Valentina Luellen Livres

Dans le jardin clos où les oiseaux gazouillent autour d'une fontaine claire, Karin, fille de Badir le grand, est heureuse, loin des guerres sanglantes qui opposent Sarrasins et Croisés. Son père et son frère la protègeront toujours contre les sauvages envahisseurs. Hélas, les étoiles en ont décidé autrement. Ceux qui étaient hier sa famille lui apprennent aujourd'hui qu'elle est une anglaise, et ils la rendent à ceux qu'elle considère toujous comme ses ennemis. Et le seigneur Rollo, qui la prend sous sa protection, ne fait rien pour changer cette opinion. Celui que l'on surnomme Seigneur des Ténèbres ternira-t-il à tout jamais la joie de vivre de Karin?

A scandalous marriage to an impotent ,elderly roue--undertaken to pay her brother Malcolm`s gambling debts- has left Isabel de Riche cynical, her reputation ruined. When she returns in 1720, a widow, from the court of Versailles to her father`s castle in Scotland, she finds that her name is a byword there as it has been in France. James MacLeod believes the stories and treats Isabel as he thinks she deserves, yet finds himself falling in love with her: slowly, Isabel`s frozen heart melts again. Then James learns that she is meeting another man in secret, as if she were the wanton he first thought her...

Emma Fraser willingly accompanies her spoilt cousin Anne to Russia in 1716, where she is to marry Prince Nikolai Adashev, for it can hardly be worse than her present life as unpaid drudge. On their arrival in St Petersburg she is horrified to find that the man she took to be a fellow servant is Prince Michael, head of the house of Adashev. It is Michael who has arranged Anne’s marriage, and he has plans for Emma too. But how can she trust him when he has already deceived her once? Especially when he seems to be so closely involved with the Czarina Catherine. As Catherine’s struggle for control of the country intensifies Emma is caught up in the fierce battle and the man she mistrusts is the one man she finds irresistible.