Shiela Joy

England, 1879. Annabelle Archer, the brilliant but destitute daughter of a country vicar, has earned herself a place among the first cohort of female students at the renowned University of Oxford. In return for her scholarship, she must support the rising women's suffrage movement. Her charge: recruit men of influence to champion their cause. Her target: Sebastian Devereux, the cold and calculating Duke of Montgomery who steers Britain's politics at the Queen's command. Her challenge: not to give in to the powerful attraction she can't deny for the man who opposes everything she stands for. Sebastian is appalled to find a suffragist squad has infiltrated his ducal home, but the real threat is his impossible feelings for green-eyed beauty Annabelle. He is looking for a wife of equal standing to secure the legacy he has worked so hard to rebuild, not an outspoken commoner who could never be his duchess. But he wouldn't be the greatest strategist of the Kingdom if he couldn't claim this alluring bluestocking without the promise of a ring... or could he? Locked in a battle with rising passion and a will matching her own, Annabelle will learn just what it takes to topple a duke.... A stunning debut for author Evie Dunmore and her Oxford suffragists in which a fiercely independent vicar's daughter takes on a powerful duke in a fiery love story that threatens to upend the British social order.

In dieser herzerwärmenden und bezaubernden Fantasy reist eine mürrische Professorin in eine kleine Stadt im hohen Norden, um Feenfolklore zu erforschen, und entdeckt dunkle Feenmagie, Freundschaft und Liebe. Die Cambridge-Professorin Emily Wilde kann vieles gut: Sie ist die führende Expertin auf dem Gebiet der Feenforschung. Sie ist eine geniale Gelehrte und akribische Forscherin, die die weltweit erste Enzyklopädie der Feenkunde schreibt. Doch Emily Wilde ist nicht gut im Umgang mit Menschen. Sie könnte auf einer Party niemals Small Talk machen – oder überhaupt zu einer eingeladen werden. Und sie zieht die Gesellschaft ihrer Bücher, ihres Hundes Shadow und des Feenvolks anderen Menschen vor. Als sie also im abgelegenen Dorf Hrafnsvik ankommt, hat Emily nicht die Absicht, sich mit den wortkargen Dorfbewohnern anzufreunden. Ebenso wenig möchte sie Zeit mit einem weiteren Neuankömmling verbringen: ihrem charmanten und unerträglich gut aussehenden akademischen Rivalen Wendell Bambleby, der es schafft, die Dorfbewohner für sich einzunehmen, sich in Emilys Forschung einzumischen und sie völlig zu verwirren und zu frustrieren. Doch während Emily den Geheimnissen der Verborgenen – der schwer fassbarsten aller Feen – im dunklen Wald außerhalb des Dorfes immer näher kommt, stößt sie auch auf die Spur eines weiteren Rätsels: Wer ist Wendell Bambleby, und was will er wirklich? Um die Antwort zu finden, muss sie das größte Geheimnis von allen entschlüsseln – ihr eigenes Herz.

A four-year-old girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that will remain unsolved for nearly fifty years July 1962. A Mi'kmaq family from Nova Scotia arrives in Maine to pick blueberries for the summer. Weeks later, four-year-old Ruthie, the family's youngest child, vanishes mysteriously. She is last seen by her six-year-old brother, Joe, sitting on her favourite rock at the edge of a berry field. Joe will remain deeply affected by his sister's disappearance for years to come. In Boston, a young girl named Norma grows up as the only child of an affluent family. Her father is emotionally distant, her mother frustratingly overprotective. Norma is often troubled by recurring dreams and visions that seem more like memories than imagination. As she grows older, Norma slowly comes to realize there is something her parents aren't telling her. Unwilling to abandon her intuition, she will spend decades trying to uncover this family secret. A stunning debut by a vibrant new voice in fiction, The Berry Pickers is a riveting novel about the search for truth, the shadow of trauma and the persistence of love across time.