Resultados para "Rico" en Histórico

Nuevo México, 1880 A unas millas de Silver City, en medio de la nada y rodeado por arena y matorrales, se alza el Golden Paradise, el salón más famoso y exclusivo de todo el territorio. Una fría noche de enero, Diego Suárez desmonta de su caballo y se adentra en el fastuoso local. Lleva la determinación escrita en su mirada de fríos ojos plateados. Nadie sabe lo que busca el peculiar forastero de aspecto misterioso y origen mexicano, pero sus andares y su forma de portar el revólver parecen indicar que se trata de un pistolero.

Una novela de una sensibilidad especial, en la que el recuerdo y la ficción se dan cita para recrear una vida tan cruda como emocionante. Narra los recuerdos de Ricardo, un artista español afincado en Francia, donde tuvo que refugiarse a raíz de la guerra civil. Ricardo le relata su vida entera a Madeleine, una joven que viene a diario a visitarlo. A través de su relato viajamos a la España que fue, a los recuerdos de una juventud cristalizada en el tiempo, y a una vida desgarradora marcada por el arte.

Quando Kitty Talbot é rejeitada pelo noivo três meses antes do casamento, o futuro se torna sombrio. Sem a fortuna dele para pagar as dívidas de jogo de seu falecido pai, a única coisa certa na vida dela e de suas quatro irmãs mais novas é a ruína. Mas a jovem nunca foi de dar as costas a um desafio, então sai de casa em direção ao campo de batalha mais perigoso da Inglaterra—a temporada social londrina. O objetivo é simples: encontrar um solteiro rico para salvar a família Talbot da miséria.

Poco después de la caída del Muro de Berlín, unos amigos celebran una fiesta que parece no acabar nunca. Ilse, Fátima, Werner y Ulrich pertenecen a la generación Erasmus, que en los años 90 vive el sueño idílico de un mundo que ha abolido las fronteras y la lucha de clases. Se aman, se odian, y alguien muere. Un crimen «o un accidente » que nunca será aclarado. Quince años después, el mundo y sus vidas han cambiado, e Ilse regresa al lugar donde todo sucedió para intentar averiguar qué pasó realmente.

Minerva Peniston, intrepid spinster and book lover, is determined to capture the villain who tried to shoot a duke at a book auction—imperiling her father's position and the only home she's ever known. And now the same wealthy bibliophiles are gathering at Wycliffe Manor . . .Paul Upton, overeducated and impoverished curate, has volunteered to assist the residents of Wycliffe Manor in preparing for a book auction to save the village and the manor's future. When an intriguing wallflower drags him into aiding her quest to find a potential killer, he agrees for her safety.

Wycliffe Manor has been neglected for decades. Its new heirs are determined to create a welcoming home. Yet soon after the latest family moves in, bones are uncovered in the orchard . . . and odd strangers arrive. When her curate father returns his family to Gravesyde for the marriages of the manor's heirs, gawky spinster Patience Upton has high expectations—until her father is murdered. Shock at learning her father had a mysterious past leads to alarm that the killer may have been after his notebook, which she now possesses.

Spinster and secret novelist Clarissa Knightley and her gruff American engineer, Captain Huntley, along with their friend and cousin, the Honorable Jack de Sackville and Lady Elspeth, are to wed at last! In anticipation of the double wedding, friends and family are gathering at moldering Wycliffe Manor—until a dying stranger is discovered on the neglected grounds. Despite the tragedy, aristocratic wedding guests and their retinues, foreign and domestic, continue to arrive, not all by invitation.

The descendant of adventuring-dead-aristocrats, Clarissa Knightley supplements a modest inheritance by penning gothic novels that cost more than they earn. Upon learning that she has mysteriously inherited a share of an earl's estate, she rashly packs up her household. In remote Gravesyde Priory, she hopes to find a safe haven and family who will welcome her and her young nephew. Instead, she discovers a drunken American army captain, his African servant, and ancient, surly caretakers.

On a long-delayed errand to remote Wycliffe Manor, ex-Lieutenant Jack de Sackville stumbles across the murdered body of London dandy, Basil Culpepper, in the hedgerow, a long way from his usual haunts. To Jack's dismay, he discovers the earl's daughter Culpepper hiding in Wycliffe's kitchen. Disguised as a lowly cook, Lady Elspeth Villiers may have liked to shoot Culpepper for ruining her life, but she dropped out of sight for more immediate reasons than an old scandal-her wealth has become the focus of greedy men. 

Lasher es un espíritu demoníaco que se aprovecha de las Mayfair femeninas en su intento de procrear. Rowan Mayfair, reina del clan, ha dado a luz al hijo de Lasher y después ha desaparecido...

Fijaos en mí: soy vuestro héroe, la perfecta imitación de un anglosajón rubio de ojo azules y metro ochenta de estatura. Soy un vampiro, uno de los más poderosos que han existido jamás. Tengo unos colmillos tan pequeños que apenas resultan visibles, a menos que yo quiera, pero muy afilados, y cada pocas horas siento el deseo de beber sangre humana. Poseo una fuerza monstruosa. Soy capaz de volar y de captar una conversación en el otro extremo de la ciudad, e incluso del globo. Adivino el pensamiento; puedo hechizar a la gente.

Sax Rohmer was born on February 15th, 1883 as Arthur Henry Sarsfield in Birmingham to working class parents. Rohmer started his career as a civil servant but soon had ambitions to change careers and write full time. Not content with just fiction he wrote poetry, songs as well as comedy sketches for music hall performers. From these varied beginnings he reinvented himself as Sax Rohmer.

It is June 1778, and the world seems to be turning upside-down. The British Army is withdrawing from Philadelphia, with George Washington in pursuit, and for the first time, it looks as if the rebels might actually win. But for Claire Fraser and her family, there are even more tumultuous...

Magic is her birthright.... The daughter of one of the strongest magical lineages, Ninian Malcom Siddons is a powerful witch. Determined to use her magic only for good, she lives a simple, solitary life as a healer in her village, where she meets Drogo.

All the Malcolms have some magic, but Lady Felicity's ability to read people's emotions simply by touching them or their possessions overwhelms her. She's reached a marriageable age, but how can she ever wed when she can see so clearly a man's guilty secrets?

Lady Leila Staines has always felt like an outcast among her magically gifted sisters. Desperate to discover her own talent, she seeks out Dunstan Ives, a dark and brooding aristocrat with a scientific bent who may hold the key to unleashing Leila's hidden powers.

Everything about Lord Harry's easygoing life is about to change. After unexpectedly inheriting the title of duke of Sommersville, he's also discovered it comes with a load of debt. To save the estate, he's going to need money. Lots of it - and quick.

Aidan Dougal is deadly, and he knows it. His self-imposed isolation is to keep others out of harm's way. However, it also makes any kind of intimacy impossible...and certainly not marriage! Asking for help is beyond him until a woman unlike any he's ever met slips into his life like an answered prayer.

Aelynn, a tropical island veiled from human sight, magically protects a sacred chalice. When a beautiful maiden washes ashore from the outside world and steals the chalice, she sets in motion dangerous and far-reaching consequences.... Trystan l’Enforcer is Aelynn’s powerful guardian. To guarantee the isle’s safety, he plans to marry into a magically powerful family. His ambition is thwarted when his ship carries a sultry beauty onto the island’s hidden shores.

The disappearance of the sacred chalice has brought disastrous weather and volcanic eruptions to the island of Aelynn. Ian Olympus, Aelynn's powerful leader, must venture outside the only home he's known to find the cup and save his people. Chantal Deveau has used her gift of music to write impassioned anthems for the Revolution and lullabies for her niece. But as the mobs grow more violent, the sensual timbre of a handsome stranger in a monk's robes calls more seductively than her music.