Resultados para "Lucien" en Histórico

È il 1929. Isabelle è fuggita dall'Ucraina meridionale, tra villaggi di pietra e campi di grano stecchiti, dove la fame mordeva e il domani era un'incognita. Sopravvissuta all'affondamento della sua nave, arriva a Boston con un bagaglio di vestiti sbiaditi e una speranza timida. Finn, giovane banchiere, la assume come domestica nella sua villa: tra salotti che si specchiano nei lampadari, dame in abiti di seta e uomini intenti a discutere d'affari tra una portata e l'altra, Isabelle spazza i corridoi, presenza silenziosa e distante, priva della raffinata bellezza di Vanessa, la moglie di Finn.

Four years have passed since Kaal led the Sky Dwellers to wage war against the land below. His forces have devastated one place after another, sparing no effort as they seek to conquer the world. Captured by his own brother during the first siege, Keil finds himself helpless to protect those whom he was forced to leave behind. It seems all he has left is the comfort of his dear wife, Sylvia, and the days spent with his children as they live in quiet confinement.

He swept into Lily Meeker’s sheltered world on a chill wind in a torrential rainstorm—Griffon Goforth, the dark, enigmatic clairvoyant Lily’s family had hired to locate her missing cousin. With ice-blue eyes and arms as warm as an Ozark sunset, the handsome stranger mesmerizes the lonely dark-haired beauty, setting free the sensuous, secret longings buried deep in her heart. True, she believes him a charlatan, but Lily is powerless to resist the searing heat of Griffon’s desire—and she is further enthralled as his touch awakens her own psychic gifts…and a love that dared live only in her dreams.

Adele Bishop stares in disbelief as the tall, imposing figure of Reno Gold steps off the train. Her mail-order husband is no stranger, but the man who gave her a delicious taste of his wild streak years ago - when she was too young to know how to handle him. Now he’s here, foiling her plan to turn the tables on the men of Whistle Stop, who order their brides as if they were commodities. Adele has no thought of following through on marriage, and every intention of sending the devilishly irritating Reno on his drifting way.

Orphaned by her father, degraded by her guardian, young Liberty Moore sought refuge at sea in the arms of a handsome stranger, unaware that he was the naval hero Stephen Delaplane, unaware as she surrendered her innocence that she would be taken from him and forced to become the bride of the most powerful ruler in the East....