Showing results for "Robert Sarah" in Historical Fiction

Malti Fortune is uneasy. She has turned away from her birthplace of Fiji to make a new life in Melbourne. But all that she thought was certain is now in danger of being swept away. Her husband, Benjamin, a linguist, is a conundrum. He has changed. Or has she? The stories and superstitions of her childhood are telling her something she knows but doesn't want to hear - about being a trespasser, about not belonging.

Alex Sebastian is the billionaire who knows exactly how to re-launch the pop career I walked away from to raise my little sister. He knows everything, apparently, about what’s good for me. For my image. Even for my lingerie. Everywhere I turn, he’s there, smirking. I cannot stand him. So why can’t we stop sneaking around?

Scrooge has compelling reasons for hating Christmas, for rejecting his fiancée and his precious nephew, and for employing Tiny Tim’s father, despite his obvious incompetence. He is a doting uncle, beloved brother, successful businessman, and passionate lover, but a dark secret puts both him and his loved ones at risk. Scrooge struggles to embrace his true self and live in defiance of the Victorian era’s repressive moral standards.

In 1908, 16-year-old Bridey runs away from her small town in Ireland with her same-age sweetheart, Thom. But when Thom dies suddenly of ship fever on their ocean crossing, Bridey finds herself alone and pregnant in a strange new world. Forced by circumstance to give up the baby for adoption, Bridey finds work as a maid for the Hollingworth family at a lavish, sprawling estate. She cares for the Hollingworth children as if they were her own, until a mysterious death changes Bridey and the household forever.

Eine Reihe von rätselhaften Verbrechen beunruhigt London. Zur Aufklärung werden die beiden größten lebenden Detektive herangezogen: Sherlock Holmes und Professor Augustus van Dusen. Zusammen und getrennt voneinander begeben sie sich auf die Suche nach einem Mörder, der ihnen immer einen Schritt voraus zu sein scheint. In einem verlassenen Theater und im Keller einer Londoner Wäscherei stoßen die Detektive unter Einsatz ihres Lebens auf weitere Spuren, die letztlich in ein Landhaus in Sussex führen.

Das Hörbuch zum Serienereignis des Jahres: So haben wir Sisi noch nie erlebt - wagemutig und kämpferisch, lebenshungrig und verführerisch. Als die junge, ungestüme Sisi in Bad Ischl Franz Joseph I. von Österreich begegnet, diesem strahlenden und geheimnisvoll-abgründigen Mann, ist es um sie geschehen. Obwohl er ihrer Schwester versprochen ist, kann sie sich der Anziehungskraft des jungen Kaisers nicht entziehen und erkämpft sich gegen die Widerstände ihrer Familie sein Herz. Mit dieser Liebe scheint ihre Zukunft glänzend hell.