To escape her brutal grandfather, Prudence stages a plan involving a phony engagement--and the man she approaches is so taken with Pru that he willingly joins her game.

When impetuous Helen Schlegel believes herself to be in love with Paul, the youngest of the Wilcox sons, she sparks off a connection between the two families that leads to collision.

The Old Wives' Tale is a novel by Arnold Bennett. It deals with the lives of two sisters, Constance and Sophia Baines, follows their stories from adolescence, working in their mother's draper's shop, into old age. It is generally regarded as one of Bennett's finest works.

Early in Mary Tudor's turbulent reign, Lady Catherine Grey and Lady Mary Grey are reeling after the brutal execution of their elder seventeen-year-old sister, Lady Jane Grey. The succession is by no means stable, and neither sister is well suited to a dangerous life at court. But when the Queen's hot-headed sister Elizabeth inherits the crown, life at court becomes increasingly treacherous for the surviving Grey sisters.

After the death of their grandmother, Erica Calcott and her sister Beth return to Storton Manor in Wiltshire, England, where they, while sorting through her things, decide to discover what really happened to their cousin Henry whose disappearance tore the family apart so that the past can be laid to rest.

"...Lord Chillingsworth's reputation precedes him--the infamous 'Frost' is as legendary on the field of honor as he is in the bedroom. Which makes it surprising that young Emily Cavell has taken up the cause of closing Frost's favorite gambling hell. Who does this brazen, flame-haired beauty think she is?...Emily's vendetta is personal: she is determined to take a pound of flesh from Frost, who ruined her sister. But the man she meets is not the cold-hearted...