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Capucine Benoit works alongside her father to produce fans of rare feathers, beads, and intricate pleating for the haute couture fashion houses. But after the Germans invade Paris in June 1940, Capucine and her father must focus on mere survival - until they are betrayed to the secret police and arrested for his political beliefs. When Capucine saves herself from deportation to Auschwitz by highlighting her connections to Parisian design houses, she is sent to a little-known prison camp located in the heart of Paris, within the Lévitan department store.

Aubrey Spencer loves photographing classic old buildings and the abandoned places that hold old secrets. Hotel Seabrink, perched on a cliff overlooking the sea, is one such place. Currently abandoned but scheduled for a major renovation, it has a torrid history. Back in the 1920s it hosted A-list celebrity clientele, and now the locals insist it is haunted by the ghosts of two young women who died there.

Natalie Morgen made a name for herself with a memoir about overcoming her harsh childhood after finding a new life in Paris. After falling in love with a classically trained chef, they moved together to his ancestral home, a tiny fishing village off the coast of Brittany. But then Francois-Xavier breaks things off with her without warning, leaving her flat broke and in the middle of renovating the guesthouse they planned to open for business.

Gary Phillips' Nate Hollis leaps from the comics to his first complete prose collection. Authors Juliet Blackwell, Bobby Nash, Aaron Philip Clark, and Derrick Ferguson join Phillips to create six double barreled tales of mystery and action. The streets are mean, but they don't hold a stick of dynamite to Hollis, P.I. From creator Gary Phillips and Pro Se Productions.

Finde die Maske - ein Geheimnis wartet auf dich. Claire entdeckt im Nachlass ihrer Großmutter in Lousiana ein altes Kunstwerk: Es ist die Totenmaske einer Frau. Sie findet heraus, dass die Maske unter dem Namen "L'inconnue de la Seine" bekannt ist und vor über 100 Jahren in Paris gefertigt wurde. Fasziniert von dem Kunstwerk bricht Claire auf, um sich auf die Spuren der geheimnisvollen Schönen zu begeben. Sie macht das Atelier ausfindig, in dem die Maske einst entstand und das der so unnahbare wie attraktive Künstler Armand Lombardi in alter Familientradition führt. Armand willigt ein, ihr zu helfen.