In turn of the century England, the Wilcoxes are wealthy, the Schlegels are intellectuals and the Basts are poor. But though they are from three different social classes, they are bound by passions, friendships and the occasional murder...
Inheritance and succession
- Author:Forster, E. M.Summary:
- Author:Sager, RileySummary:
Every house has a story to tell and a secret to share. Twenty-five years ago, Maggie Holt and her parents moved into Baneberry Hall, a rambling Victorian estate in the Vermont woods. Three weeks later they fled in the dead of night, an...
- Author:Enoch, SuzanneSummary:
The MacTaggert brothers have one task: Find English brides or lose their land! Coll MacTaggert, Viscount Glendarril, is a big, brawny Highlander who doesn't like being told what to do-not even by his exasperated English mother who...
- Author:Kendrick, SharonSummary:
King Casimiro harbors a secret--no one in the kingdom of Zaffrinthos knows that a devastating accident has left his memory clouded in darkness. And Casimiro himself cannot answer why Melissa Maguire, an enigmatic English rose, stirs...
- Author:Miller, Linda LaelSummary:
One ranch. Three sons. Only one will inherit...and on one condition. Tired of waiting for his sons to settle down, Arizona-territory rancher Angus McKettrick announces a competition: the first son to marry and produce a grandchild will...
- Author:Laberge, RosetteSummary:
Voici un extrait de la lettre que Caroline, Roxanne et Laurie ont reçue d'un notaire: ...Vous êtes conviée à venir passer six mois au manoir de votre oncle. Conscient qu'une telle demande risque de bouleverser votre vie,...
- Author:Enoch, SuzanneSummary:
In 1812, when rugged English soldier Gabriel Forrester learns he has inherited a Scottish estate, he resists giving up the battlefield--until he meets raven-eyed Fiona Blackstock. But Fiona, like any good Highlander, despises the...
- Author:Frampton, MeganSummary:
To Lady Wilhelmina Bettesford, the "game" of finding a husband is a competitive sport she wants no part of...until her much-younger step mama forces her to play it. So when her stepmother asks sexy barrister Bram Townsend to...
- Author:Maxwell, CathySummary:
She arrived in town, beautiful and bold and declaring that she has inherited property that Ned Thurlowe has already claimed. A member of the local Logical Men's Society, Ned prides himself on thinking clearly and calmly at all...
- Author:Niffenegger, AudreySummary:
After their English aunt dies, listless American twins Julia and Valentina travel to London to live in their aunt's now empty flat overlooking Highgate Cemetery. There they become embroiled in the day-to-day sagas of their...
- Author:Kohlman, LoriSummary:
A strong-minded city woman, Hana moves to Lone Prairie, Saskatchewan to live on her father's farm and to fulfill the almost impossible conditions of his will. Complications arise when her father's neighbor, Jayce Harlow, accuses the...
- Author:Ozick, CynthiaSummary:
Ozick takes us to the outskirts of the Bronx in the 1930s, as New York fills with Europe"s ousted dreamers, turned overnight into refugees. Rose Meadows unknowingly enters this world when she answers an ambiguous want ad for an "...
- Author:Downing, SamanthaSummary:
In the latest thrillingly savage stand-alone from the twisted mind behind mega hit My Lovely Wife comes the story of a family--not unlike your own--just with a few more violent tendencies thrown in ... Beth, Portia, and Eddie Morgan...
- Author:Goodkind, TerrySummary:
The Children of D'Hara picks up immediately after the conclusion of the Sword of Truth series. This is the story of Richard and Kahlan and their children 'The Sword of Truth series was my masterwork. Yet, life for these...
- Author:Dodd, ChristinaSummary:
When Captain Kellen Adams receives a job offer that sounds too good to be true, she finds herself balanced between fascination and fear. All she has to do is break a code and find a long-lost fortune, or die trying.
- Author:HAUPTMANN, GabySummary:
Anno Adelmann, a wealthy widower, is the survivor of two heart attacks. His four scheming daughters all have designs on his inheritance. He decides to have a bit of fun at their expense, but what starts as a joke soon becomes more...
- Author:Oyeyemi, HelenSummary:
The prize-winning, bestselling author of Boy, Snow, Bird and What is Not Yours is Not Yours returns with a bewitching and inventive novel. Influenced by the mysterious place gingerbread holds in classic children's stories--equal...
- Author:TinneanSummary:
Im Alter von sieben Jahren kommt Ashton Laytham als Waise nach Fayerweather auf das Landgut seines Onkels. Weder von seiner Familie noch von der Dienerschaft erfährt der Junge Zuwendung oder Akzeptanz; auch als Erwachsener bleibt...
- Author:Moore, ChristopherSummary:
Christopher Moore, much beloved scrivener and peerless literary jester, now takes on no less than the legendary Bard himself (with the utmost humility and respect) with a twisted and insanely funny tale of a moronic monarch and his...
- Author:Forest, SusanSummary:
"Flights of Marigold is a multi-generational family saga of betrayal, survival, deception, revenge, and redemption caused by a chain of addictions and power struggle. In an empire devastated by conquest and fanaticism, three sisters...