Helen Bryan Boeken

Alice Osbourne, the stolid daughter of the late vicar, is reeling from the news that Richard Fairfax broke their engagement to marry Evangeline Fontaine, an American girl from the Deep South. Evangeline's arrival causes a stir in the village but not the chaos that would ensue if they knew her motives for being there. Scrappy Elsie Pigeon is among the poor of London who see the evacuations as a chance to escape a life of destitution. Another new arrival is Tanni Zayman, a young Jewish girl who fled the horrors of Europe and now waits with her newborn son, certain that the rest of her family is safe and bound to show up any day. And then there's Frances Falconleigh, a madcap, fearless debutante whose father is determined to keep her in the countryside and out of the papers.--Amazon.com.

Reeling from a broken engagement, adopted 19-year-old Menina Walker flees to Spain to bury her misery by writing her overdue college thesis on a 16th century Spanish artist. When she discovers that a tiny swallow in the artist's painting is the same one on a medallion that is Menina's only link to her birth family, Menina digs deeper into the swallow's significance and uncovers an adventure involving orphans sent to the New World after the Spanish Inquisition.

From Helen Bryan, international bestselling author of The Valley and The Mountain, comes the final chapter in her epic historical trilogy of love, loyalty, and family in the heart of Virginia. It's the dawn of the twentieth century, post-Reconstruction, in the Commonwealth of Virginia. From the ancestral blood and sweat of its settlers--the immigrants, the slaves, the Cherokee--a new generation strives for prosperity in the united township of Grafton. Across the unfolding decades, childhood friends, mothers and daughters, wives and lovers will have their bonds tested. New hopes and dreams lie beyond the river, and as allegiances are challenged, a harmonious community finds itself grappling with inevitable cultural change--change that creates a vast, opportune, and unpredictable new beginning for generations yet to come.

From Helen Bryan, bestselling author of War Brides, The Sisterhood, and The Valley, comes the second book in an epic trilogy told from multiple viewpoints--a story about the resilience, bravery, love, and unity that formed the foundation of the New World. The frontier of the Commonwealth of Virginia, 1783. In the years since the first settlers arrived, looking to build new lives, the township of Grafton has flourished. Together, European immigrants, Native Americans, indentured servants, and former slaves have established a tight-knit community. As time passes and America becomes a nation, Grafton is swept up in the tumult of the outside world. The Cherokees are rounded up and driven west. The Civil War leaves a long shadow. Newcomers make their mark, fortunes are won and lost, and loyalties are tested in the march of history.

Die neue Familiensaga von Helen Bryan, Bestseller-Autorin von »Fünf Frauen, der Krieg und die Liebe«. Eine fesselnde Geschichte über eine selbstbewusste junge Frau, über Mut, Solidarität und Liebe. Im schillernden London des 18. Jahrhunderts wird die verwöhnte Sophia, einzige Tochter von Lord Grafton, in die Gesellschaft eingeführt, um einen standesgemäßen Ehemann für sie zu finden. Doch bevor sie unter der Haube ist, stirbt der geliebte Vater und hinterlässt ihr außer Schulden nur eine Tabakplantage im fernen Amerika. Sie hat keine andere Wahl, als an Bord des nächsten Schiffes zu gehen, das Kurs auf die Neue Welt nimmt. In Virginia angekommen muss die junge Engländerin feststellen, dass das Leben auf der Plantage nicht ganz so einfach ist, wie sie es sich erhofft hatte. Doch mit Mut und einer gehörigen Portion Tatkraft stellt sie sich ihrem neuen Leben. Denn fortan ist es die nächste Ernte, die das Überleben sichert – und Sophia lernt, sich auf Menschen zu verlassen, mit denen sie in England nie auch nur ein Wort gewechselt hätte.