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Six award-winning authors have contributed brand new stories to A Timeless Romance Anthology: Winter Collection. A collection unlike any other, listeners will love this compilation of six sweet historical romance novellas, set in varying eras, yet all with one thing in common: Romance.

The summer before her senior year of high school, Laney Jacobs and her best friend jump from a six-story beachside cliff in an attempt to impress their boyfriends. Laney rose from the water. Her friend did not. Six years later, when Laney’s troubled mother’s memoir hits the bestseller list airing the family’s destructive secrets, Laney is forced to relive the trauma, this time in the public eye. To escape the scrutiny, she seeks shelter at her estranged grandmother’s seaside inn.

In 1942 German-occupied Paris, 19-year-old Leah Manheim turns up the collar of her blue coat against a biting wind as she waits outside Saint-Ambroise Cathedral for English Marine Commando, Aidan McQueen. When she signed up with the resistance she knew all the risks. Luckily her friends smuggled her parents out of Paris and away from the looming danger of arrest and transport to a concentration camp. Leah must keep her wits about her, focus on her mission, and survive….

On a hot June day in 1965, two six-year-old boys, Gareth and Jack, compete to see who can climb higher up a tree. When Jack falls and loses his eye on a thorn bush, the accident sets off a series of events that will bind the boys together for the rest of their lives. When the best friends meet albino twins Clara and Blanca, a shared fate unfolds. With Gareth and Jack's help, the twins are able to reclaim their lives and leave their nightmarish past behind them.

Miss Merribelle Hales spent years imbuing a silver locket with man-attracting charms. On the way to her first London season, her locket is stolen - along with a kiss - by a highwayman. Her only clue to his identity: a pair of intense eyes. This vexes her. Without her best charm, how will she ever be able to compete on the marriage mart?

München, August 1945. Der Krieg ist zu Ende, die Stadt versinkt im Chaos. Die Reporterin Billa Löwenfeld, eine aus dem Exil zurückgekehrte Jüdin, soll den Kriegsheimkehrer Viktor von Dietlitz interviewen - und findet ihn erschossen auf. Der junge und noch unerfahrene Ermittler Emil Graf soll den vermeintlichen Routinefall aufklären. Schon bald geschehen zwei weitere Morde nach demselben Muster. Und Emil findet heraus, dass ausgerechnet Billa die gesuchte Verbindung zwischen den drei Opfern sein könnte.