Kate Furnivall

Malaya, 1941. Connie Thornton plays her role as a dutiful wife and mother without complaint. She is among the fortunate after all-the British rubber plantation owners reaping the benefits of the colonial life. But Connie feels as though she is oppressed, crippled by boredom, sweltering heat, a loveless marriage. . . Then, in December, the Japanese invade. Connie and her family flee, sailing south on their yacht toward Singapore, where the British are certain to stand firm against the Japanese. En route, in the company of friends, they learn that Singapore is already under siege. Tensions mount, tempers flare, and the yacht's inhabitants are driven by fear. Increasingly desperate and short of food, they are taken over by a pirate craft and its Malayan crew making their perilous way from island to island. When a fighter plane crashes into the sea, they rescue its Japanese pilot. For Connie, that's when everything changes. In the suffocating confines of the boat with her life upended, Connie discovers a new kind of freedom and a new, dangerous, exhilarating love.

Fabulously evocative fiction - epic drama and romance Davinsky Labour Camp, Siberia, 1933: Sofia Morozova knows she has to escape...

Davinsky Labor Camp, Siberia, 1933: Only two things in this wretched place keep Sofia from giving up hope: the prospect of freedom, and the stories told by her friend and fellow prisoner Anna, of a charmed childhood in Petrograd, and her fervent girlhood love for a passionate revolutionary named Vasily After a perilous escape, Sofia endures months of desolation and hardship...

Una historia de amor apasionante en el nacimiento de la China comunista.Año 1928. Exiliadas de Rusia tras la revolución bolchevique, Lydia y su madre han hallado refugio en China. La ruina económica las acecha, y Lydia recurre al robo. Cuando un valioso collar de rubies desaparece, Chang An Lo, amenazado por las tropas que van a la caza de comunistas, la salva de una muerte segura. Obligados a enfrentarse al comercio del opio, a la traicion y el secuestro, su relacion se vera puesta a prueba hasta limites insospechados. Apasionante historia de amor de gran exotismo Ambientada en un contexto historico fascinante: los inicios de la guerra civil china, con los enfrentamientos entre el Partido Nacionalista y el Partido Comunista . La inclusion de algunas subtramas como la de mafa de los narcotrafcantes de opio, que le añaden una accion y un ritmo que la convierten, por momentos, en una novela de aventuras.

Kate FurnivallJunchow, China, 1928. Lydia Ivanova has a fierce spirit. Nothing can dim it, not even the foul waters of the Peiho River. Into the river's grime bodies are tossed - those of thieves and Communists alike. So every time Lydia steals from someone to feed herself and her mother, she takes her life into her own hands. Lydia's mother, Valentina, numbered among the Russian elite until the Bolsheviks rounded them up. They took her husband but she managed to buy back her child and bring her to China. But survival is hard. Even though mother and daughter live in the Whites-only settlement, no walls can keep Lydia in. She escapes to meet Chang An Lo, who saves her life once and is bound to her for ever . But Chang has enemies who are hunting him down - Chiang Kai Shek's troops are headed towards Junchow to kill Reds like him. Their all-consuming love can only mean danger for them both, but they are powerless to end it ...

Set in the second decade of the twentieth century against the background of tsarist Russia, The Jewel of St. Petersburg is a dramatic story of love and courage, revenge and heartache in the last years of the Romanov empire. The heroine, Valentina Ivanova, appeared in Kate Furnivall´s bestseller The Russian Concubine.

Love and courage, revenge and heartache in the last days of the Romanov empire ...

La vida de Jessie Kenton una niña londinense de siete años, nacida en una familia de clase media alta gira alrededor de su hermano pequeño Georgie, que padece un grave trastorno emocional. Una noche, sin darle mas explicaciones, sus padres se llevan a Georgie y lo sustituyen por Timothy, un huerfano al que acaban de adoptar. Tras el dolor inicial de la separacion, Jessie se ira encariñando con Timothy, pero nunca olvidara a Georgie.Veinte años mas tarde, en 1932, Timothy se ha convertido en un prometedor egiptologo del Museo Britanico. Hasta que un dia desaparece misteriosamente. En compañia de Sir Montague Chamford un hombre incapaz de resistirse a una dama en apuros ni a la posibilidad de vivir una aventura, Jessie emprendera la busqueda de su hermano por Egipto, a partir de las pistas que ha ido dejando a su paso, inspiradas en los casos del famoso Sherlock Holmes.Jessie aun no sabe que Timothy ha forjado un extraño y duradero vinculo con Georgie, y que al intentar resolver la desaparicion de su hermano tambien acabara descubriendo lo que sucedio con el otro.

With beautiful blue skies, sandy beaches and glorious sunshine, the Bahamas is a slice of heaven. But in 1943, the world is at war and even paradise isn''t safe . . .Twenty-three-year-old Dodie Wyatt thought she had escaped her turbulent past - but one night her peace is shattered when she chooses to help a man she finds stabbed in an alleyway.On the other side of Nassau, wealthy diplomat''s wife Ella Stanford plays the role she has been born into, throwing herself into charitable work and charming her husband''s powerful friends. But she has secrets to keep - and those secrets could put her life in danger.When one of the richest men in the world is found dead, these two very different women - Dodie, a shy introvert, and Ella, a confident socialite - are drawn together. With the unstable island spiralling into violence, deceit, greed and death, Dodie and Ella have only each other to rely on, as their lives are torn apart . . .