Susanna Burney

Marie Antoinette was a child of fourteen when her mother, the Empress of Austria, arranged for her to leave her family and her country to become the wife of the fifteen-year-old Dauphin, the future King of France. Coming of age in the most public of arenas-eager to be a good wife and strong queen-she warmly embraces her adopted nation and its citizens. She shows her new husband nothing but love and encouragement, though he repeatedly fails to consummate...

Master confectioner and benevolent witch Vianne Rocher trades the quiet life of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes for the crowded streets of Paris. Cloaked in a new identity, that of widow Yanne Charbonneau, she opens a chocolaterie on a small Montmartre street, determined to still the wind at last and keep her daughters, Anouk and the baby, Rosette, safe. But soon the weathervane turns ... and into their lives blows the charming and enigmatic Zozie de l'Alba....

On the night their mother drowns, sisters Marnie and Diana Maitland discover there is more than one kind of death. There is the death of innocence, of love, and of hope. Each sister harbors a secret about that night-secrets that will erode their lives as they grow into adulthood. After ten years of silence between the sisters, Marnie is called back to the South Carolina Lowcountry by Diana's ex-husband, Quinn. His young son has returned from a sailing...

Margaret Sullivan dines with politicians, rebels, and spies. She is an admired journalist with the Chicago Tribune publishing under a male nom de plume. Her unscrupulous husband is a prominent attorney and power broker with aspirations of his own. They are well-connected members of Chicago's 1880s Irish elite. On her trip to Ireland to research a book she is writing, Margaret meets a charming one-armed Irish rebel named Michael and finds herself attracted...

In Stuck, the author of the highly praised Party of One: The Loners’ Manifesto identifies a rather striking social trend: many people are stuck. Be it in the wrong relationship, the wrong career, the wrong town, or with the wrong friends, some of them even say they want to make a change but... somehow... never get the job done. A self-described “adolescent in size-ten shoes who is also a happily married homeowner with a master’s degree,”...

Her assignment leads her into the wilderness-right back to the man who stole her heart. Leslie Starr thought she'd left her past behind when she'd joined the Shifter Federal Bureau of Investigation. Unfortunately, the series of violent crimes she's investigating in Wyoming appear to target her best friend Grace, head of the SFBI… and the sister of her ex-fiancé, Roger. Leslie's never fit in with Roger's wolf pack. She doesn't do sweet, subservient,...

Harmonia Shae, a time traveler, faces a revengeful fallen sidhe queen set on enslaving humankind. A Sihir magician traps Harmonia's freewill inside a talisman forcing her to submit to three summonses. On the brink of death, she finds an unwanted champion in Tristan Avery. Upon awakening, she is in his house. Frightened, she scrambles to escape his overbearing need to protect her. Time is short, she must find the ambassador of the gates and return...

Discover the practical life skills you need to meet your goals confidently and assertively. Do you look around you and secretly envy teens who seem to have it all? Were not talking about money here were talking confidence, a positive attitude, and an array of practical skills that makes them seem mature beyond their years. Do you feel crushed by all the many roles you have to fulfillthat of a perfect student, cool class member, ace athlete, loyal...

They're caught between the fates of two worlds - and saving both realms may mean losing each other. Moira Naesatra has never felt like her fighting skills are up to par with the rest of her fae clan. Maybe that's why she runs a bakery in Pasadena, where human customers buy her mouth-watering confections...and receive a dose of positive magic as a bonus. When a dangerous side of her magic surfaces in dreams and premonitions, she has to rely on the...

Opposites in every way, but love casts a spell on them stronger than magic… On a mission to request help from the community of Zorith, April Lopez travels to Middle Earth, a subterranean world that may know how to prevent an evil sidhe with her sights set on Arizona from turning humans into mindless thralls. But the psychic visionary runs into a bigger problem days after her arrival: haunting visions of a past life she never knew of before. Desperate...