The saga of a woman's promise and the price she paid to keep it. This is a tale of passion, tragedy and triumph.
Catherine Gaskin Livres
2 avril 1929 – 6 septembre 2009
Catherine Gaskin excellait dans la fiction historique et le suspense romantique, tissant des récits complexes autour des secrets de famille et des échos du passé. Son écriture se caractérise par un mélange habile de romance captivante et de suspense haletant, entraînant les lecteurs dans des mondes richement imaginés. Gaskin a exploré l'impact durable de l'histoire et des conflits non résolus sur la vie et le destin de ses personnages. Sa voix distinctive donnait vie aux complexités des relations humaines dans des décors évocateurs.
The Summer of the Spanish Woman
- 452pages
- 16 heures de lecture
Clonmara the wild, beautiful, Irish estate in County Wicklow is a fitting home for the Blodmore family. Charlotte, the last of the family line, marries a grandee of Spain and becomes mistress of a great Spanish sherry dynasty but the man who took her inheritance has also taken her love.
THEY HAD ALL COME FOR THE TILSIT INHERITANCE.. When Virginia left for England, she did not know then that she had become the new Tilsit heiress. Nor did she know that this new-found life of wealth and luxury would turn instead into an awesome and terrifying burden. Lawrence had once dreamed of the inheritance. A man hungry and ambitious for success. A man who found only mockery and ruin at the Tilsit house. And there was the beautiful and sensuous Vanessa, whose life of worldly pleasure came crashing down when she, too, entered the ancestral home. Finally there was Mark. The man Virginia loved and wanted but could not have-for he was already possessed by Tilsit. THE TILSIT INHERITANCE-a story of a house and its family, both cursed by a mysterious and dark secret. A secret that would destroy everything and everyone if it were not destroyed first.
Eine dramatische Liebesgeschichte, die die junge Australierin Kelly nach dem Tod ihres Mannes nach England führt. Dort sucht sie Ruhe, trifft Sir Charles Brandon und wird neue Herrin von Wychwood Hall, ohne zu ahnen, welche Geheimnisse sie erwarten.
Catherine Gaskins großer Familienroman erzählt von Männern, die ihr Leben im Glanz der Öffentlichkeit führen, und von Frauen, die diesen Ruhm oft teuer bezahlen müssen. (Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine frühere Ausgabe.)
