В романе раскрываются исторические события первой половины XVIII века в Англии. Король Яков II в изгнании. Страну захлестывают гражданские беспорядки. Главная героиня вернулась из Франции, но на родине происходят бурные события, которые вторглись в судьбу Клариссы, случайно ставшей свидетельницей государственных интриг. Клариссу похищают, ей грозит смерть…
Филиппа Карр
Rebecca MandevilleThe story of The Changeling is told by Angelet's daughter, Rebecca, who was born in Benedict Lansdon's house in an Australian gold-mining township. Before Rebecca was born, her father had died saving another man's life. She had always looked up to him as a great hero and when she heard that her mother was to marry Benedict Lansdon, she was deeply shocked.The prolific British author of historical romances (The Pool of St. Branok) continues her lavishly entwined narrative of the families connected to Benedict Lansdon, now a recently bereaved widower, absentee father and wealthy seeker of a Parliament seat. Narrated by Benedict's aggrieved stepdaughter, Rebecca, this complex tale of love and betrayal concerns a three-cornered sibling relationship involving Rebecca, her half-sister, Belinda and Lucie, a country waif informally adopted by Benedict. Aware that her father blames her for her mother's death in childbirth, Belinda takes refuge in michievous behavior. Placid Lucie, however, fits in well with the family, though her lineage is suspect and clouded with mysterious events at St. Branok's pool. Although Belinda seems the most obvious "changeling," Carr sustains an air of doubt and intrigue. The ambience of the Cornish countryside and of Victorian London permeate this piquantly Gothic family saga.
Рассказ о молодой женщине, считавшей себя счастливой и удачливой, в одно мгновение изменившей образ жизни. Она научилась жить по-новому, любить и воспринимать мир по-другому.
Виктория Холт , Роса , Сергей Триумфов , Филиппа Карр
Действие романа разворачивается во времена царствования королевы Виктории. Главная героиня хранит страшную тайну. Когда Анжелет была маленькой, на нее у пруда напал злодей, но Бенедикт Лэнсдон спас девочку, убив его и сбросив тело в пруд. Спасаясь от преследований, Бенедикт отправляется в Австралию на золотые прииски…
На троне королева Елизавета — дочь короля Генриха VIII. Ее царствование осложняется заговорами, которые плетет претендентка на английский трон Мария Стюарт, а король Испании поклялся завоевать Англию и восстановить в ней владычество Римской церкви. Кэтрин, героиня романа, с разбитым сердцем живет у родственников в замке. Ее руки добивается Джейк Пенлайон, но в день помолвки Кэтрин похищают испанцы. Только через восемь лет Джейку Пенлайону удалось вызволить свою невесту из плена. Но и в родной Англии ее не ожидает спокойствие начались таинственные покушения на ее жизнь…
Angelet and Bersaba. They were identical twins, but their alikeness stopped at their physical appearance. Angelet was gentle and mild in her innocence. While Bersaba was dark and devious in her overwhelming sensuality. They hadnever been apart - until Bersaba became ill. Angelet was immediately packed off to London. There she met and married Richard Tolworthy and went to live at the handsome, brooding manor house at Far Flamstead. Bersaba had always thought she would be the first to wed. Recovered, she went to visit the newlyweds with more jealousy than joy in her heart. Nothing could have prepared her for the secrets she discovered there. Secrets of a carefully hidden past that could unleash dangerous passions and forever separate her from the sister she had always loved...
Clarissa FieldBeautiful, spirited love child of a nobleman's dalliance with a tempestuous lady, Clarissa is only twelve when she first encounters the dashing officer, Lance Clavering. But she is not too young to fall in love, nor to become the pawn in a deadly game of power and passion which are both her heritage and her destiny. The time is 1715, the place an England rife with civil discontent threatening to explode into revolution. Clarissa is caught up in events which will alter England's history -- and lure her into a strange, shadow box future.Is the dashing Lance what he pretends -- a heroic, charming lover -- or is he the agent of an evil cabal sworn to strip Clarissa of her fortune, her dignity . . . perhaps even her life?Is the mysterious young rebel, Dickon Frenshaw -- first her jailer, then her salvation -- watching over her out of devotion . . . or spying on her for those who would see her destroyed?As her dreams of romance and peace first seem to be realized in marriage, then ever more gravely thratened by that same marriage, with only herself to trust, Clarissa must penetrate the long-buried mysteries of her own legacy -- and risk a heartbreak more painful than betrayal.
Zipporah ClaveringWhen Zipporah Ransome set out for Eversleigh Court, her family's ancestral home, she was a sensible, predictable person. Married to a man she had known since childhood, Zipporah was satisfied with her quiet life, happy to put behind her the legacy of scandal that had long stained her heritage. Only in answer to an old man's desperate plea did she journey to a house rife with memories, with malice -- even, perhaps, with danger.But when she departed Eversleigh, Zipporah was a different woman. Caught in a widening web of menace and manipulation, she was forced to rise to the challenge of those working against her. And something more had changed for Zipporah: she had fallen in love with a handsome stranger she might never see again, but whose presence would dominate her future and her fortunes more powerfully than she could ever have imagined.
Raised in the grand chateau of Tourville, lovely young Claudine, with her widowed mother, had fled the solitude of the French countryside as revolution torched it, sparking flames that would forever alter the landscape, their destiny, and the face of history itself.Warmly ensconced and safe from harm in her mother's ancestral English home, Claudine discovers a new kind of danger; turning ripe and sensuous overnight, she is torn between the love of her new stepbrothers - David, steady, scholarly, the perfect husband ... if not the lover of her dreams; and Jonathon, so passionate, so willing to dare, far from the perfect husband, but as her first and foremost love, unsurpassed. Theirs is an amorous triangle that will burn bright through the years when England and all Europe struggle in a tyrant's grasp, till a moment on a rocky beach when one of the two men Claudine adores falls victim to a power beyond destiny.
Вторая половина XVIII века, идет война между Англией и ее колониями в Северной Америке. Шарлотта, главная героиня — полуангличанка, полуфранцуженка, живущая во Франции с новой семьей, попадает в самый центр назревающих там событий. На фоне этого прослеживается история ее жизни. Обманутая детская любовь к кузену Дикону, замужество с французским дворянином, который гибнет, оставляя Лотти молодой вдовой с двумя детьми, воскресшая любовь к Дикону…
In an England riddled by political and religious strife. Priscilla Eversleigh fights the man who ravaged her, who is attempting to possess her daughter, and who separates her through a dark secret they share from the man she truly loves.During the turbulent period of the "Popish plots," fourteen-year-old Priscilla Eversleigh lives untouched in the haven of Eversleigh, the family estate, with her illegitimate sister, Christabel. But this bastion of innocence is about to fall. Danger and romance push their way to her doorstep. Harriet Main and her son Leigh, two trusted family friends, return from the war zone. Yet another refugee stumbles into their midst --- this time it is Jocelyn Frinton, a young man haunted by a pursuer. Priscilla and her friends hide Jocelyn and a furtive romance blossoms, which is cut short when Jocelyn is captured and beheaded. Priscilla discovers she will bear his child.Harriet whisks Priscilla and Christabel to Venice to save the family name from disgrace of an illegitimate child and plots to pass the baby off as her own. A daughter, Carlotta, is born and the family returns to Eversleigh, but not before Priscilla is abducted by the cruel and lecherous Beaumont Granville. Granville's villainy plagues Priscilla and her loved ones through many tormented years until she at last gains the final victory.
Arabella TolsworthyAgainst 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
"I was born in the September of 1523, nine months after the monks had discovered the child in the crib on that Christmas morning. My birth was, my father used to say, another miracle: He was not young at the time being forty years of age... My mother, whose great pleasure was tending her gardens, called me Damask, after the rose which Dr. Linacre, the King's physician, had brought into England that year."Thus begins the story narrated by Damask Farland, daughter of a well-to-do lawyer whose considerable lands adjoin those of St. Bruno's Abbey. It is a story of a life inextricably enmashed with that of Bruno, the mysterious child found on the abbey altar that Christmas morning and raised by the monks to become a man at once handsome and saintly, but also brooding and ominous, tortured by the secret of his origin which looms ever more menacingly over the huge abbey he comes to dominate.This is also the story of an engaging family, the Farlands. Of a fathr wise enough to understand "the happier our King is, the happier I as a true subject must be," a wife twenty years his junior, and a daughter whose intelligence is constantly to war with the strange hold Bruno has upon her destiny. What happens to the Farlands against the background of what is happening to King Henry and his court during this robust period provides a novel in which suspense and the highlights of history are wonderfully balanced.
The mysteries of twin sister Dorabella's disappearance solved, Violette Denver finally has her chance at happiness. She must pursue her destiny in romantic, dangerous wartime Europe.
Начало XVII века — на английском троне Яков I — сын Марии Стюарт, царствование которого омрачали бесконечные заговоры против него внутри страны и соперничество Франции и Англии.Линнет Пенлайон соблазняет Колум Касвеллин, человек, обладающий огромным богатством и пользующийся дурной славой чернокнижника. Линнет ждет ребенка, когда в замке Касвеллина появляется Мария, которую все зовут «Ведьмой из-за моря». Жизни Линнет грозит смертельная опасность…
Действие романа разворачивается на фоне исторических событий, происходящих в Англии во времена царствования Георга II. Сепфора, главная героиня романа, приезжает в имение к больному дяде и пытается разобраться в странных событиях, происходящих здесь. Но неожиданно вспыхнувшая страсть к французскому дворянину Жерару д\'Обинье заставляет ее забыть не только о супружеской верности, но и изменяет всю жизнь Сепфоры…
Середина семнадцатого века — гражданская война в Англии. Карл I казнен, к власти приходит Кромвель.Раскрывается история соперниц двух сестер-близнецов Берсабы и Анжелет, которые внешне очень похожи, но внутренне полностью противоположны друг другу. Они влюблены в одного мужчину, но таинственные события, происходящие в замке, неожиданно сближают соперниц…
Идет Вторая мировая война. Трагические события докатились и до тихого Корнуолла, где живут сестры-близнецы. В судьбе сестер сразу многое изменилось, но испытания, выпавшие на долю Дорабеллы и Виолетты не смогли их сломить. Коварство и ненависть не победили любовь и преданность…
Действие романа происходит в начале XX века. У главной героини погибает от руки неизвестного убийцы отец — видный политический деятель Бенедикт Лэнсдон. Люси, не успев оправиться от тяжелого потрясения, узнает о смерти своего возлюбленного в экспедиции. Испытывая одиночество, Люси выходит замуж, но неожиданно возвращается ее жених…
Конец XVIII века. Эхо ужасов Французской революции докатывается до мирной Англии.Клодина — дочь Шарлотты и французского дворянина, вынуждена бежать из Франции в Англию, где в своем поместье она встречает Дэвида и Джонатана, двух братьев-близнецов. Клодина влюбляется в них… О ее тайне кто-то узнает и пытается шантажировать…