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Two couples meet for dinner at a fashionable restaurant in Amsterdam. Behind their polite conversation, terrible things need to be said, and with every forced smile and every new course, the knives are being sharpened. Each couple has a fifteen-year-old son. The two boys are united by their accountability for a single horrific act; an act that has triggered a police investigation and shattered the comfortable, insulated worlds of their families....

Hired to investigate allegations of a sweat-shop operation in Amsterdam that is enslaving young girls, Knox and tech information expert Grace Chu embark on a rescue mission that is challenged by a crime organization that has seduced local neighborhoods with showy goodwill practices.

His Cinderella bride?
Plain Philomena Parsons has never met someone as devastatingly handsome as Dr. Walle van der Tacx! So, when he offers her a nursing job in Holland she jumps at the chance. How could she not when it would mean she could see more of him? Philomena knows she's not the only one after the charismatic doctor's affections, but her fairytale ending might just be within her grasp. Because Walle knows Philomena's one...

"When the Nazis invade Amsterdam, singer Johanna Vos watches in horror as the vibrant music scene she loves is all but erased, her Jewish friends forbidden from performing with her onstage. Alongside her friend Jakob, Johanna helps organize the Artists' Resistance, an underground network allowing Jews to perform at house concerts hosted by their allies. When Johanna hears of a Jewish orphan headed for deportation, she does not think twice. She takes...

Prudence Makepeace had a soft heart, so she gave up her own plans and instead escorted her godmother to Holland. Once there, Prudence found the country and the Dutch people charming, with one exception--the overbearing Dr. Haso ter Brons Huizinga. Sparks flew whenever they met. But why should Prudence mind? After all, Haso was about to get married. Haso's wedding plans, though, weren't quite yet finalized. There was the small matter of his intended...

Her quiet life was thrown into turmoil
Calm and capable—those were the words used to sum up Francesca. Certainly she had plenty to cope with, looking after the home she shared with three elderly aunts and working at the local hospital. Yet she dealt with it all with her usual quiet efficiency and believed her life was complete...until Dr. Litrik van Rijgen arrived!
Having taken the trouble to track her down while she was...

"In 1631, Sara de Vos is admitted as a master painter to the Guild of St. Luke's in Holland, the first woman to be so recognized. Three hundred years later, only one work attributed to de Vos is known to remain--a haunting winter scene, At the Edge of a Wood, which hangs over the bed of a wealthy descendant of the original owner. An Australian grad student, Ellie Shipley, struggling to stay afloat in New York, agrees to paint a forgery of the landscape,...

Young Franscesca Visser dreams of becoming a Master Painter and travels to Delft to study with Vermeer. In Delft, Ludolf van Deventer, a wealthy patron, conspires to make the young woman his wife as well as throw the Netherlands into chaos.