In this irresistible follow-up to her captivating debut, In Bed With a Stranger, Mary Wine revisits the McJames clan–their loves, their battles, their conquests. . .Cullen McJames will not have his honor sullied, certainly not by his clan's nemesis Laird Erik McQuade. So when McQuade tells the Court of Scotland that Cullen has stolen his daughter's virtue, Cullen steals the daughter instead. Since his brother wed a fetching lass, Cul ...
In a quiet university town, amid the crumbling ruins of a mansion, ten aspiring writers devise a most unusual experiment. . .an experiment that goes chillingly, horrifyingly wrong. . .It begins when two of the wannabe authors challenge each other to the ultimate test of inspiration. They're Eve and Angela. They're both devastatingly beautiful. . .and devastatingly competitive.Now, a violent storm has plunged the house into darkness. Th ...
In the Tudor Court of 1518, your friends and enemies can be one and the same. . . During the annual celebration of the Order of the Garter, Sir Michael Devereaux arrives in King Henry VIII's court on a mission for his benefactor. The celebration's endless feats and sumptuous women delight the charismatic newcomer, who becomes captivated by the enigmatic Princess Renee of France. But evil, it seems, has followed Michael to the court. ...
London, 1851. An alluring, outspoken widow and an enigmatic agent are drawn into a web of power, greed, and ambition that threatens to overturn the very future of the British Empire. . . Society knows Lilly Clarence Hampton as a respected widow who was wildly in love with her husband, the architect of London's famed Crystal Palace. The truth. . .well, the truth would cost Lilly her reputation, her freedom, and quite possibly her life. And o ...
"The less you know about Ramsay, the better. . ." Lady Helena Hartford knows nothing about Nicholas Ramsay. Rumored to be the richest man in England, he appears out of the shadows and commands her to trust him. Newly widowed, Helena is the target of powerful forces determined to seize her fortune by committing her to an asylum. Losing her wealth means nothing, but losing her freedom to the fetid air and hopelessness of Bedlam would be a nev ...
Феодалы ведут войны не только между собой, но и захватывают земли и сокровища церквей. Простых крестьян не считают за людей. Граф Роберт де Эслуа, брат герцога Нормандии, по кличке «Дьявол», который не привык спрашивать согласия на секс у простолюдинок, вдруг влюбляется в прачку Гарлеву. Любовь к девушке из низшего сословия, как наказание за злодеяния и преступления. Сможет ли любовь изменить убийцу и насильника графа Роберта де Эслуа? Или сердц ...
Es geht um Liebe. Es geht um uns. Der Kalte Krieg zieht auf, und Worte werden zu Waffen. Olga Iwinskaja, Geliebte des gro?en Boris Pasternak, wird verhaftet. In Moskau will man verhindern, dass Pasternaks Roman Doktor Shiwago erscheint, doch Olga halt an ihrer Liebe zu Boris fest. Zugleich will die CIA mit einer einzigartigen Waffe den Widerstand in der Sowjetunion wecken – mit Literatur, mit Doktor Shiwago. Fur die Mission wird die junge Iri ...
The London docks in 1818 are no place for a woman. But Aurora Dayne is about to embark on a new life. With her modest belongings and a unique bejeweled locket – her sole legacy from her dead father – she boards a ship bound for Jamaica. All hell breaks loose when pirates storm the gangplank, and the sheltered orphan becomes the prisoner of a ruthless privateer named Vashon. The towering, black-caped stranger arouses Aurora's fear, and her i ...