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Book Captive Queen

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  • Author : Alison Weir
  • Publisher : Doubleday Canada
  • Release : 2010-07-13
  • ISBN : 038566978X
  • Pages : 497 pages

Download or read book Captive Queen written by Alison Weir and published by Doubleday Canada. This book was released on 2010-07-13 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For historical fiction readers, a tantalizing new novel from New York Times bestselling author Alison Weir about the passionate and notorious French queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine. Renowned for her highly acclaimed and bestselling British histories, Alison Weir has in recent years made a major impact on the fiction scene with her novels about Queen Elizabeth and Lady Jane Grey. In this latest offering, she imagines the world of Eleanor of Aquitaine, the beautiful twelfth-century woman who was Queen of France until she abandoned her royal husband for the younger man who would become King of England. In a relationship based on lust and a mutual desire for great power, Henry II and Eleanor took over the English throne in 1154, thus beginning one of the most influential reigns and tumultuous royal marriages in all of history. In this novel, Weir uses her extensive knowledge to paint a most vivid portrait of this fascinating woman.

Book The Queen s Captive

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  • Author : Barbara Kyle
  • Publisher : Kensington Books
  • Release : 2011-05-26
  • ISBN : 0758273797
  • Pages : 416 pages

Download or read book The Queen s Captive written by Barbara Kyle and published by Kensington Books . This book was released on 2011-05-26 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: England, 1554. In the wake of the failed Wyatt Rebellion, a vengeful Queen Mary has ordered all conspirators captured and executed. Among the imprisoned is her own sister, twenty-one-year-old Princess Elizabeth. Though she protests her innocence, Elizabeth's brave stand only angers Mary more. Elizabeth longs to gain her liberty--and her sister's crown. In Honor and Richard Thornleigh and their son, Adam, the young princess has loyal allies. Disgusted by Queen Mary's proclaimed intent to burn heretics, Honor visits Elizabeth in the Tower and they quickly become friends. And when Adam foils a would-be assassin, Elizabeth's gratitude swells into a powerful--and mutual--attraction. But while Honor is willing to risk her own safety for her future queen, aiding in a new rebellion against the wrathful Mary will soon lead her to an impossible choice. . . Riveting, masterfully written, and rich in intricate details, The Queen's Captive brings one of history's most fascinating and treacherous periods to vibrant, passionate life. Praise for the novels of Barbara Kyle "Weaves a fast-paced plot through some of the most harrowing years of English history." --Judith Merkle Riley on The Queen's Lady "Excellent, exciting, compellingly readable." --Ellen Jones on The Queen's Lady "Unfurls a complex and fast-paced plot, mixing history with vibrant characters." --Publishers Weekly on The King's Daughter

Book The Queen s Captive

Download or read book The Queen s Captive written by Haydn Middleton and published by Sphere. This book was released on 1997-08-07 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morgan the false and fateful is exiled from Arthur's kingdom, stranded on the shores of Avalon in disgrace. When the bodies of Arthur's Men begin to fetch up along the coast, Morgan saves one. Together they are drawn back through Avalon's mists, towards a monstrous fate which awaits them both.

Book The Fae Queen s Captive

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  • Author : Sierra Simone
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2022-10-04
  • ISBN : 9781949364293
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Fae Queen s Captive written by Sierra Simone and published by . This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Save some of your screams for the queen, there's a good girl?Janneth Carter has given up on magic these days. She's done being curious, insatiable, dreamy; she just wants to finish her graduate degree and spend the rest of her life as a sensible archeologist. So the last thing she expects when she goes to her dig site on Halloween night is three mysterious strangers standing outside an ancient Scottish grave.Okay, well the actual last thing she expects is for those strangers to kidnap her and drag her into fairyland.Once in the vivid, carnal world of Faerie, Janneth is at the mercy of the coldly lovely and incredibly cruel Stag Queen. Desperate to get home to her own world, she offers the Queen a bargain: she'll be a willing captive, the queen's pet, so long as the Queen promises to keep her safe until Janneth leaves Faerie.But fae promises are complicated things, and nothing in Faerie, even pleasure-even love-comes without a price?***The Fae Queen's Captive is a dark sapphic standalone romance, set in the shared world of the Peculiar Tastes series. CWs can be found at the beginning of the book.It's that time of year, friends. The moon is full and Samhain approaches. Your invitation to the Shadow Market is here. Three days of magic, drama, seduction, and maybe just a dash of human sacrifice! Come through the portal and meet witches, demons, gorgons, mermaids, the fae, and even the odd human who's gotten turned around and ended up somewhere they shouldn't.

Book Long Live the Queen

Download or read book Long Live the Queen written by Ellen Emerson White and published by Feiwel & Friends. This book was released on 2008-07-22 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being the President's daughter isn't easy, but Meg's getting used to it. She's even starting to have a life again—okay, not a normal life, but things are beginning to fall into a routine. Then it happens—machine guns blast, a van screeches to a halt, and masked men grab Meg and take her away. Meg doesn't understand what the terrorists want. She doesn't understand how her security was breached. But she does understand one thing—they have no intention of letting her live—and she has no intention of dying.

Book The Queen s Gamble

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  • Author : Barbara Kyle
  • Publisher : Kensington Books
  • Release : 2011-08-30
  • ISBN : 0758274459
  • Pages : 432 pages

Download or read book The Queen s Gamble written by Barbara Kyle and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2011-08-30 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Queen Elizabeth I's path to the throne has been a perilous one, and already she faces a dangerous crisis. French troops have landed in Scotland to quell a rebel Protestant army, and Elizabeth fears once they are entrenched on the border, they will invade England. Isabel Thornleigh has returned to London from the New World with her Spanish husband, Carlos Valverde, and their young son. Ever the queen's loyal servant, Isabel is recruited to smuggle money to the Scottish rebels. Yet Elizabeth's trust only goes so far-Isabel's son will be the queen's pampered hostage until she completes her mission. Matters grow worse when Isabel's husband is engaged as military advisor to the French, putting the couple on opposite sides in a deadly cold war. Set against a lush, vibrant backdrop peopled with unforgettable characters and historical figures, "The Queen's Gamble" is a story of courage, greed, passion, and the high price of loyalty. . . "Kyle is adept at layering her tale with colorful descriptions, accurate details and exciting twists within a fast-paced plot designed to keep readers' attention." --"Romantic Times" on "The Queen's Captive" "Unfurls a complex and fast-paced plot, mixing history with vibrant characters." --"Publishers Weekly" on "The King's Daughter " "Riveting, heady, glorious, inspired." --Susan Wiggs on "The Queen's Lady"

Book Captive and Crowned

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  • Author : Elizabeth Newsom
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-09-17
  • ISBN : 9781949856156
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Captive and Crowned written by Elizabeth Newsom and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The half-dragon King of Torva needs a queen, but the human bride he has captured may prove to be more trouble than she's worth. Evelyn is on a mission to find her mom, who left her family soon after Evelyn was born. But things go terribly wrong when crashing a high school graduation party leads to her being mistaken for her sister, kidnapped, taken to another world, and married to the king of the realm. As she plots her escape with the assistance of a handsome and mysterious duke, she becomes a pawn in a bigger game, a game of betrayal, murder, and revenge. Someone wants her dead, and the only way to avoid assassination is to escape Torva. But the King isn't willing to let her leave easily - and neither are the assassins.

Book The Fae Queen   s Captive

Download or read book The Fae Queen s Captive written by Sierra Simone and published by Sierra Simone. This book was released on 2023-10-22 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dark sapphic standalone romance, set in the shared world of the Peculiar Tastes series. Janneth Carter has given up on magic these days. She’s done being curious, insatiable, dreamy; she just wants to finish her graduate degree and spend the rest of her life as a sensible archeologist. So the last thing she expects when she goes to her dig site on Halloween night is three mysterious strangers standing outside an ancient Scottish grave. Okay, well the actual last thing she expects is for those strangers to kidnap her and drag her into fairyland. Once in the vivid, carnal world of Faerie, Janneth is at the mercy of the coldly lovely and incredibly cruel Stag Queen. Desperate to get home to her own world, she offers the Queen a bargain: she’ll be a willing captive, the queen’s pet, so long as the Queen promises to keep her safe until Janneth leaves Faerie. But fae promises are complicated things, and nothing in Faerie, even pleasure—even love—comes without a price...

Book The Queen s Captive

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  • Author : Haydn Middleton
  • Publisher : Little Brown
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9780316913683
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book The Queen s Captive written by Haydn Middleton and published by Little Brown. This book was released on 1996 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this second part of Haydn Middleton's Arthurian trilogy, Mordred's quest leads him to another world, the land of women of Celtic legend. Here he confronts his destiny in the form of Morgan, Arthur's sister, and sometime mistress.

Book Blood Between Queens

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  • Author : Barbara Kyle
  • Publisher : Kensington Books
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 0758273223
  • Pages : 416 pages

Download or read book Blood Between Queens written by Barbara Kyle and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following her perilous fall from a throne she'd scarcely owned to begin with, Mary, Queen of Scots, has fled to England, hoping her cousin, Queen Elizabeth, will grant her asylum. But now Mary has her sights on the English crown, and Elizabeth enlists her most trusted subjects to protect it. Justine Thornleigh is delighting in the thrill of Queen Elizabeth's visit to her family's estate when the festivities are cut short by Mary's arrival. To Justine's surprise, the Thornleighs appoint her to serve as a spy in Mary's court. But bearing the guise of a lady-in-waiting is not Justine's only secret. The weight of her task is doubled by fears of revealing to her fiancé that she is in truth the daughter of his family's greatest rival. Duty-bound, Justine must sacrifice love as she navigates a deadly labyrinth of betrayal that could lead to the end of Elizabeth's fledgling reign...

Book His Captive

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  • Author : Diana Cosby
  • Publisher : Zebra Books
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9781420101089
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book His Captive written by Diana Cosby and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a feisty lady is kidnapped by a seductive Scottish rebel, she finds herself trapped by her powerful attraction to a man whose touch shakes her to the core. Original.

Book Destiny s Captive

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  • Author : Beverly Jenkins
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2014-10-28
  • ISBN : 0062231138
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book Destiny s Captive written by Beverly Jenkins and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In national bestselling author Beverly Jenkins' Destiny series, the Yates men play hard and live hard. And when they find that special woman, they fall hard . . . Noah Yates fully believes in the joys of a happy family and a good wife. But that's not the life for him. No, he would much rather sail the wild seas in search of adventure, not tied down. But then the unthinkable happens . . . he finds himself literally tied down. To a bed. By a woman. And Pilar isn't just an ordinary woman. She's descended from pirates. And after giving him one of the worst nights of his life, she steals his ship! Now Noah is on the hunt, and he'll stop at nothing to find this extraordinary woman . . . and make her his.

Book The Queen s Vow

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  • Author : C. W. Gortner
  • Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 0345523962
  • Pages : 401 pages

Download or read book The Queen s Vow written by C. W. Gortner and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an evocative, vividly imagined novel about one of history's most famous and controversial queens--the warrior who united a fractured country, the champion of the faith whose reign gave rise to the Inquisition, and the visionary who sent Columbus to discover a New World.

Book Queen s Sacrifice

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  • Author : Vivian Wood
  • Publisher : Vivian Wood
  • Release : 2022-07-31
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 311 pages

Download or read book Queen s Sacrifice written by Vivian Wood and published by Vivian Wood. This book was released on 2022-07-31 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hades is as handsome as the devil and just as deceptive. A dark-haired, light eyed arms dealer who steals my breath away. When he finds me after months of captivity, he sweeps me off my feet. With his rough Scottish burr, he tells me that I'm his. Hades swears that he never thought he would lay eyes on me again. I haltingly tell him that I'm carrying his child. Hades has claimed me as his queen. Together, we will face terrible challenges. And if we are to survive, we may have to make the ultimate sacrifice.

Book Captive in the Underworld

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  • Author : Lianyu Tan
  • Publisher : Shattered Scepter Press
  • Release : 2021-01-08
  • ISBN : 0648994805
  • Pages : 327 pages

Download or read book Captive in the Underworld written by Lianyu Tan and published by Shattered Scepter Press. This book was released on 2021-01-08 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dark lesbian romance retelling of the Hades/Persephone abduction story, set in mythological ancient Greece. In the land of the dead, Queen Hades’ word is law. Hades gets what she wants—always—and what she wants is a certain goddess of the springtime. Innocent Persephone chafes beneath her mother’s hawkish gaze and mercurial temper. Demeter has rebuffed all her daughter’s suitors, but she is not yet satisfied; she strives to crush Persephone’s spirit. Still, when Hades pulls her into the dark realm of the underworld, Persephone longs for the world above, even if it means an eternity under her mother’s thumb. With her tears and pleas for freedom ignored by pitiless Hades, Persephone must learn to satisfy her keeper in all ways, lest she suffer the consequences. And though she cannot deny that something blooms within her, something forbidden, Persephone despairs of ever feeling the sun upon her skin once more. No matter the cost, Hades intends to keep her. Forever. * * * Captive in the Underworld is a standalone dark lesbian romance novel set in mythological ancient Greece. It is rooted in the misogyny and cruelties of the Hades/Persephone myth and contains sensitive material. Due to mature content and dark themes, this book is intended for adult readers only. It contains scenes depicting non-consensual sex, death, abuse, kidnapping, assault, and other intimate partner violence. It is not recommended for readers sensitive to such content. PRAISE FOR CAPTIVE IN THE UNDERWORLD “A dark sapphic romance based on the myth of Persephone and Hades... entertaining, captivating, and exceptionally enjoyable... I read it twice in a row without stopping… if you like my work, I bet you’ll like this a whole lot!” ―Rae D. Magdon, author of Lucky 7 “I adored this brutally ruthless Hades... She was everything I wanted her to be... frightening and passionate all at once... a beautiful example of classic dark romance... Gorgeous novel, highly recommend.” ―Roses and Thorns Book Reviews “[The] best Hades/Persephone story I've ever read… such a gripping read I literally devoured it whole in one sitting like I was Kronos eating his kids… the world and the characters are so lush and compelling I'm tempted not to finish this review and just start rereading the book instead.”―Katarina, Goodreads reviewer

Book Fae s Captive

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  • Author : Lily Archer
  • Publisher : Independently Published
  • Release : 2019-04-19
  • ISBN : 9781095158326
  • Pages : 582 pages

Download or read book Fae s Captive written by Lily Archer and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-04-19 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My college roommate is the worst. Cecile steals my food, brings guys over at all hours, and parties instead of studying. But those quirks pale in comparison to what she does next. She drugs me, and I wake up imprisoned in an alternate universe full of terrifying creatures. Now, the biggest and scariest creature of all-a fae king-believes I'm his mate. He's freed me from the dungeon but keeps me close. So close, in fact, that I'm beginning to like his wintery gaze and ice-chiseled body. But secrets and villains lurk throughout this new world, and I don't know if I'll survive long enough to figure out how to get back home.Lily's Note: This beautiful hardback edition includes the first four books in the Fae's Captive Series: Fae's Captive, Road to Winter, Bite of Winter, and Beyond the Mountain, which completes Taylor and Leander's story.

Book The Captive of Kensington Palace

Download or read book The Captive of Kensington Palace written by Jean Plaidy and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the death of George IV, William IV ascended the throne with the patient and kindly Adelaide as his Queen. William was growning old, over excitable, failing physically, and becoming mentally unstable. There would soon be a new sovereign - the little girl at Kensington Palace. Growing more aware each day of her great destiny, and frustrated by the restricitons forced upon her, this is an exciting account of a warm hearted sentimental girl, surrounded by those who were to influence her future.