Resultados para "Anna" en Gótico

Grim Wolds, England: Winifred Notty arrives at Ensor House prepared to play the perfect governess—she’ll dutifully tutor her charges, Drusilla and Andrew, tell them bedtime stories, and only joke about eating children. But long, listless days spent within the estate’s dreary confines come with an intimate knowledge of the perversions and pathetic preoccupations of the Pounds family—Mr. Pounds can’t keep his eyes off Winifred’s chest, and Mrs. Pounds takes a sickly pleasure in punishing Winifred for her husband’s wandering gaze.

Après un périple éprouvant en Europe centrale, Jonathan Harker, un jeune homme de loi anglais parvient au château du comte Dracula, une bâtisse isolée dans les montagnes de Transylvanie. Il s'y rend à la demande de l'inquiétant aristocrate qui souhaite l'assistance de son cabinet pour s'installer à Londres. Durant son séjour, des évènements effarants font bientôt comprendre à Jonathan Harker qu'il est probablement perdu pour sa fiancée Mina Murray qui attend son retour à Londres.

Quando Percival Theodore Waldeck è costretto a tornare a Montfort, sa che sta per diventare lo studente più odiato del campus. La sua famiglia è sul lastrico. La sua reputazione è devastata. Come ultimo Waldeck rimasto in gioco, ha un unico obiettivo: riabilitare il suo cognome nel college di lusso che frequenta. L'unica speranza per riuscirci? Avere lei dalla sua parte.

Quando Ivy Rose perde la borsa di studio nell’università pubblica e viene ammessa al prestigioso college privato di Montfort, ha cinque regole in tasca e un unico obiettivo davanti a sé: vincere il premio d’arte più prestigioso d’America, laurearsi e scappare da quella gabbia di ereditieri snob senza voltarsi indietro. L’unico ostacolo tra lei e il suo futuro? Lui. Il ragazzo con il quale ha commesso un gigantesco errore sul volo aereo verso il college… e che ora è furioso con lei.

It's 1825, four generations after Berggrund Island's women stood accused of witchcraft under the eye of their priest, now long dead. In his place is Pastor Silas, a widower with two wild young daughters, Beata and Ulrika. The sisters are outcasts: imaginative, oppositional, increasingly obsessed with the lore and legend of the island's dark past and their absent mother, whom their father refuses to speak of. As the girls come of age, and the strictures of the community shift but never wane, their rebellions twist and sharpen

It's 2004 and former reality TV star and party girl Maya Miller has just married the most eligible bachelor on the planet: Colin Sterling, of the globally famous Sterling family whose history of aristocratic titles and land holdings rival a British royal and whose media empire is comparable to the Murdochs. To some, Maya represents the American dream. To others, a gold digger. But when Colin's cousin Arianna, the heiress to the family's immense fortune, is found murdered, Maya is thrust into the spotlight.

Edimburgo 1844. La bella Aileana Kameron sembra una giovane debuttante come tante, una frivola ragazzina dell'alta società. Di notte però dà la caccia alle malvage creature fatate che terrorizzano gli abitanti della città, in cerca di quella che le ha ucciso la madre. La sua missione di vendetta diventa però più complicata mano a mano che i suoi sentimenti per Kiaran MacKay, l'essere fatato che le ha insegnato a uccidere i suoi simili, si fanno più intensi e ambigui.

In the devastated ruins of World War I, a war-torn man searches for meaning in the wreckage of his own making, but the past isn't finished with him, and confronting his ghosts may cost him everything. A literary descent into memory, violence, and fragile grace. Gospel For Anna is a deeply personal war novel about grief, lineage, and haunting love. A meditative catharsis for those who've hurt and endured.

Where Decay Sleeps lays 36 poems on the undertaker’s table, revealing to us the seven stages of decay: pallor mortis, algor mortis, rigor mortis, livor mortis, putrefaction, decomposition, and skeletonization. Listeners are summoned to walk the Gothic ruins of monsters, where death and decay lie sleeping.

When the successful British mystery writer Judith Moore meets Gavin, a handsome and charming baron, at a birthday party on the Cornish coast, his love transforms her from a bitter, lonely young woman into a romance heroine overnight. After a whirlwind honeymoon in Paris, he whisks her away to a secluded Gothic castle. But soon she finds herself trapped in a nightmare, as her husband’s mysterious nature and his alternation between charm and violence become increasingly frightening.

Conceited, arrogant, and built like a prize stud, Rutger is a red-blooded Viking. But his brash, bad boy demeanour hides a chasm of pain. He has known love, only to have his heart cleaved in two by a faithless woman. Grethe’s hopes of marriage and children were cruelly dashed when her fickle betrothed abandoned her. With Rutger as her captive mate, she’ll punish him as she’d like to punish all men.

Shy and reserved, Astrid can’t believe that anyone would want her as their bride, let alone a strong and handsome man like Jørgen. She longs to submit to his seductions, but knows his interest will wane once he’s bedded her. Daring warrior Jørgen has never lacked for female attention, yet the only woman to wholly capture his heart is Astrid. Though she refuses to accept his intentions are true, Jørgen is determined to demonstrate his devotion.

After laboring for decades in the mines of Skálavík, Viggo is lured by the promise of great riches, and joins his jarl's sea quest. But the daring adventure is doomed, the longship destroyed in a terrible storm. He awakes to find himself robbed of his sight, and his liberty. Signy knows what it is to suffer alone. The last thing she seeks is a man—even if the future of the island depends upon compliance. Thrown together, the two form an alliance. Viggo will impregnate her, in return for a promise that she'll help him end his misery.

Six strapping warriors are determined to lay down the law. The women who claim them as mates might think they have the upper hand, but they’re about to discover what it means to be loved by a Viking.

Badly wounded, Rangvald is obliged to accept aid from the woman with whom he now shelters. The payment demanded? That he sires her child! But this warrior gives nothing against his will. If she is to own his manhood, he will possess her body and soul.

La vie de notre héroïne fougueuse est chamboulée, alors qu’elle doit faire face à l’aventure, au danger et à la passion dans ce roman historique palpitant. Avec des fonds limités, et loin du Texas, Rosamonde doit prétendre qu’elle est une riche héritière.

Eldberg—the mighty Beast of Skálavík, feared by all—is tied to a bedpost. His captor? An acid-tongued vixen set on making him her thrall. Trussed and used, he vows revenge. But his greatest nemesis is also his wildest fantasy. And when the tables are turned, His beautiful jailor will discover what it means to kneel.

Lieu de mythes et de secrets, l’hôtel se dresse au-dessus des marais sombres, dans sa splendeur surannée. Bâti sur une terre maudite, ses fondations portent en elles le souvenir d’une mort violente. Pourtant, il est impossible de résister à son pouvoir d’attraction. En pénétrant dans l’hôtel, chacun réagit à sa façon. Pour certains, c’est un lieu qui respire la familiarité, pour d’autres, l’étrangeté.

Sixteen modern fiction superstars shine a startling light on the romance and pain of the infamous literary pair Heathcliff and Cathy. Short stories to stir the heart and awaken vital conversation about love.

A man climbs over the railings and plunges into Niagara Falls. A newlywed, he has left behind his wife, Ariah Erskine, in the honeymoon suite the morning after their wedding. ""The Widow Bride of The Falls,"" as Ariah comes to be known, begins a relentless, seven-day vigil in the mist, waiting...