- Location(s): French Riviera (Cote d'Azur), Wengen
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1920s-Second World War
The beautiful bastide at Beaulieu-sur-Mer has always been an idyllic retreat for the Challant family, a place of glorious memories and sun-drenched summers. But the summer of 1928 changes everything. One humid, stormy night, a young local boy suffers...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): early 20th century
As World War I rages and the Romanov dynasty reaches its sudden, brutal end, a young jewelry maker discovers love, passion, and her own healing powers in this rich and romantic ghost story, the perfect follow-up to M.J. Rose...
- Location(s): Positano
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Modern looking back
Some loves are worth sacrificing everything for . . . Santina is spending her final days at her home, Villa San Vito, in the beautiful Italian town of Positano. As she decides the fate of the magnificent eighteenth century...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Early 1900s
It’s 1907 Los Angeles. Mischievous socialite Anna Blanc is the kind of young woman who devours purloined crime novels but must disguise them behind covers of more domestically-appropriate reading. She could match wits with Sherlock Holmes, but in her...
- Location(s): France
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Modern
At the age of eighteen Lucy Wadham ran away from English boys and into the arms of a Frenchman. Twenty-five years later, having married in a French Catholic Church, put her children through the French educational system and divorced...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC), Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Contemporary / 1800s
When Hollywood auctioneer Emsley Wilson finds her famous grandmother’s diary while cleaning out her New York brownstone, the pages are full of surprises. The first surprise is, the diary isn’t her grandmother’s. It belongs to Johanna Bonger, Vincent van...
The Secret Life of Syrian Lingerie
- Location(s): Syria
- Genre(s): Humour, Nonfiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
Syrian lingerie is racy attire little-known in the west. Manufactured in Syria and exported throughout the Middle East, it blinks, sings, vibrates, and flashes lights, and is adorned with everything from faux fir to artificial flowers and feathered birds...










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