Resultados para "Storm" en Histórico

Shelves of sequins in a kaleidoscope of colours. Bolts of silk and tulle against the back wall. The sewing room was the last place anyone had seen her daughter alive. Manchester, 1942. Flora Toussaint packs parachutes for the RAF, haunted by the twin daughters she was forced to give up eighteen...

An epic tale of courage, love and heroism inspired by the true stories of women working as journalists during the Vietnam War. 1967. Jude Murphy has never taken no for an answer. When the Associated Press refuses to send her to cover Vietnam, she books her own flight to Saigon – typewriter in...

From the top-ten bestselling author of One Snowy Night, Rita Bradshaw, comes The Storm Child, a sweeping family saga set during the run up to WW2 in the north-east of England. It’s mid-winter, and in the throes of a fierce blizzard Elsie Redfern and her husband discover an unknown girl in...

The spellbinding series continues. Following the bestselling The Seven Sisters, The Storm Sister is the second book in Lucinda Riley's epic saga of love and loss, inspired by the mythology of the Seven Sisters constellation. Read by Hattie Morahan (The Burning Chambers, Girl with a Pearl...

Det værst tænkelige sker, da et voldsomt uvejr trækker op på havet. Mændene, som er sejlet ud på vinterfiskeri, er overladt til naturens luner, og i deres små både har de ikke mange andre muligheder end at bede Vorherre om frelse. På Elveløkken sidder Rebekka og familien tilbage i...

Det värsta tänkbara sker när ett kraftigt oväder drar in över havet. Männen som gett sig ut på vinterfisket är utlämnade åt naturens nycker, och i sina små båtar finns inte mycket annat att göra än att be Gud om nåd. På Elveløkken väntar Rebekka och familjen i ovisshet om vad...

Summer 1745: Prince Charles Edward Stuart has landed in the Highlands, igniting a rebellion that will set Scotland ablaze. Redcoat Captain Robert Catto has painful personal reasons for hating all Jacobites with a passion. Except for one. Christian Rankeillor is a fiercely intelligent apothecary in Edinburgh. Her loyalty to the Jacobite Cause is unshakeable.

I will cross a hundred more years to find my way back to you... When Tegan Penrose plunges through the time portal at Trevarron House to save her beloved William, she believes she is carrying him home to the twenty-first century. Instead, she is torn from his arms and cast adrift in 1867 –...

While magic still glimmered over the lands and people of Scotland and the Vikings ruled the western islands and the north, a woman encounters a powerful Fae prince and could not imagine the consequences that would shape the rest of her life and that of her sons–three brothers who will struggle against their fate to overcome a dreaded curse tied to their own Fae powers. Agneis of Mull betrayed the Fae prince who loved her and lost everything and everyone.

A storm takes everything. But can hope rise from the wreckage? 1881, a violent storm ravages the Scottish fishing village of Eyemouth, leaving devastation in its wake. Newlywed Rosabelle Maltman loses her husband, while her mother-in-law, Effie, is left to grieve not only her husband but all three of her sons. Across the close-knit community, families are shattered, and life will never be the same again.

1944. Lasse de se sentir impuissante devant les atrocités de la guerre, Alice décide de passer à l’action : elle déménage à Montréal dans une pension de famille et devient calculatrice au laboratoire de l’Université de Montréal, où travaille déjà son frère Simon. Loin de son mont Saint-Hilaire et de sa classe d’élèves du primaire, elle doit se familiariser avec cette grande ville. Elle pourra compter sur l’amitié de sa colocataire Deborah, qui lui fera découvrir l’univers des boîtes de nuit. Alice s’avoue enfin qu’elle rêve de vivre l’amour, au risque d’être écorchée.

A day of reckoning for some and a dangerous one for others… Jamaica 1804 As the last will and testimony of Sugar Plantation owner Sir Edward Albert Kildare is disclosed to an eager auduence, a loyal servant is brutally murdered and a young girl's life hangs in the balance. With the help of a...

Mørke skygger fra fortiden truer med at ødelægge lykken for Iselilja og Ivo i Sandstad. Da de modtager et brev fra Clemet, bliver Iselilja skræmt fra vid og sans. Er det virkelig lykkedes Clemet at flygte fra fængslet, og er han på vej tilbage for at tage sin hævn? I præstegården bliver...

Mörka skuggor från det förflutna hotar att falla över Iselilja och Ivo igen. När ett hotfullt brev från Clemet anländer till gården, väcks rädslor som Iselilja trodde att hon hade lämnat bakom sig. Har Clemet verkligen lyckats rymma från fängelset, och söker han nu hämnd? På...

Hilary Napier is upset and angry when her father brings in a new manager for the family estate, which she's been running for the past year. Even though she resents his presence, she cannot help liking Travis Kellaway. When her defences are broken down by the illness of her brother's much-loved horse, she realises Travis' strength and compassion. It isn't long before their relationship moves to a new footing.

She is lightning and storm. A spy, driven out of her home by a tyrant ruler. He is granite and earth. A guard, ordered to keep her contained. To protect herself and her family, she’s learned to go unnoticed, unseen. Suddenly, a refugee in a land that once was enemy and now must be home, she isn’t certain where she belongs, or what her duty is beyond her family. She can’t protect them alone this time, but the only man who can help her is the only one she cannot ask.

A snowstorm changes everything. In The Snow-Storm, Aleksandr Pushkin weaves a captivating tale of love, fate, coincidence, and unexpected destiny. Set against the backdrop of a fierce winter storm, this beloved story follows a young woman's romantic plans as a single night of snow and confusion...

Torn between her taciturn longtime sweetheart and a charming, affluent new flame, Scottish mill girl Catriona Easson finds herself struggling to choose between her head and her heart. As new connections bloom and old relationships are threatened, Catriona finds her romantic future foggy as extraordinary escapades force her to navigate through mistakes and misconceptions.

One of the wealthiest heiresses in England, Eliza Thoroughgood is the ideal catch for the right man. But the husband her parents have chosen for her is a paragon of masculinity and urbane wit, while Eliza is shy and bookish and detests the public eye. So she comes up with the perfect escape from the perfect bridegroom: She will accompany her young cousin, Aubrey, to the sultry island of Madeira, where he can recuperate from a riding injury. Eliza has never been to sea, and she's in for the adventure of her life when she and Aubrey are taken hostage by a vengeful buccaneer.

Embark on a journey into magical Medieval Scotland, with the last princess of Moray and the last Pecht prince. Each Man to His destiny. As the last male heir of the dún Scoti clan, Keane's future is known from the hour of his birth: Someday, he must take his brother's place as Guardian of the true Stone of Destiny. But fickle Highland winds will turn. To quell a looming rebellion, King David of Scotia commands the marriage of a granddaughter of the traitor MacBeth to de Moray's new laird, a man rumored to be as dangerous and conniving as his father.