Ergebnis für "usa" in Historische Liebesromane

Von Hamburg nach Sydney. Als Tochter eines Werftbesitzers wächst Emilia in Hamburg auf. Sie soll eine gute Partie heiraten, aber nicht den Mann, in den sie sich verliebt hat. Carl Gotthold Lessing ist der Großneffe des berühmten Dichters. Er hat ein Kapitänspatent erworben und sich Geld geliehen, um ein Schiff zu bauen. Er will Emilia heiraten, doch ihre Familie ist strikt gegen diese Verbindung. Die beiden beginnen, nachdem Lessing von seiner ersten großen Fahrt zurückgekehrt ist, eine Affäre. Als ein Hausmädchen sie verrät, kommt es zum Bruch.

Das ergreifende Abenteuer einer eigenwilligen und wagemutigen Frau – nach einer wahren Begebenheit: Susanna, Malerin aus der Schweiz, reist in den Westen und trifft Sitting Bull, Häuptling der Sioux. Alte Gewissheiten gelten nicht mehr, neue sind noch nicht zu haben. In New York wird die Brooklyn Bridge eröffnet, Edisons Glühbirnen erleuchten die Stadt. Mittendrin Susanna aus Basel, die mit ihrer Mutter nach Amerika ausgewandert ist. Maschinen erobern die Welt, im Westen kämpfen Ureinwohner ums Überleben.

La historia de amor entre la joven Alma Velasco y el jardinero japonés Ichimei conduce al lector por un recorrido a través de diversos escenarios que van desde la Polonia de la Segunda Guerra Mundial hasta el San Francisco de nuestros días.

The Overland Trail, 1853: Naomi May never expected to be widowed at 20. Eager to leave her grief behind, she sets off with her family for a life out West. On the trail, she forms an instant connection with John Lowry, a half-Pawnee man straddling two worlds and a stranger in both. But life in a wagon train is fraught with hardship, fear, and death. Even as John and Naomi are drawn to each other, the trials of the journey and their disparate pasts work to keep them apart.

A Kirkus Reviews 2019 Best Romance Novel, the first in an exciting new series by USA Today bestseller Kerrigan Byrne! These men are dark, bold, and brave. And there is only one woman who can bring them to their knees... Famed and brilliant, Lady Alexandra Lane has always known how to look out...

Intelligent. Kind. Must like children. Passable looks. A man of means. Must make us laugh . . . For Lady Alice Carpenter, these are some of the "musts" on the checklist compiled with her sisters as they husband-hunt among the ton. Yet when she encounters a striking nobleman on her morning ride in Hyde Park, Alice soon tallies another list of first impressions . . . Shallow. Flirtatious. Without seriousness of purpose. Impossible to avoid.

Lady Arabella Danvers is happy with her life just the way it is. She is free to be herself and take care of broken and abandoned animals. Her mother is desperate for her to marry, and has decided to take things into her own hands. There is just one little problem with her plan.

Don't miss this "well-plotted, beautifully written story" (Library Journal) about a sexy Scot and the woman who finally captures his heart in the New York Times bestselling Windham Brides series. As a captain in the army, Colin MacHugh led men, fixed what was broken, and fought hard. Now that...

When their elderly guardian dies, Faith Whitford is determined to set up house in Bath and look for respectable country gentlemen for her four sisters. She has no ambitions for mingling with the ton. What she did not expect was a new guardian, in the form of a London Beau to be appointed over them, nor that he would take any interest in their care.

Young Abigail suffers greatly from the way she is being raised by her mother, for whom a woman's only place is in the kitchen. At the same time, her father's dedicated fight for freedom also ignites in her a passion for the American Revolution. When news of her father's death reaches her, she has a falling out with her mother. Soon after, Abigail goes on her way to fight for freedom and independence, like her father had done. On the way, she encounters the young English deserter Edward, who has come to the realization that he went to war for the wrong ideals.

Una historia de amor accidentada. Las tres hermanas Bronte, Jane, Charlotte y Emmy publicaron en forma casi simultanea, a mediados del siglo XIX tres novelas, que ya son clasicas dentro de la literatura ingles. Quiza la mas popular ha sido "Jane Eyre" de Charlotte, por su gran dramatismo y su sensacional desarrollo.

Max, Lord Rotham, has been browbeaten by his mother, the Duchess of Davenmere, to marry her choice for him. The more he resists, the more she schemes to force the match upon him. He became connected with the beauty Hope Whitford when her and her sisters were entangled in a dangerous situation, and while he feels drawn to her, he is not ready to commit to a lifetime because of his mother. But is losing Hope worth spiting his mother?

Four years ago, Alex, a second son, had planned a life together with Lady Patience. However, when Patience was betrothed to his brother, the heir, Alex left his family's estate and joined the military. Alex returns to assume the title Duke of Bedford when his brother unexpectedly dies. He is unprepared for both his new responsibilities and the reunion with Patience. The horrors of war are a heavy burden, and when he learns that Patience never married his brother, he is stunned.

'This moving story is not to be missed.' Candis A forgotten past. A garden full of secrets. A mystery to be uncovered. 1943. With her best friend having recently joined the Land Army and her mother lost in grief after the death of her father early in the war, Gloria is lonely. When she finds an...

A ruined lady. A righteous earl. A second chance no one saw coming. He came to drag her home. He didn't expect to want her. Lady Alice Masterson was meant to disappear quietly into Scotland. Instead, the Earl of Denbigh finds her thriving in London's most infamous gaming hell—brazen, beautiful...

JACQUELINE HOLT WAS THE CHALLENGE OF A LIFETIME. With midnight-blue eyes that could bring a man to his knees and proud ideals that gave no quarter, she openly defied Philadelphia's glittering society. Determined to fight against Federalist rule, the scandalously independent beauty championed her cause in a manner both dangerous and forbidden, undaunted even by the magnetic stranger who threatened her secret-and her heart.

Shy, bookish Lady Susannah Haddonfield has no patience with loud, smelly beasts of any species, but must appear to like dogs so as not to offend her sister's only marital prospect. Susannah turns to Will, an acquaintance from her most awkward adolescent years, to teach her how to impersonate a dog fancier. Will has long admired Susannah, though he lacks the means to offer for her, and, yet, as they work together to rescue the purloined pets, it's loyal, dashing Will who steals Susannah's heart.

Who could resist a wager from London's most popular detective, Sherlock Holmes? Certainly not his scientist neighbor, Elise Hamblin. The challenge: Study the primal nature of men; but not just any man for her study will do. Sherlock has chosen the Earl of March, a man with a scandalous and...

A USA TODAY bestselling novel! As Paris rebuilds in the aftermath of World War II, Kat Fontaine never expected the skills she learned in a French chateau kitchen to be the key that unlocks the secrets swirling in her new post-war life. "Balancing action-packed scenes with entertaining...

A kilt for Christmas . . . Lady Rowena Pepperwirth is beautiful, wealthy, and can have any many she wants. Only, no man has ever caused her heart to flutter—until the holiday house party she agreed to attend at the last minute. One look at the brooding Lord Forres and Rowena knows exactly what...