4 Ergebnisse.

According to family legend, there have been Lowburghs at Wulfstanwick ever since some Norse ancestor came viking and decided to stay. Over the centuries a succession of barons and earls has consolidated and extended the holding. A marriage arranged between the current heir and a neighbouring heiress seems the perfect way to ensure the continuity of both the line and the estate. But ...

Cavalry officer, Lord Hal, is seriously wounded in his soul as much as in his body. He is rescued by a most unconventional young woman, a veritable blue-stocking, with a problem of her own. Soon, however, what looks like a perfect answer for both of them turns into something much more complicated, as it becomes obvious that the terrible legacy of his family and upbringing cannot be so easily dealt with.

Marguerite de Lamberdy has grown up in the care of her grandmother, a true English lady. To the Norfolk estate on a frozen winter's day, comes a stranger whom she recognises as the love of her life. But Marguerite is half French and the storm of Revolution is gathering. Can she, and her love, survive the death throes of the Ancien Régime and the dreadful Republican Terror that will follow?

As the energetic figures pranced and paraded around the dance floor in a whirl of coloured silks and satins, broadcloth and buckskin, perspiration and pomade, his Grace reflected that in spite of all the finery, the basic function of the occasion was almost exactly the same as the livestock market in any local town. The aim was to match buyer and seller.But there lay the rub: how was he to conclude a deal with such an outrageous rider in the c...