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Lucy Gordon-Vrba

    1 janvier 1901

    Christine Sparks est une auteure célèbre dont les romans d'amour sont imprégnés de décors européens et de héros charismatiques. Son écriture explore les complexités des relations et le charme des histoires d'amour, avec un œil attentif au personnage et à l'atmosphère. Sparks est particulièrement connue pour sa représentation authentique de la culture italienne et sa conviction du romantisme incomparable des hommes italiens.

    Lucy Gordon-Vrba
    The Venetian Playboy's Bride
    The Greek Tycoon's Achilles Heel
    Her Desert Dream
    Mariés pour l'été. Un mariage au ranch. Une union imprévue
    Idylle romaine
    Un Noel en Andalousie
    • Chargée de parfaire l'éducation de Catalina, une jeune fille espagnole sur le point de se marier avec un riche aristocrate andalou, Maggie se retrouve dans une situation pour le moins délicate. En effet, sa loyauté envers Don Sebastian de Santiago, qui est à la fois son employeur et le futur époux de la jeune fille, est mise à rude épreuve. Comment pourrait-elle rester insensible au désarroi de Catalina, contrainte d'épouser un homme dont elle n'est pas amoureuse ? Révoltée par ces pratiques d'un autre âge, Maggie incite alors Catalina à se rebeller. Un conseil que cette dernière s'empresse de suivre, mais qui n'est pas du goût de Don Sebastian. Furieux que le mariage soit annulé, il tient Maggie pour responsable et exige réparation : elle sera son épouse de substitution !

      Un Noel en Andalousie
    • Idylle romaine, Lucy Gordon Après une histoire sentimentale douce-amère, Luke Cayman, le troisième fils de Hope Rinucci, décide de se rendre à Rome afin de se changer les idées. Ce sera pour lui l'occasion de rencontrer enfin Mina Pepino, l'avocate qui le harcèle par courrier depuis des mois pour qu'il réhabilite un des immeubles qu'il possède dans le pittoresque quartier du Trastevere. Mais alors qu'il s'attend à devoir affronter une harpie, Luke découvre en Mina une ravissante jeune femme blonde... au caractère bien trempé.

      Idylle romaine
    • Her Desert Dream

      • 265pages
      • 10 heures de lecture
      3,0(7)Évaluer

      her desert dream Liz Fielding Lydia Young is leaving her shelf-stacking job behind and jetting off to Sheikh Kalil al-Zaki's desert kingdom as an aristocratic media darling's lookalike! Lydia's going to savour every second of her desert dream with Kal before she goes back to her old life and the bride wore red Lucy Gordon Olivia Daley believes the best cure for a broken heart is a radical change of scenery. In beautiful China, she's starting a whole new adventure. And, mesmerised by the ancient legends of love, Olivia soon finds herself wishing she could be the bride who wore red

      Her Desert Dream
    • Lysandros Demetriou: shipping magnate and Athens' most sought-after bachelor. Glamorous women compete for this tycoon's attention, but his focused ruthlessness ensures none outstays her welcome! Until Petra Radnor whirls into his life. Her beauty is a lure Lysandros cannot resist -- she awakens something within him that he's kept hidden for years. When their scorching passion shows no sign of burning out, Lysandros has to decide whether his desire for Petra is a temporary craving or a lifelong obsession

      The Greek Tycoon's Achilles Heel
    • The Venetian Playboy's Bride

      • 187pages
      • 7 heures de lecture

      Venice: a city of secrets and passion! Dulcie Maddox is in Venice to work--but she finds herself wanting to spend every day with a tall, handsome gondolier.... Guido Calvani is no gondolier--he's actually one of the wealthiest aristocrats in Venice. He hasn't told Dulcie that, though; it's refreshing to be wanted for himself, rather than for his money. Only, now he's falling for Dulcie. He'd like to make her his bride--but she has no idea who he really is, not even his real name. Then Guido discovers he's not the only one hiding a secret. And Dulcie's secret turns his world upside down....

      The Venetian Playboy's Bride
    • The Italian's Wife by Sunset

      • 248pages
      • 9 heures de lecture

      Intelligent, sensible Della Hadley should've known better than to embark on an affair with a playboy Italian six years her junior, but vibrant and sexy Carlo Rinucci was just too hard to resist...Yet Della knows that a fiery passion so quick to ignite should be fast to die out, despite Carlo's protests that their love is for ever. But Carlo is Italian through and through, and determined to win his woman - can he make Della his bride before the sun sets on their affair?Rinucci Brothers - Love, marriage...and a family reunited.

      The Italian's Wife by Sunset
    • Desert Princess

      • 576pages
      • 21 heures de lecture

      The Arabian Love-Child is by Michelle Reid. When Rafiq Al-Qadim chose to believe ugly lies about Melanie's faithfulness and threw her love away like a grain of desert sand in the wind, he didn't know she was pregnant with his child. But Melanie is about to tell him he has a son...Beloved Sheikh is by Alexandra Sellers. Sheikh Rafi could have a harem but he wanted only one woman, bewitching Zara Blake. Still, for all his sizzling kisses, dare she believe he would he really make her his queen? The Sheikh's Reward is by Lucy Gordon. Sheikh Ali Ben Saleem had created an elaborate, exotic desert fantasy to amuse Frances Callam but, after that charade, how could she tell if he was serious when he spoke about marriage?

      Desert Princess
    • Joanna had been head over heels in love with her convenient fiancé, Gustavo Ferrara, when he fell in love with--and married--someone else!Now, twelve years on, Gustavo Ferrara, now single, is thrown into turmoil at seeing Joanna again. He's older, wiser, and he realizes Joanna is the person he should have married--but he has no idea how much he hurt her. Can he persuade her to give him another chance...or is she once bitten, twice shy...?

      The Italian's Rightful Bride