Showing results for "Maltese" in Romance

Tough, cynical PI Sam Spade is hired by the story's irresistible femme fatale, Brigid O'Shaughnessy, to locate the client's sister by tailing her companion. Spade's partner, Miles Archer, takes on the assignment, and quickly both he and the man he was shadowing are murdered. As Spade pursues the mystery of his partner's death, he is drawn into a circle of colorful characters - all of them after a legendary statuette of a falcon fashioned long ago for King Charles of Spain.

Welcome to Tremontaine, where ambition, love affairs, and rivalries dance with deadly results. Tremontaine follows Diane, Duchess Tremontaine, whose beauty is matched only by her cunning; Rafe Fenton, a handsome young scholar with more passion than sense; Ixkaab Balam, a tradeswoman from afar with skill for swords and secrets; and Micah, a gentle genius whose discoveries herald revolution. Sparks fly as these four lives intersect in a world where politics is everything, and outcasts are the tastemakers.

Sex, Scandal, Swordplay… and Chocolate! The prequel to Ellen Kushner's cult classic Swordspoint is back for a fourth season!

Questo romanzo racconta l'evoluzione di una giovane donna, della quale non si conoscerà mai il nome, abituata ormai a misurare sé stessa attraverso i legami e le prove che la vita quotidiana fa accadere. I personaggi, alcuni concreti ed altri onirici, si muoveranno alternandosi accanto alla storia personale di lei e all'interno delle relazioni che costruisce con ciascuno di loro, come sopra ad una scacchiera nella quale i colori assumono infinite sfumature.