Books with title The Innkeeper's Daughter

Three years have passed since Squid McCrae last saw her parents and the remote island where she grew up. She returns now at seventeen, a young woman with a daughter in tow. The visit, she knows, will be rough. Lizzie Island–paradise to some, a stifling prison to others–brings an onslaught of memories. It is the place of Squid’s idyllic childhood, where she and her brother, Alastair, blossomed into precocious adolescents. But Lizzie Island is also the place where Alastair died.Now the past collides with the present as Squid’s homecoming unleashes bittersweet recollections, revelations, and accusations. But nothing is what it appears to be. No one possesses the complete truth, and no one is without blame.

On her eighteenth birthday, Abigail Jordan foresees the death of a woman, and then it comes true. From there she goes on an incredible journey of self-discovery in which she uncovers the secrets of her past and her heritage as a timekeeper—people chosen to record and measure time, but not change it. But timekeeping isn’t the important aspect for Abigail; for her, it’s finding out what happened to her biological mother, Elisabeth. Her mother’s death was deemed a suicide, but Abigail knows that this isn’t true.In the midst of an ongoing war, Abigail must battle both literal war in the world as well as battle the ongoing war within herself. Her biological father, Mathias, wants her to learn about his world while other mysterious figures want her dead. She has to decide who to trust in order to determine where she belongs.Set in 1940s era London, The Timekeeper’s Daughter follows Abigail as she goes on a journey of self-discovery all while battling issues dealing with love, family, tragedy, and trust.

Isabelle Scott is devastated to hear that she won't be able to visit her Swiss 'Mamie' (granny) that summer because Old Jamie, who helps her father run their zoo in Scotland, is ill in hospital. The thought of spending the summer holidays with her annoying young brother, Joe, and being looked after by 'Grumpy Gramps', is too much to bear... until Florence, a little white Swiss chamois, and a present from Mamie, with help from a spider who weaves a magical golden web and Old Jamie's book about animals in the wild, transports her to the freedom of those worlds of the animals in the book. But she soon discovers that, because of what humans are doing to the planet, the lives of the animals she becomes are under threat. However, her journeys, which at times include Joe, whose behaviour improves because of the magic, Elodie, her best friend in Scotland, and Angélique, her Swiss friend, reinforce her determination to save endangered animals from extinction. Their Save the Koalas Campaign goes viral, and culminates with all four children ending up as koalas, together with Gramps, in a catastrophic bush fire like those of 2019. After they return, they set up a foundation together to help all endangered species.

From modern-day Roanoke Island to the sweeping backdrop of North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains and Roosevelt's WPA folklore writers, past and present intertwine to create an unexpected destiny.Restaurant owner Whitney Monroe is desperate to save her business from a hostile takeover. The inheritance of a decaying Gilded Age hotel on North Carolina's Outer Banks may provide just the ray of hope she needs. But things at the Excelsior are more complicated than they seem. Whitney's estranged stepfather is entrenched on the third floor, and the downstairs tenants are determined to save the historic building. Searching through years of stored family heirlooms may be Whitney's only hope of quick cash, but will the discovery of an old necklace and a Depression-era love story change everything?

The thrilling third novel from multi-award-nominated author Adam Brookes is paranoid, tense spy fiction at its very finest. Meet Pearl Tao: an American girl with a lethal secret.Pearl longs for the life of a normal American teenager: summers at the pool, friends, backyard barbecues in the Washington DC suburbs. But she is different.Her gift for mathematics means overprotective parents and college sponsorship from a secretive technology corporation. And now, aged nineteen, she is beginning to understand what her parents intend for her. The terrifying role she is to play. Her only hope of escape lies with two sidelined and discredited spies: Trish Patterson and Philip Mangan. Finding out the truth about Pearl will be the biggest mission they'll ever undertake."Authentic, taut and compelling. Brookes is the real deal."Charles Cumming

Isabelle Scott is devastated to hear that she won't be able to visit her Swiss 'Mamie' (granny) that summer because Old Jamie, who helps her father run their zoo in Scotland, is ill in hospital. The thought of spending the summer holidays with her annoying young brother, Joe, and being looked after by 'Grumpy Gramps', is too much to bear... until Florence, a little white Swiss chamois and a present from Mamie, with help from a spider who weaves a magical golden web and Old Jamie's book about animals in the wild, transports her to the freedom of those worlds of the animals in the book. But she soon discovers that, because of what humans are doing to the planet, the lives of the animals she becomes are under threat. However, her journeys, which at times include Joe, whose behaviour improves because of the magic, Elodie, her best friend in Scotland, and Angélique, her Swiss friend, reinforce her determination to save endangered animals from extinction. Their Save the Koalas Campaign goes viral, and culminates with all four children ending up as koalas, together with Gramps, in a catastrophic bush fire like those of 2019. After they return, they set up a foundation together to help all endangered species.

Young Disciples Volume 1: Deborah's mother is being crabby, not because Mother's new baby is almost due to be born. It's because Father and Mother keep the inn at Bethleham, and this week they have more guests than they ever thought possible. They're all coming to be counted in the Census, and somehow they all have to be given food and water and a clean place to sleep. With so much work to do, there's no time for Deborah to see her friend Andrew, the shepherd's boy that she has decided to marry when they both grow up. Now a couple from Galilee are at the gate, hoping, somehow, to get a room at the inn. There's not a speck of space. But the young woman is about to have a baby, just like Mother. Father can't turn them away, not when Deborah knows there is a place where they could stay.

Originally published by HarperCollinsNakita, the Stonekeeper’s daughter, lives in a remote village high on Eagle Rock. Her father guards four sacred stones and conducts mysterious experiments for his master.Cut off from the outside world, Nakita longs to see what lies below the mountain.She hears the whispering voices in the stones but when she gives in to her curiosity and picks up one of them her life changes forever.Then her village is discovered by two strangers she is forced to flee into the valley below where she discovers the world is much stranger than she ever imagined.

Death is not the worst fate for a goddess.In The Gatekeeper's Sons, Therese and Thanatos, the god of death, met and fell in love. In The Gatekeeper's Challenge, they did everything they could to be together, even break an oath on the River Styx. But the Olympians don't tolerate oath-breakers. In this third book in the saga, The Gatekeeper's Daughter, Therese may have finally succeeded in becoming a goddess, but if she wants to remain one, she'll not only have to discover her unique purpose, but also make some allies among the gods. Artemis sends her on a seemingly impossible quest across the world, while Than searches for a way to appease Ares. To make matters worse, her baby sister's life depends on the outcome of her quest.Can Than and Therese finally live the life they've dreamed of? Or do the gods have other plans for them?