Linda Lee Chaikin

In 1914 Czarist Russia, Karen Peshkov and her mother, a Jewish midwife pioneering in her field, are left to survive on their own when their family is torn apart, but when her mother is injured in an accident, Karena must continue working as a self-taught midwife--even as she longs to attend medical school. Original.

In a city gone diabolically mad, Rachelle Dushane-Macquinet, a celebrated couturiere, returns to the Louvre Palais to create the royal wedding gown, but when she is recruited into the evil Queen Mother's ring of women spies, Rachelle must find a way to preserve her honor--and the lives of her fellow Huguenots. Original. 20,000 first printing.

Pursuing the family name as the finest silk producer in Lyon, the young Huguenot Rachelle Dushane-Macquinet is thrilled to accompany her famous couturier Grandmere to Paris, there to create a silk trousseau for the Royal Princess Marguerite Valois. The Court is magnificent; its regent, Catherine de Medici, deceptively charming … and the circumstances, darker than Rachelle could possibly imagine. At a time in history when the tortures of the Bastille and the fiery stake are an almost casual consequence in France, a scourge of recrimination is moving fast and furious against the Huguenots—and as the Queen Mother's political intrigues weave a web of deception around her, Rachelle finds herself in imminent danger. Hope rests in warning the handsome Marquis Fabien de Vendome of the wicked plot against his kin. But to do so, Rachelle must follow a perilous course.

In the conclusion to the East of the Sun trilogy, Evy Varley and Rogan Chantry return to get married and again return to Africa. Evy's desire to return to Africa causes her to lie about being pregnant with their honeymoon baby, but her lie has the potential to destroy the trust in their marriage. Rogan leaves Evy at his uncle's mission upon arrival and sets out on a quest of his own. The struggle to save their marriage is compounded by malaria, murder, and an African uprising, while Evy puts her time to trying to clear her mother's name.