Jean Plaidy Livres

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.

Pour sauver d'un scandale une de ses élèves, Minella a quitté son école du Sussex. Elle reconduit l'imprudente Margot de Libes jusqu'au château de Dampierre. Minella est aussitôt précipitée dans les drames d'une famille où chacun tremble, la rage au coeur, devant le comte Bertrand de Libes, maître impérieux et cynique séducteur? La Révolution est proche. A Dampierre, les paysans grondent, et quand passe le comte sur son étalon noir, on murmure : "Le galop du Diable !" Minella voudrait quitter ce pays troublé, fuir Bertrand qui s'est juré de la conquérir, et pourtant... Peut-on craindre, haïr un homme... et l'aimer follement ?

A recreation of the life of Marie Antoinette through her letters and memoirs. Other work by the author includes Lord of the Far Island, Snare of Serpents and Mistress of Mellyn.

Noelle Tremaston, daughter of famous actress Désirée, turns to Roderick Claverham, the man she loves, for solace when her mother dies. She then finds out that the revelation of a dark secret prevents them from marrying.

Arabella Tolsworthy Against the background of an England torn by civil war, religious persecution, and political treachery in the turbulent era of Cromwell and the Stuart Restoration, Philippa Carr has set the passionate story of Arabella Tolworthy, whose loves and destiny are inextricably linked to the plight of her nation. The dethroned Charles I had met the executioner's ax with regal calm, and as Oliver Cromwell tightened his Puritan grip on English church and state, thousands of royalists fled their confiscated lands. Among them was young Arabella, her family seeking safe harbor in France where they hoped to serve the exiled royal heir, Charles II. Separated from her parents, confronted by the unaccustomed hardships of political banishment, she finds solace in the company or the ravishing and charismatic actress, Harriet Main. Little does Arabella suspect the threat Harriet will pose to her future happiness. Nor does she envision the tragedy that lies ahead when dashing Edwin Eversleigh, Cavalier and heir to a titular fortune, makes her his bride after a whirlwind courtship. For in the deceptive peace following Parliament's Restoration of the Crown, a widowed Arabella returns to England bearing a new scion of the Eversleigh estate. Suddenly, her quiet devotion to the memory of her beloved is shattered by the arrival of Edwin's cousin Carleton, whose bitterness at being deprived of his inheritance seemingly only Arabella can allay. The reappearance at Eversleigh Court of the conniving Harriet further jeopardizes Arabella's spiritual bond with the past. Only amidst the cataclysmic suffering wrought by St. Giles Plague and the Great London Fire does Arabella find courage enough for a personal renewal, which may help her make her sepatate peace with England.

When Cordelia Grant returns from an exclusive school in Switzerland to carry on her duties as a schoolmistress, she finds her feelings torn between a dashing landowner, Sir Jason Verringer and the memory of a mysterious stranger.

The author follows the tragic character of Mary, Queen of Scots, from the charming child-queen who longed for excitement through a tumultuous and tragic adulthood. Mary stood at the center of political intrigues and in the sights of dangerous rivals, but her understanding of her court and the world lends a heartwarming aspect to this tale of power, peril, and love.