Ergebnis für "Noir" in Historische Liebesromane

Paris, 1934. Pierre, jeune employé des éditions Denoël, se rêve écrivain. Alors qu'il dépose son manuscrit dans une imprimerie débarquent des gendarmes sur la piste de tracts anarchistes. Une jeune militante l'entraîne avec elle dans sa fuite. Se révèle alors pour Pierre le monde des réunions clandestines, des fumeries d'opium et des rêves de liberté. À travers la figure incandescente de Nina, le mouvement anarchiste déploie ses idéaux : le droit à l'avortement, la lutte anti-capitaliste, l'écologie…

1978: a Roma le Brigate Rosse hanno rapito Aldo Moro, in Sicilia boss mafiosi come Gaetano Badalamenti soffocano ogni tentativo di resistenza civile, all'ombra della Madonnina le bande di Vallanzasca e Turatello fanno salire la tensione in una città già segnata dagli scontri sociali. Ma anche in questo clima la dolcevita del capoluogo lombardo, che si prepara a diventare la "Milano da bere" degli anni Ottanta, non conosce soste.

Winsconsin, automne 1907. Ralph Truitt, magnat local craint et respecté, attend, fébrile, sur un quai de gare enneigé. Ce train en retard renferme son dernier espoir. Après vingt ans de veuvage, l'homme a enfin décidé de se remarier et a placé plusieurs mois auparavant une petite annonce dans un journal de Chicago. Catherine Land a répondu. Se décrivant comme "une femme simple et honnête", elle est celle qu'il appelait de tous ces vœux. Mais les apparences peuvent être très trompeuses. Et l'épouse modèle cacher bien des secrets.

Opening with the shooting of Lady Virginia 'Ginie' Courtauld in her tranquil garden in 1950s Rhodesia, The Dragon Lady, so called for the exotic tattoo snaking up her leg, tells Ginie's extraordinary story. From the glamorous Italian Riviera before the Great War to the Art Deco glory of Eltham Palace in the thirties, and from the secluded Scottish Highlands to segregated Rhodesia in the fifties, the narrative spans enormous cultural and social change.

Megan Melvick has spent years avoiding her inheritance, the dark and disquieting family estate Benbrae, now home only to her distant aristocratic father and her sister, Melissa, dying quietly in an upstairs bedroom. Trapped behind her unreliable hearing aids and vulnerable to what others want her to see, Megan is unable to find the answers she wants: why is there a new woman on her father's arm? And why has their absent mother not returned to say a final goodbye to Melissa?

Viscount August Greyson is a rogue. What else would you call a man who's offered such an exchange? Maeve O'Connor's time for the purposes of his pleasure, each visit twice as long as the one before, all in lieu of rents due as his tenant. Moments grow to minutes, and soon, August isn't certain how much time with Maeve could ever be considered enough. All he wants, and all that he cannot have, is her. Should he declare himself knowing that their union has no hope, or only partake of her body whilst he can?