Ella Carey

Venice, 1943. How much will she risk to save the ones she loves? Evelina has already lost so much: her sons are away fighting, her husband is dead, and most of her friends have fled the little valley that once felt like home.

Annie quickly falls in love with the crumbling villa, and with the handsome gardener, Luca, whose eyes sparkle as bright as the Tuscan sun. Searching for any clues about her past, they discover a musty diary from 1944 hidden away in the basement of an old bookstore....

Paris, 1944. “Traitor!” yells the crowd as they push me down onto a stool. “Nazi collaborator.” Tears blur my vision as the razor grazes my scalp, waves of blonde hair falling to the ground. As men paint a swastika across my face, I hold onto one small glimmer of hope. They have no idea who I am....

Die Vergangenheit birgt manchmal mehr Geheimnisse, als wir uns je vorstellen können... 1946. Die junge Künstlerin Rebecca hat den...

Die kleine grüne Truhe stand im Kleiderschrank ihres Vaters. Ihre Scharniere waren aus Messing, das einst wunderschön geglänzt haben musste...

Der Triumph der Frauen. Paris, 1918: Vianne Mercier wünscht sich nichts sehnlicher, als Modedesignerin zu werden. Als ihre Familie von Verlust...

Die kopfsteingepflasterten Straßen waren dunkel, und Isabelle konnte kaum etwas sehen, als sie durch die Straße eilte und sich immer wieder...

Martha pulled the front door of her Fifth Avenue apartment closed and stood stock still, clutching the telegram. Her sister Charlotte was in France, and the news told daily of the growing threat of the Nazis. Fearing what the telegram might contain, Martha hardly dared open it....

Es war ein ganz normaler Morgen, als das kleine, in Paris abgestempelte Päckchen im Briefkasten ihrer New Yorker Wohnung lag. Es war in...

Berlin, 1946: Kate Mancini berichtet über die verheerenden Folgen des Krieges, die sie unmittelbar zu spüren bekommt, als sie ein...

Vianne rushes through the crowded streets of Paris as the German bombs begin to fall. As she rounds the corner she sees the familiar spires of the old church burst into flames. Too late, she realizes that her mother and sister are trapped inside....

Die Stunde der Frauen. New York, 1942: Immer mehr Männer werden an die Front gerufen, auch die Köche im Valentino's, wo die junge Lily Rose...

The truck stopped for a moment in the freezing, bombed-out street, and Kate caught sight of a little girl in a ragged dress on the steps of a once-beautiful mansion. The child’s eyes were startling blue, a pair of endless pools, drawing Kate towards her....

From best-selling author Ella Carey comes a stunning Second World War novel. The glitter, glamor, and danger of 1940s New York collide in this dazzling story about a young woman striving to survive in a world where everything is set against her....

Emma Temple sits looking out of the window in her beautiful apartment in the heart of London, surrounded by memories of her younger years as one of England’s most influential artists. Nearly 90, it would be easy to overlook her as a forgetful older lady....

1946. Young, beautiful artist Rebecca survived the devastating war that claimed the lives of so many of the men and women she grew up with. Her friends have returned as empty shells or not at all. But although peace has been declared, Rebecca is still fighting at home....

England, 1895. Louisa West, a young beauty from Boston, looks like she has it all: a handsome husband in Henry, she is lady of Ashworth Manor, and one day she’ll be a duchess. But in truth, her life is falling apart....

1939, Berlin. Max Albrecht is the young and handsome heir to a beautiful house on a lake where he spent his happy childhood. As war approaches, his parents tell him he must join the Nazi party or the whole family will be killed....

The parcel arrived on an ordinary morning in the mailbox of her New York apartment, postmarked Paris. It was wrapped in brown paper and tied with a silk ribbon. Little did she know that the old brass key and letter it contained were about to turn her life upside down....