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Student Elizabeth Staveley is conducting research on tales from the late 16th century in the library at Oxford University, when she suddenly comes across a four-hundred-year-old manuscript inserted into a book.
In Florence 1925–1926, in the poor Via del Corno, the residents live in love, poverty and fear. The arrival of fascism destroys the community: lovers fight, some die from violence, but popular solidarity survives.
Japanese student Josui Sakai and American lieutenant Allen Kennedy fall in love in post-war Kyoto. They marry in a Buddhist temple, but racism and family obstacles in America lead to tragedy.
The novel follows the declining Roman bourgeois family of Ardengo over the course of several days: widow Mariagrazia, lover Leo, son Michele, and daughter Carla – all trapped in apathy, lies, sexual manipulation, and moral indifference.
The first in the Carsington Brothers series, it is a Regency romance set in Derbyshire in the 1820s. Loretta Chase, a master of witty love stories, combines humor, suspense, and deep characters in a tale of the conflict between duty and heart.
Having carefully searched the darkest corners of the Highlands and Western Isles, Robert Bruce himself chose ten warriors who would help him free Scotland from English rule.