Twenty years ago, Maximus Batten witnessed the brutal murder of his parents. Now as the autocratic Duke of Wakefield, he spends his days dealing with politics in Parliament, but at night, disguised as the Ghost of St. Giles, wanders the dark alleys in sea
Can a pirate learn that the only true treasure lies in a woman's heart? Widowed Silence Hollingbrook is poor, beautiful, and kind - and nine months ago she made a terrible mistake.
A sequel to the first Tarzan novel, the plot picks up with his arrival in civilization and his rejection of the title of Lord Greystoke out of love for Jane, who then thinks he belongs to someone else. Broken, Tarzan heads back to Africa...
As in the novels People with four fingers and The fifth finger, Miodrag Bulatović is obsessed in this book with the monstrous tragedy of emigrants, people outside all worlds, that is, people uprooted from their people, origin, name and life.