A young woman’s journey of discovery takes her to a world of forbidden passion, savage beauty - and revenge.
Spring, 1950. Alexandra de Falla, a half-English, half-Spanish youngwriter abandons her privileged but suffocating life in London and travels to Spain to be reunited with her long-estranged family.
Instead of providing the sense of belonging she yearns for, the de Fallas are riven by...
Seduction, passion and the chance for new love. A terrible truth that will change two lives forever.
Venetia Aston-Montagu has escaped to Italy’s most captivating city to work in her godmother’s architectural practice, putting a lost love behind her. For the past ten years she has built a fortress around her heart, only to find the walls tumbling down one night of the carnival when she...
Can love escape from the darkness into the light?
When Catriona Drouot, a young music therapist, honours an opera diva’s dying request to help her son, Umberto Monteverdi, recover his musical gift, she knows it will be a difficult assignment. She had shared a night of passion with the once-celebrated composer ten years before, with unexpected consequences. The extent of her challenge becomes...
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A young writer becomes entangled in an illicit gypsy love affair, pulling her into a world of secrets, deception and dark desire.
Summer, 1976. Luz de Rueda returns to her beloved Spain and takes a job as the biographer of a famous artist. On her first day back in Cádiz, she encounters a bewitching, passionate young gypsy, Leandro, who immediately captures her heart, even though...
Luxor, 1946. When young nurse Aida El Masri returns from war-torn London to her family’s estate in Egypt she steels herself against the challenges ahead.
Eight years have passed since her father, Ayoub, was framed for a crime he did not commit, and died as a tragic result. Yet Aida has not forgotten, and now she wants revenge against the man she believes betrayed her father - his best friend,...
Love, intrigue and redemption under the scorching Spanish sun
A troubled young journalist finds her loyalties tested when love and desire unearth dark secrets from the past.
Spring, 2010. When Luna Ward, a science journalist from New York, travels halfway across the world to work undercover at an alternative health clinic in Cadiz, her ordered life is thrown into turmoil.
The doctor she is to investigate,...
Coral Sinclair is a beautiful but naive twenty-five-year-old photographer who has just lost her father. She’s leaving the life she’s known and traveling to Kenya to take ownership of her inheritance-the plantation that was her childhood home-Mpingo. On the voyage from England, Coral meets an enigmatic stranger to whom she has a mystifying attraction. She sees him again days later on the...
Billy Budd to ostatni utwór Hermana Melville’a. Do jego miłośników należeli Thomas Mann, Albert Camus i Hannah Arendt.
Wydana po raz pierwszy w roku 1924 nowela od niemal stu lat wzbudza podziw, a zarazem rodzi liczne kontrowersje.
W zależności od perspektywy Billy’ego Budda można uznać za przypowieść moralną, prawomyślną lub bluźnierczą alegorię teologiczną, traktat o suwerenności,...
Pierwsza z trzech nowelek autorki bestsellerowej powieści The Love Hypothesis
Młoda doktorantka mieszkająca pod jednym dachem ze swoim wrogiem numer jeden - to mieszanka wybuchowa!
Mara, Sadie i Hannah są najlepszymi przyjaciółkami, ale przede wszystkim naukowczyniami. Ich badania wiodą je w różne strony świata, gdzie wszystkie dochodzą do podobnych wniosków - w miłości i nauce przeciwieństwa się...
Nie jestreś tu mile widziana,
BOGOBÓJCZYNI.
W krainie, w której król zabronił oddawania czci bogom, bogobójcy i bogobójczynie mają pełne ręce roboty.
Jedna z nich, Kissen, jest wytrawną i bezwzględną łowczynią złych bóstw. Wspomnienie krwawego mordu, dokonanego przed laty na jej najbliższych przez wyznawców bogini ognia, daje jej siłę do codziennej walki.
Elogast, weteran wielkiej bitwy...
