Resultados para "Kim" en Histórico

BBC dramatisation of the classic novel, an enduring romantic love story Experience R.D. Blackmore’s classic novel like never before, in this full-cast adaptation of one of the greatest love stories ever told. Immerse yourself in the world of Lorna and John as they battle their families and...

With a college diploma safely in hand, 20-year-old Thomas Ollenburger is torn between his Mennonite roots on the Kansas prairie and his affluent life in Boston society - and by romantic entanglements in each world. And now even Heaven seems deaf to questions about his choices of vocation, wife, and home.

Betrothed to Major Samuel Prescott, Amanda sympathizes with the Union, but Alice struggles to forgive the Northern forces that nearly destroyed their home. To make ends meet, Alice smuggles medical supplies for the Confederacy, and she falls in love with Amanda's former beau, Colonel William Jackson. Meanwhile, two opposing armies, devastated by the clash at Fredericksburg, wait for the spring campaign on the banks of the Rappahannock River.

At the outbreak of the Civil War, Amanda's husband, John, dies a hero's death. Left with no source of income, she smuggles medical supplies for Lieutenant Colonel William Jackson and the Confederacy. Although a rogue, Wil is a man of courage and is fiercely loyal to Amanda. Lieutenant Samuel Prescott, a soldier of honor and John's comrade from before the war, fights for the Union. As opposing forces move into Virginia, Sam clashes with Wil on more than the battlefield when both men fall in love with Amanda.

Writing about Royals may seem like the dream job, but let me tell you - it’s not. Always looking for a way to crush the happily-ever-after, no thank you, I’m through. That’s why when my boss demands an exposé, on the most notorious prince around, I decide to march right up to her office to tell her I quit. Except...I get stuck in the elevator along the way. And I’m not alone. I’m with him. The guy I’m supposed to expose. The reason I’m quitting.

In this friends-to-lovers, marriage-pact holiday novella spanning the last decade of the 20th century, life forces a playboy and a playgirl grow up—and grow apart—before giving them a chance to create a happy-ever-after they can actually be happy about.

A string of vanished women. A noble daughter gone. A secret so vile, the powerful would kill to keep it buried. London. 1889. As spring settles over London, bodies of young women begin washing up along the Thames—women no one seems to miss, many of them former residents of charitable institutions. When a concerned mission worker reaches out to Lady Rosalynd, what begins as a simple act of compassion soon reveals something far darker. These women weren’t merely lost. They were deliberately erased.

JACQUELINE HOLT WAS THE CHALLENGE OF A LIFETIME. With midnight-blue eyes that could bring a man to his knees and proud ideals that gave no quarter, she openly defied Philadelphia's glittering society. Determined to fight against Federalist rule, the scandalously independent beauty championed her cause in a manner both dangerous and forbidden, undaunted even by the magnetic stranger who threatened her secret-and her heart.

1460: Ismay Deacon, caught between sides in the War of the Roses, tries to hide away in her ancestral home, Havencross. But when word gets out that she has a child, and speculation on who the father might be, Ismay has to make a terrible choice to protect her son. The Deacon family disappears, but there are rumors of a fair-haired, unsmiling ghost of a boy haunting the halls of Havencross.

A loner, Cade takes what the land provides and vows to keep the two men he thought of as brothers alive from the great evil after them. He knows his time is short and the evil is looking for him, but there is just enough humanity left in him to aid his friends. When the flame-haired witch finds him, Cade is instantly spellbound by her beauty.

Magic. Long has it been debated on whether it truly exists. Yet, exist it does, and in the most noble of women. With a past soaked in sin and darkness slowly closing in around him to claim his soul, Drogan only wants to live his life in solitude. Years in the king's service and his numerous deeds directed by the crown have left Drogan with horrendous nightmares and immeasurable guilt . . .

Lady Lavinia Vaile knows what happens to a woman who puts her faith in society. For her, it was a disastrous marriage to a depraved man—one she threatened to shoot when she left him. Now Lavinia lives outside of society's strict conventions, hosting private gambling parties. It's only when her husband is shot dead that Lavinia finds herself in terrible danger. A former judge in India's high court, Maximilian Harrison will do anything he can to help Lavinia. In the darkest of times, he held on to thoughts of her and the love they once shared. 

Richard Christopher Radcliffe, the Marquess of Sunderland, the man Miss Cassandra Carlyle has loved since she was a little girl, has returned—with his betrothed in hand. Lady Desiree was the picture of grace, beauty and perfection, everything that the naïve, unsophisticated young Cassandra was not. Dejected and brokenhearted, Cassandra asked her family to take her to London for her first season. With the aid of her friend, Jeremiah Devlin Huntington, Marquess of Waterford, she soon found herself touted as the darling of the ton.

Hertigen av Ravenstocks bröllopsdag är redan bestämd när han upptäcker att hans fästmö har en älskare. Desillusionerad beslutar han sig for att ta en gruvlig hämnd. Han finner Anoushka, vars mystiska bakgrund är en hemlighet. Anoushka går med på att gifta sig med hertigen, men hennes skönhet och oskuldsfullhet blir en större utmaning än han någonsin kunnat föreställa sig... Cartlands böcker äger rum i de finare engelska kretsarna och i exotiska miljöer.

Aletha är enda dotter till hertigen av Buclington. Hon är van att få som hon vill och när hennes önskningar går emot omgivningens beslutar hon att ta saker och ting i egna händer. Hennes äventyrslystnad driver henne att rymma. Att otaliga faror hotar en ensam, ung, bedårande flicka i 1800-talets Europa är hon helt omedveten om. Efter åtskilliga strapatser hamnar hon på ett slott i det vackra Ungern där hon finner sin drömprins. Men drömmar tål inte alltid mötet med verkligheten.

Nerita vägrar att bli beroende av sina släktingars välgörenhet då hennes far, runierad av misslyckade spekulationer, begår självmord. Genom att utge sig för att vara guvernant får hon anställning i markisen av Wychbolds hushåll. Snart märker hon emellertid att det magnifika huset ruvar på en hemlighet - en hemlighet som kanske kan förklara varför markisen visar större intresse för den nya guvernanten än för sin son. Cartlands böcker äger rum i de finare engelska kretsarna och i exotiska miljöer.

Drottning Victoria önskar att kertigen av Tynemouth gifter sig med en av prins Alberts tyska släktingar. I ett desperat försök att undgå detta öde, går hertigen med på att gifta sig med sin älskarinnas brordotter, Honora, som just återvänt till England efter två år på en flickpension i Florens. Både Honora och hertigen avskyr tanken på äktenskap, men ingen av dem har något alternativ. Men när Honora blir kidnappad på deras bröllopsnatt, går det upp för hertigen hur mycket hon betyder för honom.

När Durstan Hayle ser Lady Lorinda för första gången blir han chockad. Hennes utmanande entré på maskeradbalen gör honom mållös, och inte på ett bra sätt. Lady Lorinda är mycket vågad för sin tid. Hon är modig, vild och urbota trött på alla sina friare. När Lady Lorindas far förlorar en vadslagning blir han satt i skuld och tvingas sälja sina tillgångar. Durstan Hayle köper upp skulden och friar därefter till Lorinda.

Nerissas stillsamma liv står i bjärt kontrast till systern Delphines högt ställda sociala ambitioner och brodern Harrys glada studentliv i Oxford. När Delphine, som blivit en ung, rik änka, sätter sig i sinnet att bli gift med hertigen av Lynchester behöver hon sina syskonen, som hon tidigare knappt brytt sig om. Tack vare sina pengar, något som Nerissa och brodern Harry saknar, får hon syskonen att spela tjänstefolk i föräldrahemmet. Men hertigens möte med Nerissa får inte den utgång Delphine hade räknat med.

Caught in the explosion of the Hammersmith Mill in London, Bow Street Runner Daniel Swann rushes to help any survivors only to find the mill's owner dead of an apparent gunshot. Even though the owner's daughter, Agatha Montgomery, mourns his death, it seems there are more than a few people with motive for murder. But Daniel can't take this investigation slow and steady.