Barbara Wood è un'autrice che trasporta i lettori in paesi esotici da lei meticolosamente ricercati, fornendo ai suoi fan un vero senso della cultura e della storia pertinenti a ogni storia. Nel cuore di ogni libro c'è una donna forte e indipendente. I suoi romanzi seguono spesso eroine straordinarie in avventure emozionanti e intriganti che esplorano la loro forza e determinazione. Wood è un'autrice bestseller internazionale con libri tradotti in oltre 30 lingue, a testimonianza del suo fascino globale.
Saga familiare per Joanna Drury sbarcata in terra d'Australia per prendere possesso di un'eredità, che non sarà soltanto un pezzo di terra, ma il richiamo sempre più insistente di un passato antichissimo e misterioso.
Growing up in the squalor of Victorian London, Samantha dreams of becoming a doctor. From the crowded wards of charity hospitals to the grandeur of society receptions and the calm of medical schools, she uses all her strength and will to fight the prejudice which has banished women from medicine.
Born into the tumultuous world of ancient Antioch, Selene is orphaned at birth. But before her father dies, he leaves a puzzling clue to her heritage: she has come from the gods and has a special destiny to fulfill. In the coming years, Selene studies the primitive healing arts with Mera, the healer-woman who adopts her. She learns how to lower fevers by brewing Hecate's Cure from the willow tree, how to apply green mold to an open wound to prevent infection, and most importantly, how to calm a patient by summoning the inner power of the "soul flame." But on her sixteenth birthday, Selene falls in love with Andreas, a passionate and troubled surgeon. When fate cruelly separates them, Selene's search for Andreas takes her to the great centers of civilization in the ancient world-Egypt, Babylon, and Rome. Desperate to find Andreas, Selene is torn between love and her dreams of healing when a revolutionary vision brings her to the fulfillment of her destiny-and the dawn of modern medicine.
For as long as anyone could remember, the Schallers and the Newmans had been enemies. When the skeletal remains of a victim of foul play are discovered at the Schaller estate, a decades-old feud between the rival winemaking families is reignited and dark secrets begin to see the light of day. Set against the lush backdrop of the rolling hills of California's Central Coast, The New York Times best-selling author Barbara Wood's thirtieth novel is a generation-spanning saga of love, treachery, and bitterly held grudges.
Set in Kenya, in 1919, this book is of a British family, the Trevertons, who settle on an estate on the homeland of Kikuyu and the antagonism that develops between them and the tribe's own medicine woman, whose powers they disregard. Domina and Vital Signs are written by the same author.
A matriarchal saga set in post-war Egypt and spanning four decades. The pregnant Yasmina, cast out and sentenced to death by her family, journeys to England and becomes a doctor in America before returning to her homeland. The author's other novels include Green City in the Sun and Domina.
BOOK ONE OF THE BUTTERFLY TRILOGY From New York Times bestselling author Kathryn Harvey comes an arousing, passionate story of three women's hidden desires and the place called Butterfly, where dreams are kept and where fantasies come to life. Above an exclusive men's store on Rodeo Drive there is a private club called Butterfly, where women are free to act out their secret erotic fantasies. Only the most beautiful and powerful women in Beverly Hills are invited to join: Jessica, a lawyer who longs for the days when men were men, and women dressed to please them; Trudie, a builder who wants a man who will challenge her--all of her--with no holds barred; and Linda, a surgeon, who uses masks to unmask the desires she hides even from herself. But the most mysterious of them all is the woman who created Butterfly. She has changed her name, her accent, even her face to hide her true identity. And now she is about to reveal everything to realize the dream that has driven her since childhood--the secret obsession that will carry her beyond ecstasy, or destroy her and everyone around her.
The rich, the glamorous, the powerful all come to Stars, a magnificent and secluded Palm Springs mountain-top resort. And behind it all is the beautiful owner of Stars, a woman of great mystery.
