Download or read book Queen S Man Treachery written by AnnaMarieAlt and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The deceit and conspiracies against Queen Rejeena of the island of Kriiscon and her queens man, Aarvan, continue. She carries twin daughters, and their newfound, tentative peace is threatened from all sides. The great queen would wrest Aarvan from Rejeena and grant him to a spiteful queen. Rejeena must find a lawful way to derail their repulsive plot. Rejeenas trusted guard captain, Shabet, conspires with Ishtabarra, Rejeenas cousin and outlaw archenemy, to kidnap Aarvan. With him ousted, Shabet regains her power and status within the queens inner circle. Unwittingly, she also opens the path for Ishtabarra to slay Rejeena and usurp her queenship. Rejeena is forced into the role of chief negotiator during a trade conference with the most powerful leader from the mainland. But will her inexperienced diplomatic skills destroy Kriiscon or save the island from monetary plunder? Betrayed, captured, and imprisoned by women who would strip him of his status as queens man and use him for their lustful ends, Aarvan must escape to save Rejeena and their unborn daughters. He alone knows of a nefarious assassination scheme, which Shabet cannot counter. But can he escape and return in time?
Download or read book Queen S Man Paaerta Hunt written by AnnaMarieAlt and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-07-19 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queen Rejeena and her partner, Aarvan, are besieged by powerful enemies who seek to oust them from poweror worse. Standing together, they strive to triumph over the attacks and end the culture of cruel bigotry on the island of Kriiscon. Rejeenas unprecedented new laws create intense upheaval. The laws oppose centuries of tradition, nullifying practices women consider to be their right. Other queens are furious; the great queen, outraged. Aarvan invents his own problems. By interfering with the sport of a group of loose fellows who then turn their wrathful attention to him, he allows a huge mysterious creature to escape. The creaturepossibly the mythical glaaletrepays the queens man by biting his arm to the bone, leaving Aarvan shocked and with a lasting scar. Meanwhile, to regain her control of the queens inner circle, Captain Shabet conspires to slay Aarvan. After several inexplicable assaults that occur against the man she loves, Rejeena begins to suffer serious, private doubts about her always-loyal captain. The great queen demands a staff-level paaerta hunt, and Rejeena must attendan encounter to punish the young queen for her effrontery. Rejeena and Aarvan come face-to-face with top-hierarchy betrayal, deadly revenge, and an amoral demon determined to kill.
Download or read book Queen s Man Decision written by AnnaMarieAlt and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Separated by time, distance, and treachery, Queen Rejeena of the island of Kriiscon and her queen’s man, Aarvan, each battle lethal difficulties and agonize over the well-being of the other. Aarvan had escaped the outlaws and survived his dangerous midnight oceanic swim. Now he encounters confrontations with antagonist groups, women who desire to hold him for ransom, loose men who want his pants to decorate their kill wall, and a mysterious stranger. Hunted and afoot, a lengthy journey challenges him—and time is not his friend. Though inexperienced and lacking knowledge, Rejeena engages in a battle of wits with proficient Mainland negotiators. She must disallow a complete rout of vital Kriisconian interests at a pivotal trade conference. She also must face the daunting choice of disenholding Aarvan, her soul mate, which would allow his return to the Mainland, or lose him to a harsh, arrogant queen. Rejeena knows nothing of a deadly plan already launched to end the lives of her and her unborn daughters. Can Aarvan return to prevent the murderous scheme? The couple struggle with fate and hostile powers in this race against time to rejoin forces and to save each other, their daughters, and the island of Kriiscon.
Download or read book Queen s Man Discovery written by AnnaMarieAlt and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-11-19 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queen Rejeena and her queen’s man Aarvan face ominous threats. The great queen of Kriiscon is dead. Rejeena’s mortal enemy and Aarvan’s carnal stalker, Queen Tabarana—an abomination, selfish, cruel, and manipulative—looms as the obvious successor. Rejeena and Aarvan must fashion a clever political maneuver to deny Tabarana this exalted, powerful position. Complicating their efforts, a flashflood forces a face-to-face meeting between Queen Rejeena and Jannsen of the Caana. Though avowed foes, they agree to discourse. Opposing views of Kriiscon, women ruling, and men slaves brought to light and laid bare, challenged and defended, sharp tongues replacing slicing steel. Treason compounds Rejeena’s problems. Did Shabet, Rejeena’s long-time friend and captain, reverse her loyalty? Captain Locin, Aarvan’s protector, conspires to reveal a definitive pointer to Shabet’s guilt. Which captain will the queen believe? If she doesn’t choose wisely, guiltless lives will be lost. Aarvan confronts his own disaster. A catastrophic event hurls him backward in memory where he will unearth lost truths and discover the origin of his inner beast. Will that savage monster support him as he faces new dangers or consume him, eradicating the honest, steadfast man he has become? Together, Rejeena and Aarvan must seek a path to save them and their island from devastation.
Download or read book Queen S Man Enter the Caana written by AnnaMarieAlt and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-04-05 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queen Rejeena of the island of Kriiscon and her queens man Aarvan live in chaos. Forces oppose the couple from within and without. Continuous assassination hazard stalks the queen while a hefty price rides upon his head. Vengeance and treachery crouch in the shadows, waiting to strike them both. Rejeena and Aarvans tumultuous love / contentious affinity continues, sparked by their opposing views of Kriisconian mores, particularly male slavery. And now the queen carries daughters of his seed in her womb that is vital to hera new tender attachment for him. Entering Caana, they meet a violent group of dissenting men and women who avow to end male slavery on the island at any cost. They, especially, consider the queens man a detested traitor to the brotherhood of men. Their sight was on Aarvan, who showed that his widespread, combative reputation was a persuasive magnet. Their goal is to convert him or kill him as an example to all. Can Aarvan convince their leader Jannsen that he will make a better ally than enemy? A conspiracy emerges involving the great queen and her powerful, deceitful collaborator Queen Tabarana forcing Aarvan to directly defy Kriisconian law. Queen Rejeena faces her most testing battle yet to protect and save her queens man.
Download or read book Rival Queens written by Kate Williams and published by Random House. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ___________________________________ 'Scintillating, provocative... An elegant synthesis of royal biography and political thriller.' Daily Telegraph A Times History Book of the Year: a story which inspired the Hollywood film MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS Mary, Queen of Scots & Elizabeth I of England. Two powerful monarchs on a single island. Threatened by voices who believed no woman could govern. Surrounded by sycophants, spies and detractors. Accosted for their dominion, their favour and their bodies. Besieged by secret plots, devastating betrayals and a terrible final act. Only one queen could survive to rule all. ___________________________________ 'Brings us a fresh Mary, set in a gloriously rich context, a tragic heroine - irresistibly real and relevant... There isn't a line wasted in this taut, dramatic and utterly beguiling biography.' Charles Spencer author of Killers of the King: The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I 'The perfect combination of scholarship and storytelling, meticulous research and emotional insight, Kate Williams brings Mary vividly to life in all her complexities and contradictions.' Kate Mosse, author of The Burning Chambers 'It takes a special kind of historian to turn an old story on its head. Eye-opening, provocative, this is the great rivalry re-imagined for the #MeToo generation.' Lucy Worsley
Download or read book Queen Isabella written by Alison Weir and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2006-12-26 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Alison Weir's Mary Boleyn. In this vibrant biography, acclaimed author Alison Weir reexamines the life of Isabella of England, one of history’s most notorious and charismatic queens. Isabella arrived in London in 1308, the spirited twelve-year-old daughter of King Philip IV of France. Her marriage to the heir to England’s throne was designed to heal old political wounds between the two countries, and in the years that followed she became an important figure, a determined and clever woman whose influence would come to last centuries. Many myths and legends have been woven around Isabella’s story, but in this first full biography in more than 150 years, Alison Weir gives a groundbreaking new perspective.
Download or read book The Rival Queens written by Nancy Goldstone and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2015-06-23 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The riveting true story of mother-and-daughter queens Catherine de' Medici and Marguerite de Valois, whose wildly divergent personalities and turbulent relationship changed the shape of their tempestuous and dangerous century. Set in magnificent Renaissance France, this is the story of two remarkable women, a mother and daughter driven into opposition by a terrible betrayal that threatened to destroy the realm. Catherine de' Medici was a ruthless pragmatist and powerbroker who dominated the throne for thirty years. Her youngest daughter Marguerite, the glamorous "Queen Margot," was a passionate free spirit, the only adversary whom her mother could neither intimidate nor control. When Catherine forces the Catholic Marguerite to marry her Protestant cousin Henry of Navarre against her will, and then uses her opulent Parisian wedding as a means of luring his followers to their deaths, she creates not only savage conflict within France but also a potent rival within her own family. Rich in detail and vivid prose, Goldstone's narrative unfolds as a thrilling historical epic. Treacherous court politics, poisonings, international espionage, and adultery form the background to a story that includes such celebrated figures as Elizabeth I, Mary, Queen of Scots, and Nostradamus. The Rival Queens is a dangerous tale of love, betrayal, ambition, and the true nature of courage, the echoes of which still resonate.
Download or read book Queen s Man Karma written by AnnaMarieAlt and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-10-07 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LaHeeka, Ancient Conjurah, forewarns: Through choices of act and word, we send undulations into the great infinity residing beyond mortal understanding, which waves eventually flow back. Good begets good; evil begets evil. It is called Karma, and will destroy or reward. Karma takes no prisoners. Despite this ominous warning, Great Queen Tabarana forges ahead with arrogance and rudeness in her conference with powerful, intolerant Mainland rulers. Knowing she imperils the island of Kriiscon, Rejeena and Aarvan intervene to disrupt her perilous plans and avert disaster. Will they succeed, or will Karma intercede? Aarvan encounters destiny when he travels to Silicara to discover his mother’s fate. Is she alive or long dead? He must confront vile persons from his past, including the father who sold him like a shoat for slaughter. Will he emerge the winner, with a mother and happiness, or the loser, burdened with more misery? Meanwhile, Rejeena faces her own Karmic moment when she hears the tale of Ethan, Queen Dorothy’s man—an innocent man tortured even as he saves the quarter from a devastating drought. That tale of horror, and a voice she believes to be LaSheena, causes Rejeena’s mindset to reverse. Can she switch her island away from cruelty and slavery, leading to a better future for all? Or will forces of traditional evil crush her efforts?
Download or read book Between Two Queens written by Nancy Beth Lawter and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories told in the book, "Tony Dufflebag . . . and other Remembrances of the War in Korea," are a mixture of memories, history, journalism and autobiographical experiences that are blended into a fascinating collection. The title story is of the rescue by two soldiers of a six-year-old Korean orphan boy who was found freezing and starving on the streets in war-ravaged Seoul, South Korea, then secreted into protective "adoption" for a few weeks, and how he was cared for and won the hearts of all the soldiers in a frontline Infantry rifle company until he was placed in safer circumstances. The author shares feelings about the death of a fellow soldier, of thoughts about a young wife and son back home, of the dramatic mountain rescue of a critically-wounded friend, reflects on feelings of a Christian soldier in combat, tells about lifelong friendships that develop in wartime, reflects on personal values, beliefs, feelings, commitments, opinions and relates tales of humorous events that occur to and among soldiers, even in a far-off war zone.
Download or read book Queens of the Crusades written by Alison Weir and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed with incredible true stories and legendary medieval intrigue, this epic narrative history chronicles the first five queens from the powerful royal family that ruled England and France for over three hundred years. The Plantagenet queens of England played a role in some of the most dramatic events in our history. Crusading queens, queens in rebellion against their king, seductive queens, learned queens, queens in battle, queens who enlivened England with the romantic culture of southern Europe—these determined women often broke through medieval constraints to exercise power and influence, for good and sometimes for ill. This second volume of Alison Weir’s critically acclaimed history of the queens of medieval England now moves into a period of even higher drama, from 1154 to 1291: years of chivalry and courtly love, dynastic ambition, conflict between church and throne, baronial wars, and the ruthless interplay between the rival monarchs of Britain and France. We see events such as the murder of Becket, the Magna Carta, and the birth of parliaments from a new perspective. Weir’s narrative begins with the formidable Eleanor of Aquitaine, whose marriage to Henry II established a dynasty that ruled for over three hundred years and created the most powerful empire in western Christendom—but also sowed the seeds for some of the most destructive family conflicts in history and for the collapse, under her son King John, of England’s power in Europe. The lives of Eleanor’s four successors were just as remarkable: Berengaria of Navarre, queen of Richard the Lionheart; Isabella of Angoulême, queen of John; Alienor of Provence, queen of Henry III; and finally Eleanor of Castile, the grasping but beloved wife of Edward I. Through the story of these first five Plantagenet queens, Alison Weir provides a fresh, enthralling narrative focusing on these fascinating female monarchs during this dramatic period of high romance and sometimes low politics, with determined women at its heart.
Download or read book Old England a Pictorial Museum of Regal Ecclesiastical Baronial Municipal and Popular Antiquities written by Charles Knight and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-27 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.
Download or read book The Queens of England and Their Times written by Francis Lancelott and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Betrayal written by David Johnson and published by Hippocrene Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story behind the Nazi saboteurs captured on Long Island in 1942, their betrayal by J. Edgar Hoover, and the shameful secret behind the case the established the reputation of the FBI. At 4 AM on a foggy morning in 1942, Nazi submarines discharged eight men along the coasts of Long Island and Florida. A few days later, J. Edgar Hoover further burnished his reputation by announcing the swift capture of Nazi soldiers found prowling our shores, intent on sabotage. Omitted from the record (and still denied by the FBI) is the true story behind Hoover's greatest publicity coup: the saboteurs' leader, George Dasch, betrayed his own country by turning himself in first to a disbelieving FBI. Hoover promised Dasch clemency and assurances that the jerry-rigged "military tribunal" created to try the men as "unlawful combatants" was merely a formality to protect loved ones from Nazi retribution. Using documentation from the FBI archives, interviews and memoirs, David Alan Johnson carefully recounts the mounting betrayals in this utterly engrossing saga.
Download or read book Seeds of Betrayal written by David B. Coe and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-04-01 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Forelands have enjoyed relative peace in the nine hundred years since the Qirsi Wars, until the stability of the seven kingdoms is shaken by the brutal murder of Lady Brienne of Kentigern, newly betrothed to Lord Tavis of Curgh. Tavis, who is blamed for the crime, has escaped the dungeons of Kentigern and searches the Forelands for his love's killer. But already the Qirsi conspirators who murdered Brienne have taken their campaign of violence and deception to Aneira, Eibithar's hated neighbor, plunging that kingdom into turmoil. Now Tavis's search for redemption takes him into the stronghold of his realm's most bitter enemy. For the first time in nine centuries, war threatens to engulf all the Forelands. And there are whispers of a new Qirsi threat. A Weaver, they say, is behind the deaths, the betrayals. Nobles who have depended on Qirsi ministers suddenly fear those they have trusted. If the renegade Qirsi are indeed led by a Weaver, can this powerful sorcerer be found before he conquers the Forelands? And who wields magic potent enough to stop him?
Download or read book The Lives of the Kings Queens of England written by Antonia Fraser and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-02 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compendium of illustrated biographies of the British monarchs, revised throughout and updated to include the recent history of the Windsors.
Download or read book Old England written by Charles Knight and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
