married people

Artist Edouard Lefevre leaves his young wife, Sophie, to fight at the front. When their small town falls to the Germans in the midst of World War II, Edouard's portrait of Sophie draws the eye of the new Kommandant.

Interior designer Zoe Luce, a woman who has the psychic ability to feel past emotions embedded in the walls of a room, hires private detective Ethan Truax to help when she senses one of her clients has murdered his wife, but she had not counted on Truax discovering her own deeply held secrets, and she had not planned to lose her heart.

"TV writer Georgie McCool can't actually visit the past -- all she can do is call it...because once Georgie realizesshe has a magic phone...all she wants to do is make things right with her husband, Neal..."--Back cover.

"The stranger appears out of nowhere, perhaps in a bar, or a parking lot, or at the grocery store. His identity is unknown. His motives are unclear. His information is undeniable. Then he whispers a few words in your ear and disappears, leaving you picking up the pieces of your shattered world. Adam Price has a lot to lose: a comfortable marriage to a beautiful woman, two wonderful sons, and all the trappings of the American Dream: a big house, a good job, a seemingly perfect life. Then he runs into the Stranger. When he learns a devastating secret about his wife, Corinne, he confronts her, and the mirage of perfection disappears as if it never existed at all. Soon Adam finds himself tangled in something far darker than even Corinne's deception, and realizes that if he doesn't make exactly the right moves, the conspiracy he's stumbled into will not only ruin lives-it will end them."--.

"This is 1775. With the War of Independence playing out across the colonies, young Seth and Mercy Abbott find their new marriage tested at every turn as the demands of the frontlines and the home front collide. Rather than rehashing the tales of the most famous men of the time, Rebels details the epic story of the colonists, explorers and traders, wives and daughters, and farmers and volunteer soldiers who, in a few short, turbulent years, created the brand-new nation of America"--Provided by publisher.

While visiting Paris in 1927, Aimee, a wealthy American, falls in love with Heinrich, a charming, yet penniless Baltic aristocrat. They marry, but life in 1930s Germany is bleak. Two years into World War II, Heinrich volunteers for the Russian front. Left to fend for herself in a country at war with her homeland, Aimee gathers up her children and flees the advancing Russian army on an epic journey to the country she thought she left behind. Her daughter, Sigrid, tells the story of her mother's life, as well as her own.

Contains the story of Ethan Frome, a New England farmer who is married to a hypochondriac, but in love with his wife's lively cousin, Mattie; and includes the novella "The Touchstone," and three additional short stories by Edith Wharton.

This novel centers on how the power of a person's culture can smother an individual's growth; Ethan Frome is a man tormented by a passionate love for his ailing wife's young cousin, and he is ultimately destroyed by that which offers him the greatest chance at happiness.