Lady Emmeline Hartley has overcome every obstacle life has thrown her way. A spinster, disappointed in love, Em is on the brink of a marriage of convenience, when the man who rejected her heart reappears in need of her help. It gives Em a chance to escape, put to use one her most unusual talents—and perhaps convince him once and for all to risk his heart . . .<BR /> Adam Montclair–one of the most successful agents at the Home Office–rubs elbows with the highest levels of society....
Two city women – a century apart – find love and adventure with rugged men in the Queensland outback.<br /> <br />Two love stories; two parallel lives; two destinies.<br /> <br />Set in the 19th and 21st centuries, Heather Garside's debut novel is a passionate rural romance of love and its consequences.<br /> <br />Shelley and Emma are separated by time but bound by a dark secret to a place called Breakaway Creek.<br /> <br />Betrayed by her...
Weren't rules made to be broken…?Play-by-the-rules good girl Emily Parker is finally flying free. Literally. After a broken engagement, she's about to live out her wildest dream: getting her pilot’s license. With former Air Force pilot Stone Mcallister teaching her, though, it's not just the altitude making her dizzy….Once he settles his father's estate, Stone's heading back to the Air Force. When Emily expresses interest in some no-strings fun, he can't resist, but...
Mail-Order MatchmakingNewly minted Cowboy Creek sheriff Noah Burgess doesn’t want a wife—despite his friends insisting that he needs one. So when they send for a big-city single mother to be his mail-order bride, he’s fit to be tied. Even if vivacious Grace Longstreet might just be the only person who can see past Noah's scars…and help him heal.Grace needs a husband to keep her and her twin daughters out of her brother-in-law’s grasp. And she’ll do anything—including taking on her cousin’s...
REUNION WESTERN-STYLEJosie’s Wedding Dress by Victoria BylinDesperate for someone to help her save her ranch, Josie Bright makes a deal with Ty Donner—the man who’d left her waiting at the altar…and is making her hope for things she had long stopped wishing for.Last Minute Brideby Janet DeanElise Langley was stung to the quick when her would-be suitor suddenly left town. But when David Wellman returns and they are thrown together organizing their friends’ wedding, can she open her heart...
His final and greatest work, Dostoyevsky spent nearly two years writing The Brothers Karamazov, which was published serially in The Russian Messenger from January 1879 to November 1880. Set against a modernizing 19th-century Russia, the characters experience moral struggles of faith, judgment, and reason amid a patricidal murder which forms the center of the plot. The novel is full of ethical debates of God, free will, and morality. Dostoyevsky composed much of the novel in Staraya Russa, a spa...
Bessarabien 1919 bis 1940: Im südlichen Teil Bessarabiens – dem Budschak – erregen weder die ausgefallenen Modeideen der jungen Olga, noch der Totschlag an einem stadtbekannten Säufer die Gemüter der Einwohner Saratas. Auch die darauf folgenden Morde sorgen für wenig Aufregung. Selbst an jenem Tag, als der Ortsvorsteher etwas zu Gesicht bekommt, das seine Vorstellungen bei weitem übertrifft. Eine Mischung aus Krimi und Liebesgeschichte vor dem Hintergrund der historischen Ereignisse von 1919 bis...
Druga część bestsellerowego cyklu Ravenels. Szalona ambicja i pracowitość wzniosły Rhysa Winterborne’a na szczyty bogactwa i wpływów. Twardy Walijczyk przywykł, że w interesach i w życiu musi mieć wszystko, czego zechce. Kiedy poznaje nieśmiałą, arystokratyczną lady Helen Ravenel, ma tylko jeden cel – zdobyć ją. Nawet, jeśli miałby jej zabrać cnotę i potajemnie poślubić… Helen ma niewiele kontaktów z cyniczną i pełną blichtru londyńską socjetą. Kiedy pojawia się Rhys, w spokojny świat Helen...
“Would you do anything to get warm?” On the streets of London, eighteen-year-old Eve Smythe is freezing to death. She cannot return home until she sells her matches, but nobody wants them. Knowing she has not got long to live, she does the unforgivable: She strikes a match. The light draws the attention of a certain Mr. Ignis. He offers her warmth and food, but only if she agrees to do anything he wants. And his tastes are dark and terrifying. As she tumbles further into...
‘Marry me……And you’ll have your freedom.’Her father’s will dictates that Violet Harper must wed or be disinherited—but she’d rather face the wilderness of the wintry Yorkshire moors than be bound to cynical, damaged soldier Lance Amberton. Lance promises a marriage of convenience that will grant Violet her independence. In exchange she must put her faith in Lance, and see beyond his gruff exterior to the man beneath…