New Releases by Lauren Willig

Based on the true story of a famous trial, this novel is Law and Order: 1800, as Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr investigate the shocking murder of a young woman who everyone—and no one—seemed to know. At the start of a new century, a shocking murder transfixes Manhattan, forcing bitter rivals Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr to work together to save a man from the gallows. Just before Christmas 1799, Elma Sands slips out of her Quaker cousin’s boarding house—and doesn’t come home. Has she eloped? Run away? No one knows—until her body appears in the Manhattan Well. Her family insists they know who killed her. Handbills circulate around the city accusing a carpenter named Levi Weeks of seducing and murdering Elma. But privately, quietly, Levi’s wealthy brother calls in a special favor…. Aaron Burr’s legal practice can’t finance both his expensive tastes and his ambition to win the 1800 New York elections. To defend Levi Weeks is a double win: a hefty fee plus a chance to grab headlines. Alexander Hamilton has his own political aspirations; he isn’t going to let Burr monopolize the public’s attention. If Burr is defending Levi Weeks, then Hamilton will too. As the trial and the election draw near, Burr and Hamilton race against time to save a man’s life—and destroy each other. Part murder mystery, part thriller, part true crime, The Girl From Greenwich Street revisits a dark corner of history—with a surprising twist ending that reveals the true story of the woman at the center of the tale.

"A pure delight from start to finish! Williams, White and Willig are in top form in this clever, engrossing whodunnit with a heart.” --Lisa Unger, New York Times bestselling author of The New Couple in 5B Agatha Christie meets Murder, She Wrote in this witty locked room mystery and literary satire by New York Times bestselling team of novelists: Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White. There’s been a sensational murder at historic Castle Kinloch, a gothic fantasy of grey granite on a remote island in the Highlands of Scotland. Literary superstar Brett Saffron Presley has been found dead—under bizarre circumstances—in the castle tower’s book-lined study. Years ago, Presley purchased the castle as a showpiece for his brand and to lure paying guests with a taste for writerly glamour. Now it seems, the castle has done him in…or, possibly, one of the castle’s guests has. Detective Chief Inspector Euan McIntosh, a local with no love for literary Americans, finds himself with the unenviable task of extracting statements from three American lady novelists. The prime suspects are Kat de Noir, a slinky erotica writer; Cassie Pringle, a Southern mom of six juggling multiple cozy mystery series; and Emma Endicott, a New England blue blood and author of critically acclaimed historical fiction. The women claim to be best friends writing a book together, but the authors’ stories about how they know Brett Saffron Presley don’t quite line up, and the detective is getting increasingly suspicious. Why did the authors really come to Castle Kinloch? And what really happened the night of the great Kinloch ceilidh, when Brett Saffron Presley skipped the folk dancing for a rendezvous with death? A crafty locked-room mystery, a pointed satire about the literary world, and a tale of unexpected friendship and romance—this novel has it all, as only three bestselling authors can tell it!

New York Times Bestseller "Nagy ívű, pazar regény, fantasztikus olvasmány." - Good Morning America 2019: Egy népszerű valóságshow keretei között újítanak fel mutatós régi házakat, a legfrissebb kiszemelt a Rhode Island-i Newportban található Sprague Hall - de a műsor producere aknára fut: jelenleg is a patinás Sprague család leszármazottja, Lucia "Lucky" Sprague lakik a villában, aki csak azzal a feltétellel engedélyezi a forgatást, hogy a romos állapotban levő csónakházhoz nem szabad hozzányúlni. 1899: Énektanárt vesznek fel a Sprague-vagyon naiv, ifjú örökösnője mellé, akit a család egy hozományvadász olasz herceghez szeretne feleségül adni, ezért a fiatal nőnek el kell sajátítania a tökéletes illemet. Az énektanárnak azonban a szolid látszat ellenére megvan a maga pikáns múltja: tulajdonképp búvóhelynek választotta a Sprague Hallt. 1958: Lucia "Lucky" Sprague Mussolini Olaszországából menekült Newportba. Mindig is úgy érezte, nem tartozik a Sprague Hallba, noha a Rhode Island-i közeg apránként befogadta: a nagy múltú dinasztia utolsó sarja lett a férje. De egy sorsszerű éjjelen feltárul a villához tartozó régi csónakház titka, és Luckynak emiatt mindent át kell értékelnie. A valóságshow kamerái forognak, és a ház lerántja a leplet a titkokról, amelyeket a Sprague család örökre el akart temetni. A szerzőktől a Next21 Kiadónál megjelent: Annyiféleképp búcsúztunk (2021) Beatriz Williams A nyári feleségek, a Perzselő nyár és több másik - részben történelmi - regény New York Times bestsellerlistás szerzője. Seattle-ben született és nevelkedett, utána a Stanford Egyetemen végzett, majd a Columbia Egyetemen szerzett üzleti mesterfokozatot. Férjével és négy gyermekével a connecticuti óceánparton élnek, ahol az írás és a mosás között oszlik meg az ideje. Lauren Willig több mint húsz történelmi regény New York Times és a USA Today bestsellerlistás szerzője, amelyek közül a Rózsaszín Szegfű-sorozat a RITA-díjat is elnyerte. Miután a Yale Egyetemen diplomázott le, a Harvardon kapta meg a mesterfokozatát történelemből, majd a Harvard jogi karán jogászi végzettséget is szerzett. New Yorkban él a férjével, kisgyermekeivel és hatalmas kávétartalékaival. Karen White a New York Times és a USA Today bestsellerlistás szerzője. A Next21 Kiadónál megjelent könyve: Antikvitás a Royal Streeten (2023) Az általa "grit lit"-nek nevezett stílusban ír déli női regényeket, de két krimisorozat is fűződik a nevéhez, amelyek Charlestonban és New Orleansban, az amerikai dél ikonikus városaiban játszódnak. A londoni American Schoolban végzett, majd a Tulane Egyetemen szerzett természettudományi fokozatot. Amikor éppen nem ír, olvasással, zongorázással és a főzés kategorikus elkerülésével tölti az idejét. Két felnőtt gyermeke van, a georgiai Atlanta mellett él férjével és egy elkényeztetett Havanese kiskutyával. beatrizwilliams.com laurenwillig.com karen-white.com

“Filled with vivid details, shocking truths, and two sly, strong women who bring panache and humor to every scene. I’m simply in awe of the masterful, magical way Lauren Willig makes history come alive.” — Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Magnolia Place "A winning epic of war and friendship. Readers will devour this riveting tale."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) From New York Times bestselling author Lauren Willig: a dramatic coming-of-age story with a dual timeline and a single heroine—a bold and adventuring young woman who finds herself caught up in two very different wars on both sides of the Atlantic. September 1896: An aspiring archaeologist, Smith College graduate Betsy Hayes travels to Athens, desperate to break into the male-dominated field of excavation. In the midst of the heat and dust of Greece she finds an unlikely ally in Charles, Baron de Robecourt, one of the few men who takes her academic passion seriously. But when a simmering conflict between Greece and Turkey erupts into open warfare, Betsy throws herself into the conflict as a nurse, not knowing that the decision will change her life forever—and cause a deep and painful rift with her oldest friend, Ava. June 1898: Betsy has sworn off war nursing—but when she gets the word that her estranged friend Ava is headed to Cuba with Clara Barton and the Red Cross to patch up the wounded in the Spanish-American War, Betsy determines to stop her the only way she knows how: by joining in her place. Battling heat, disease, and her own demons, Betsy follows Teddy Roosevelt’s Rough Riders straight to the heart of the fighting, where she is forced to confront her greatest fears to save both old friends and new…. Set during an electrifying era of nation-building, idealism, and upheaval, Two Wars and a Wedding is the tale of two remarkable women striving to make their place in a man’s world—an unforgettable saga of friendship, love, and fighting for what is right.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "An engrossing and sumptuous tale, this novel is a fantastic spring read." — Good Morning America From the New York Times bestselling team of Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White—a novel of money and secrets set among the famous summer mansions of Newport, Rhode Island, spanning over a century from the Gilded Age to the present day. “Three stories elegantly intertwine in this clever and stylish tale of murder and family lies…This crackerjack novel offers three mysteries for the price of one.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) 2019: Andie Figuero has just landed her dream job as a producer of Mansion Makeover, a popular reality show about restoring America’s most lavish historic houses. Andie has high hopes for her latest project: the once glorious but gently crumbling Sprague Hall in Newport, Rhode Island, summer resort of America’s gilded class—famous for the lavish “summer cottages” of Vanderbilts and Belmonts. But Andie runs into trouble: the reclusive heiress who still lives in the mansion, Lucia “Lucky” Sprague, will only allow the show to go forward on two conditions: One, nobody speaks to her. Two, nobody touches the mansion’s ruined boathouse. 1899: Ellen Daniels has been hired to give singing lessons to Miss Maybelle Sprague, a naive young Colorado mining heiress whose stepbrother John has poured their new money into buying a place among Newport’s elite. John is determined to see Maybelle married off to a fortune-hunting Italian prince, and Ellen is supposed to polish up the girl for her launch into society. But the deceptively demure Ellen has her own checkered past, and she’s hiding in plain sight at Sprague Hall. 1958: Lucia “Lucky” Sprague has always felt like an outsider at Sprague Hall. When she and her grandmother—the American-born Princess di Conti—fled Mussolini’s Italy, it seemed natural to go back to the imposing Newport house Nana owned but hadn’t seen since her marriage in 1899. Over the years, Lucky''s lost her Italian accent and found a place for herself among the yachting set by marrying Stuyvesant Sprague, the alcoholic scion of her Sprague stepfamily. But one fateful night in the mansion’s old boathouse will uncover a devastating truth...and change everything she thought she knew about her past. As the cameras roll on Mansion Makeover, the house begins to yield up the dark secrets the Spragues thought would stay hidden forever….

Szerelem a párizsi Ritz szállóban "Szerelem és árulás, veszteség és révbe érés - éppoly időtlen és nagyszabású történet, mint a legendás Ritz szálló maga." – Pam Jenoff, az Elvesztek Párizsban című New York Times bestseller szerzője Az örökösnő A Szabad Francia Erők harcosa Az özvegy ... Három nő, akiknek egy pompás szállodában forr egybe a sorsa Franciaország, 1914. A németek elfoglalják és főhadiszállásnak használják Sigismund de Courcelles gróf ősi családi birtokát. A gróf lánya, Aurelie már ismeri a német őrnagy szárnysegédjét, Maximilian Von Sternburgot: Párizsban, elsőbálozóként találkozott a feltűnően jóképű fiatal tiszttel. A háborúban ugyan ellentétes oldalakon állnak, mégis fellobban köztük a szerelem. Franciaország, 1942. Marguerite „Daisy” Villont rettenthetetlen, szabad szellemű amerikai nagymamája nevelte, a fényűző Ritz szállóban laktak. Daisy Párizs eleste után is a városban marad lányával és férjével, aki náci kollaboráns. Nagymamája a Szabad Francia Erőket, az ellenállást segíti, és Daisy eleinte nem szívesen kockáztatná családja biztonságát, de végül belemegy, hogy futárként összeköttetésbe lépjen egy ügyes angol hamisítóval, akit Legrand néven ismernek. Daisy egyre mélyebben bevonódik Legrand titkos hálózatának munkájába. Franciaország, 1964. Barbara „Babs” Langfordnak meghalt a férje, Kit, aki élete nagy szerelme volt. A gyászoló özvegyhez becsönget egy amerikai ügyvéd. Andrew „Drew” Bowdoint azzal bízták meg, hogy kutassa fel a francia ellenállás egyik harcosát. La Fleur rejtélyes nő volt, állítólag árulóvá vált. Babst kíváncsivá teszi a nyomozás, és a szálak Párizsba, a Ritz szállóba vezetnek... Ahol olyan szívügyek tárulnak fel, amelyek mindenkinek meglepetést okoznak. Beatriz Williams tizenhárom regény szerzője, köztük a Nyári feleségek és a Perzselő nyár című bestsellereké. Seattle-ben született, most Connecticutban él, az óceánparton, férjével és négy gyerekével, ahol idejét az írás és a mosás meg a hajtogatás tölti ki. Lauren Willig New York Times és USA Today bestsellerszerző. Húsz regénye jelent meg, köztük a RITA-díjas Pink Carnation-sorozat könyvei. New Yorkban él férjével és két kisgyerekével, és ipari mennyiségű kávét iszik. Karen White New York Times és USA Today bestsellerszerző. Huszonöt regénye jelent meg, köztük a Hazatérés és a Köztes idő. Az USA déli államaiban játszódó női regényeket ír, és belekezdett egy Dél-Karolinában játszódó detektívregény-szériába is. Amikor nem ír, akkor olvas vagy énekel. Főzni nem szeret. A gyerekei már felnőttek. Jelenleg Atlantától nem messze laknak férjével és két elkényeztetett havanese kutyájukkal. „Mindhárom írónő lebilincselő karaktereket formál meg összetett kapcsolatokba ágyazva, és olyan hangnemet ütnek meg, amely illik az adott történetek korszakához... A cselekmény középpontjában álló csavar már önmagában véve is elismerést érdemel. Remek választás mindazok számára, akik egy olyan elmés történelmi regényre vágynak, amely bővelkedik a drámában, akcióban és meglepetésekben, végigkísérve annak minden fejezetét.” - Library Journal „A szerzők legújabb együttműködésének eredménye egy olyan történet, amely csupa szív és bonyodalom, és megragadja a női kitartást, illetve azt, ahogyan a történelem valamennyiünket összefűz.” - Booklist „A legtöbb embernek ritkán adatik meg, hogy egy igazi grandhotelben szálljon meg. Arra az időre belevetjük magunkat a luxusba, kifogástalan ellátásban van részünk, és megfeledkezünk a külvilágról egészen a kijelentkezésig. Nem különbözik attól az élménytől, amelyből az Annyiféleképp búcsúztunk történetének olvasása közben részesül az olvasó.” - Atlanta Journal-Constitution „Elsöprő erejű történelmi regény olyan nők lelki erejéről, akik lehetetlen élethelyzetekben találják magukat.” - Popsugar „Elegánsan megírt, sokrétű regény, amely az elbeszélés-központú narratíván keresztül villantja meg a három társszerző lenyűgöző irodalmi készségeit. Az Annyiféleképp búcsúztunk egy természetéből adódóan magával ragadó, többgenerációs olvasmány elejétől a végéig.” - Midwest Book Review „A történelmi regény három nagyágyúja egyesítette erőit, és megalkotott egy lenyűgöző kalandot, amely az I. világháború kitörésétől egészen az 1960-as évekig húzódik, miközben három nő történetét meséli el a híres Ritz Hotelben.” - Book Riot „Ez az alapos kutatásokon alapuló és összeszedetten megírt történelmi regény jól tükrözi a nőalakokban rejlő erőt, amint viharos időkben küzdenek a túlélésért.” - Orange Country Register „A történelmi regényírók triumvirátusa újból összeállt, hogy három nagyon különböző nő történetét meséljék el, akiknek élete összefonódik az évtizedek során a legendás párizsi Ritz Hotelben.” - Palm Beach Post

"A crackling portrayal of everyday American heroines…A triumph." — Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue A group of young women from Smith College risk their lives in France at the height of World War I in this sweeping novel based on a true story—a skillful blend of Call the Midwife and The Alice Network—from New York Times bestselling author Lauren Willig. A scholarship girl from Brooklyn, Kate Moran thought she found a place among Smith’s Mayflower descendants, only to have her illusions dashed the summer after graduation. When charismatic alumna Betsy Rutherford delivers a rousing speech at the Smith College Club in April of 1917, looking for volunteers to help French civilians decimated by the German war machine, Kate is too busy earning her living to even think of taking up the call. But when her former best friend Emmeline Van Alden reaches out and begs her to take the place of a girl who had to drop out, Kate reluctantly agrees to join the new Smith College Relief Unit. Four months later, Kate and seventeen other Smithies, including two trailblazing female doctors, set sail for France. The volunteers are armed with money, supplies, and good intentions—all of which immediately go astray. The chateau that was to be their headquarters is a half-burnt ruin. The villagers they meet are in desperate straits: women and children huddling in damp cellars, their crops destroyed and their wells poisoned. Despite constant shelling from the Germans, French bureaucracy, and the threat of being ousted by the British army, the Smith volunteers bring welcome aid—and hope—to the region. But can they survive their own differences? As they cope with the hardships and terrors of the war, Kate and her colleagues find themselves navigating old rivalries and new betrayals which threaten the very existence of the Unit. With the Germans threatening to break through the lines, can the Smith Unit pull together and be truly a band of sisters?

The New York Times bestselling authors of The Glass Ocean and The Forgotten Room return with a glorious historical adventure that moves from the dark days of two World Wars to the turbulent years of the 1960s, in which three women with bruised hearts find refuge at Paris’ legendary Ritz hotel. The heiress . . . The Resistance fighter . . . The widow . . . Three women whose fates are joined by one splendid hotel France, 1914. As war breaks out, Aurelie becomes trapped on the wrong side of the front with her father, Comte Sigismund de Courcelles. When the Germans move into their family’s ancestral estate, using it as their headquarters, Aurelie discovers she knows the German Major’s aide de camp, Maximilian Von Sternburg. She and the dashing young officer first met during Aurelie’s debutante days in Paris. Despite their conflicting loyalties, Aurelie and Max’s friendship soon deepens into love, but betrayal will shatter them both, driving Aurelie back to Paris and the Ritz— the home of her estranged American heiress mother, with unexpected consequences. France, 1942. Raised by her indomitable, free-spirited American grandmother in the glamorous Hotel Ritz, Marguerite “Daisy” Villon remains in Paris with her daughter and husband, a Nazi collaborator, after France falls to Hitler. At first reluctant to put herself and her family at risk to assist her grandmother’s Resistance efforts, Daisy agrees to act as a courier for a skilled English forger known only as Legrand, who creates identity papers for Resistance members and Jewish refugees. But as Daisy is drawn ever deeper into Legrand’s underground network, committing increasingly audacious acts of resistance for the sake of the country—and the man—she holds dear, she uncovers a devastating secret . . . one that will force her to commit the ultimate betrayal, and to confront at last the shocking circumstances of her own family history. France, 1964. For Barbara “Babs” Langford, her husband, Kit, was the love of her life. Yet their marriage was haunted by a mysterious woman known only as La Fleur. On Kit’s death, American lawyer Andrew “Drew” Bowdoin appears at her door. Hired to find a Resistance fighter turned traitor known as “La Fleur,” the investigation has led to Kit Langford. Curious to know more about the enigmatic La Fleur, Babs joins Drew in his search, a journey of discovery that that takes them to Paris and the Ritz—and to unexpected places of the heart. . . .

In De Ashford-affaire van Lauren Willig stuit advocate Clementine op een lang verloren familiegeheim over haar oma, die opgroeide op een prachtig Engels landgoed ten tijde van de Eerste Wereldoorlog. In De Ashford-affaire van Lauren Willig heeft Clementine Evans als advocaat in Manhattan bijna alles bereikt wat ze wilde. Totdat haar lange uren op kantoor hun tol eisen en zij single wordt op 34-jarige leeftijd. Als haar familie bijeenkomt voor de 99ste verjaardag van haar oma Addie, laat een familielid iets vallen over een lang verborgen familiegeheim. Clementine begint een zoektocht die haar leven al snel drastisch zal veranderen. Oma Addie groeide op in het Engelse landhuis Ashford Park tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog. Hier werd ze met haar mooie en extroverte nichtje Bea grootgebracht door haar aristocratische oom en tante. Addie en Bea zijn elkaars tegenpolen, maar closer dan zussen. Dan vertrekt Bea met haar man naar Kenia en wordt alles anders. Hun sterke band wordt hevig op de proef gesteld... ‘De Ashford-affaire is een traktatie. Het verhaal sleept je mee in de levens van drie generaties in één familie met een ingrijpend geheim. Lauren Willig spint een web van lust, macht en verlies.’ – Kate Alcott, New York Times-bestsellerauteur

Annabelle și Bayard Van Duyvil trăiesc o viață de vis în New York: el este descendentul unei vechi familii de knickerbockeri, ea a crescut într-un conac în stil Tudor în Anglia; au avut parte de o poveste de dragoste în Londra, iar el a recreat casa familiei ei pe malul fluviului Hudson și a numit-o Illyria. Da, există zvonuri că ea are o aventură cu arhitectul, însă zvonurile sunt zvonuri și oamenii vor bârfi întotdeauna. Dar Bayard este găsit mort, cu un pumnal înfipt în piept, în noaptea balului „A douăsprezecea noapte“, Annabelle dispare și se presupune că s-a înecat, iar ziarele se dezlănțuie. Sora lui Bay, Janie, formează o alianță improbabilă cu un reporter, pentru a descoperi adevărul, fiind convinsă că Bay nu și-ar fi ucis niciodată soția, dar cu cât află mai multe, cu atât începe să se întrebe cine erau, cu adevărat, fratele ei și soția lui... „Scrisă cu atenție la detalii și plină de nuanțe subtile, Soția engleză este o poveste întunecată și scânteietoare despre trădare, secrete și despre o căsnicie ce se destramă, care îi va ține pe cititori cu sufletul la gură până la final.“ Pam Jenoff „Un mystery romantic, întunecat, plin de răsturnări de situație.“ Library Journal

"Tense, atmospheric, and gorgeously written, The Summer Country is a novel to savor!" – Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Huntress and The Alice Network A brilliant, multigenerational saga in the tradition of The Thorn Birds and North and South, New York Times bestselling historical novelist Lauren Willig delivers her biggest, boldest, and most ambitious novel yet—a sweeping Victorian epic of lost love, lies, jealousy, and rebellion set in colonial Barbados. Barbados, 1854: Emily Dawson has always been the poor cousin in a prosperous English merchant clan-- merely a vicar’s daughter, and a reform-minded vicar’s daughter, at that. Everyone knows that the family’s lucrative shipping business will go to her cousin, Adam, one day. But when her grandfather dies, Emily receives an unexpected inheritance: Peverills, a sugar plantation in Barbados—a plantation her grandfather never told anyone he owned. When Emily accompanies her cousin and his new wife to Barbados, she finds Peverills a burnt-out shell, reduced to ruins in 1816, when a rising of enslaved people sent the island up in flames. Rumors swirl around the derelict plantation; people whisper of ghosts. Why would her practical-minded grandfather leave her a property in ruins? Why are the neighboring plantation owners, the Davenants, so eager to acquire Peverills? The answer lies in the past— a tangled history of lies, greed, clandestine love, heartbreaking betrayal, and a bold bid for freedom. THE SUMMER COUNTRY will beguile readers with its rendering of families, heartbreak, and the endurance of hope against all odds.

From the New York Times bestselling authors of The Forgotten Room comes a captivating historical mystery, infused with romance, that links the lives of three women across a century—two deep in the past, one in the present—to the doomed passenger liner, RMS Lusitania. May 2013 Her finances are in dire straits and bestselling author Sarah Blake is struggling to find a big idea for her next book. Desperate, she breaks the one promise she made to her Alzheimer’s-stricken mother and opens an old chest that belonged to her great-grandfather, who died when the RMS Lusitania was sunk by a German U-Boat in 1915. What she discovers there could change history. Sarah embarks on an ambitious journey to England to enlist the help of John Langford, a recently disgraced Member of Parliament whose family archives might contain the only key to the long-ago catastrophe. . . . April 1915 Southern belle Caroline Telfair Hochstetter’s marriage is in crisis. Her formerly attentive industrialist husband, Gilbert, has become remote, pre-occupied with business . . . and something else that she can’t quite put a finger on. She’s hoping a trip to London in Lusitania’s lavish first-class accommodations will help them reconnect—but she can’t ignore the spark she feels for her old friend, Robert Langford, who turns out to be on the same voyage. Feeling restless and longing for a different existence, Caroline is determined to stop being a bystander, and take charge of her own life. . . . Tessa Fairweather is traveling second-class on the Lusitania, returning home to Devon. Or at least, that’s her story. Tessa has never left the United States and her English accent is a hasty fake. She’s really Tennessee Schaff, the daughter of a roving con man, and she can steal and forge just about anything. But she’s had enough. Her partner has promised that if they can pull off this one last heist aboard the Lusitania, they’ll finally leave the game behind. Tess desperately wants to believe that, but Tess has the uneasy feeling there’s something about this job that isn’t as it seems. . . . As the Lusitania steams toward its fate, three women work against time to unravel a plot that will change the course of their own lives . . . and history itself.

From New York Times bestselling author Lauren Willig comes The English Wife, a scandalous novel set in the Gilded Age full of family secrets, affairs, and even murder. "Brings to life old world New York City and London with all the splendor of two of my favorite novels, The Age of Innocence and The Crimson Petal and the White. Mystery, murder, mistaken identity, romance--Lauren Willig weaves each strand into a page-turning tapestry."--Sally Koslow, author of The Widow Waltz "Her best yet...A dark and scintillating tale of betrayal, secrets and a marriage gone wrong that will have readers on the edge of their seats until the final breathtaking twist."--Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Orphan''s Tale A Book of the Month club pick! Annabelle and Bayard Van Duyvil live a charmed life in New York: he’s the scion of an old Knickerbocker family, she grew up in a Tudor house in England, they had a fairytale romance in London, they have three-year-old twins on whom they dote, and he’s recreated her family home on the banks of the Hudson and named it Illyria. Yes, there are rumors that she’s having an affair with the architect, but rumors are rumors and people will gossip. But then Bayard is found dead with a knife in his chest on the night of their Twelfth Night Ball, Annabelle goes missing, presumed drowned, and the papers go mad. Bay’s sister, Janie, forms an unlikely alliance with a reporter to try to uncover the truth, convinced that Bay would never have killed his wife, that it must be a third party, but the more she learns about her brother and his wife, the more everything she thought she knew about them starts to unravel. Who were her brother and his wife, really? And why did her brother die with the name George on his lips?

In a short story from New York Times bestselling author Lauren Willig, a woman discovers it’s never too late to make things right She''s the widow of the Aviator in the Iron Mask-- a British World War I hero whose exploits both on the field and off of it made the papers on two continents. But was their Armistice Day engagement really the romantic fantasy it seemed? A lifetime later, Camilla Frobisher is forced to retrace the steps of her past-- all the way back to November 11, 1918, the day her life changed forever.

New York Times bestselling authors Karen White, Beatriz Williams, and Lauren Willig present a masterful collaboration—a rich, multigenerational novel of love and loss that spans half a century.... 1945: When critically wounded Captain Cooper Ravenel is brought to a private hospital on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, young Dr. Kate Schuyler is drawn into a complex mystery that connects three generations of women in her family to a single extraordinary room in a Gilded Age mansion. Who is the woman in Captain Ravenel’s miniature portrait who looks so much like Kate? And why is she wearing the ruby pendant handed down to Kate by her mother? In their pursuit of answers, they find themselves drawn into the turbulent stories of Olive Van Alan, driven in the Gilded Age from riches to rags, who hired out as a servant in the very house her father designed, and Lucy Young, who in the Jazz Age came from Brooklyn to Manhattan seeking the father she had never known. But are Kate and Cooper ready for the secrets that will be revealed in the Forgotten Room? READERS GUIDE INCLUDED

In the final Pink Carnation novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Mark of the Midnight Manzanilla, Napoleon has occupied Lisbon, and Jane Wooliston, aka the Pink Carnation, teams up with a rogue agent to protect the escaped Queen of Portugal. Portugal, December 1807. Jack Reid, the British agent known as the Moonflower (formerly the French agent known as the Moonflower), has been stationed in Portugal and is awaiting his new contact. He does not expect to be paired with a woman—especially not the legendary Pink Carnation. All of Portugal believes that the royal family departed for Brazil just before the French troops marched into Lisbon. Only the English government knows that mad seventy-three-year-old Queen Maria was spirited away by a group of loyalists determined to rally a resistance. But as the French garrison scours the countryside, it’s only a matter of time before she’s found and taken. It’s up to Jane to find her first and ensure her safety. But she has no knowledge of Portugal or the language. Though she is loath to admit it, she needs the Moonflower. Operating alone has taught her to respect her own limitations. But she knows better than to show weakness around the Moonflower—an agent with a reputation for brilliance, a tendency toward insubordination, and a history of going rogue. READERS GUIDE INCLUDED

From Lauren Willig, author of the New York Times bestselling novel The Ashford Affair, comes The Other Daughter, a page-turner full of deceit, passion, and revenge. Raised in a poor yet genteel household, Rachel Woodley is working in France as a governess when she receives news that her mother has died suddenly. Grief-stricken, she returns to the small town in England where she was raised to clear out the cottage...and finds a cutting from a London society magazine, with a photograph of her supposedly deceased father dated all of three months before. He''s an earl, respected and influential, and he is standing with another daughter -- his legitimate daughter. Which makes Rachel...not legitimate. Everything she thought she knew about herself and her past -- even her very name -- is a lie. Still reeling from the death of her mother, and furious at this betrayal, Rachel sets herself up in London under a new identity. There she insinuates herself into the party-going crowd of Bright Young Things, with a steely determination to unveil her father''s perfidy and bring his -- and her half-sister''s -- charmed world crashing down. Very soon, however, Rachel faces two unexpected snags: she finds that she genuinely likes her half-sister, Olivia, whose situation isn''t as simple it appears; and that she might just be falling for her sister''s fiancé...

NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED! In the latest Pink Carnation novel from New York Times bestselling author Lauren Willig, rumors spreading among the ton turn deadly as a young couple unites to solve a mystery.... In October of 1806, the Little Season is in full swing, and Sally Fitzhugh has had enough of the endless parties and balls. With a rampant vampire craze sparked by the novel The Convent of Orsino, it seems no one can speak of anything else. But when Sally hears a rumor that the reclusive Duke of Belliston is an actual vampire, she cannot resist the challenge of proving such nonsense false. At a ball in Belliston Square, she ventures across the gardens and encounters the mysterious Duke. Lucien, Duke of Belliston, is well versed in the trouble gossip can bring. He’s returned home to dispel the rumors of scandal surrounding his parents’ deaths, which hint at everything from treason to dark sorcery. While he searches for the truth, he welcomes his fearsome reputation—until a woman is found dead in Richmond. Her blood drained from her throat. Lucien and Sally join forces to stop the so-called vampire from killing again. Someone managed to get away with killing the last Duke of Belliston. But they won’t kill this duke—not if Sally has anything to say about it. READERS GUIDE INCLUDED

From modern-day England to the early days of the Preraphaelite movement, Lauren Willig''s That Summer takes readers on an unputdownable journey through a mysterious old house, a hidden love affair, and one woman''s search for the truth about her past—and herself. "Willig reaches deep into her characters'' souls to depict tragedy, triumph and the depth of love." —RT Book Reviews (4 1⁄2 stars) 2009: When Julia Conley hears that she has inherited a house outside London from an unknown great-aunt, she assumes it''s a joke. She hasn''t been back to England since the car crash that killed her mother when she was six, an event she remembers only in her nightmares. But when she arrives at Herne Hill to sort through the house—with the help of her cousin Natasha and sexy antiques dealer Nicholas—bits of memory start coming back. And then she discovers a pre-Raphaelite painting, hidden behind the false back of an old wardrobe, and a window onto the house''s shrouded history begins to open... 1849: Imogen Grantham has spent nearly a decade trapped in a loveless marriage to a much older man, Arthur. The one bright spot in her life is her step-daughter, Evie, a high-spirited sixteen year old who is the closest thing to a child Imogen hopes to have. But everything changes when three young painters come to see Arthur''s collection of medieval artifacts, including Gavin Thorne, a quiet man with the unsettling ability to read Imogen better than anyone ever has. When Arthur hires Gavin to paint her portrait, none of them can guess what the hands of fate have set in motion.

NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED! Lauren Willig’s Pink Carnation novels have been hailed as “sheer fun”* and “charming.”** Now she takes readers on an adventure filled with hidden treasure and a devilishly handsome English colonel.... Colonel William Reid has returned home from India to retire near his children, who are safely stowed at an academy in Bath. Upon his return to the Isles, however, he finds that one of his daughters has vanished, along with one of her classmates. Because she served as second-in-command to the Pink Carnation, one of England’s most intrepid spies, it would be impossible for Gwendolyn Meadows to give up the intrigue of Paris for a quiet life in the English countryside—especially when she’s just overheard news of an alliance forming between Napoleon and an Ottoman Sultan. But, when the Pink Carnation’s little sister goes missing from her English boarding school, Gwen reluctantly returns home to investigate the girl’s disappearance. Thrown together by circumstance, Gwen and William must cooperate to track down the young ladies before others with nefarious intent get their hands on them. But Gwen’s partnership with quick-tongued, roguish William may prove to be even more of an adventure for her than finding the lost girls…. READERS GUIDE INCLUDED *New York Times Bestselling Author Christina Dodd **Kirkus Reviews

Des dels cercles íntims de la societat britànica fins als gratacels de Manhattan i els turons vermellosos de Kenya, els secrets d''una família es despleguen a poc a poc... Com a advocada en una gran empresa de Manhattan, Clementine Evans ha aconseguit tot el que s''ha proposat. Però les seves llargues hores dedicades a la feina li han costat el prometatge. I tot d''una, amb trenta-quatre anys, sent que la seva vida s''ensorra. Quan la família es reuneix per celebrar els noranta-nou anys de l’àvia Addie, un parent deixa algunes pistes sobre un secret de família enterrat durant molt de temps... L''Addie va créixer a la mansió d''Ashford Park, a casa dels seus aristocràtics oncles. Tot i ser tan diferents com la nit i el dia, l''Addie i la Bea, la seva bella i extravertida cosina, van créixer com si fossin germanes. Però quin secret guarden aquelles parets? “La pedra daurada d’Ashford Park resplendia al sol, la cúpula dominava el paisatge del voltant. Unes escales a diversos nivells duien a l’entrada principal, un portal enorme, empetitit pel marc de columnes idèntiques, eclipsat per un pòrtic triangular.”

«Cuando Downton Abbey se encontró con Memorias de África» BookPage «Una historia llena de matices, con ambientes y detalles que se despliegan como una tela tejida por una maestra de la narración» Kirkus Lauren Willig, cuyos bestsellers aparecen siempre en las listas de los libros más vendidos del New York Times, teje en Ashford Park una red de deseo, poder y pérdidas que nos lleva desde los cerrados círculos de la sociedad británica hasta los rascacielos de Manhattan y las arenosas colinas rojizas de Kenia, y desde la Primera Guerra Mundial hasta el mundo de hoy.

Feeling unfulfilled in the face of an imminent legal partnership and a broken engagement, Manhattan lawyer Clementine Evans learns of a long-buried family secret that leads her to the inner circles of World War I British society and the red hills of Kenya.

Lauren Willig''s Pink Carnation novels have been called "fun [and] fresh" (Kirkus Reviews) and "clever and playful " (Detroit Free Press). Now she introduces readers to a mismatched pair who find passion in the most astonishing of places... Secret agent Augustus Whittlesby has spent a decade undercover in France, posing as an insufferably bad poet. The French surveillance officers can’t bear to read his work closely enough to recognize the information drowned in a sea of verbiage. New York-born Emma Morris Delagardie is a thorn in Augustus’s side. An old school friend of Napoleon’s stepdaughter, she came to France with her uncle, eloped with a Frenchman, and has been rattling around the salons of Paris ever since. Now widowed, she entertains herself by holding a weekly salon, and loudly critiquing Augustus’s poetry. As Napoleon pursues his plans for the invasion of England, Whittlesby hears of a top-secret device to be demonstrated at a house party. The catch? The only way in is with Emma, who has been asked to write a masque for the weekend’s entertainment. In this complicated masque within a masque, nothing goes quite as scripted—especially Augustus’s unexpected feelings for Emma.

Veteran governess Laura Grey joins the Selwick Spy School expecting to find elaborate disguises and thrilling adventures in service to the spy known as the Pink Carnation. She hardly expects her first assignment to be serving as governess for the children of André Jaouen, right-hand man to Bonaparte''s minister of police. At first the job is as lively as Latin, but Laura begins to notice Jaouen''s increasingly strange behavior. As Laura edges closer to her employer, she is surprised to learn that she has much in common with him. And Jaouen finds he''s hired more than he''s bargained for...

Something is rotten at Harvard Law. As the frat boys take over the Law Review and the law school sorority, the Veritarts, bring hems to a new high and grades to a new low, the Dean is very strangely gone, leaving in charge one Arthur Agnelli, a scholar of unimpeachable reputation. When a popular lecturer is accused of having an affair with one of his students, 2L Megan Milner reluctantly agrees to try to intercede with Agnelli. But is Agnelli really what he seems? And will the Dean return before the free coffee runs out? In this tongue in cheek satire, the plot of "Measure for Measure" is transposed to Harvard Law.

When Lord Richard Selwick, the spy formerly known as the Purple Gentian, and his bride head home for the holidays, they find that far more than mince pie is waiting for them. Can the Purple Gentian save the holiday?

Despite her dear friend Jane Austen''s warning against teaching, Arabella Dempsey accepts a position at a girls'' school in Bath, just before Christmas. She hardly imagines coming face-to-face with French aristocrats and international spies. Reginald "Turnip" Fitzhugh-often mistaken for the elusive spy known as the Pink Carnation-has blundered into danger before. When Turnip and Arabella find their Christmas pudding yielding a cryptic message, they are launched on a Yuletide adventure. Will they find poinsettias-or peril?

A New York Times extended list bestseller in hardcover-the sensational sixth book in the national bestselling Pink Carnation series. Whisked away to nineteenth-century India, Penelope Deveraux plunges into the court intrigues of the Nizam of Hyderabad, where no one is quite what they seem. New to this strange and exotic country- where a dangerous spy called the Marigold leaves venomous cobras as his calling card-she can trust only one man: Captain Alex Reid. With danger looming from local warlords, treacherous court officials, and French spies, Alex and Penelope may be all that stand in the way of a plot designed to rock the very foundations of the British Empire... Watch a Video

Returning to his English estate to avenge his mentor''s murder during the 1803 Battle of Assaye, the duke of Dovedale infiltrates a secretive club where he encounters Lady Charlotte, who has loved him since childhood. By the author of The Seduction of the Crimson Rose. 40,000 first printing.