Showing results for "The Ring" in Historical Romance

The legend of the Headless Horseman and a proposed marriage de convenance both have their impact on the mystery of a golden talisman ring and Lord Lavenham's young heir, Ludovic. Neither Sir Tristram Shield nor Eustacie, his young French cousin, shares the slightest inclination to marry one another, yet it is Lord Lavenham's dying wish. For there is no one else to provide for the old man's granddaughter while Ludovic remains a fugitive from justice.

With 22 million of her books in print, and 12 consecutive New York Times best-sellers to her credit, Amanda Quick is a phenomenally popular author of historical romances. With This Ring, set in Regency England, sends a beautiful, headstrong woman on a perilous quest for the Forbidden Rings of Aphrodite. To recover her family’s meager fortunes, Beatrice Poole must locate the antiquities stolen from her favorite uncle shortly before his highly suspicious death.

Lang geleden bouwde Arthur Poole een groot huis in Maine dat uitkeek over de onstuimige oceaan. Nu woont Sonya MacTavish in het huis, dat al generaties lang vervloekt is. Ze was er getuige van de dood van zeven bruiden en van de diefstal van zeven trouwringen. Vastbesloten om deze plek te vullen met licht, leven en hoop, besluit Sonya dat het tijd is om de vloek te verbreken en de kwaadaardige geest eens en voor altijd te verbannen. Maar de vrouw in de zwarte jurk blijft rondwaren en laat zich in angstaanjagende verschijningen aan Sonya zien.

Ny roman af den danske forfatter Anne Fortier, der har skrevet bl.a. bestselleren Julie. Diana Morgan er en ambitiøs og eventyrlysten forsker ved Oxford. Hun er ekspert i amazonerne, de mytologiske kvindelige krigere. Dianas fascination er dybt forbundet med hendes egen families historie, så da hun inviteres til at deltage i en arkæologisk udgravning, forlader hun trods sine kollegers advarsler universitets trygge rammer.

Winter Reeves is an aristocratic Patriot forced to hide her heart amid the Loyalists of the City of New York. She has learned to keep her ears open so she can pass information on British movements to Robbie Townsend, her childhood friend, and his spy ring. Bennet Lane returns to New York from his Yale professorship with one goal: to find General Washington's spy hidden among the ranks of the elite. Both believers...and both committed to a separate cause. Will their faith in God lead them to a shared destiny or lives lived apart?

Rome, 1520. The Eternal City is in mourning. Raphael Sanzio, beloved painter and national hero, has died suddenly at the height of his fame. His body lies in state at the Pantheon. At the nearby convent of Sant'Apollonia, a young woman comes to the Mother Superior, seeking refuge. She is Margherita Luti, a baker's daughter from a humble neighborhood on the Tiber, now an outcast from Roman society, persecuted by enemies within the Vatican. Margherita was Raphael's beloved and appeared as the Madonna in many of his paintings. But now that Raphael is gone, the convent is her only hope.

Elektra Worthington is the lovely middle daughter of the eccentric, impoverished Worthington family. Her beauty means nothing to her except as her currency to return the Worthington name to its former glory of status, riches, and dominance in the ballrooms of Regency England. To this end, she will stop at nothing - even if she must kidnap a rich lord in the process.

This eliminates Grace MacEachin on all three counts. A hellion of the first order, the alluring, infuriating woman would be nothing more than a passing temptation to an upstanding gentleman like Richard - if it weren't for the fact that she's trying to blackmail his father! Or, as Grace sees it, trying to get justice - and maybe just the slightest hint of revenge on the family that tore her life asunder when she was just a girl. And as for Lynsted, well, the stuffy, humorless man wouldn't suffer for time spent in company more exciting than that of his company ledgers.

Hannah Rose Barrington is the island misfit. Orphaned at a young age, Hannah struggles to provide for her future, while her guardian, a weak-hearted island drunk, bleeds Hannah of her father’s inheritance. Caught between the classes of elite planters and white beggars, Hannah yearns to find a place to belong.

Liverpool, 1938. It’s Christmas in the Courts, and single mother Rosheen Clarke and her mischievous twin daughters, April and May, have no idea of the cataclysmic events which will soon overtake them. When war is declared, April and May are evacuated to the countryside, and Rosheen joins the WAAF, where she befriends fellow Liverpudlian Cassie Valentine. While Rosheen worries about what trouble the twins will cause next, Cassie is fighting her love for her childhood friend, Andy.

Eloise Kelly has gotten into quite a bit of trouble since she started spying on the Pink Carnation and the Black Tulip-two of the deadliest spies to saunter the streets of nineteenth-century England and France. Not only has she unearthed secrets that will rearrange history, she's dallied with...

General Bengt Löwensköld ligger inför döden och hans sista önskan är att begravas med den ring han fått som gåva av Karl XII. Efter hans död skändas graven av plundrare, som sliter den dyrbara ringen från sin viloplats. Det dröjer inte länge förrän det blir tydligt att ringen bär på en förbannelse som hemsöker alla de som korsar dess väg. Trots att den sprider sjukdom, skräck och död verkar folk vara villiga att riskera allt för att bli dess nästa ägare.

Leo Drake, the “Mad Monk of Monkcrest,” is notoriously eccentric and unquestionably reclusive. But he is also a noted antiquities expert, which is why Beatrice Poole has demanded his reluctant assistance. The freethinking authoress of “horrid novels,” Beatrice is searching for the...

Un romanzo sull'amore, la perdita e la forza del destino. Un libro imperdibile per chi ha amato Mille splendidi soli e Le pagine della nostra vita. Roya e Bahman si incontrano in una piccola libreria di Teheran. Giovani e pieni di ideali, decidono di sposarsi. Ma la Storia ha altri piani: è il 1953, l'anno del colpo di Stato che cambiò l'Iran per sempre e Bahman scompare durante i tumulti cittadini. Roya, distrutta dal dolore, si trasferisce negli Stati Uniti per ricominciare da zero. Dopo oltre sessant'anni, ritrova Bahman e – con lui – tutte le risposte che cercava da una vita intera.

"Senso" è la storia di una relazione, di un tradimento, di un inganno, di una vendetta, sullo sfondo della terza guerra di indipendenza. Racconto insolito, che andrà incontro a un altrettanto insolito destino, ripropone l'intelaiatura del melodramma ma ne snatura implicitamente i contenuti e gli effetti; dissacra le certezze morali e le illusioni sentimentali; destabilizza le attese e spiazza il lettore. Viene a lungo trascurato dalla critica e dal pubblico, ma viene riscoperta quando diventa un film nel 1954 di Luchino Visconti.