Ergebnis für "Twisted" in Historische Romane

Sometimes history doesn’t stay dead. Kayla never had a choice. The cramped, shadowed apartment was all she could afford—a cage built on blood and secrets. Whispers follow her through the halls. Strangers’ eyes linger too long, murmuring that she looks like Lorena Burrows—the girl whose mutilated body was left on display, a brutal spectacle that stained this place forever. The face in the mirror is not her own anymore. When someone close to Kayla is slaughtered in the same grotesque way, the past claws back with a vengeance.

In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable’s girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County–to Boston, to southern...

Super sleuth Sister Fidelma returns in the twenty-fourth historical mystery by Peter Tremayne, acclaimed author of THE SEVENTH TRUMPET, THE SUBTLE SERPENT and many more. Winter, 670 AD. King Colgú has invited the leading nobles and chieftains of his kingdom to a feast day. The gathering is...

Brought to you by Penguin. THE SEQUEL TO THE HEART-STOPPING NUMBER 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, BROKEN SOULS AND BONES . . . Norse Magic, Forbidden Love, and Dangerous Secrets Threaten a Kingdom’s Fate - Can Lyra and Roark put betrayal and heartbreak behind them to end the crown's corruption?...

Super sleuth Sister Fidelma returns in THE MONK WHO VANISHED, the seventh historical mystery by Peter Tremayne, acclaimed author of VALLEY OF THE SHADOW, THE SPIDER'S WEB and many more. The Abbey of Imleach, in the south-west Irish kingdom of Muman, now rivals Armagh as the centre of the faith...

The Twisted Sword is the eleventh novel in Winston Graham's hugely popular Poldark series, which has become a television phenomenon starring Aidan Turner. Cornwall 1815. Demelza sees a horseman riding down the valley and senses disruption to the domestic contentment she has fought so hard to...

Imagine you’ve been lovers with someone you know - in another lifetime.... While Ginger struggles to make her own way in the cutthroat world of high fashion, she meets the handsome and charismatic Grant Robinson...a man on a mission of his own.... As the two team up on a billion-dollar venture amidst the glitz of New York, London, and Paris, they...tumble into a steamy love affair and quickly discover they've been lovers in wartime Europe. You’ll enjoy this steamy past life romance, because true love lives forever.

The small kingdom of Komenda has ventured into the slave trade. The king looks to his most trusted advisor, Chimezie, to manage the rival tribesmen captured from the local countryside. As an entrepreneurial man the king sees the wealth of his European contacts and realizes the potential of the trade. He seeks to increase his wealth and expand his kingdom. Charging Chimezie with a mission, he dutifully follows the slave trade to the New World. What he finds makes him doubt his mission. The deeper he goes, the clearer the picture becomes.

In the mysterious realm of ancient artifacts and mystical beings, a powerful genie finds itself bound to a cursed lamp, compelled to fulfill the wishes of history's most notorious villains. Trapped by a malevolent force, the genie becomes a reluctant accomplice to the darkest desires of tyrants, conquerors, and maleficent figures throughout time. As the genie reluctantly weaves its magic to bring about the twisted aspirations of these infamous individuals, a subtle glimmer of hope emerges.

The follow-up to Tangled Threads, Margaret Dickinson's Twisted Strands follows the dramatic highs and lows of the Hardcastle family as they endure the upheaval caused by war. It is 1914, and Eveleen Hardcastle, now in in her early thirties, has married Richard. As the First World War breaks out...

Entre de vieux arbres où la brume s'épaissit, demeure la dernière carte. Moi seul sais la trouver... Qui l'ai cachée là. Alors qu'Elspeth et Ravyn avaient presque rassemblé les douze cartes de Providence, l'ombre du Cauchemar a pris possession de l'esprit de la jeune femme. Une course...

When the Red Scare ends, paranoia lingers. Can Tinseltown recover to take on television? After an exile from MGM, ousted screenwriter Marcus Adler is looking for his way back into the biz. When he hatches a plan to start over with a disgraced movie star, a Hollywood censor reminds Marcus that the misdeeds of the past aren't soon forgotten.

When wanted men don't want to be found, they hole up in Agua FrIa, Mexico. Nestled in the twisted hills of the Blood Mountain Range just across the border from Arizona, the town is divided by two ruthless gangs of thieves and killers. On one side stands Texas Red Madson, and on the other is Raymond Segert. Between them stands Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack. He rides into Agua FrIa in the guise of a vicious gunslinger with a plan to ingratiate himself with both gangs - and stir up the bad blood between them into a war that will leave Burrack the last man standing .

***LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2016*** 'KNOWS HOW TO KEEP HER AUDIENCE HOOKED' The Times 'A MASTERFUL STORYTELLER' Clare Mackintosh 'DARK, WEIRD AND GLORIOUSLY FEMINIST' Elle Georgian London, in the summer of 1763. At nineteen, Anne Jaccob, the elder daughter of well-to-do parents...

It may have appeared that the Sinkey family had tamed the twisted, but with a war disrupting their world as much as the tornado, there’s even more to unravel.

When widower and bank clerk Theodore Streater discovers his late mother was not only the headmistress of Warwick's Grammar and Finishing School, but also its owner, he's in need of someone to run the rather lucrative enterprise. He turns to the woman who helped him regain his position at the bank after he lost an arm fighting in Belgium. His best friend's wife, Elizabeth Bennett-Jones, Viscountess Bostwick, still runs her charity, Finding Work for the Wounded. She is sure there's an applicant who would be perfect as headmistress of her old school.

While on a visit to London to visit her uncle and his new wife, Marianne Slater is happy to attend the Season’s entertainments - even if she can’t see very well. The world is a blur unless it’s close-up. Usually a wallflower at balls, Marianne is stunned when a gentleman approaches and offers to escort her in the gardens. A clear-eyed, innocent kiss suddenly results in the blurry whirlwind of a quick wedding and its subsequent aftermath.

When Isabella believes she has witnessed her mother's murder at the hands of her father, she rides off to London in search of the Earl of Norwick, the man her mother always said she could go to in case of trouble. To keep her safe, Octavius, Duke of Huntington, agrees to hide Isabella in his country estate - and to allow her access to his stables and horses. But what about his heart?

What’s become of the Immortal Darius? His wife, Stella, worries about his fate as she rules over their city-state of Deminon, especially when she learns he’s been the victim of treachery. She’ll do anything to get him back. Enslaved as a traitor to Rome, Darius is forced to fight gladiators as part of the funeral rites of powerful Romans. His years of experience on the battlefield serve him well in the arena - until he’s forced to fight Marcus - a younger, stronger gladiator who is unaware of his own immortality.

In 1896, the isolated and vast state of Idaho is a haven for the polygamous splinter group called The Kingdom of Glory, which is hiding more than their outlawed practice of plural marriage. At the compound called Cedar Creek, the prophet is hoping to increase his congregation, even if that means marrying off girls to men decades older. When Peri, who escaped the compound years earlier, returns to help rescue Grace, a girl betrothed to the prophet himself, she ends up also saving her own sister Emma.