Helen is at a crossroads in her life as she battles with her domineering mother over both her love life and her future career. Dora can't stop loving Nick, who is married to her best friend, Ruby. But Ruby is hiding a dark secret with the potential to destroy Ruby's marriage.
Insensés, les termes de ce testament ! Les trois soeurs Mercy doivent vivre ensemble au ranch, une année entière, si elles veulent toucher leur part d'héritage. Au bas mot, vingt millions de dollars Un dernier pied de nez bien dans la manière de jack Mercy, lui qui s'était toujours soucié comme d'une guigne de ses trois filles issues de trois mariages différents. Et une cohabitation dont Tess, brillante scénariste à Hollywood, Lily, au regard de bête traquée, et Willa, l'ombrageuse cow-girl, se seraient bien passées'! Mais pour ces trois étrangères condamnées à s'entendre pour obéir aux dernières volontés d'un vieux tyran, la mise à l'épreuve tourne bientôt au cauchemar. Dans l'ombre, un inconnu crie sa haine de la famille Mercy en massacrant du bétail. Avant de s'attaquer à des proies humaines
In the heart of the bayou, Ruby Landry lives a simple, happy life. But innocence can't last forever... The only family Ruby Landry has ever known are her loving guardian, Grandmère Catherine, a Cajun spiritual healer, and her drunken, outcast Grandpèrb Jack. Although thinking about her dead mother and mysterious father sometimes makes her feel as mournful as the wind sighing through the Spanish moss, Ruby is grateful for all she has. Her life is filled with hope and promise...especially when her attraction for handsome Paul Tate blossoms into a mysterious, wonderful love. But Paul's wealthy parents forbid him to associate with a poor Landry, and Grandmère urges her to follow her dream of becoming a great painter, foreseeing a time when Ruby will be surrounded with riches in the dazzling city of New Orleans! Yet she cannot know how close that uncertain future looms.... In a faded photograph, Ruby glimpses for the first time the image of her father -- and learns of a shameful deception and a shocking scheme of blackmail that now must come to light. Stunned by these revelations, she is devastated when Grandmère dies, leaving her to seek out her father in his vast New Orleans mansion. There, in a house of lies, madness, and cruel torment, Ruby clings to her memories of Paul to keep her heart alive. For only their love can save her now....
Growing up in her beloved swamp, Gabriel is supremely happy, despite the ever-widening rift between her Mama and her conniving, whiskey-drinking Daddy. Her classmates tease her, calling her "La Femme Au Naturel," the Nature Girl, because she seems more interested in poling her pirogue through the canals than she is in romance. But Gabriel nurtures her own secret dreams. Then, days before her high school graduation, rich cannery owner Octavious Tate surprises her in a secluded pond and shatters her innocence. Pregnant and desolate, wishing to spare her dear Mama the scandal, Gabriel agrees to a shocking plan that will allow Octavious's frigid wife Gladys to claim the baby as her own and will net Gabriel's furious Daddy a huge payoff. Hiding in a tiny abandoned playroom in the Tate mansion, Gabriel is miserable. Her only visitor is Mama, whose mission as a Traiteur, a Cajun healer, gives her an excuse to treat Gladys Tate's "pregnancy." But nothing is more wrenching than the moment Gladys takes baby Paul away forever. Returning home to the swamp, Gabriel drifts in a world of twilight gloom, brightened only by chance glimpses of her son. But as Jack Landry's reputation as a swamp guide grows, a hunting party brings handsome, gentle Creole millionaire Pierre Dumas to the bayou. Falling desperately in love, Gabriel will not heed the voice warning that their joy may bring her more grief than she can bear....
Driven from the Dumas Mansion back to her beloved bayou, Ruby's only hope is that fate will let her begin anew... Living again in a humble shack, Ruby is determined to make a secure and happy home for her precious infant daughter, Pearl. Paul Tate -- her first love, whom she was forced to abandon -- is at her side once more, now a man of dazzling wealth. When he whisks her into his grand house, it seems their future is assured. As mistress of Cypress Woods, Ruby can forget even the shocking reason she and Paul must wed in a secret ceremony and remain husband and wife in name alone. But the thick, expensive walls of Cypress Woods cannot shut out the terrible memories that have woven their fabric over her destiny, or the cold eyes of Paul's mother, Gladys, reminding Ruby of the secret she must keep to give Pearl a loving father. Then her venomous twin sister, Gisselle, arrives to taunt her with news of Beau Andreas, the true father Pearl has never met, and the only man Ruby will ever long for with all her body and soul, Desperate to find the complete, fulfilling life she craves, Ruby builds a precarious new existence, a flimsy shanty of hope that the first flood washes away. Only when the storm exposes the very blackest evils of the past will she glimpse the rainbow's fragile promise, a morning of sunshine and laughter with a family of her own....
S'adresse à tous ceux et celles qui ont subi une rupture, un divorce ou un deuil, et se propose de les guider dans le long cheminement qui conduit à la guérison. Mélange d'anecdotes, d'exercices pratiques et de conseils psychologiques
Napompowany adrenaliną thriller medyczny.Doktor Carrie Bryant jest rezydentką na oddziale neurochirurgii uznanego bostońskiego szpitala. Kiedy mordercze tempo pracy owocuje popełnieniem groźnego błędu, lekarka rzuca rezydenturę. Jej nowy cel życiowy to pom�c bratu, weteranowi wojennemu Adamowi, uwolnić się od zespołu stresu pourazowego. Tymczasem w ośrodku zdrowia dla weteran�w, z kt�rym zaczyna wsp�łpracę, dzieją się dziwne rzeczy. Carrie zagłębia się w labirynt korupcji i morderstw i choć może przypłacić to życiem, za wszelką cenę pr�buje rozwikłać zagadkę tajemniczego znikania jej pacjent�w?Jeśli chodzi o tworzenie intrygującej fabuły thriller�w medycznych, nikt nie robi tego lepiej niż Michael Palmer.?Huffington Post?
For as long as anyone could remember, the Schallers and the Newmans had been enemies. When the skeletal remains of a victim of foul play are discovered at the Schaller estate, a decades-old feud between the rival winemaking families is reignited and dark secrets begin to see the light of day. Set against the lush backdrop of the rolling hills of California's Central Coast, The New York Times best-selling author Barbara Wood's thirtieth novel is a generation-spanning saga of love, treachery, and bitterly held grudges.
Každý z nás měl v dětství milovaného medvídka, na kterého dodnes vzpomíná. V naší knize návodů na šití medvídků vás seznámíme s těmi nejjednoduššími způsoby, jak si ušít roztomilého chlupáčka podle vlastních představ. Můžete si vybrat z jedenácti základních střihů, supersnadným Plyšovým medvídkem ze dvou kusů látky počínaje a Rodinným medvídkem s pohyblivými klouby i hlavou konče. Naše knížka se hodí pro začátečníky i pro zkušené švadleny, které hledají především další inspiraci.
