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Fifteen-year-old Isabella Rockwell's bones ache with homesickness. But home is 8000 miles away in northern India, and Isabella is imprisoned in the bitter winter of 19th century London. Sent to England after her father goes missing in a violent battle, Isabella runs away from a life of drudgery and hardship. Rescued from death by a gang of street urchins, Isabella finds the shelter and love she so desperately craves.

Sixteen year-old Isabella lives in 19th-century India, where her father is missing in action. With her street-urchin friend, Midge, she sets out on a mission to find him while delivering a vital malaria cure on the way. But when the two get caught up in the malevolent plans of a diamond mogul, everyone's fate depends upon Isabella. She can save her friend and the countless sick who are in jeopardy only if she can find the courage to put others before herself.

Mung har fått äran att bli Fågelkungens arvinge, men det innebär också att han måste vara många mil ifrån Larne, sin stora kärlek. I sju år ska han utbildas i en druidskola medan hon är kvar på borgen som tjänarinna. När mörka sanningar om Larnes liv rullas upp blir ingenting längre sig likt... Maj Bylock är född 1931 på Gotland. Hennes tidiga utgivning var läroböcker i religion och historia, men även i sina skönlitterära böcker står frågor om livsåskådning och moral i centrum - ofta i historisk miljö.

I den sista delen i Maj Bylocks historiska trilogi återförenas äntligen Mung och Larne - även om det sker under mer dramatiska former än de hade kunnat ana. I flykten undan den grymme hövdingen Taran och hans soldater slår de följe med den egyptiske roddarslaven Ixi, som också hjälper dem i den viktiga jakten på keltiska druider som lyckats fly undan romarna. Maj Bylock är född 1931 på Gotland.

Eleanor did not come to London to be proper and boring. After the death of her husband and a year of mourning, the seventeen-year-old wants nothing more than her independence and to have a little fun. She’s hardly looking to remarry, despite pressures from her late husband’s nephew, who is keen on obtaining her inheritance. Eleanor quickly devises a plan that includes a fake engagement. What’s not a part of the plan? Falling for a dashing, quiet man outside of her social circle—a man who is not her betrothed. Can she survive the Season with her heart and her fortune intact?