Résultats pour "Bliss" dans Fiction historique

No one blends humor and sensuality like New York Times bestselling author Lynsay Sands in this captivating story of feuding nobles forced to marry…and destined to fall in love. Love thy neighbor, ’tis said. A fine idea, except when the neighbor in question is Lord Holden. Lady Helen Tiernay...

In rural Turkey, Meryem is raped by her uncle. Outcast for shaming her family, she is expected to kill herself. Her commando cousin instead tells her he will take her to Istanbul. By chance, they meet Irfan, a celebrity professor who has left his wife, and the three embark on a journey that shows what unexpected things can happen in the space between wounded people.

Under the banner of King Richard Lionheart, Artemis joins the third crusade to liberate the Holy Land as a leader in the infantry. With the dangers of plague, storms at sea, and perilous missions, Artemis attempts to accomplish each mission while keeping his team safe from the Saracen army led by the legendary Saladin. Through each battle, Artemis seeks to better understand his own theology despite being surrounded by the horrors of war. Is the liberation of Jerusalem within reach?

A decade ago, Araminta’s father foisted her off on the elderly county squire with her prize herding dog. The squire’s dead and she’s living on the forebearance of her insufferable step-son and his wife as an unpaid housekeeper and governess to their daughters in exchange for room and board. She’s been tasked with organizing the holiday party and when it ends in disaster because of food poisoning, an ornery barn cat and a crashing tree, she seeks solace in the barn. She falls asleep over a pile of puppies and when she wakes up she’s cradled in the arms of a local farmer.

Robert Rothmore, Earl of Rockford, thinks Alissa Henning is simply delightful-exactly the kind of woman who'd make the perfect mother for his sons. But Alissa swore she'd spend the rest of her life scraping pennies together rather than wed the insufferable earl and become a glorified governess. Still, she couldn't very well let her own children starve - and there was no doubt that Rockford would give them all a good life. So, she reluctantly accepts his offer...but there's more to a good life than what's in one's pockets.

After a string of disappointing courtships, Miss Priscilla Bliss had all but resigned herself to spinsterhood until Lord Joseph Stuart swept her off her feet in a love match that titillated the ton. Though their love burns bright, Priscilla cannot ignore her husband's enigmatic behavior. Convinced that Joseph is concealing something from her, she decides to follow him to uncover his secrets.

Intense and densely layered, Involuntary Bliss is the latest intriguing story from the award-winning young Canadian writer Devon Code. Situated in modern-day Montreal during a weekend in late August, two young men attempt to restore their friendship.

Kara is a sex columnist who believes lovemaking is a natural physical function and nothing more. When she meets a J.M. - a Tantra master who thinks sex is the way to reach a higher spiritual plane - she thinks he's whacked. But when he volunteers to tutor her in the ancient sensual arts and show her what Tantra is all about - one look at his smoking-hot body and wildly good looks, and it's an offer she can't refuse.

An inspiring story of star-crossed love and female independence. London, 1936: At twenty-one, Kate Grifferty is a press photographer in a Fleet Street agency, an unusual job for a young woman. But Kate is both talented and daring, recklessly going wherever the story might be—including, one...

He's the Alpha I can't resist, a dangerous Silver fox Mafia Boss wrapped in seductive allure. Adrian, who had put me in several positions within minutes one night, making me melt like ice under his touch, now stands before me as the parent of my most challenging student. With his chiseled body and deep blue eyes I sat in disbelief, thighs clenched at the meeting. This grumpy single dad, who wont take no for an answer, contracts me to be Sophia's private tutor at his home. His dominance extends when he also contracts me to a fake marriage to protect his secrets and daughter.