At 17, Jessica Clavering yearns for a life of excitement and romance. So when a rough Australian opal-miner buys her family's decaying ancestral mansion, she defies their orders and befriends him. From him she hears of the finest opal of all - the legendary green flash.
Mount Mellyn stood as proud and magnificent as she had envisioned... But what about its master--Connan TreMellyn? Was Martha Leigh's new employer as romantic as his name sounded? As she approached the sprawling mansion towering above the cliffs of Cornwall, an odd chill of apprehension overcame her. TreMellyn's young daugher, Alvean, proved as spoiled and difficult as the three governesses before Martha had discovered. But it was the girl's father whose cool, arrogant demeanor unleashed unfamiliar sensations and turmoil--even as whispers of past tragedy and present danger begin to insinuate themselves into Martha's life. Powerless against her growing desire for the enigmatic Connan, she is drawn deeper into family secrets--as passion overpowers reason, sending her head and heart spinning. But though evil lurks in the shadows, so does love--and the freedom to find a golden promise forever...
When Anna Brett sets sail for a Pacific island, she is already in love with Redvers Stretton, captain of the Serene Lady. He has lost an earlier ship mysteriously, and with it some pricless diamonds, but the truth of what happened only emerges on the primitive island of Croalle.
Surprenant destin que celui de la gracieuse Jane Lindsay, en cette fin du siècle dernier. Destin, romanesque, cruel et exaltant, qui la conduit d'un paisible château du Derbyshire jusqu'aux mille couleurs, aux mille intrigues de Hong Kong. C'est là qu'elle se retrouve propriétaire de la maison aux mille lanternes... Maison qui est à elle seule un univers, avec ses jardins, ses lanternes innombrables et étrangement semblables, ses merveilleux trésors. Maison fascinante mais aussi maléfique, qui semble s'acharner contre la jeune femme. Elle y vit entourée d'ennemis ; des ombres rôdent, des morts inexplicables se succèdent... Jan« en vient à soupçonner tous ceux qui l'entourent mais, dans sa lutte contre les forces du mal, elle est soutenue par le souvenir d'un amour absolu.
Tragedy brought young Frederica to the idyllic hamlet of Harper's Green. But as she grew from child to woman, she became powerless against her love for the enigmatic Crispin Tamarisk, and drawn more closely to his family's secrets and curses that seemed directed to her....
Pippa Ewell had left behind the dark and forbidding Greystone Manor -- also the memories of Conrad, the handsome stranger who had swept her breathlessly into his arms and heart. But Pippa returned to find the truth behind her sister's mysterious death. And suddenly the fairy-tale kindgom glittered with evil and danger . . .
