiundzwanzigjährige Alicia Cortez hat ihre Heimat Kuba schweren Herzens hinter sich gelassen, um in Key West Anstellung im Teesalon ihrer Cousine zu finden. Doch das Etablissement entpuppt sich nicht als das, was sie erwartet hat. Trotz aller Widrigkeiten baut sich Alicia in Amerika ein neues Leben auf – nicht zuletzt mit der Hilfe von John Morales, einem Veteranen aus dem Ersten Weltkrieg. Obwohl sie einander anfangs skeptisch gegenüberstehen, entwickelt sich zwischen den beiden rasch eine leidenschaftliche Beziehung. Als jedoch Rassendiskriminierung und Fremdenhass in Key West Einzug halten, wird bald schon nicht nur ihre Liebe auf eine harte Probe gestellt.

Roman

Das Haus des Kolibris

1993, Key West, Florida: When a Ku Klux Klan official is shot in broad daylight, all eyes turn to the person holding the gun - a ninety-six-year-old Cuban woman who will say nothing except to admit her guilt. 1919: Mixed-race Alicia Cortez arrives in Key West exiled in disgrace from her family in Havana. At the same time, damaged war hero John Morales returns home on the last US troop ship from Europe. As love draws them closer in this time of racial segregation, people are watching - including Dwayne Campbell, poised on the brink of manhood, struggling to do what's right. And then the Ku Klux Klan comes to town...

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