Download or read book In Isabeau s Eyes written by Lora Leigh and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first novel in a new series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lora Leigh—you've met the Mackays; now it's time to meet their friends. Danger is stalking Isabeau Boudreaux. After the deaths of her parents ten years ago during a violent attack that left her blind, remnants of her vision are returning. But a series of accidents has convinced her friends the Mackays of Somerset, Kentucky, that someone wants her dead. When a roadside blowout proves to be almost fatal for Isabeau and her good friend Angel, Angel’s brother mercenary Tracker Calloway knows this was no accident. After a particularly bloody job, the last thing Tracker wants to do is get involved. But whoever is after Isabeau almost hurt his sister, and Isabeau is the most beautiful woman he’s ever seen. Tracker is determined to protect her but knows staying away from Isabeau is impossible. He begins a steady seduction to tempt the innocent woman into a world of hunger like she could have never imagined. And keeping her is the only option—if he can save her from an unknown enemy as her sight begins to slowly return.

Download or read book Isabeau a Novel of Queen Isabella and Sir Roger Mortimer written by N. Gemini Sasson and published by . This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Queen Isabella, who sought revenge on her husband Edward II, and her lover Sir Roger Mortimer, who masterminded the invasion that accomplished it. The marriage of Isabella of France and Edward II of England in 1308 is a union meant to secure lasting peace. For years, Isabella is a loyal wife, who repeatedly salvages her husband's kingship, even as she endures his neglect. When she finally speaks out against Edward's favorite, Lord Hugh Despenser, her income, lands and children are taken from her. In an age when women are not supposed to openly defy their husbands, Isabella vows to get her children back and have her revenge on Despenser - no matter what the cost. Imprisoned in the Tower of London for leading a rebellion against King Edward, Mortimer escapes with Isabella's help and finds refuge in the French court. But when Isabella arrives in Paris to negotiate a peace treaty, it is a temptation the ambitious Mortimer cannot resist.

Download or read book Dove Isabeau written by Jane Yolen and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young, beautiful Dove Isabeau is turned into a fire-breathing dragon by her evil stepmother and is saved from the spell by her true love, Kemp Owain.

Download or read book The Seer and The Skull written by Kimberly Davidson and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When there has been a great crime committed, one may pray to God for strength and guidance. Others may pray for revenge... Thus the wrath of God is called upon. The cursed one will make herself known and enjoy the punishment she was summoned to inflict. Hated and almost murdered by her mother as a child, Isabeau’s father rescued her and made her into a fierce warrior. A native to Scotland, Isabeau lost her only child. She believed a wolf had killed her son. Enraged with hate, she went forth and slayed every wolf she came across. One night on the hunt, she killed what she thought was a wolf. What she didn’t realize was she murdered a lycanthrope cub. The mother of the cub hunted Isabeau all throughout the land. When the two finally met, the lycanthrope cursed Isabeau by turning her into the very thing she killed. When cursed and turned into a lycanthrope, Isabeau became tied to the church for the rest of her life. Now Isabeau has been summoned once again. However this time, it is the church that needs her help. An unknown pair within the church has set out to steal the red skull. A crystal skull that holds all that is dark and evil in the world. With the help of a few comrades, Isabeau must set out on a deadly path to seek a seer to locate and hide away the red skull. Only a seer can possess the power in which to harness the skull’s dark forces. With the power the red skull possesses, Isabeau’s trust in those around her will be tested. Can Isabeau gain the respect of the lycanthrope council and be accepted by those who cursed and despise her? Will she break her curse and be rid of the life she had lived for centuries? Follow Isabeau on her journey to save all mankind with The Seer and The Skull.

Download or read book The Wounded Hawk written by Sara Douglass and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Middle Ages. Finally, the Black Plague has passed and for a while it seems evil has been defeated. Europe recovers; prosperity returns, trade resumes, and people slowly recover from the effects of the plague. Then, just as the Church relaxes its guard, war spreads across Europe. Widespread heresies challenge the authority of the Church. Revolts and rebellions threaten to topple the established monarchies and overturn the social order of Europe. And then the plague returns, worse than ever. Thomas Neville, a neurotic warrior-priest, eventually discovers the cause. The minions of the Devil have been scattered throughout European society during the confusion of the Black Death. His task is to discover the identities of these shapeshifters so that the Church can move against them, but it is a dangerous task. These are master shapeshifters, perfect at their craft, and Neville can never be certain of who he should trust. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book The Maid of Orleans written by Friedrich Schiller and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book In the Dark Heart of Winter written by Mere Rain and published by JMS Books LLC. This book was released on 2023-12-09 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isabeau is having history’s worst honeymoon. Heart-broken when her lover and best friend Margaret married and moved away, she accepted the proposal of a distant cousin, but she regrets this decision even before he insists on taking her to his cold and ruinous ancestral home. Horace does not seem to care about her, either, and soon she begins to wonder about his motives. Her fears are compounded when strangers arrive seeking refuge from the snow, and her husband's behavior becomes strangely hostile. Vairya and Ranat seem friendly, but why are they in this isolated region at all? It can't be coincidence that they come from Persia, where her husband was until recently stationed as a diplomat. Eventually one visitor confides in Isabeau, but her claims are so wild they cannot be true. Can they? Should she trust her heart, and perhaps her survival, to this stranger who seems to share her forbidden desires?

Download or read book The Witches of Eileanan written by Kate Forsyth and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1998-07-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named Best First Novel by Locus 'Twas a time when dragons left their lair and evil shadowed the land.... On the Day of Reckoning, the witches of Eileanan were outlawed--and violations of the new order were punishable by death. Eileanan's Great Towers, once meccas of magic and learning, were left in ruins. And now, the entire land trembles in fear.... Yet deep in the mountains, in the shadow of Dragonclaw, a young girl is being tutored in the old ways. Ignorant of her past, uncertain of her future, the foundling Isabeau will soon be forced down a dangerous path of prophesy, conspiracy, and magic. It is a world where dragons possess the key to ancient mysteries...where a lost prince will discover a strange and wondrous destiny...and where the ultimate battle between good and evil will be waged.... A new Day of Reckoning is at hand....

Download or read book The Gate written by Duncan MacLaren and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 1014 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gate is one of a few gates, which connect the world of the humans with the world of the dragons. It allows humans to cross over into the dragon world without difficulties, but dragons can only cross if they are in their true figures. Chris started the Saga, as she ran away from home and crossed the gate one day. She met a young man called Farren and fell in love with him without knowing that he was a dragon. The story continues through the lives of Chris and Farren, her daughter Delilah, Isabeau, Caro, Sindy and Paige, showing the most important point in life – your family.

Download or read book Munsey s Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Wild Fire written by Christine Feehan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The heat of passion—and danger—rises like jungle fire in this novel of the Leopard people by #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan… Called on a dangerous assignment, leopard shifter Conner Vega returns to the Panama rainforest of his homeland, looking every bit the civilized male. But as a member of the most lethal of the shifter tribes, he doesn’t have a civilized bone in his body. He carries the scent of a wild animal in its prime, he bears the soul-crushing sins of past kills—and he’s branded by the scars of shame inflicted by the woman he betrayed. Isabeau Chandler’s a Borneo shifter who’s never forgiven Conner—or forgotten him. The mating urge is still with her, and when she crosses Conner’s path, passions run like wild fire. But as Conner’s mission draws Isabeau closer, another betrayal lies waiting in the shadows—and it’s the most perilous and intimate one of all.

Download or read book The Cursed Towers written by Kate Forsyth and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000-05-01 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new age dawns in the kingdom of Eileanan, but not without resistance. Now the Righ, Lachlan the Winged, overturns his dead brother’s decrees against witchcraft. But sixteen years of hatred and superstition have cloaked Eileanan in darkness. And though he has won the power of the Lodestar, Lachlan’s rule is challenged by a mere babe—and a civil war erupts. The flame-haired twins—Iseult the Scarred Warrior and Isabeau the apprentice-witch—must go their separate ways. Iseult to fight side by side with her husband, Lachlan. Isabeau to the Cursed Towers, to master her powers and to find the family she has never known. One woman battling for a new reign, one woman learning the old ways, their separate threads will twist and turn into a tale of mayhem, mystery, and magic.

Download or read book The Beast s Heart written by Leife Shallcross and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A luxuriously magical retelling of Beauty and the Beast set in seventeenth-century France—and told from the point of view of the Beast himself. I am neither monster nor man—yet I am both. I am the Beast. He is a broken, wild thing, his heart’s nature exposed by his beastly form. Long ago cursed with a wretched existence, the Beast prowls the dusty hallways of his ruined château with only magical, unseen servants to keep him company—until a weary traveler disturbs his isolation. Bewitched by the man’s dreams of his beautiful daughter, the Beast devises a plan to lure her to the château. There, Isabeau courageously exchanges her father’s life for her own and agrees to remain with the Beast for a year. But even as their time together weaves its own spell, the Beast finds winning Isabeau’s love is only the first impossible step in breaking free from the curse....

Download or read book The Idler written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Angel of Blythe Hall written by Darci Hannah and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Returning to her ancestral home on the Borders in 1492, Scottish heiress Isabeau Blythe resolves to restore clan peace and avoid the angel relationships that ruined her father and brother, an effort that is compromised by a ruthless knight, her angel-hunting brother and wild visions of an alluring man. Original.