epub, mobi |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:Kathryn Caskie [Caskie, Kathryn]

Chapter Twelve Jenny stared, transfixed by the little man’s words. “W-what do you know of Lady Eros?” she asked rather shakily. Hercule lifted the lid from a gallipot and breathed ...

epub |eng | 1987-11-03 | Author:Johanna Lindsey [Lindsey, Johanna]

Chapter Twenty The ship was silent again. Katherine refused to take the credit this time, no matter how often she was looked at beseechingly by Dimitri’s servants, as if she ...

epub |eng | 2011-09-03 | Author:Laurens, Stephanie [Stephanie, Laurens,]

* * * The headache hit with a vengeance in the early evening. Surrendering to the savage pain, to the nauseating sensations every time he tried to move, to the ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2005-10-02 | Author:Stephanie Laurens [Stephanie Laurens]

Chapter 12 Not just interesting, but revealing. Dalziel reached the front door and paused before he sensed another’s presence. He turned toward the parlor; from where he was standing, he ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2004-10-25 | Author:Anne Perry [Perry, Anne]

They set out immediately after breakfast, Mrs. Naylor’s household providing them with transport by pony and trap as far as Inverness and then beyond to the eastern end of Loch ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-03-27 | Author:Christina Courtenay [Courtenay, Christina]

Brice watched surreptitiously as Seton manhandled Marsaili into the dance. The man was an oaf who needed to be taught some manners, but Brice didn’t think this was either the ...

epub |eng | 2000-05-13 | Author:James Robertson [Robertson, James]

James Mitchel clung to her on the narrow bed of the cell. She felt the wooden planks beneath her, unyielding and hard. James grunted and came into her. Had she ...

epub |eng | 2010-04-01 | Author:Margaret Campbell Barnes [Barnes, Margaret Campbell]

De Vere was staggered. Realizing that he could touch only the fringe of that troubled, inner world his most intimate friend must live in, all worldly wisdom was momentarily knocked ...

epub |eng | 2011-03-01 | Author:Jean Plaidy [Plaidy, Jean]

Chapter IX ISABELLA RECEIVES CHRISTOBAL COLON Margaret went about the Palace like a sad, pale ghost. She had lost her Flemish gaiety; she seemed always to be looking back into ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-03-22 | Author:Vanora Bennett [Bennett, Vanora]

TWENTY-ONE Catherine had been lying there all day, for hours, just like this: utterly spent, but utterly at peace too, gazing at her baby. She didn't mind the aches, the ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2006-01-02 | Author:Vanora Bennett [Bennett, Vanora]

12 They were hardly aware of me there, on a cushion in the corner of the parlor, under the window, in the fading light, with my embroidery. John, at his ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-12-03 | Author:Alanna Knight [Knight, Alanna]

He slept badly that night, troubled by nightmares, and left the house early next morning to call on Constable Muir, to get his farcical daily visit behind him. Not that ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-07-17 | Author:Smith, Dan [Smith, Dan]

Kashtan moved on at a steady pace for another hour, and apart from the occasional fresh, clear print in the frozen mud, we had the road to ourselves. Anna and ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2008-12-31 | Author:Jack Whyte [Whyte, Jack]

OBEDIENCE 1 The upheaval took Will Sinclair completely by surprise, although, looking back on it, he could see that all the signs of its imminence had been there and he ...

epub |eng | 2010-03-10 | Author:Jane Odiwe

MARGARET TOOK THE SHORTCUT through the park to the rectory. Deep in thought, she felt in raptures at all that she saw about her. Every tree, every leafless twig seemed ...