Résultats pour "Stella" dans Historique

Following a whirlwind engagement to Viscount "Lyndy" Lyndhurst, Stella Kendrick is finding her footing within an elite social circle in picturesque rural England. Except tea time with refined friends can be more dangerous than etiquette faux pas - especially in the company of Lady Philippa, the woman Lyndy was once set to marry, and her husband, the ostentatious Lord Fairbrother....

As England slides into Civil War, master-goldsmith and money-lender, Luciano Falcieri del Santi embarks on his own hidden agenda. A chance meeting one dark night results in an unlikely friendship with Member of Parliament, Richard Maxwell. Richard’s daughter, Kate - a spirited girl who vows to hold their home against both Cavalier and Roundhead - soon finds herself fighting an involuntary attraction to the clever, magnetic, and diabolically beautiful Italian.

Berlino, 9 luglio del 1944. Il tenente colonnello Martin Bora, ex agente dell'Abwehr, il servizio segreto della Wehrmacht, è in arrivo dal fronte italiano. Ha ottenuto una licenza - con sua sorpresa considerato lo sforzo bellico - per partecipare ai funerali dello zio, un illustre clinico in rotta con il regime nazista. Voci indiscrete sul suicidio dello zio, strenuo oppositore del progetto medico nazista "vite inutili", lo insospettiscono. E intorno, incontri che sembrano provocazioni gli fanno percepire qualcosa di strano nell'atmosfera.

The marriage of a well-bred Royalist lady and an illegitimate Roundhead Colonel is less a match made in heaven than a union doomed to hell. Unfortunately, Sir Robert Brandon's last will and testament leaves Venetia Clifford and Gabriel Brandon with little choice in the matter - deeply though they both resent it. Their tempestuous relationship is reflected in the stormy events buffeting the nation as England slides inexorably into a second Civil War.