Showing results for "Fran" in Sagas

De kom från öar är första delen i trilogin om Dagmar och Holger, tre romaner som formar berättelsen om en familj men också om det svenska folkhemmet, från små kustsamhällen till nybyggda höghus i industristaden. Det är en varm och stämningsfull berättelse med ovanligt levande karaktärer.

Del 4 av 15: Där vinden viskar. En släkthistoria fullmatad med dramatik, romantik och starka kvinnoporträtt. Serien utspelar sig på storgården Övre Tronstad vid Oslofjorden i början av 1900-talet. Tillsammans med sin son och en barnpiga flyttar rikemansdottern Gabriella in i storgården för att komma undan en skandal. Men vad hon inte vet är att gården har ett mörkt förflutet. Två år tidigare inträffade en tragedi, men folk i trakten vill inte prata om händelsen. Vad var det egentligen som hände på gården - och varför övergavs den? Efter hotbrevet flyr Gabriella till Storhöi.

Gayle was the beauty who believed that a man could make her life complete. Patricia was the intellectual who thought that rising to the top of her career would make her happy. And then there is Marcus Carter, who has been linked to both Gayle and Pat since the tragedy that occurred when they were all children. Can either one save him from himself? Can friends survive a love that comes between them? Each of them gets what she wants, but no one counts on the price they have to pay.

Celeste English and Ronnie Frazier are sisters, but they couldn't be more different. Celeste is a doctor's wife, living a perfect and elegant façade. But secretly, her marriage is falling apart and her need to control people around her threatens to destroy them all. Ronnie is an actress, living in New York. But she has no money, she has no home, and her life is held together by "chewing gum, paper clips, and spit." When their father dies, the sisters inherit a house in Prosper, North Carolina.

As the world tried to tear us apart, Alexander fought for me, claiming me as his own. I belong to him - body, heart, and soul. I found strength in his dominance. In his control. In his love. Still I could always feel it: the darkness creeping toward our joy, threatening to overcome us. But I never imagined it would end like this. I thought I knew what marrying Alexander meant to my life. To my independence. To us. I was wrong.