In only six weeks, Isla Ramsey is due to marry Henry Northrup, the sixth Earl of Sydney. But she remains haunted by memories of the dashing Hugh Courtney, the Marquess Pierce. The handsome aristocrat had hinted at forever and then tossed her aside, leaving Isla with few viable options. Now, as she awaits her new fiancé’s arrival from London, she rides her horse past Hugh’s estate at Hazelwood every day, pining for a man who was never truly hers. Hugh Courtney may have left Isla’s life, but...
Powerful Maxwell Lacey saves Confederate veteran Cole Heflin from the hangman so that Cole can bring Lacey's granddaughter, Marietta, an opera singer with a wealthy protector, to see him before he dies--by force if necessary.
England, 1999. American tourist Leah Cantrell finds an antique coin in a spring -- and tosses it back, wishing to know who'd first placed it there...England, 1815. David Traymore, illegitimate son of a Marquis, has always dreamed of belonging to someone. Then he rescues a beguiling woman of strange attire from a spring on the estate. Is she a madwoman? A spy for Napoleon? Or simply the woman of his dreams?
Aonia edizioni. I dolori del giovane Werther e un romanzo epistolare di Johann Wolfgang Goethe pubblicato nel 1774 ed e da molti considerato il punto piu alto della produzione dello Sturm und Drang, cioe del movimento letterario che si sviluppo in Germania tra il 1765 e il 1785. Il Werther appartiene all'eta giovanile di Goethe e anticipa molti temi che saranno propri del romanticismo tedesco. Il romanzo e composto da una serie di lettere che il protagonista invia al suo amico Guglielmo nel cors...
Packards is an Oxford Street Department store founded in the mid-nineteenth century by Sir Thomas Packard. In 1908 he is old and seeks his successor. His only daughter and her feckless husband spend his fortune but despise its provenance so he looks to his grandchildren: EDWARD has all his grandfather's ruthlessness but none of his vision; PERRY is a good-time boy and AMELIE, intelligent and ambitious, is willing to take anyone on to gain control of the store. Alongside their story is that of Pa...
They lived worlds apart. Jenny was the girl from the cat-meat shop, born into squalor and defeat. Paul Tunstall was a soldier and a gentleman, arrogant and charming, with his silver-light eyes and boyish smile. And yet from the moment they met there was a spark between them - and their separate lives of pain and loneliness seemed to beckon to each other.