Verlag: BookRix
What will Miss Amelia Wainwright find on her arrival in Bermuda? There is a secret map and the hint of hidden treasure. However, the mysteries held in store were more than anyone could imagine. The story takes a supernatural turn and a long hidden historical mystery begins to unravel. What will happen next?
Be thrilled by this classic romantic suspense!Reformed cat burglar Clea Rice has witnessed enough crime to put her on the straight and narrow. But little does she suspect that her search for justice will land her in the arms of a wealthy English gentleman.As her attraction to Jordan Tavistock grows, so does the danger. Now her biggest concern isn’t whether a cat burglar and a proper gentleman can find happiness…it’s whether they’ll survive long enough to find out.Zum Buch
After a number of earthquakes hammer the Sierra Madre region of Mexico, Grupo Verdugo, a splinter group of cartel enforcers, takes control of the drug shipping routes through that territory. Caught in the middle, a small orphanage high in the mountains, desperate for supplies to care for the children and the battered earthquake victims, reaches out to Abel Yeager for help. Yeager and his friend Victor agree to deliver the needed food and medicine. But Grupo Verdugo seems to have a special interest in starving out the clergy and forcing them to bend to their will. They send a man known as the Executioner to stop anyone daring to assist the people. Yeager and Victor are in for the biggest fight of their lives as they are forced to move forty children, a dozen sick and injured patients, and one feisty doctor out of the mission and through mountains infested with vicious killers.Zum Buch
Theodora Sarah Orne Jewett was born on 3rd September 1849 in South Berwick, Maine, to a family that had resided in New England for several generations. From early childhood Jewett suffered from rheumatoid arthritis and one remedy was frequent walks which contributed to her life-long love of nature. She was primarily educated at Miss Olive Rayne's school and then the Berwick Academy from where she graduated in 1866. But much of her time was also spent reading from the extensive collection of books in the family library. In 1868 at age 19, she was published ‘Jenny Garrow's Lovers’ in the Atlantic Monthly, and from this grew a reputation that was lauded and admired by both her captivated audience and such other noted writers as William Dean Howells. As well as novels and short stories she also wrote children’s books and poetry volumes. Jewett was also admired for the strong female characters who were as intelligent and able as any man around them. In her personal life Jewett was attracted and attached to several women. Many of her poems reveal the intensity of her feelings towards them. Whether Jewett found physical love with them is open to debate but she often did find devoted and loving friendship, humor and literary encouragement. From 1881, after the death of James Fields, the editor of the Atlantic Monthly, she set up home with his widow, Annie, for the rest of her life in what was termed ‘a Boston Marriage’; the cohabitation of two wealthy women, independent of male financial support. On her birthday in 1902, Jewett was involved in a carriage accident that effectively ended her literary career. In March 1909 Sarah Orne Jewett was paralyzed by a stroke, and after another on 24th June she died in her South Berwick home. She was 59.Zum Buch
In the lively center of New York City, Emma Callahan is a dedicated marketing executive whose life is centered around meeting deadlines, client meetings, and sticking to carefully planned routines. But everything changes when she accidentally bumps into Alex Whitman, a carefree architect known for disrupting others’ well-organized plans, causing her structured world to start falling apart. Their paths cross through a series of unexpected encounters, forcing Emma and Alex to face the barriers they've built around themselves. As ambition, past heartbreaks, and family expectations threaten to pull them apart, they must navigate the complicated feelings of desire, trust, and sacrifice. Set amidst towering skyscrapers, art galleries, and secret rooftop gardens, this modern romance story examines how fragile love can be, the bravery needed to be vulnerable, and the important choices that shape a life. Will Emma and Alex give in to the chaos of their feelings, or will life's pressures keep them separated forever?Zum Buch
It's 1898. Kismet brings about a chance reunion at a London club between Dr. Watson and Colonel "Maiwand Mike" Fenlon, former military comrades from their Northwest Frontier days and the desperate Battle of Maiwand. A week later an urgent cable seeking Sherlock Holmes's help arrives from the Bailiwick of Guernsey, a British Crown Dependency 30 miles off the coast of Normandy. A retired high-ranking British Indian Army officer who commanded the troops at Maiwand has dropped dead. Colonel Fenlon is in a holding cell awaiting trial for his murder. What role in the Brigadier-General's death was played by a phial of patent medicine developed in India to treat cholera? Why are Colonel Fenlon's forefinger and thumbprint on the neck of the phial when he swears he has never seen it before? And above all, why is Fenlon refusing to enter a plea or even to tell his Defence counsel what took place the evening the Brigadier-General dropped dead?Zum Buch
A team of con artists travel the country, marrying rich, unsought women, only to clean them out on their wedding night. The only problem is their last mark's father happens to be a secret underworld kingpin now bent on avenging his homely daughter's broken heart. After Angie Robertson's new husband disappears with over $200,000 in wedding gifts and a brand new 911 Porsche convertible, her gangster father makes it his mission to seek retribution. Alongside him is Angie's brother and heir to the Robertson empire, Sebastian, who, like his father, is eager to enact a swift revenge. Meanwhile, the missing groom and his team of con artists speed along the southwestern coast, searching for the next town and rich, lonely girl they could scam out of a couple hundred grand. The Wedding Bandits have been doing this for years, and they've only gotten better with time. Settling in the small town of Oak County, the team starts their usual routine of finding a mark. The new target is the daughter of the town Sheriff, a sage man who came into substantial wealth in years past for an act of heroism. Unbeknownst to the bandits, as they plot and scheme a way to separate the Sheriff from his millions, Angie's brother and father have been tracking their movements, inching closer each day to their coveted vengeance. And yet, despite all the secrets and malicious behavior, love manages to bud between the bandits' dauntless leader and the Sheriff's homely daughter. It seems like Cupid may have finally caught up to the traveling hustler. Unfortunately, so have the FBI… The mission becomes a ticking time bomb that ends in abduction, heartbreak, and murder. And the person you least expect may be the one to squeeze the trigger.Zum Buch
