Resultados para "Stella" en Histórico

Alba è giovane, bella e determinata, ma ha un "passato" e questo le ha fatto perdere la fiducia negli uomini e ha azzerato ogni possibilità di sposarsi. Quando una violenta pioggia devasta le vigne alla vigilia della vendemmia, nessuno le concede credito e i debiti a suo favore restano insoluti: è una donna, e senza un uomo che la tuteli non trova voce né giustizia. Alba e Mario si incontrano per un caso del destino e i loro percorsi si intrecciano tra pericoli che incombono, segreti e un'indomabile passione reciproca.

Il duca di Brockenhurst, ormai annoiato dall'alta società e indifferente nei confronti delle donne che continuano a presentarsi davanti a lui nel disperato tentativo di diventare la sua consorte, decide di dare una scossa alla propria vita e accetta la scommessa di andare da Londra a York da solo e in incognito, mischiandosi tra la gente comune. Sarà proprio durante una delle sue soste che farà la conoscenza di Valora Melford, una bellissima ragazza orfana di padre, ora sotto la custodia della matrigna, che la vuole dare in sposa al dissoluto Sir Mortimer.

Friedrich es un joven suizo que se muda a Berlín para seguir con su carrera artística. Allí conoce a Kristin, una chica muy hermosa y segura de sí misma que se hace cargo de él y le enseña a moverse entre los cenáculos de la efervescente vida nocturna de la ciudad, con sus cabarets y clubs de jazz. Pronto, la intensidad de su relación se convierte en una apasionada historia amorosa, hasta que un día Kristin se presenta en casa del muchacho con la cara y el cuerpo cubiertos de moretones.

From the internationally bestselling author of The Club comes a new novel of love and betrayal, set in Berlin in 1942 In 1942, Friedrich, an even-keeled but unworldly young man, arrives in Berlin from bucolic Switzerland with dreams of becoming an artist. At a life drawing class, he is...

Stella Hart is looking forward to five blissful days alone at sea with her new fiancée, George - no relatives, no responsibilities, nothing to keep them apart. But Stella’s bosses at Pinnacle Pictures have other ideas. Miss Cecilia Cuthbert of the London office is on board to be her chaperone, and she will not be dissuaded. If Miss Cuthbert has her way, Stella will spend the whole voyage holed up in her cabin answering fan mail and signing autographs.

Stella Hart has less than a month to finish her latest picture and sail home to England to marry her darling George. If she postpones the wedding again, her mother will disown her, and even the groom is getting restless. When her swashbuckling co-star smashes into a wall and breaks his nose, putting production on indefinite hold, she and George make plans to slip away and leave the movie unfinished. But studio head Nathan Stanley has other ideas. As a free agent and the future wife of a baronet, she can afford to let him do his worst. But when Stanley turns up stabbed to death...

Das Königreich Arandor steht erneut im Mittelpunkt der Machtspiele und politischen Allianzen. Um seine Herrschaft zu festigen, beschließt König Luke, eine Gemahlin unter fünf edlen Prinzessinnen auszuwählen. Doch die ehrgeizige Nora aus Laawia, die gezwungen wird, an diesem Wettbewerb teilzunehmen, hat ihre eigenen Pläne. Ihr Vater verspricht ihr größere Freiheiten für ihr Studium im Ausland, doch Nora ahnt nicht, dass hinter dieser Vereinbarung ein viel dunkleres Geheimnis lauert.

The Highlander Fate, Lairds of the Isles complete series: Gawen's Claim, Bhaltair's Pledge, and Domhnall's Honor. She falls back through time...and right into the arms of a dashing highlander.... Lila Fletcher is determined to prove the strength of her magical time-traveling ability to herself, her family, and her coven. But when she travels back in time to 14th-century Scotland to contend with a malevolent foe, she must also battle an all-consuming desire for a dashing Highland laird....

Astrid Hart has turned her back on magic and time travel since the dark events of her childhood, choosing to embrace her life as a doctor in the 21st century. Yet when dark visions of the past in which history is altered consume her, she has no choice but to go back in time to prevent war and bloodshed.

Trapped in the past, she must come to the aid of a sexy highlander...Avery Fletcher has always relished in the freedom of her ability to travel to different times. Yet when she is forced to remain in the 14th century by a mysterious witch, she feels an undeniable pull toward a sexy Highlander...Bhaltair made a sacred pledged to his late brother to protect his niece. He has no choice but to seek the help of a distractingly bonnie golden-haired witch to take on a dark magical foe.

Lila Fletcher is determined to prove the strength of her magical time traveling ability to herself, her family, and her coven. But when she travels back in time to 14th century Scotland to contend with a malevolent foe, she must also battle an all-consuming desire for a dashing Highland laird.... After losing his family to illness, Gawen MacRaild has turned his back on love. Yet his obligation to duty conflicts with his growing desire to claim the bonnie time traveling lass for his own....

It is the story of a Family halfheartedly searching for a missing relation who does not want to be found, while just off-stage, World War I is raging on the continent. It is a story about ordinary people trying to live ordinary lives in extraordinary times. The things they do are less important than the ways in which they do them: often comic, occasionally tragic, but always touching and true to life. It reminds us that Poetry and Romance can be found anywhere, hidden beneath the surface of the most commonplace things.

Had it not been for the scent bottles, it is unlikely that Daniel Shelbourne, Viscount Reculver, and Anna Hawthorne of Hawthorne’s Porcelain would ever have met. Daniel’s late father left him an impoverished estate – which he had expected – and unexplained debts, which he hadn’t. Anna inherited a thriving business, along with the knowledge and passion required to run it.

Still tied to his desk in the Intelligence Office, Colonel Eden Maxwell has become increasingly disenchanted with both Oliver Cromwell and his own daily existence; and with the advent of new Royalist conspiracies, he despairs of ever getting away. Then a brick hurled through the window of a small workshop sets in motion a new and unexpected chain of events. After all, who would want to hurt Lydia Neville—a young widow, giving work and self-respect to maimed war veterans considered unemployable elsewhere?

At the end of his Grand Tour, somewhere between Athens and Constantinople, Christian Selwyn, the young Earl of Hazelmere, vanished—seemingly without trace. Time passes. In London, his uncle and cousin move into his home, while his unofficial fiancée, Sophia, is left desolate and in limbo.

Upon learning that his stepsister, Mariella Talbot, is the beneficiary of a surprise inheritance, Sir Jerome Farrell decides to seize it for himself. Already struggling to thwart her step-brother’s other wicked intentions, Mariella realizes two things: To claim the Montesoro legacy, Jerome must make a lengthy journey...but without a certain item in her possession, he will return empty-handed.

Cora's life shatters, and she desperately needs to get away from Chicago, where ridicule and shame follow her. When her sister encourages her to go west to Colorado and meet a man she had been corresponding with, Cora agrees. Widower Hugh awaits Amy's arrival, after proposing a marriage of convenience to her, as he knows his infant daughter needs a mother. But when Amy is nowhere to be seen, he is faced with a shocking revelation, and a switched bride.

Charles ll leads an army south to reclaim his throne, but the dream ends in a crushing defeat at Worcester. With little more than the clothes on their backs, Ashley Peverell and Francis Langley manage to reach Paris, where Ashley resumes his under-cover, unpaid work for the King. Beautiful, stubborn, and street-wise Athenais de Galzain has risen from the slums of Paris to become the Marais Theatre's leading actress. From first chance, Ashley and Athenais are drawn together with the unstoppable force of two stars colliding; a force which Ashley must conceal.

Meet Adam Brandon...acutely intelligent and master swordsman but gradually realizing that he isn’t yet ready for the future he had previously planned.Victim of a cruel deception, Camilla Edgerton-Foxe has a jaundiced view of the male sex and a tongue as sharp as her wits...but she also possesses an extraordinary talent. A peculiar encounter offers Adam the kind of employment for which he is uniquely suited and that will exercise his mind as well as his muscles. The fly in the ointment is that Miss Edgerton-Foxe comes with it...as does Rainham.

Hazard: A game of Chance and Luck, made riskier when Fate is rolling the dice. For Aristide Delacroix, the first throw summons shades from his past. A man he had met, just once, over a card-table... and the lovely girl indirectly responsible for plunging his life into catastrophe. For Lord Nicholas Wynstanton, tired of waiting for Madeleine Delacroix to make up her mind, it slyly suggests he begin a whole new game with loaded dice; while for Madeleine, it devises a terrifying lesson in missed opportunities and the uncertainty of second chances.