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| 洋書ダウンロードフロア >Historical Fiction | |||||||||||
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| 1:「Beyond the Savage Sea」 | ||||
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Edwinna Crawford would inherit the Barbados plantation if she found a man to marry in the next twenty-four hours. Within her sight Drake Steel, handsome and defiant, was shackled waist-deep in the sea, about to be executed as a pirate. Marrying him would save his life-and could provide her with an intoxicating passion. But it was a bargain with the devil… Historical Romance by JoAnn Wendt; originally published by Popular Library | |||
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| 2:「A Reckless Wager」 | ||||
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Because he had lost a wager, confirmed bachelor Viscount Stanton would have to offer marriage to a lady of his godmother’s choosing: Charlotte Sherwood. But it was Charlotte’s charming younger sister, Elizabeth, who captured the viscount’s attention. Regency Romance by Lois Menzel; originally published by Fawcett | |||
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| 3:「A Race to Splendor」 | ||||
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”Blindly, she inched along a floor pitching as violently as the deck of a boat in a midwinter storm. Her hands touched the threshold opening onto the ninth floor foyer at the instant the glass transom over her head exploded into a thousand pieces. Reflexively, Amelia cast her right arm in front of her face, but not before blood spurted from her scalp and ran down her checks. She crumpled beneath the doorframe, curling into a ball. Amelia screamed again as a twenty-five-foot expanse of wood paneling | |||
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| 4:「The Abandoned Rake」 | ||||
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Joanna Winterton escaped London so she couldn’t once again be almost trapped into an undesirable marriage. Who would have guess that she would find danger in the rural town to which she fled? Sir Lucas Montfort, that handsome libertine, considered Joanna just the sort of lady to whom he was attracted-for seduction. And Joanna was tempted… Regency Romance by Emily Hendrickson; originally published by Signet | |||
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| 5:「Faithful Unto Death」 | ||||
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Benzonia, Michigan, 1894: a sleepy Congregationalist community, dedicated to the education of hardworking and virtuous young people of both sexes and all races. Anna Spencer Thacker is the daughter of missionaries, a faithful wife, and mother of five, pious to a fault. She is suddenly stricken with a mysterious ailment that soon proves fatal. Was it truly an unfortunate illness? Or was it murder—-or suicide? Taking a true story of a murder in her own family, Becky Thacker has crafted a | |||
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| 6:「The Red Thread」 | ||||
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Like Chinese silk, The Red Thread is, by turns, gentle and strong, exploring a love that breaks through the divide of race and culture, a love that is both deeply physical and a marriage of souls. Set against the backdrop of 1830s Singapore where piracy, crime, triads and tigers are commonplace, this sexy Regency-style romance (Vol.1 in ”The Straits Quartet”) follows the struggle of two lovers: Zhen, once the loweliest of Chinese coolies and triad member, later chosen to marry into a Perana | |||
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| 7:「Through Glass Eyes」 | ||||
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1896 - When Lucy steals an expensive French doll from her dying mistress, she is unaware of the different roles it will play in the years to come. But throughout her journey of love and loss, pain and joy, the Bru doll is never far away. Set in the West Riding of Yorkshire this is a heartfelt rags to riches saga spanning more than 25 years. Historical fiction/saga by Margaret Muir; originally published as The Twisting Vine by Robert Hale [UK] | |||
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| 8:「Return to Jarrow」 | ||||
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Catherine (Kitty) McMullen is 17, restless and rebellious. Resentful of her new step-father and yearning for stories of the father she never knew, her discontent grows when her aunt divulges he was a wealthy gentleman. Taking a job at the workhouse she is further confronted with the horrors of poverty and determines to escape it by educating herself. Soon steetwise Kitty is a ghost of the past and the well-spoken Catherine leaves the North East of England to follow her dreams. But hardship and heart | |||
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| 9:「The Beltane Fires」 | ||||
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A gripping historical love story that moves from the lawless Scottish Highlands to the dangers and intrigues of the Jacobean court in 16th century Edinburgh. Witchcraft, treachery and danger conspire to keep fiery Mairi Lismore apart from nobelman Douglas Roskill, the man she loves. | |||
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| 10:「Lady Liza’s Luck」 | ||||
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Lady Elizabeth Rushlake had a knack for making profits on the London stock exchange rather than finding a husband in the marriage mart. When handsome Chadwick Lockridge returned from India with a mysterious fortune, some called him a scoundrel. He had betrayed her faith in him once; could Lady Liza trust him now, especially when he challenged her skill and nerve-and her heart? Regency Romance by Anne Barbour; originally published by Signet | |||
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