Lisa Beaumont
Fires of rapture
PASSIONATE REVOLUTION…PASSIONATE LOVE…Seeking a new life in the New World of America, raven-haired Rebecca Blair loved liberty almost as much as she loved one man — lean, rugged Colonel Gordon Meade of His Majesty’s army. As Americans struggled violently for independence from British rule, Rebecca felt her loyalties change from Crown to Colonies, and her love tested by the fires of war and the cruelty of men. And as freedom-loving rebels surge to victory, Rebecca finds passion at last in a single, glorious moment of unexpected ecstasy…
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The flame trees of Thika
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Ocean boulevard
Beau fortune erudit romantique a la fois athlete et esthete ascete et fastueux Guido Guidi Guido le Magnifique est un heros de roman comme on n’en fait plus. Mais en notre fin de siecle la vie meme la vie a Florence d’un expert en art n’a rien de romanesque et ce grand seigneur s’est en somme trompe d’epoque. Dans un monde de faussaires et de truqueurs il n’y a plus de place pour les heros. Ecrire serait pour Guido Guidi un dernier defi a la decadence et a la mort. Mais que faire quand la creation cette chance cette grace vous est refusee ? S’abandonner aux reves et aux souvenirs retrouver par-dela le deuil celle qui fut sa seule passion : sa femme la grande cantatrice Ira Lazare – reconstituer par la memoire le duo d’amour de leur vie vouee a l’art et a l’harmonie telles seront les ultimes preoccupations de Guido Guidi. Au moment de tout quitter il se souviendra d’un soir ou a l’extreme occident Ira et lui s’etaient retrouves tandis que la nuit tombait sur Ocean Boulevard. Roman d’apprentissage et roman d’amour recit lyrique et sentimental Ocean Boulevard traduit aussi la nostalgie de ce que fut la vie culturelle europeenne
Highland Velvet
Bronwyn MacArran was a proud Scot. Stephen Montgomery was one of the hated English.
He came to Scotland as a conqueror, saw her beauty and was vanquished. But still she would abhor him. She owned a temper hot enough to forge the armors of battle or inflame a valiant soldier’s passion. Yet still she would resist him. She became his reason to live, his reason to love. And still she would deny him. But while clan fought clan, while brother took up sword against brother, and the highlands ran with blood—their destiny was made…and this mighty warrior pledged himself to his woman’s pride, her honor and her name—and made of their love a torch to burn through the ages!