Author : Joan Smith
Publisher : Belgrave House
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,48 MB
Release : 2010-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1610840852
Heather Hume discovered that her recently dead father had been murdered. Her investigation led to Brighton where she learned that her father had been a spy for England. The most likely one to have betrayed him was his assistant Snoad, who dressed as a servant and spoke like a gentleman. Heather was determined to battle her attraction to this intriguing young man—if he was a traitor. Regency Romance by Joan Smith; originally published by Fawcett Crest
Author : Diana Burg
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 41,55 MB
Release : 2008-09-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780815609315
Mary Turner has little use for sacrifice. As the niece of Erastus Corning, the prominent railway magnate, she is accustomed to financial security, society balls, and the flirtatious attention of her many suitors. When she marries the ambitious, though dull, banker Isaac Burch she secures an upper-class social position at the cost of a loveless relationship. Refusing to settle, Mary soon finds affection and passion in several extramarital dalliances. Her indiscretions result in a very public divorce trial, pitting the domineering husband against the repentant and disgraced wife. Based on the actual Illinois divorce trial of 1860 that riveted the country with newspapers headlines displaying the personal lives of the city’s most prominent residents, Burg’s novel probes human motivations and failings along with a social climate percolating with the demands for civil and social rights of women. Narrated through Mary’s diary entries and Isaac’s letters, Dalliance transports the reader with exquisitely researched detail into the material culture of Albany’s mid-19th century upper-crust society. Richly drawn characters and Burg’s eloquent style combine to make this an engrossing and emotionally powerful novel readers will not soon forget.
Author : Regina Scott
Publisher : Zebra Books
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 12,74 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780821766095
Boston-bred David Tenant unexpectedly inherits a sizable English estate, only to find himself responsible for an art collection with a tendency to disappear and a conniving widow with designs on his title, his money, and his heart.
Author : Felicia Grossman
Publisher : Carina Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 41,62 MB
Release : 2019-08-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1488052190
A change in course can be refreshing…when it’s done together. 1871 After two disastrous marriages, beauty columnist Amalia Truitt’s life is finally her own—well, it will be if she can get herself back to Delaware and demand access to her share of the Truitt family fortune. After all, the charity she’s organized for women who can’t afford their own divorces won’t fund itself. However, not everyone wants her to reach her destination. When her family learns she’s been receiving anonymous death threats, a solo journey is out of the question. Enter David Zisskind, the ragtag-peddler-turned-soldier whose heart Amalia broke years ago. He’s a Pinkerton now, and the promotion he craves depends on protecting his long-lost love on the unexpectedly treacherous journey across Pennsylvania. That their physical connection has endured the test of time (and then some) is problematic, to say the least. In very close quarters, with danger lurking around every curve, with each kiss and illicit touch, the wrongs of the past are righted. But David can’t weather another rejection, especially with his career in jeopardy. And Amalia can’t possibly take a lover, never mind another husband…not with so much depending on her repaired reputation. Not when she’s hurt David—her David—so badly before. Publisher’s Note: Dalliances & Devotion contains content that some readers may find challenging, including PTSD, depression, war, sibling death and antisemitism. And don’t miss the first book in Felicia Grossman’s The Truitts series, Appetites & Vices, available now! One-click with confidence. This title is part of the Carina Press Romance Promise: all the romance you’re looking for with an HEA/HFN. It’s a promise! This book is approximately 85,000 words
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Author : William Carey
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Page : 1340 pages
File Size : 14,60 MB
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Page : 618 pages
File Size : 22,52 MB
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Author : Alastair Reynolds
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 28,86 MB
Release : 2020-04-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0316462616
An "engaging and awe-inspiring"(SF Signal) space opera from the critically-acclaimed author of the Revelation Space series. Six million years ago, at the dawn of the star-faring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a thousand male and female clones, which she called shatterlings. She sent them out into the galaxy to observe and document the rise and fall of countless human empires. Since then, every two hundred thousand years, they gather to exchange news and memories of their travels. Only there is no Gathering. Someone is eliminating the Gentian line. And now Campion and Purslane -- two shatterlings who have fallen in love and shared forbidden experiences -- must determine exactly who, or what, their enemy is, before they are wiped out of existence . . .
Author : Karma Lochrie
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,64 MB
Release : 2012-07-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 081220753X
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1999 Karma Lochrie demonstrates that women were associated not with the body but rather with the flesh, that disruptive aspect of body and soul which Augustine claimed was fissured with the Fall of Man. It is within this framework that she reads The Book of Margery Kempe, demonstrating the ways in which Kempe exploited the gendered ideologies of flesh and text through her controversial practices of writing, her inappropriate-seeming laughter, and the most notorious aspect of her mysticism, her "hysterical" weeping expressions of religious desire. Lochrie challenges prevailing scholarly assumptions of Kempe's illiteracy, her role in the writing of her book, her misunderstanding of mystical concepts, and the failure of her book to influence a reading community. In her work and her life, Kempe consistently crossed the barriers of those cultural taboos designed to exclude and silence her. Instead of viewing Kempe as marginal to the great mystical and literary traditions of the late Middle Ages, this study takes her seriously as a woman responding to the cultural constraints and exclusions of her time. Margery Kempe and Translations of the Flesh will be of interest to students and scholars of medieval studies, intellectual history, and feminist theory.
