Download or read book Accursed Abbey written by Tessa Candle and published by Winding Path Books. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 701 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “...not your typical historical romance, grasps your attention from the first page to the very last. It is action packed with twists and turns... difficult to put down.”—Aldine Crick, Goodreads Reviewer Will love deliver them from evil, or will secrets seal their doom? Her father’s mad will sends Elizabeth far away from a sheltered life in the English countryside to her aunt and uncle's vineyard in Venetia, and into a household of neglect and apparent lunacy. The Viscount Canterbourne rescues Elizabeth from ruffians, and his mysterious story captivates her imagination even as his heroics and kindness captivate her heart. But when she encounters the nightmarish Lord Orefados and realizes the mage has imprisoned a friend in the remains of an ancient abbey, Elizabeth hurtles into a maelstrom of peril and dark sorcery. Lord Canterbourne is full of pain and questions at the loss of his estranged father. He hopes the testamentary letter will explain all. Instead it sends him on a fool’s errand to deliver a box (which he must never open) to a man he has only ever seen once: shadowy, eccentric Lord Orefados. With Elizabeth he shares an instant connection. Who else can understand his heart but a woman who has also been at the whim of parental madness, a woman who also bears the stigma of a paternal oddity? When he discovers his dark family history and a secret wrong against Elizabeth’s parents, however, Canterbourne fears he can never tell her the truth. Yet if he doesn’t, he could lose her to the ensorcellments of Orefados, whose obsession with an outlandish ritual is reaching a fever pitch. Can seduction break the spell? Will love deliver them from evil, or will secrets seal their doom? Accursed Abbey is a full length Steamy Regency Gothic Romance novel with supernatural, magical elements and is Book 1 in the Nobles & Necromancy series (includes a glossary of terms). Bedroom doors wide open—but not until the characters have earned it. Get your copy and fall under the spell of Regency Gothic Romance today!

Download or read book Justicar Jhee and the Cursed Abbey written by Trevol Swift and published by Swiftnesse. This book was released on 2019-08-31 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death stalks the abbey halls... Only, Justicar Jhee, a magic-wielding sleuth can stop its sinister forces before they claim her husband. On Jhee's way from her remote home district to the Imperial capital, a wild wave damages her polygamous household's yacht, and they are forced to halt for repairs at a secluded abbey. With communications disrupted, the abbess invites them to stay but soon their visit takes a frightening turn when Jhee sees a masked figure acting suspiciously. Dismissed as ghosts by the others, Jhee’s natural instinct is to investigate. She discovers that the previous abbess and several novices had died under suspicious circumstances and rumors abound of an ancient cult, risen once more and led by a figure called the Mist Abbess. As she digs ever deeper into the mystery she discovers even more shocking revelations, with refugees from the sea going missing and smugglers, human traffickers and anarchists operating at will. There is more to the abbey than meets the eye and soon Jhee’s life is threatened by the malevolence that stalks its confines. Trapped by circumstances and with no way for help to arrive, can she uncover the truth before sinister forces claim her or her husband?

Download or read book Accursed Abbey written by Tessa Candle and published by Winding Path Books. This book was released on 2018-05-05 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accursed Abbey is a full length (320 pages) Steamy Regency Gothic Romance novel, and Book 1 in the Nobles & Necromancy series. Nature-loving Elizabeth Whitely is thrust from her sheltered country life in England when the suspicious death of her parents leaves her at the mercy of her father's mad last testament. She is sent far away to live with her aunt and uncle. In her travels, she befriends a beautiful orphan, Lenore, who is destined for the same tiny village. Then the handsome Viscount Canterbourne rescues Elizabeth from ruffians, and his dark story captivates her imagination, even as his heroics and kindness captivate her heart. But when she encounters the necromantic nightmare of Lord Orefados and realizes the mage has imprisoned Lenore in the remains of an ancient abbey, Elizabeth hurtles into a maelstrom of peril and dark sorcery. Can she save herself and her new friend from the magician's madness, or will she be drawn into his strange rites? Will her love be Lord Canterbourne's boon, or will Elizabeth become the chain that binds him to Orefados forever? Lord Canterbourne is full of pain and questions at the loss of his estranged father. He hopes his father's testamentary letter will explain why he abandoned him, but instead it sends him on a fool's errand to deliver a box (which he must never open) to a man he has only ever seen once: shadowy, eccentric Lord Orefados. Along the way he meets Elizabeth, with whom he shares an instant connection. Who else can understand his heart but a woman who has also been at the whim of paternal madness, a woman who also bears the stigma of a father's bizarre behaviour? Canterbourne knows that they are destined for one another, fated to meet in this strange place. But when he discovers his dark family history and a secret wrong against Elizabeth's parents, Canterbourne fears he can never tell her the truth. Yet, if he doesn't, he could lose her to the ensorcellments of Orefados, whose obsession with an outlandish ritual is reaching a fever pitch. Will seducing Elizabeth be the only way to cut her off from Orefados' spell? Will their love deliver them from evil, or will their secrets seal their doom?

Download or read book A Legend of Reading Abbey written by Charles MacFarlane and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Council of the Cursed written by Peter Tremayne and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-11-23 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A.D. 670 Fidelma of Cashel is asked to act as an advisor to the Irish delegation to a hostile church council. In an abbey in Burgundy, Bishop Leodegar of Autun has assembled church leaders from all over western Europe, intending to use the council to deliver a death blow to the Celtic Church. But his plans are threatened when one of the delgates is found murdered, his skull crushed. Fidelma and her husband, Brother Eadulf, are suddenly in the midst of a murder investigation involving some of the most powerful religious leaders. The duo soon find that between the autocratic Bishop Leodegar and the malignant abbess, Mother Audofleda, a web of sinister intrigue is spreading throughout the abbey. And murder is only the beginning. The theft of a priceless reliquary box, the disappearance of local women and children, and the concurrent rumors of a slave trade all combine to make this one of the most diabolical puzzles that Fidelma and Eadulf have ever faced.

Download or read book A Legend of Reading Abbey written by Charles MacFarlane and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-16 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Legend of Reading Abbey" by Charles MacFarlane Reading Abbey is a large, ruined abbey in the center of the town of Reading, in the English county of Berkshire. Legends have always graced the abbey's halls. Medieval society and culture mix magic and mystery, which flourish in religious settings like this. The tale takes readers back to a time when royalty and Lords were a common part of the culture.

Download or read book The Sons of Satan written by John Creasey and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2015-09-20 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abba and his followers try to seize a mysterious black box. He and his followers will do everything possible to promote international discord and trouble, not least through the practice of black magic. Dr. Palfrey steps in and must deal with the situation before it gets totally out of hand, but that is not as easy as might be imagined.

Download or read book The Ruined Abbeys of Britain written by Frederick Ross and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cloister of Whispers written by J. G. Lewis and published by Mangrove. This book was released on 2021-09-17 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Salisbury 1227: A priest is found cruelly murdered. A local outlaw is accused, and has disappeared into the king’s forest. Ela is keen to hunt down such an ungodly killer—but she soon finds that the story is far more complicated than it seems. The Ela of Salisbury Medieval Mystery Series This series features a real historical figure—the formidable Ela Longespée. The young Countess of Salisbury was chosen to marry King Henry II’s illegitimate son William. After her husband’s untimely death, Ela served as High Sheriff of Wiltshire, castellan of Salisbury Castle, and ultimately founder and abbess of Lacock Abbey. Book 1: Cathedral of Bones Book 2: Breach of Faith Book 3: The Lost Child Book 4: Forest of Souls Book 5: The Bone Chess Set Book 6: Cloister of Whispers Coming 2022: Book 7: Palace of Thorns

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Download or read book The Rise of Digital Management written by François-Xavier de Vaujany and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-03 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the history of management, placing it in perspective with both American history and the genealogy of digital technology. Focusing on the years of industrial mobilization in the United States (from 1937 to 1945) and their extension into the Cold War, it shows particularly how "scientific management" was reconfigured and re-legitimized in favor of a new profoundly American geopolitics. In a context where the future was at a standstill, this research also explains what became of the managerial processes at the heart of capitalism from the 40s onwards: the shift from a managerial capitalism of calculation to a narrative capitalism made up of "desiring machines". This digital management no longer simply contributes, along with others, to unveiling and revealing the future. Aligned with the American obsession with novelty, it is the very process of revelation and unveiling, with managers and consumers alike becoming the intersecting subjects of desires borne of managerial apocalypses. To explore this period of American history, the author has combined a triple narrative anchored in three types of archives: an intimate history of this reconfiguration from the presence in New York of Saint-Exupéry, Burnham and Wiener; a description of the great historical moment of industrial mobilization; and a philosophical speculation about reconfiguration and its links to American history.

Download or read book Mistress of Two Fortunes and a Duke written by Tessa Candle and published by Tessa Candle. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Chronicle of Glastonbury Abbey written by James P. Carley and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1985 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John of Glastonbury's chronicle represents an attempt to summarise the lore and learning about Glastonbury Abbey and its past available in the fourteenth century, a body of knowledge which changed very little before the Reformation. The author drew on a large number of sources and edited these skilfully to form his narrative, while preserving the earlier text almost intact. The result is the fullest medieval account of the abbey and its legends. A translation is included, which makes the important text available in English for the first time, and the whole volume is designed as a companion to John Scott's edition and translation of William of Malmesbury's twelfth-century account of the abbey's history.

Download or read book Justicar Jhee and the House of Sorrows written by Trevol Swift and published by Swiftnesse. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death wears many faces... Only Justicar Jhee, the Empire's foremost magic-wielding sleuth, can unmask this one. Jhee and her polygamous household have settled into life in the capital, and for once, things seem peaceful. A war crimes tribunal against the doctors of the Medical Protectorate is underway, and Jhee has been asked to assist with it. When invited to an Imperial retreat by their old Captain, he tells them that Jhee's old friend has gone missing. Jhee is concerned about her, as the friend had not been herself when they last met, and when her husband mentions that another of his friends is also missing, her suspicions are raised further. As she delves into the mystery, she uncovers more unsavory facts about her first and senior husband, who has become involved with a violent club of ex-military berserkers. When one of the missing friends turns up at her house, it seems that at least something is going her way. It isn't long before their friend disappears once more, and shortly afterward, berserkers and seemingly ordinary people turn up dead. Now, Jhee has a real mystery to contend with, as they had all been mugged days before their deaths. Who is responsible for their deaths? The answers lie closer to home than Jhee would like to admit. But how can she prove who committed these crimes and avoid the suspicions of the secret police, who think she is somehow involved?

Download or read book Justicar Jhee and the Hole in the World written by Trevol Swift and published by Swiftnesse. This book was released on 2019-11-30 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death never takes a holiday... Justicar Jhee, a magic-wielding sleuth, must work with local law enforcement to answer Galleon City's cries for justice before tensions explode. Galleon City is the central point in the Empire; the place where the Storm Shield protects the Blessed Isles from the wrath that surrounds them. But it is also a city that is being ripped apart by restless factions and swamped with refugees, the destitute and the unwanted. Jhee arrives in the city for vacation amidst this chaos, but it isn't long before intrigue strikes once more, in the form of illness and death at the nearby mine. With fingers of accusation being pointed at multiple suspects, Jhee and a local detective are called upon to investigate. But they soon uncover a much wider conspiracy and even greater dangers lying in wait in Galleon City, with disreputable mining companies and government corruption, creating unrest that is threatening to spill over. Now the unanswered questions are piling up. Why is Jhee's wife Mirrei suddenly unwell? Why would someone plot to destroy the Storm Shield? And is it the blessing that they once thought it was? With time running out, Jhee and her allies must stop a killer before they strike again and prevent an impending atrocity from wreaking havoc on the lives of millions.

Download or read book Five Centuries of Religion written by George G. Coulton and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1979 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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