Download or read book The Orsini Bride written by SWEETBLUNCH and published by Summit Publishing Company Inc.. This book was released on 2016-10-03 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I need you to find me a bride.” Marco Orsini demanded this from the etiquette teacher, Francesca Marcolini. His grandfather’s mandate was simple: Present a bride on the day of his 86th birthday—and thereby secure the continuity of his clan and the massive Orsini empire—or he will be disinherited. But Marco doesn’t want just any woman. He wants the perfect woman, and he knew that only Francesca can help him find the perfect bride. She had all the connections to the best women in Italian society after all—She may have even taught them in the ways of the social graces, which intrigues Marco. The two will go to great lengths to find the perfect woman, but how far must they search to find the perfect Orsini bride?
Download or read book The Wallflower s Revenge written by SWEETBLUNCH and published by Summit Publishing Company Inc.. This book was released on 2015-08-03 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I will come back for my revenge." That was Tatiana Rostova's promise to herself as she fought for her life one cold night out at sea, after the two people she loved the most betrayed her and watched as the ruthless ocean tried to swallow her whole. She would even sell herself to the devil-even if the ddevil came in the form of a six-foot-two, silver-eyed Italian duke named Lucca Cavelli. She would take everything that was rightfully hers-and this will be the start of the wallflower's revenge.
Download or read book The Substitute Bride written by SWEETBLUNCH and published by Summit Publishing Company Inc.. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I need you to go to New York and pretend to be your twin sister.” That was the command Laila Fiorenza’s father gave her when her sister ran away from home just days before she had to meet her betrothed, the handsome, party-going, Greek shipping magnate, Nikos Pallis. But after being jilted in a previous betrothal, Laila had only one wish, which is to never be the second choice in love again. So, eager to go back to her sheltered life in Sicily and unwilling to do what her father commands, Laila comes clean to Nikos about the farce, hoping he would call off the wedding. However, Nikos had other plans, and he might just be willing to grant her wish.
Download or read book The Orsini Brides The Ice Prince The Real Rio D Aquila written by Sandra Marton and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International bestseller Sandra Marton’s THE ORSINI BRIDES novels – together at last! Two Sicilian sisters, two powerful men!
Download or read book A Sicilian Marriage written by SWEETBLUNCH and published by Summit Publishing Company Inc.. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coco Spencer, the heiress of a wealthy, traditional English family, is a modern woman—and proud of it! She can’t cook, but she can pay someone to cook for her. She comes from a rich family, but she makes her own money and takes charge of her own life. She can get any man she sets her eyes upon, but she’s never really needed men to get everything that she could ever want. That is, until her deceased grandfather dangled the entire Spencer fortune in front of her in his will. Suddenly, she needs to find a man to marry or lose everything, including her childhood home.- But she doesn’t want just any man. She wants Rafe Moretti, the notoriously traditional Sicilian man. And what Coco wants, Coco gets.
Download or read book Raffaele Taming His Tempestuous Virgin written by Sandra Marton and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First in the series featuring the darkly handsome, proud, and arrogant Orsini brothers—the perfect Sicilian husbands—from the USA Today–bestselling author. Raffaele Orsini doesn’t want a wife . . . But when he meets his arranged bride, Raffaele feels honor bound to marry her. She’s not what he was expecting . . . but her dowdy clothes can’t hide her lusciously feminine figure or her wildcat temperament! Chiara Cordiano will not love her husband! She’s tried everything to avoid her fate, but in the blink of an eye Chiara is swept away from her quaint Sicilian town to New York! She wants to hate Rafe, but seduction is in his blood. With his dark, brooding looks and tempting masculinity, she’ll be purring like a kitten!
Download or read book The Ice Prince written by Sandra Marton and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prince Draco Valenti, known as the ice prince, bears his title reluctantly, and wears his icy exterior like a suit of armor that no opponent can penetrate.... Except Anna Orsini. She isn't any ordinary adversary, she's a high-flying, straight-talking lawyer in a no-nonsense suit and killer stilettos--conflicting signals that perplex, frustrate and attract Draco all at the same time.... While they're at odds in business, in the bedroom Draco's desire for Anna has the power to melt his defenses. The temptation to play with fire is overwhelming....
Download or read book Murder of a Medici Princess written by Caroline P. Murphy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-18 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Murder of a Medici Princess, Caroline Murphy illuminates the brilliant life and tragic death of Isabella de Medici, one of the brightest stars in the dazzling world of Renaissance Italy, the daughter of Duke Cosimo I, ruler of Florence and Tuscany. Murphy is a superb storyteller, and her fast-paced narrative captures the intrigue, the scandal, the romantic affairs, and the violence that were commonplace in the Florentine court. She brings to life an extraordinary woman, fluent in five languages, a free-spirited patron of the arts, a daredevil, a practical joker, and a passionate lover. Isabella, in fact, conducted numerous affairs, including a ten-year relationship with the cousin of her violent and possessive husband. Her permissive lifestyle, however, came to an end upon the death of her father, who was succeeded by her disapproving older brother Francesco. Considering Isabella's ways to be licentious and a disgrace upon the family, he permitted her increasingly enraged husband to murder her in a remote Medici villa. To tell this dramatic story, Murphy draws on a vast trove of newly discovered and unpublished documents, ranging from Isabella's own letters, to the loose-tongued dispatches of ambassadors to Florence, to contemporary descriptions of the opulent parties and balls, salons and hunts in which Isabella and her associates participated. Murphy resurrects the exciting atmosphere of Renaissance Florence, weaving Isabella's beloved city into her story, evoking the intellectual and artistic community that thrived during her time. Palaces and gardens in the city become places of creativity and intrigue, sites of seduction, and grounds for betrayal. Here then is a narrative of compelling and epic proportions, magnificent and alluring, decadent and ultimately tragic.
Download or read book Sicilian Millionaire Bought Bride written by Catherine Spencer and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2008-11-22 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wealthy Sicilian widower finds a second chance at love with his wife’s best friend in this gripping romance. Corinne Mallory knows little of Raffaello Orsini, other than that he’s super-rich and darkly handsome. When Raffaello offers marriage for the sake of his children, Corinne rejects his outrageous proposal . . . until a financial crisis drives her to the altar with the fiery Sicilian. Once in Sicily, Raffaello makes it quite clear he doesn’t expect a marriage in name only. He wants her body and soul, and when she comes to his bed she must be hot, willing and ready for his love. . . .
Download or read book Lorenzo the Magnificent written by Edward Lee Stuart Horsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mary written by Jacqueline Orsini and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Images of Mary as a mother and saint provide an historical and cultural view of how artists have perceived the mother of Jesus and depicted her in wood carvings, mosaics, statues, and murals.
Download or read book Murder in the Garden of God written by Eleanor Herman and published by Crux Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-05-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Warrior Pursuits written by Brian Sandberg and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did warrior nobles’ practices of violence shape provincial society and the royal state in early seventeenth-century France? Warrior nobles frequently armed themselves for civil war in southern France during the troubled early seventeenth century. These bellicose nobles’ practices of violence shaped provincial society and the royal state in early modern France. The southern French provinces of Guyenne and Languedoc suffered almost continual religious strife and civil conflict between 1598 and 1635, providing an excellent case for investigating the dynamics of early modern civil violence. Warrior Pursuits constructs a cultural history of civil conflict, analyzing in detail how provincial nobles engaged in revolt and civil warfare during this period. Brian Sandberg’s extensive archival research on noble families in these provinces reveals that violence continued to be a way of life for many French nobles, challenging previous scholarship that depicts a progressive “civilizing” of noble culture. Sandberg argues that southern French nobles engaged in warrior pursuits—social and cultural practices of violence designed to raise personal military forces and to wage civil warfare in order to advance various political and religious goals. Close relationships between the profession of arms, the bonds of nobility, and the culture of revolt allowed nobles to regard their violent performances as “heroic gestures” and “beautiful warrior acts.” Warrior nobles represented the key organizers of civil warfare in the early seventeenth century, orchestrating all aspects of the conduct of civil warfare—from recruitment to combat—according to their own understandings of their warrior pursuits. Building on the work of Arlette Jouanna and other historians of the nobility, Sandberg provides new perspectives on noble culture, state development, and civil warfare in early modern France. French historians and scholars of the Reformation and the European Wars of Religion will find Warrior Pursuits engaging and insightful.
Download or read book The Paths We Take written by STARINE, SWEETBLUNCH, VENTRECANARD, YOURSTRULYTRINA and published by Summit Publishing Company Inc.. This book was released on 2022-05-27 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You are Olivia. And your boyfriend broke up with you. While the end feels overwhelming, you’re really not the kind to let it faze you. So what do you do? You start a new love story, one where the ending is up to YOU. Will you fall in love with the bad boy, navigating through his many moods and sidestepping his dark past? Or will it be the gentle nerd, that mind- boggling puzzle you try your best to solve but just can’t? Can’t get that sexy CEO out of your mind— or that empty space in his bed waiting for you? Or are you looking for the magician to whisk you away from the drudgery to a life of danger and adventure? Whether it’s happily-ever-after or heartbreak or something else entirely, how Olivia’s love story ends is up to YOU.
Download or read book Prince of Foxes written by Samuel Shellabarger and published by Bridgeworks. This book was released on 2002-07-31 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the early 1500s in Renaissance Italy this novel is the story of Andrea Orsini, a peasant boy who rises far and becomes a secret agent for Cesare Borgia, who entrusts him with the most delicate political, military and romantic missions, Orson Welles was cast as Borgia, Tyronne Power as Orsini in the film version.
Download or read book Lucy s Book written by Natalie Jane Prior and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucy's mum takes her to the library every Saturday. Lucy loves to read, but there is one special book that she borrows over and over again. The book is shared between friends, dropped in the ocean, flown to China and even made into a banana sandwich. But what will happen when everyone's favourite book goes missing? A CBCA Notable book.
Download or read book Dante Claiming His Secret Love Child written by Sandra Marton and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2009-11-11 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gabriella Ramos-Viera fell for Dante's raw masculinity and ended up pregnant and alone—with no choice but to return home in shame. Tough corporate raider Dante Orsini has set his sights on a huge Brazilian ranch. However, he discovers it's to be inherited by Gabriella, the one woman he's never been able to forget…. But where's the New York career woman he once knew? And who's the dark-haired little boy who calls her Mommy?
