Resultados para "Illusion" en Histórico

Linetta är ensam i världen. När hennes guvernant ligger för döden säger hon åt henne att åka till Paris och söka upp sitt syskonbarn Marie. Men om den välvilliga damen hade vetat vilka kretsar Linetta skulle hamna i hade hon aldrig skickat henne dit. Under uppsyn av Marie blir oskyldiga och oerfarna Linetta älskarinna åt förmögna och generösa män dubbelt så gamla som henne. Hon vet att hennes leverne skulle ha förargat sin mor, men hon står ensam och utan pengar och hon ser inget annat alternativ.

Ghostly images appear and float across the stage, objects levitate into the air, and a beautiful assistant disappears inside a glass box, then reappears inside a second glass box. All while the audience at the Crystal Palace, including amateur investigator Mikaela Forsythe, watch the performance. Is it real? Then, an evening with her friend, Theodora Templeton, attending the one-night performance by master illusionist Jean Luc Betard, takes a ghastly turn and plunges Mikaela headlong into murder when the illusionist's young assistant is found dead at the end of his newest stunt.

Lady Abigail of Blackmore is being sent by her father to marry the vile Lord Shrewsbury in return for the release of her brother. When a thief robs them on the road, she sees him as her opportunity to run from a life that no longer suits her. Madoc ap Powell has been raised as a peasant, knowing nothing about his true heritage. In order to survive, he has lived his life as a thief. He is known for his disguises, and being a master of illusion is his best skill. But when the Lady Abigail hunts him down to retrieve her stolen dagger, he finds that he is not the only one looking to escape a life of doom.