In The Glass Butterfly, Louise Marley winds together a tale of subtle danger lurking in the past and a mother's sacrifice for her son's future. . ..A new life. A new name. A complete break with the past. It's the only way therapist Victoria Lake can think to protect her son–and herself–from a case turned deadly. She and Jack have barely spoken since he's gone to college. As painful as it is, it's better that he think she ...
From her earliest days, Margaret Tudor knows she will not have the luxury of choosing a husband. As daughter of Henry VII, her duty is to gain alliances for England. Barely out of girlhood, Margaret is married by proxy to James IV and travels to Edinburgh to become Queen of Scotland.Despite her doubts, Margaret falls under the spell of her adopted home. But she has rivals. While Jamie is an affectionate husband, he is not a faithful one. And pro ...
A suspenseful, spellbinding novel of love, jealousy, and murder, The Ripper's Wife reimagines the most notorious serial killer in history through the eyes of the woman who sealed his fate. "Love makes sane men mad and can turn a gentle man into a fiend." It begins as a fairytale romance–a shipboard meeting in 1880 between vivacious Southern belle Florence Chandler and handsome English cotton broker James Maybrick. Courtship and a lav ...
In her enthralling, richly imagined new novel, Brandy Purdy, author of The Ripper’s Wife , creates a compelling portrait of the real, complex woman behind an unthinkable crime. Lizzie Borden should be one of the most fortunate young women in Fall River, Massachusetts. Her wealthy father could easily afford to provide his daughters with fashionable clothes, travel, and a rich, cultured life. Instead, haunted by the ghost of childhood poverty, h ...
As cousins of history's most tempestuous queens, Ladies Jane, Katherine, and Mary Grey were born in an age when all of London lived beneath the Tower's menacing shadow. Tyrannized by Bloody Mary and the Virgin Queen, the sisters feared love was unthinkable–and the scaffold all but unavoidable. . . Raised to fear her royal blood and what it might lead men to do in her name, Mary Grey dreads what will become of herself and her elder sist ...
Winner of the 2017 Spur Award for Best Paperback Western “Boggs is unparalleled in evoking the gritty reality of the Old West.”— The Shootist Red River is one of the greatest westerns ever told, a novel that that became the classic John Wayne movie in 1948. Now award-winning Johnny D. Boggs presents a powerful follow-up—destined to be a western masterpiece in its own right. RETURN TO RED RIVER Mathew Garth was orphaned in a savage wagon t ...
Spanning more than 500 years, this illustrated book covers the rich history of Christianity in Latin America. The authors use an analytical framework as they describe the institutional religious history for the period covered in that chapter, providing the context to look at other concurrent though non-institutional developments within Christianity. Each section includes sources that look at the way Christianity manifested and ...
Italien im 13. Jahrhundert: Pandolfina, Tochter einer Sarazenenprinzessin und eines apulischen Grafen, wachst wohlbehutet am elterlichen Hofe auf. Doch als ihr Vater stirbt, bringt der Widersacher und Nachbar ihres Vaters Silvio di Cudi die Burg in seinen Besitz – und will das 14-jahrige Madchen zur Heirat zwingen. Pandolfina kann entkommen und findet Schutz am Hofe von Friedrich, des Konigs von Sizilien und Kaisers des Heiligen Romischen Reiche ...
Mallorca im Jahre 1343: Das Inselreich wird in einem blutigen Feldzug durch Konig Pere IV. von Katalonien-Aragon erobert. Auch die Burg des Grafen von Marranx fallt dem ubermachtigen Gegner in die Hande, und sein Erzfeind nutzt die Gelegenheit zur Rache: Weil der Graf ihm einst die Braut raubte, sollen jetzt dessen Tochter fur die Schmach von damals bezahlen. Nur um Haaresbreite gelingt es Miranda und Soledad zu entkommen, doch ihr Verfolger ist ...
