mobi, epub |eng | 2012-09-02 | Author:Ben Kane

Chapter XVII: Homecoming At the junction, Tarquinius stopped. The northern Italian countryside had been growing more familiar since before dawn, but he knew this spot better than anywhere in the ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1976-01-01 | Author:Philippa Gregory

Summer 1626 Tradescant had thought that complaints about the duke were in the mouths of ignorant men, boys like J, women like Elizabeth, and wayside preachers, whose opinions might disturb ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-05-08 | Author:Hilary Mantel

Now Edward Seymour is promoted into the king’s privy chamber, a singular mark of favour. And the king says to him, ‘I think I should have young Rafe Sadler among ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-12-15 | Author:Philippa Gregory

The net is closing around me. It is so close now that I can almost see the cords. If Lord Lisle says that he knew I would make the king ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-12 | Author:Dorothy Dunnett

Chapter 25 IT WAS NOT, however, the two equal swords of Katelina van Borselen that Nicholas found waiting for him on his return, at long last, to the capital. Before ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-12 | Author:Dorothy Dunnett

As always now, the reaction was almost more than he could bear. It took a major effort of will, after the messenger had gone and he had dispatched his brother’s ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-12 | Author:Dorothy Dunnett

Chapter 26 IN EDINBURGH – the ancient epicentrum towards which, in counter-flow, there had streamed for six months all the molten concerns of the Banco di Niccolò – in Edinburgh, ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1998-01-02 | Author:Philippa Gregory

Summer 1626 Tradescant had thought that complaints about the duke were in the mouths of ignorant men, boys like J, women like Elizabeth, and wayside preachers, whose opinions might disturb ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2004-01-02 | Author:Philippa Gregory

Sir Robert was leaning down to whisper to the seated queen, when Cecil walked into the presence chamber, and saw the queen laugh up at him. The desire between the ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-11 | Author:Dorothy Dunnett

Chapter 22 FAR FROM THE RAVAGES he had unwittingly caused, the Charetty lawyer Gregorio saw the time draw near at last when he could find and confront the Scottish lord ...

mobi |eng | 1966-01-01 | Author:Jean Plaidy

Anne was relieved when Sarah went. Sunderland! she thought. That man. Never. She pulled the bell rope. “Hill,” she said. “Send Hill.” Abigail came, green eyes anxious. “Your Majesty is ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2001-07-02 | Author:Dante Alighieri & John Ciardi

my vision fell from me exactly so the instant a new light beat on my face, a light outshining any that men know. I was looking all about, as if ...

mobi |eng | 2007-06-28 | Author:Dante Alighieri & Robin Kirkpatrick

where, turned towards us, Beatrice stood. ‘Make sure,’ they said, ‘you do not spare your eyes. 115 We’ve placed you here before these emeralds, from which Love aimed his arrows ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Marina Fiorato

27 Nicodemus of Padua was silent. He had heard the entire incredible tale and now sat, stroking the white stubble at his chin and occasionally grunting faintly, as if he ...

mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2011-03-23 | Author:Jesse Bullington

XXIII The Rise of the Hammer It was not easy, being a bastard, but Ashton Kahlert managed to pull it off. Had his father acknowledged his birth and given him ...