Resultados para "The Sister" en Novela histórica

Mary es el patito feo de las cinco hermanas Bennet. ¿Qué pasaría si su vida tomara un rumbo distinto al que Jane Austen trazó para ella en Orgullo y prejuicio. Janice Hadlow lo recrea en esta deliciosa historia para las amantes del «qué pasó después. Mary es la fea, la intelectual frustrada de la familia Bennet, la hija marginada, la jovencita que se refugia en sus libros… ¿Tendrá algún futuro entre sus hermanas, todas más bonitas y más seguras de sí mismas que ella?

Mississippi, 1927. The groanings are coming. No town is perfect, but East Cobb comes close. It's a wealthy all-Black Free Town―untouched by white oppression―where ambitious Thea Elliot and her husband plan to make good on their big dreams. Little do they know that the idyllic town teems with...

When her sister is found dead in a Baltimore hotel room, reporter Val Ritter's world is turned upside down. An empty pill bottle at the scene leads the police to believe the cause of death is suicide. With little more than her own conviction, Val teams up with Terry Martin, a retired detective who has his own personal interest in the case, to prove that something more sinister is possible.

From AWARD-WINNING author Liz Harris comes the third enthralling novel in the Linford Family Sagas – a story of love, survival, and the bonds that endure through dark times. Perfect for fans of Rosie Goodwin and Dilly Court.💔 💫 Germany, 1930s When Dorothy Linford defies her father to...

When Sibyl accepted Adam's proposal to join him in the Wyoming Territory, she hadn't expected it would be so quiet and so remote. When the coyotes and the wolves howl at night, and especially when the catamounts scream, Sibyl wants nothing more than to return home to her cantankerous father in New York City. And then there's Adam. He only has a single bedroom, with a big bed for them to share. But they aren't even married yet! Sibyl makes him sleep out in the barn, and almost a week after her arrival, it doesn't seem they're making any progress.

A victim of a madman who wants revenge on her family, Fiona MacLeod is kidnapped and committed to the Dublin Lunatic Asylum. Her only bit of good luck is that the asylum's overcrowded and she's assigned a room in a nearby castle. She knows the more she tries to convince her captors of the plot against her family, the more insane she sounds, but she finds a spark of hope in the young earl of the castle.

London, 1935. Ruby is always hungry, but she will go without if it means her young brothers can eat. 1930s Bermondsey might be called the larder of London, with its pie, pickle and jam factories, but for the poor working classes, starvation is often only a heartbeat away. When Ruby's neighbour...

Olivia Brodie is a devoted parlour maid serving the Broadbent family at Hawthorn Manor and spending precious time with her father and brothers at the family forge. But everything changes the day Spencer Middleton, the Broadbents' charming and enigmatic grandson, arrives. Sparks fly between Olivia and the army officer. Their connection is undeniable - but so too are the rigid boundaries of class and propriety. When Spencer departs, promising to return, Olivia dares to dream of a future that defies society's expectations. However, tragedy strikes Olivia's family, devastating her.

Two families from very different situations in life are linked forever after a fatal accident on the Great North Road. This tragedy breeds years of sorrow and misunderstanding as well as prosperity and even romance in an emotional coming of age tale not only for Elizabeth Bennet, but for her sisters, and even the adults who let them down.

Journalisten och kriminalreportern Göran Sandahl arbetar i redaktionen för en tidning i en skånsk småstad som lider av nyhetstorka. Det händer sällan något och årets första domherre visar sig utgör det en av huvudnyheterna. Men allt det kommer att förändras när ett brutalt mord skakar den lilla staden. En kvinnlig taxichaufför hittas skjuten i sin bil och kvinnans make, Alf Ekman, misstänks för dådet.

Finalist for the Romantic Novelist Association's 'The Romantic Saga Award 2023' for A Mother's War North Yorkshire, 1941. It's been two years since war broke out and the dangers of war are becoming ever more real for the Calvert-Lazenby family. With Raven Hall requisitioned as a maternity...

When it comes to quilting, Maggie Newcomb is all thumbs. And nobody rubs it in more than Emma Jean Stoddard. But Maggie swallows her ire for one simple reason: she has a crush on Emma Jean's handsome son, Colby, and doesn't want to ruin her chances. So she works hard to become the best quilter in Maintown. Her plan seems to be working...until Tamara Brennan comes to town.

A disastrous marriage has left the young and beautiful Lady Caroline widowed and vowing never to marry again. When she sees her younger sister, Annabelle, falling for a man who is notoriously unfaithful, she determines to intervene and save Annabelle from a similar fate, hiring the handsome and witty adventurer Captain Burnside to distract her. But all does not go to plan....

When two Union soldiers stumble onto a plantation in northern Georgia on a warm May day in 1864, the last thing they expect is to see the Union flag flying high - or to be greeted by a group of freed slaves and their Jewish mistress. Little do they know that this place has an unusual history. Twelve years prior, Adelaide Mannheim - daughter of Mordecai, the only Jewish planter in the county - was given her own maid, a young slave named Rachel. The two became friends, and soon they discovered a secret.

A young woman’s journey is beset with trials and tribulations, but will it end in happiness? Find out in this grippng saga from MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER Rosie Clarke! As war looms in Europe, 18-year-old Jane Shaw, runs her family’s household as an unpaid servant on a meagre budget. When her...

Journey to the plains of Central Australia in The Pearl Sister, the fourth book in the number one bestselling Seven Sisters series by Lucinda Riley. A spellbinding story of love and loss, inspired by the mythology of the famous star constellation. CeCe D’Aplièse has never felt she fitted in...

Den irländsk-amerikanske tjuvjägaren Flynn Patrick O'Flynns jakt på elfenben har fört honom till djungeln i Tyska Östafrika. Kring Rufijiflodens delta har han även stött på sin ärkefiende. Det tyska befälet Herman Fleischer gör sitt bästa för att komma åt honom, men än så länge har O'Flynn lyckats hålla sig undan. Hans tur kan dock vara på väg att vända. Inte långt efter att O'Flynn tagit sig an den unge Sebastian Oldsmith som lärling, börjar världen att förändras.

San Francisco in the 1890s is a town of contradictions. Lizzie Hayes, a docile, middle-aged spinster, is praised for her volunteer work with the Ladies' Relief and Protection Society Home. When the wealthy but ill-reputed Mary Ellen Pleasant shows up with an orphan in tow, Lizzie is drawn to...

Ungern 1945. Hitlers fruktade Waffen-SS utkämpar sin sista strid men ryssarna är skoningslösa. Fanjunkare Schulze, den ende överlevande från SS-Wotan är också på plats. Han ingår mot sin vilja i ett regemente som består av frivilliga från hela Europa. Men han har aldrig varit nazist, och nu är han evinnerligt trött på kriget ... Leo Kessler är en pseudonym som användes av den brittiske författaren och militärhistorikern Charles Henry Whiting (1926-2007). Han skrev cirka 350 böcker, både skönlitteratur och fackböcker.

From the award-winning author of Mistress of Spices, the best-selling novel about the extraordinary bond between two women, and the family secrets and romantic jealousies that threaten to tear them apart.