В очередной раз, прогуливая уроки, Соня находит раненого молодого человека, чем спасает ему жизнь, и влюбляется в него первой наивной любовью. По воле случая его женой становится сестра Сони, а сама Соня выходит замуж за другого. Но Первая мировая война вносит свои коррективы, меняя судьбы всех людей.
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"Eine Liebe vor der Kulisse des Zweiten Weltkrieges. Meisterhaft inszeniert Paula McLain die sturmische Beziehung zwischen Ernest Hemingway und seiner dritten Frau Martha Gellhorn. Als Martha sich haltlos in den zehn Jahre alteren Ernest verliebt, ist sie gerade achtundzwanzig Jahre alt, hat aber schon die halbe Welt bereist. Spater wird sie eine der beruhmtesten Kriegsreporterinnen des 20. Jahrhunderts sein. Hals uber Kopf folgt sie Hemin ...
Orphaned when her father leaves her to go fight in the civil war, stuck in a life that seems to be going nowhere, Margaret Roe signs up to be a mail-order bride. Now, fifteen years later, she takes care of the present set of children who are in the orphanage and has only a visit to the local confectionery shop as the highlight of her week. Margaret makes an uncharacteristically bold move and signs on as a mail order bride and quickly finds he ...
Lucas Mayfield, the Eighth Earl of Heightford, couldn't be more pleased with the private club that is his brainchild. But when a young courtesan at the club's masquerade appears far too innocent, his suspicions are raised – along with his interest…until her gleaming hair tumbles down and he recognizes her as the Duke of Chatterwood's beautiful daughter. How did the minx even know the place existed? And how has he allowed himself t ...
Русская княжна Ольга отправляется в далекую Англию, чтобы выйти замуж за неизвестного ей герцога Стоука. Она даже не в курсе старый он или молодой, злой или добрый. И этот факт ее очень тревожит. Дабы избежать этой свадьбы, девушка придумывает гениальный план, по ее мнению, в который впутывает и свою служанку. Сработает этот план? Избежит ли Ольга свадьбу, которую не хочет? Или там вмешается любовь?
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Scottish Highlands, 1329. Sir James McKenna, the second son of the powerful McKenna Chief, knows he has found his destiny when he falls in love with sweet Lady Davina Armstrong, niece of the Armstrong Chief. Orphaned in childhood, Davina has always felt like an outsider, and with James, she finally feels that she belongs. But their plans for a happy future are shattered after a brutal attack by a band of rogues. Horrified, Davina's overprot ...
Scottish Highlands, 1334. Lady Joan Armstrong Fraser was once the indulged and pampered daughter of a laird. But marriage to a brute changed her. When he sets her aside, she has only her wits and her beauty to protect herself and her child from the chaos of her former home. She will have to find another husband – a man whose strength is more than a weapon against the weak, a man she can trust…if such a man even breathes. Sir Malcolm McKenna has ...
London, 1818. A beautiful, brilliant woman and a cynical, aristocratic spy are forced into a desperate mission to decipher a secret code that could change the face of Europe forever. . . Explosive Gray Dalton, the Marquess of Blackburn, wakes in a dark London cell staring down a gun barrel. Devon Caravelle, alleged mistress of a deadly French aristocrat, has been sent to ensure Blackburn's cooperation in a secret plot to unlock the mysteri ...
Mason Caldwell is not who she claims to be.For one thing, she is alive and well. As a masquerade her life is a masterpiece. And only Richard Garrett has the power to expose the truth. . . The Art Of Seduction Frustrated by the world's indifference to her haunting, sensual paintings, Mason Caldwell boldly fakes her own death. The results are as brilliant as the colors imbuing her art. Now disguised as her surviving «sister» Amy, Mason enjo ...
