Résultats pour "The Baby" dans Fiction historique

Londres 1942 : profitant du couvre-feu, un tueur hante les rues de la ville. En quelques jours, il assassine et mutile quatre femmes. Son modus operandi interpelle Scotland Yard et la presse, qui le surnomme aussitôt le Blackout Ripper. Les messages qu'il laisse sur les scènes de crime, conçus comme des indices codés, imposent bientôt aux enquêteurs une piste inquiétante : le criminel semble s'inspirer des leçons du mage noir Aleister Crowley et de son manuscrit démoniaque, "Le Livre de la Loi".

A suffocating and sharp narrative horror novel for fans of Victor LaValle and The Reformatory from "addictive" (Publishers Weekly) horror author Neena Viel, I’ll Watch Your Baby is a haunting reimagining of Linda Taylor--known as the original Welfare Queen—pursued, scrutinized, celebrated...

Hace cien años, hubo dos infantas que despertaban la curiosidad del público y la prensa, tal y como hoy lo hacen la princesa Leonor y su hermana Sofía. Se trataba de Beatriz y María Cristina de Borbón y Battenberg, las hijas de Alfonso XIII y Victoria Eugenia. Baby y Crista, como las llamaban, nacieron rodeadas de los privilegios y ritos de una monarquía decadente, pero con el estigma de la hemofilia, una terrible enfermedad heredada de su madre y de su bisabuela inglesa, la reina Victoria.

Distant rumblings of conflict in Europe have reached even the secluded, snow-dusted mountains of Virginia, where Lauren Greenwood faces a battle of her own. The Great Depression is crippling America, leaving millions of its victims without shoes on their feet and clothes on their backs. Hope House - the orphanage Lauren runs - is suffering more than ever. The one thing Lauren is not short of is love. But with just a handful of dollars to her name, every day is a struggle to feed the orphans and keep a roof over their heads. Yet she refuses to give up.

The war has had a devastating effect on the Sweet family, with young Charlie Sweet, lost at sea, presumed dead and bombs falling on nearby Bristol. Still there is a glimmer of hope on the horizon in the form of Mary Sweet’s upcoming wedding to her Canadian beau. But even that has failed to rouse their father from his grief. But in London a baby has been found in a bombed out house, sheltered in the arms of his dead mother. A child to make life worth living again...

It all began with a remark by a presidential candidate about assassinating baby Hitler. A raucous adventure with the real Science of time Travel! This wasn’t the Victorian era Darby learned about in school! What was a 21st Century community college professor doing in 19th Century Bavaria, and the road to find the most notorious figure in history, the dictator in diapers, the Swabian in swaddling?

When an emergency summons Mr. Darcy back to London during the Netherfield ball, he discovers a newborn in his study along with a note. Now, he must guard a secret that could shatter his family and put the child in danger. But that isn’t his biggest challenge. He must find a wife—a woman he can trust with his charge and with his heart. Elizabeth Bennet’s prospects for a marriage based on love are taken away from her when her father makes a deal with Mr. Darcy, a man she despises.

Thea welcomes her best friend, Violet Steele, to Rookery House. Violet has been in charge of an ambulance station in London's East End during the Blitz, and is in need of a holiday. Will a week in the countryside give her the rest she deserves? VAD nurse Evie Jones receives unwelcome news that stirs up her past and forces her to make an uncomfortable decision. Though she has a surprise when her friend Ned Blythe returns to start a new job in the hospital gardens. Can Evie let go of the past and give her future happiness a chance?

Sage is living the fast life with her homegirls Nesh, KiKi, and Shay, dating Dope Boys and having fun when life hits her hard and she's left fractured with no clear understanding as to how to pick up the pieces. Things have changed forever, and there is no going back, only forward. Sage doesn't know anything other than the life she's lived, and she's ill-equipped to undertake a new journey with the cards she's been dealt. She finds that the more she tries to do things different, the more she ends up two steps behind only to end up in the same place.

When Birdie Wilson and his two boys find a baby floating in a basket on the Ohio River, they can’t begin to imagine the impact their discovery is to have on their little town of Cambria. Accepting Birdie’s dictum that the child welfare people will name her “Baby Jane Doe” and lose her in their impersonal system, the townspeople, led by Mayor Johnny White, set out to keep the baby a secret from authorities and take care of her until they find out who she is.

Budding mystery writer Mallory was just trying to impress a politically correct girlfriend by delivering hot meals to little old ladies. The last thing he expected was to find his elderly charges such fascinating company, and when one sweet old gal meets an unexpectedly grisly fate, Mal sets out to find and stop the burglars who this time stole a life. The last thing the local sheriff needs, however, is a meddling civilian.

When headstrong West Indian heiress Patience Jordan questioned her English husband's mysterious suicide, she lost everything: her newborn son, Lionel, her fortune - and her freedom. Falsely imprisoned, she risks her life to be near her child - until The Widow's Grace gets her hired as her own son's nanny. But working for his unsuspecting new guardian, Busick Strathmore, duke of Repington, has perils of its own. Especially when Patience discovers his military strictness belies an ex-rake of unswerving honor - and unexpected passion....

Honoring a promise to his twin, Lord Ethan Ambrose invites wealthy, respectable Madeleine Murrow and her parents to his impoverished estate with marriage in mind. His plans are overthrown when he awakens to find an abandoned infant in his bedroom. Will the charming Madeleine flee scandal or remain to win the viscount’s love?

The author of the critically admired, award-winning A Replacement Life turns to a different kind of story—an evocative, nuanced portrait of marriage and family, a woman reckoning with what she’s given up to make both work, and the universal question of how we reconcile who we are and whom...

England, 1940. Opening the box with trembling hands, she couldn’t believe it–a tiny baby lay inside. She gently lifted the newborn as it started to cry. Cradling the little one to her chest, she searched the darkness for any sign of whoever left it here. And as she rocked the child, something fluttered to the ground...a ration book.

During the wealth and glitter of the Gilded Age, a six-year-old heiress goes missing from her opulent hilltop estate. Detective Robert Trevitt sets out to find her. Using inside knowledge of her family's secrets, he searches for little Gwendolen where no one else can, and uncovers truths hidden to all eyes but his. The mystery unwinds in a tale of ghostly regrets, desperate deeds of love, and hopes of forgiveness.

A reward of five thousand dollars is offered, by Phil Ocumpaugh, to whoever will give such information as will lead to the recovery, alive or dead, of his six year old daughter, Gwendolen, missing since the afternoon of August the 16th, from her home in New York. Anna Katharine Green was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally accurate stories. She is credited with shaping detective fiction into its classic form, and developing the series detective.

A life-altering betrayal leaves Donna Grace alone, unmarried, and pregnant. She's desperate to leave St. Louis, Missouri, and return to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she grew up, and the only way back is by wagon train. The wagon master refuses to let a single woman drive a wagon without a male escort. Donna knows she can't trust men, but it seems she's going to have to partner with one if she wants to get back home. Luke Russell failed to protect his fiancee. Because of his neglect, she was murdered. When he overhears Donna Grace's predicament, he offers her a marriage of convenience.

Deserted by a selfish man, and driven to the workhouse, young Annabel and her midwife mother face a harsh and hopeless future. A critical situation for the workhouse governor then opens a door of deliverance for them both, but it seems that revenge and bitterness hound their every step.

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