Résultats pour "Morgan" dans Fiction historique

Acacia se voit endosser un rôle qu'elle aurait tout donné pour éviter : reine de France. Son époux, Alexandre d'Arc du Lys, est détesté par tous ses sujets. Depuis leur rencontre, leurs relations virent à l'affrontement. Pourtant, derrière les piques et les faux-semblants, une attraction brûlante menace de tout faire basculer. Alors que la famine gronde en France et que la Révolution approche, la reine devient une cible idéale. Acacia devra choisir : se plier au rôle qu'on lui impose... ou continuer de défier les règles pour changer le cours de l'histoire...

1812, Londres. Malgré son désir de discrétion, Wisteria a toujours été au cœur des rumeurs. Sur son passage, il se murmure qu'elle serait tour à tour vieille fille, sorcière, tentatrice… Mais la vérité est plus sombre encore. Si le jour, elle exerce comme apothicaire, dans l'ombre...

Having escaped an unhappy marriage, Morgan finds herself in Camelot–the city of dreams and peace. Her brother, King Arthur, treats her as a valued advisor and Morgan finally has recognition befitting her intelligence within Arthur’s trusted circle, despite a longstanding conflict with Queen Guinevere. But Morgan’s life is not without complications. Between a vengeful husband determined to snatch their son away, the strict ideals of court life, and a jealous rival for Arthur’s attentions in the sorcerer Merlin, gaining true recognition and freedom is a greater challenge than Morgan envisioned.

Even as a girl Morgan has always been wild, like the seas which batter the cliffs beneath her home, Tintagel Castle. But she has always been safe, too. Then one day her father is called away to a war from which he does not return. In his place comes the High King, Uther Pendragon, with the sorcerer Merlin lurking in his wake. Uther claims Morgan’s mother, the Lady Igraine as his queen.

In 1577 England, Abraham Fleming, a disgraced Cambridge scholar, travels to the fog-shrouded village of Bungay to prove the existence of a mythological beast known as the Black Shuck. He collides with Edward Tanner, a cynical spy for the Crown, and Samuel, a haunted member of a secret order, who are investigating the same string of brutal, seemingly supernatural killings.

There’s nothing particularly unusual for a legendary gunman to be summoned to the lawless, bullet-riddled territory of Arizona. But when Frank Morgan, a.k.a. the Last Gunfighter, rides into Tucson, he finds himself ambushed and kidnapped by ruthless Mexican bandit Ramirez’s army of thugs. The only way out is for Frank’s son, Conrad Browning, heir to the vast Browning fortune, to ransom his father free. But Conrad isn’t giving up one cent. He’s got a far deadlier currency in mind.

Sheltered heiress Lady Briannon Findlay is a wallflower and prefers it that way. Until she meets the nefarious Masked Marauder, a gentleman thief waylaying carriages from London to Essex, who awakens sensual impulses she never knew she had. Provocative and darkly attractive, his artful seduction leaves her wanting more. When Brynn discovers that Archer and the Masked Marauder are one and the same, trust and attraction collide. But after a murder is committed by an imposter marauder, they must risk everything to find the real killer...including their love.

There's nothing particularly unusual for a legendary gunman to be summoned to the lawless, bullet-riddled territory of Arizona. But when Frank Morgan, aka the Last Gunfighter, rides into Tucson, he finds himself ambushed and kidnapped by ruthless Mexican bandit Ramirez's army of thugs. The only way out is for Frank's son, Conrad Browning, heir to the vast Browning fortune, to ransom his father free. But Conrad isn't giving up one cent. He's got a far deadlier currency in mind.

From the New York Times bestselling author Janet Skeslien Charles and based on the true story of Jessie Carson—the American librarian who changed the literary landscape of France—this is “a moving tale of sacrifice, heroism, and inspired storytelling immersed in the power of books to...

Someones bottling secretsand its about to explode! Still adjusting to life as the Countess of Strathfulton, former police officer Maeve Morgan is learning the ropes of aristocratic lifeand discovering her new title comes with a steep learning curve. Case in point: the centuries-old Strathfulton...

"C'est folie de croire que les périodes vides d'amour sont les 'blancs' d'une existence de femme", écrivait Colette, en 1937. Car c'est le temps où peut fleurir sa vie propre, saison de poèmes comme l'atteste La Naissance du jour, composée l'été de ses cinquante-quatre ans. "L'âge où s'offre, en coupe d'oubli, le dernier amour n'est-il pas plutôt celui d'inventer, hors des dépendances, sa maturité au pays du soleil ?"

Emmy Clarke est une bibliothécaire, pas un soldat. Et pourtant, elle est envoyée en Allemagne pour aider les Monuments Men à répertorier la littérature pillée par les nazis. Ses recherches la conduisent à deux sœurs, à une horrible trahison et à une extraordinaire manifestation contre les nazis, qui s'est tenue à Berlin au plus fort de la guerre. Près d'une décennie plus tôt, des centaines de femmes se sont en effet rassemblées devant le centre de détention où leurs maris juifs avaient été enfermés par la Gestapo.

At the height of the air war in Europe, Captain Joe Farley and the baseball-loving, wisecracking crew of the B-17 Flying Fortress Fata Morgana are in the middle of a harrowing bombing mission over eastern Germany when everything goes sideways. The bombs are still falling and flak is still exploding all around the 20-ton bomber as it is knocked like a bathtub duck into another world.

Supernatural Secret Service agents Owen Sharps and Calvin Springfield meet on the train to their new assignment in St. Louis, and sparks fly between them. But it's 1897, and they need to be very careful—falling in love can be dangerous for men like them.

After Arthur’s marriage to Guinevere – his betrayal – Morgan leaves Caer Arthur behind, bound for the mist-shrouded isle of Avalon. There, she hopes to find the mother she has never known: Viviane, the High Priestess. Having barely survived the crossing, she fears not only for her life, but for the child she carries – Mordred. Avalon is said to be a sanctuary, an ancient bastion of the Goddess in a land fast falling to the One True God. Yet peace eludes her as a hunger for power stirs.

Born the bastard daughter of a painted lady, Marilia was told she would live out her days within the walls of her mother's brothel, a companion for the rich men of Tyrace. But after a terrible betrayal, 10-year-old Marilia's world turns upside down. With the help of her twin brother, Annuweth, she flees the only home she's ever known in search of the one man who can offer her a chance at a better life: one of her deceased father's friends, the Emperor of Navessea's greatest general.

Gracias a su pasión por los libros y gusto exquisito, Belle da Costa Green se ha vuelto, con tan solo veinte años, la bibliotecaria más joven de la prestigiosa universidad de Princeton. Sin embargo, un golpe de suerte mayor está por impulsar su carrera: el famoso millonario J. P. Morgan la...

The Irish Century series is the story of the Irish people's epic struggle for independence through the tumultuous course of the 20th century. Morgan Llywelyn's magisterial multi-novel chronicle of that story began with 1916, which was followed by 1921, 1949, and 1972. It now concludes with 1999: A Novel of the Celtic Tiger and the Search for Peace. 1999 brings the story from 1972 to the disarmament talks and beginnings of reconciliation among the Irish at the end of the twentieth century.

1938: Die Amerikaner John Morgan und Richard Cooper treffen in Wien auf die Halbjüdin Isabelle. Beide verlieben sich in die unbekannte Schönheit. Als Hitler Österreich dem Deutschen Reich einverleibt, schwebt sie von einem Tag auf den anderen in höchster Gefahr, und die beiden Männer verhelfen ihr zur Flucht. Fortan lebt Isabelle von Heimweh geplagt auf Johns Apfelbaumplantage „Morgan's Hall". John kettet sie wie sein Eigentum an sich und hofft auf ihre Liebe. Ihr Herz aber gehört nur Richard, der versprochen hatte, sie zu sich zu holen.

Celebrate the miracle of love and the joy of the holiday season on the Western frontier with the Twelve Mail Order Brides of Christmas, a new Christmas Mail Order Bride Series from popular author Emma Morgan!