Teresa Crane Livres

A decade after her sister Isobel eloped with a wounded soldier to Italy, Poppy Brookes receives a troubling letter, summoning her to the neglected country estate they now share in beautiful Siena. Poppy soon finds a disturbing undercurrent in the marriage. The relationship between the sisters is also strained, as Poppy had nursed Kit back to health, and has never quite forgiven Isobel for ensnaring him. And when Poppy accidentally uncovers a terrible secret, her journey into love becomes eclipsed by a desire for vengeance that threatens to consume them all

When Carrie Stowe unexpectedly inherits her eccentric grandmother's Italian villa, she sets her heart on going to Tuscany. It could be her only escape from the mundane and suffocating routine of life with Arthur, her repressive husband. Arriving late at night and in the midst of a violent storm, she discovers that she is not alone. A young man is there before her, an enigmatic figure from the past: her cousin Leo, who had been missing for years, believed dead. As Carrie reads the secrets of her grandmother's diaries and the enchantment of the house exerts itself, Carrie finds herself irresistibly drawn to him. But what of her husband? And is Leo really who he appears to be?

This is the story of a middle-age marriage between an English woman and a Greek man. Her English composure compliments his Greek, masculine flamboyance and combined with their experience of previous marriages, they make a strong couple. Until she meets her Greek stepson and, against their wills, they fall in love. Found out by her own son she flees England to live with her husband in his Greek home - but he asks his son to live with them and the affair reignites. Meanwhile her own son is in financial trouble and he joins them, trading silence of a position with the Greek's mysterious import/export firm. However, when her husband finds her with his own son, violence flares and the father is found dead on a lonely road. His company turns out to have traded in Nazi loot and both sons had a motive to kill him...

Book by TERESA CRANE

Richard Brecon ist nicht ihre große Liebe. Doch Katherine fügt sich dem Wunsch ihres Vaters und willigt in die Vernunftehe ein. Als Richard aber noch vor der Hochzeitsnacht verschwindet, um einem mysteriösen Freund Hilfe zu bringen, schwant ihr für die Zukunft nichts Gutes. Tatsächlich gibt es mehrere dunkle Punkte in Richards Leben: Wer ist der junge Franzose Villeneuve, der sich ebensosehr um Katherine bemüht, wie er mit ihrem Mann verfeindet zu sein scheint? Und was treibt Richard immer in das geheimnisvolle Landhaus an der englischen Küste, wo er sich mit angeblichen Freunden trifft? Als Richard verdächtigt wird, am Raub der königlichen Schätze beteiligt zu sein, nimmt Katherine in ihrer Verzweiflung die Hilfe Villeneuves an, ohne zu ahnen, daß sie sich damit einem skrupellosen Entführer ans Messer liefert.

England, 1936: Als der 2. Weltkrieg seine Schatten bereits vorauswirft, bieten sich der heranwachsenden Allie Jordan neue Einsichten und Aufgaben, die aus dem verwöhnten Mädchen eine verantwortungsbewusste junge Frau werden lassen.