Petra Durst-Benning

Century Trilogy

1 - While the World Is Still Asleep (Feb-2016)
2 - The Champagne Queen (Sep-2016)
3 - The Queen of Beauty (Jul-2017)

Glassblower

1 - The Glassblower (Nov-2014)
2 - The American Lady (Mar-2015)
3 - The Paradise of Glass (Sep-2015)

The Photographer's Saga

1 - The Beginning of the Road (Mar-2020)
2 - An Artificial Light (Sep-2020)

The Seed Traders' Saga

1 - The Seed Woman (Oct-2017)
2 - The Flower Shop (Apr-2018)

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  The Glassblower
  

  • Nov-2014
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  Glassblower - 1
  

  From Book 1:

  In the village of Lauscha in Germany, things have been done the same way for centuries. The men blow the glass, and the women decorate and pack it. But when Joost Steinmann passes away unexpectedly one September night, his three daugh...

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  The American Lady
  

  • Mar-2015
  • / Historical Romance
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  Glassblower - 2
  

  Tempestuous and beautiful Wanda Miles, daughter of Ruth and Stephen Miles (or so she thinks), aspires to more than the life of a debutante, but the trouble is she doesn’t know precisely what she wants. Then her aunt Marie, the family’s renowned g...

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  The Paradise of Glass
  

  • Sep-2015
  • / Historical Romance
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  Glassblower - 3
  

  Johanna, the oldest of the three Steinmann sisters, has successfully managed the family glassblowing business since her father’s death, and her sister Marie’s artistic gifts have made their wares unexpectedly famous. But now the livelihood of the...

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  While the World Is Still Asleep
  

  • Feb-2016
  • / Historical Romance
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  Century Trilogy - 1
  

  An inspiring historical tale of one woman risking it all for her dreams set in 1890s Berlin. After the tragic death of her little brother, Josephine travels to the Black Forest to heal. There she discovers a feeling of freedom astride a brand-new ...

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  The Champagne Queen
  

  • Sep-2016
  • / Historical
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  Century Trilogy - 2
  

  When Isabelle took a chance and eloped with Leon Feininger, her true love, she hadn’t stopped to consider what would happen next. Winter on his family’s isolated vineyard proves tougher than she expected, and Isabelle finds herself daydreaming, e...

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  The Queen of Beauty
  

  • Jul-2017
  • / Historical Romance
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  Century Trilogy - 3
  

  Petra Durst-Benning’s captivating historical novel pays homage to the trailblazing women of the early twentieth century -- like Elizabeth Arden and Estée Lauder -- who shaped culture, shattered convention, and strived to make the world around them...

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  The Seed Woman
  

  • Oct-2017
  • / Historical Romance
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  The Seed Traders' Saga - 1
  

  From bestselling author Petra Durst-Benning comes a sweeping emotional story of courage, triumph, and love against all odds in nineteenth-century Germany.

  After a long and trying journey from her home, Hannah arrives at a charming village ne...

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  The Flower Shop
  

  • Apr-2018
  • / Historical Romance
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  The Seed Traders' Saga - 2
  

  Bestselling author Petra Durst-Benning’s Seed Traders’ Saga continues, as a young woman in nineteenth-century Baden-Baden risks everything to pursue her dream of becoming a florist. Twenty-year-old Flora Kerner has arrived in Baden-Baden, the ...

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  The Beginning of the Road
  

  • Mar-2020
  • / Historical Romance
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  The Photographer's Saga - 1
  

  From the bestselling author of The Glassblower Trilogy comes an inspiring historical saga of a female photographer who must defy convention to live her dreams in turn-of-the-century Germany.

  In 1905, on her twenty-sixth birthday, Mimi Revent...

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  An Artificial Light
  

  • Sep-2020
  • / Historical
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  The Photographer's Saga - 2
  

  A defiant woman in pre-World War I Germany carves out her own unconventional destiny as the enthralling Photographer’s Saga continues. Germany, 1911. Certain things are expected of a woman. Defiant Mimi Reventlow has chosen to be the woman she w...

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