Download or read book The Seduction of the Crimson Rose written by Lauren Willig and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-01-31 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback?a novel that ?handily fulfills its promise of intrigue and romance.?(Publishers Weekly) Determined to secure another London season without assistance from her new brother-in-law, Mary Alsworthy accepts a secret assignment from Lord Vaughn on behalf of the Pink Carnation. She must infiltrate the ranks of the dreaded French spy, the Black Tulip, before he and his master can stage their planned invasion of England. Every spy has a weakness and for the Black Tulip that weakness is beautiful black-haired women?his ?petals? of the Tulip. A natural at the art of seduction, Mary easily catches the attention of the French spy, but Lord Vaughn never anticipated that his own heart would be caught as well. Fighting their growing attraction, impediments from their past, and, of course, the French, Mary and Vaughn find themselves lost in a treacherous garden of lies. And as our modern-day heroine, Eloise Kelly, digs deeper into England?s Napoleonic-era espionage, she becomes even more entwined with Colin Selwick, the descendant of her spy subjects.
Download or read book Crimson Roses written by Grace Livingston Hill and published by Barbour Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One rose changes a young woman’s solitary life forever. After setting out on her own, Marion Warren is overcome with drab routine. Her solution: buy a season ticket to the symphony. But to Marion’s surprise, each night she finds a mysterious crimson rose—and no sign of who left it. Then wealthy Jefferson Lyman whisks into Marion’s already up-turned world, bringing with him socialite Isabel Cresson. Jefferson sets out to win Marion’s heart…but Isabel’s dangerous envy may thwart his chances altogether.
Download or read book Crimson Rose written by R Malone and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last few years have not been kind to Rose. She has lost her husband and is currently residing with an abusive boyfriend. Furthermore, an enigmatic but very handsome man is stalking her. Ultimately, she finds that he is a supernatural being from heaven; or perhaps he has emerged from the depths of hell. Regardless, from his pointed teeth to his blood-kissed lips, Stefan is indeed a vampire, a creature Rose once thought only existed in folklore. He has emerged from the sinister darkness and come to claim her as his own. Stefan Hansen has seen the very worst of mankind. Before his transitioning, he had endured the horrors of World War II and the violent loss of his Jewish love. Thinking that the past was dead, he could not have been more wrong. And an apparition from his past was scheming to prove it with destructive intentions.
Download or read book Crimson Rose written by M. J. Trow and published by Severn House/ORIM. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When small-time actor Will Shakespeare is arrested for murder, Kit Marlowe must find the real killer in this “intricately plotted” Elizabethan mystery (Publishers Weekly). March, 1587. Christopher Marlowe’s play Tamburlaine, with the incomparable Ned Alleyn in the title role, has opened at the Rose Theatre, and a new era on the London stage is born. Yet the play is almost shut down on its opening night when a member of the audience, Eleanor Merchant, is struck dead by a musket ball fired from the stage. The man who pulled the trigger appears to be a bit player named Will Shakespeare. Convinced of Shakespeare’s innocence, Marlowe is determined to find out what really happened. When a second body is found floating in the River Thames, it becomes clear that Eleanor Merchant’s death was no accident, and that something deeper and darker is afoot. “Fans of the series and of Edward Marston’s amusing Elizabethan theater mysteries, featuring Nicholas Bracewell, will enjoy Kit Marlowe’s part in the drama at the Crimson Rose.” —Booklist
Download or read book Pretty Girl In Crimson Rose written by Sandy Balfour and published by Atlantic Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A little gem of a memoir... The book adds up to more than a sum of its parts and lingers in the memory long after the final page. -- Sunday Telegraph Half a million people a day do it in the Telegraph. The Times claims almost as many, and the Guardian 300,000. Most people remember their first time, and everyone has a favourite. You can do it in bed, standing up, or on a train. You can do it alone, with a loved one or in groups. The Queen does it in the bath. It is not illegal, immoral or fattening. In fact it tops the Home Office list of approved entertainments for prison inmates. Crosswords are a very British obsession. Crosswords are a very British obsession. Pretty Girl in Crimson Rose is a personal reminiscence and a guide to solving crossword puzzles. But it is much, much more than a 'how-to' book. Each chapter is starts with a clue, and uses anecdote, history and autobiography to solve it, in the process describing something of what it means to love England. In the process, we encounter The Best Crossword Clue Ever, The Most Beautiful Clue in the World 'Pretty Girl in Crimson Rose' and the eccentric personalities behind such legendary compilers as the Guardian's Araucaria and The Times'Ximenes.
Download or read book The Crimson Rose written by Daniel Genovese and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queen Felanya of Devora has never known defeat, whether on the battlefield or within diplomacy's twisting halls. Instead, her undoing comes when an accident nearly kills her youngest daughter, Etherea. Though blessed with the Lady's divine gift, Felanya's magic cannot heal the girl's shattered mind. With Etherea all but lost, the distraught queen withdraws from her kingdom, her family, and her faith. She orders the Lady's Temples closed, their radiant candles extinguished. For six years, Felanya's enemies reign. Devora's high council rules unchecked, fattening their purses and sapping power from the throne. Meanwhile, the Patrim, missionaries of the Lord, desire more than just Felanya's gilded chair. They raise a cathedral to the Lord in the heart of Devora, its shining spires luring people away from the Lady's darkened dome. Felanya remains oblivious until the birth of a new daughter awakens her to the possibility of hope. She rises, her faith renewed, and vows to return Devora to glory. But her enemies have tasted power for too long to allow a resurgent queen. The forbidden ritual sacrifice of a gifted child will summon the means to defeat Felanya, but what rises is something far worse. One does not kill the Lady's Chosen without consequence. As a deadly spirit of vengeance stalks the realm and opposing swords are drawn, Etherea stirs, her sight filled with nightmare visions of murder and fire.
Download or read book Crown of Crimson written by Rose Reid and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her kingdom is suddenly attacked by a neighboring country, 17-year-old assassin - and heir to the throne - Aerietta Elony is betrayed by her companions and captured by Evrallon, the kingdom laying waste to her own. Aerietta is tasked with hunting down one of her former companions for reasons unknown to her. Should she succeed, she will be granted freedom. Should she fail, the king will have her head to boast at gatherings. But Aerietta has a bigger secret to keep than just her parentage - her abilities. Because Aerietta isn't just any assassin princess ... she is something straight out of legend. To find her erstwhile confederate and make it back alive, she will have to fool the ever-watchful, enigmatic Swordmaster that's been saddled with her, which proves to be more difficult than Aerietta could ever imagine. Deception abounds, danger is just as prevalent, all truth is veiled in shadows, but the only thing she fears is herself. The Queen of Crimson accepts.
Download or read book The Crimson Petal and the White written by Michel Faber and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 865 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yearning to escape her life of prostitution in 1870s London, Sugar finds her fate entangled in the complicated family life of patron William, an egotistical perfume magnate.
Download or read book Crimson Crop written by Peter Rose and published by UWA Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Rose's fifth poetry collection and his first since 2005. This volume has at its core a series of elegies, several abut his late father, thus continuing the themes of his memoir Rose Boys.
Download or read book The Rose Grower written by Michelle de Kretser and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a corner of south-western France, a young rose grower nurtures a private passion to breed an exotic new flower. But the year is 1789, and the world is about to change... The Rose Grower throws a subtle, slanting light on the underside of history, as a young woman and her family are caught up in the bloodthirsty years of the French Revolution. Her private passion is to create a repeat-flowering crimson rose, the first of its kind in Europe. But, as public events in Paris are duplicated in Gascony, her world turns upside down. An American balloonist falls out of the sky and into her life; while Joseph, a young working-class doctor, is also drawn into her orbit, and finds himself fatally torn between reason and desire, revolutionary zeal and unrequited love.
Download or read book The Rose Without a Name written by Nancy Rust and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Hurricane Katrina swept everything from its path, Peggy Martin's famous rose garden was left under 20 ft of water and mud. Everyone thought nothing would recover. But after the water receded, a singe no-name old-fashioned rose stood alone. The rose finally earned a name and brought hope to all for miles around.
Download or read book The Everlasting Rose written by Dhonielle Clayton and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Camille must save Orleans in this high-stakes sequel to the instant New York Times bestseller.
Download or read book The Crimson Rose written by Valerie Langfield and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Seduction of the Crimson Rose written by Lauren Willig and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A continuation of the series that began with The Masque of the Black Tulip and The Deception of the Emerald Ring finds Mary accepting a secret assignment from spy Lord Vaughn to infiltrate the Black Tulip's operation in order to prevent an invasion of England. 40,000 first printing.
Download or read book Roses and Rot written by Kat Howard and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imogen and her sister Marin escape their cruel mother to attend a prestigious artists’ retreat, but soon learn that living in a fairy tale requires sacrifices, whether it be art or love in this critically acclaimed debut novel. Imogen has grown up reading fairy tales about mothers who die and make way for cruel stepmothers. As a child, she used to lie in bed wishing that her life would become one of these tragic fairy tales because she couldn’t imagine how a stepmother could be worse than her mother now. As adults, Imogen and her sister Marin are accepted to an elite post-grad arts program—Imogen as a writer and Marin as a dancer. Soon enough, though, they realize that there’s more to the school than meets the eye. Imogen might be living in the fairy tale she’s dreamed about as a child, but it’s one that will pit her against Marin if she decides to escape her past to find her heart’s desire.
Download or read book Crimson Roses written by Grace Livingston Hill and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alone in the city without money and friends. Mother and father gone, her home sold over her head, deserted by her only brother - for Marion Warren the world seemed to stop. But her long years of nursing an uncomplaining father had taught her a great lesson. And she stepped bravely into a new life. Things seemed pretty black until the roses came...
Download or read book Tester of Toys written by Crimson Rose and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-09-05 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anastasia Crane is a young woman living on her parent's farm in the middle of Rome Wisconsin. After years of failing to land a job that would take her to the big city, she resigned herself to the life of a farm girl. Until she received a call from one Renee Muller with an offer of a dream job, that is. You see, Anastasia is a girl with an addiction - an addiction to toys of a very adult nature. So when Renee offered her a job as a toy tester how could she refuse? As with all things that seemed too good to be true, Anastasia's new job had a catch. And a monstrously big one at that. In order to take her dream job at DF Productions she would have to work on the infamous Domination Farm - a walled in community that catered to all things fetish and a place her father abhorred. An argument drives a wedge between father and daughter and Anastasia moves from one farm to another in order to be closer to work. Little did she know how drastically taking her dream job would alter her life and perception of the world. Life on the Domination Farm isn't an easy one even for a bare-neck such as Anastasia Crane. With the deck stacked against her will embrace life on the Farm or spiral out of control? Will she confront her father, or forget him altogether and move on with life without him in it? They say time heals all wounds, but a betrayed heart is tough to mend.
