Evelyn Anthony
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A female Intelligence agent is dispatched to spy on a group of retired spooks engaging in international terrorism in this post–Cold War thriller
After three decades serving king and country, fifty-one-year-old Harry Oakham is put out to pasture with a miserly pension. But the former civil servant has his own ideas for his so-called retirement. He settles into a luxury hotel in the English countryside and rounds up a...
After three decades serving king and country, fifty-one-year-old Harry Oakham is put out to pasture with a miserly pension. But the former civil servant has his own ideas for his so-called retirement. He settles into a luxury hotel in the English countryside and rounds up a...
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Forced to wed a notorious Scotsman, a sheltered French heiress is drawn into a world of intrigue and debauchery as she battles for her husband's heart against a dangerous rival in this thrilling sequel to Clandara. Charles Macdonald has been given an ultimatum: To settle his gambling debts and avoid being sent to the Bastille, he must marry his cousin Anne de Bernard. Anne is beautiful, innocent, and the richest woman in France. Forced into a marriage...
3) Anne Boleyn
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Historical novel based on the life of Anne Boleyn, the second of the wives of Henry 8th, King of England.
4) Exposure
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An investigative reporter hired to expose corruption at the highest levels of the government uncovers a chilling link to World War II in this expertly crafted thriller. As investigative reporter for the Sunday Herald's high-profile "Exposure" column, Julia Hamilton exposes everything from corruption in high places to the mutilation and murder of five-year-old twin sisters in a small Welsh village. Now that Julia's proven herself, her boss, Lord William...
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An Englishwoman marries a Sicilian-American soldier during World War II and then vanishes from his life in this story of star-crossed love and deadly vendettas. They meet and fall in love in Palermo during World War II. She's an English nurse, the daughter of a Sussex country doctor. He's a wounded Sicilian-American soldier. When they marry, Angela Drummond is pregnant, but Steven Falconi will not be with her the day their son is born. Believing Angela...
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A widow attempts to fulfill her dead husband's last request-to enter his prize horse in the Derby-and plunges into a deadly world of blackmail, revenge, and murder Less than a year after arriving at his sprawling ancestral estate as his secretary, Isabel Cunningham marries the much-older Charles Schriber. But now Charles is gravely ill, and before he dies, he asks one last thing of his wife. Determined to honor her husband's deathbed wish, Isabel...
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Drawn from Queen Victoria's diaries and correspondences, Evelyn Anthony's novel reimagines the story of how a sheltered eighteen-year-old girl ascended to the British throne, became a major force in politics, and fell in love with her husband. When King William dies, his teenage niece Victoria becomes queen. In spite of her youth and lack of experience, the eighteen-year-old surprises her detractors by taking the reins with poise and grace, vowing...
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Louise de Bernard's long-ago past in Nazi-occupied France comes back to haunt her when a woman shows up on her doorstep demanding payback. On a tranquil tree-lined street in Paris, a woman exits a taxi. She has come from Bonn, Germany, on a mission of desperation and revenge. And in a house on the Rue de Varenne, a wife and mother is about to relive the past she thought she'd left far behind. In 1944, in Nazi-occupied France, circumstances forced...
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Imperial Russia's Czar Alexander I battles Napoleon for control of Europe. After declaring himself Emperor of France following a sweeping victory in Europe, General Napoleon Bonaparte, the son of a poor Corsican lawyer, is ready for his next conquest. He has no doubt that he can defeat Austria, and is confident that Russia will soon follow. After all, he triumphed in revolution and recast an empire. What has he to fear from the twenty-nine-year-old...
10) The Defector
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British Intelligence Service agent Davina Graham falls in love with the KGB defector she has been ordered to debrief in this cold war thriller. British operative Davina Graham's life is her work. Her latest assignment is her most daunting. For the past five months, she's been trying to gain the confidence of Ivan Sasanov - and against her better judgment, she's falling in love with him. Sasanov, a top KGB agent who defected to America, has an Achilles...
11) The Relic
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When Yuri Varienski, a Ukranian emigré, dies in Jersey, he leaves his daughter Lucy an object - and a great responsibility. Lucy must take the gold filigree cross she is bequeathed to Geneva, and deliver it into the hands of exiled former dissident leader, Volkov. Lucy innocently accepts her father's charge. But Volkov, broken by imprisonment, is not the man he used to be. And there are other people who wish to possess the cross too. For the object...
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Three novels by the prize-winning international-bestselling author in one volume -the complete saga of Catherine the Great's passionate rise to power. The Romanov Trilogy brings three of Evelyn Anthony's most successful works together in one collection following the dramatic life of Catherine the Great. Rebel Princess: Augusta Fredericka's fantasy of reigning as Catherine the Great comes true after marrying Grand Duke Peter Romanov. But the repulsive-and...
13) The Assassin
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A woman swept into a dangerous world of international espionage can trust no one - least of all the assassin she has fallen in love with - in this intricate thriller by master storyteller Evelyn Anthony. When Elizabeth Cameron leaves Rome for the Middle East at her uncle Huntley's request, she has no idea that she's about to become a pawn in an international conspiracy that threatens her life and everything she believes America stands for. Huntley...
14) Clandara
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Lovers are torn apart by war in this passionate, action-packed romance set during the Jacobite uprising
Beautiful, headstrong Katharine Fraser has done the unthinkable: She has fallen in love with the eldest son of her father's longtime enemy. A nobleman with a notorious past, James Macdonald of Dundrenan is ready to sacrifice his home and heritage for the woman he loves. But fate has other plans. The struggle to restore Bonny Prince Charles...
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The tale of the treacherous battle for the throne between Catherine the Great and her son Paul, set against the backdrop of late-eighteenth-century Russia. The year is 1773. Catherine the Great has been in power for a decade. Since the assassination of her husband, Peter III, in a coup d'état, she has been empress of all the Russias. She rules with enlightenment and grace, driven by ambition and her secret dream to free Russia's millions of serfs....
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The wife of a prominent British politician returns to Ireland to find her missing half-brother - and plunges into a hotbed of political unrest and murder. The wife of an important British Cabinet minister, Claire Fraser lives the kind of life that fills the society pages. But when the disappearance of her half-brother, Frank Arbuthnot, makes international headlines, she abandons her very public life in London to search for him in her native Ireland....
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As the new head of the Secret Intelligence Service, Davina Graham faces her most daunting challenge: solving a series of seemingly random political murders in international waters. The first female head of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, Davina Graham is taking a well-deserved holiday with her lover, advertising executive Tony Walden. But her Venetian idyll is short-lived. On the Grand Canal, widowed US Secretary of the Defense Henry Franklyn...
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Forty years after World War II, a former Resistance fighter must revisit the past and make a decision that could shatter the lives of both the innocent and the guilty. Paul Roulier comes to the quaint English village of Amdale looking for Katharine Alfurd. Born in Paris, Katharine left London at nineteen to fight for the Resistance in Occupied France during World War II. There, she joined a notorious underground network and fell in love with Jean...
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A wife and mother becomes the target of terrorists in this mesmerizing thriller that sweeps from Iran to England to the South of France. Eileen Field, the unhappy, neglected wife of the chairman of the world's most powerful oil conglomerate, arrives in Tehran with her husband, Logan Field, for a reception honoring the Shah's minister of the economy. Logan needs the Shah on his side in order to win the bid to build a refinery in Iran. At the hotel,...
20) The Return
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A gripping, inventive thriller about justice and retribution set in Paris thirty years after World War II. Anna Martin is ready to put the past - and her unsuccessful marriage - behind her and start over with Nicholas Yurovsky. A titled aristocrat from a distinguished family that dates back to czarist Russia, Nicholas never talks about his past. Then Anna gets a call from her ex-husband. Left-wing journalist Paul Martin warns Anna about a plot spearheaded...