Ergebnis für "Kim" in 20. Jahrhundert

Fifteen-year-old Mercy Faulkner is hit with the hardest blow of her young life when her beloved father is killed in an accident. Now, she must leave all she knows to move with her mother, a hard woman that she feels like she barely knows, to the small mountain town of Wynter, Colorado. Her mother has been offered a job there and a place to live and start over for the two.

Winters are long on the windswept coast of Connemara, where Tara Doherty has come to live after the death of her husband. The isolation is all but unbearable until a tenant moves into the house at the bottom of the hill. James Dunford has come from America, but he won’t say why. He spends his days fixing up the cottage and walking the beach with a stray dog. As the weeks pass, Tara tries to get to know James, but he resists her at every turn. And it's not until a local villager recognizes him from the news that she realizes his visit might be about more than just a vacation.

In this friends-to-lovers, marriage-pact holiday novella spanning the last decade of the 20th century, life forces a playboy and a playgirl grow up—and grow apart—before giving them a chance to create a happy-ever-after they can actually be happy about.

For many years Colette has avoided returning to her homeland - the magical island of Belle-Île-en-Mer in Southern Brittany - afraid to confront the painful memories she left behind. She is living on the Cornish coast when she hears about her mother Thea's failing health and realises that the time has come for her to go home. But can Colette ever forgive Thea for what she has done?

1460: Ismay Deacon, caught between sides in the War of the Roses, tries to hide away in her ancestral home, Havencross. But when word gets out that she has a child, and speculation on who the father might be, Ismay has to make a terrible choice to protect her son. The Deacon family disappears, but there are rumors of a fair-haired, unsmiling ghost of a boy haunting the halls of Havencross.

When a beautiful piece of music stirs mega-tycoon Maximilian West, he remembers the women who have loved him and shaped his life. So begins a dazzling tale, taking us from the streets of London to the suites of New York, from the rise of Nazi Germany to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Strong, powerful, enigmatic, aloof, and adoring - many women made Maximilian the man with everything, but there is only one woman who can make him feel truly alive.

From author Linda Sheehan, who's part of a Napa wine dynasty, comes a story of grapes, wine, first crushes, and juicy redemption. Dreading the desk job that awaits her after high school, 18-year-old Vivian Goodyear takes off for pre-World War II Paris, where she supports herself as an artist's model.

Beverly Jenkins enthralls romance readers once again with Midnight—a heart-soaring African American historical romance novel set during America’s turbulent Revolutionary War. In a time of peril, she fears nothing—except the forbidden passions of her heart. In Boston, revolution is in the...

Crime: murder. Punishment: death by hanging. Roseanna must overcome the brutality of her incarceration, build new allies, grapple with old ones, and risk all that she has to save not only her own life but that of the man she loves. Meanwhile, her love, Daniel Alderman, believes Roseanna is safe in the 21st century, caring for her sick grandmother and preparing to return to him. When he finds out where she is, he will move heaven and earth to save her. Roseanna will learn that family goes beyond blood, while Danny discovers that friendship is more valuable than currency.