検索キーワード： 制作 "Saga Egmont" 文学・フィクション

Scotland, 1750, just four years after Bonnie Prince Charlie’s Rising of the Clans, it’s hard to know who’s loyal to the English and who is faithful to the Stuarts. And it’s beautiful seventeen-year-old Iona’s perilous mission to ascertain whether the Duke of Arkrae, head of Scotland’s most powerful clan, is a traitor or is he in cahoots with the English. Iona’s mission is to gain the trust of the Duke and his clan by claiming to be the sister he thought to have died as a child. As all around her doubt her claim and call her a "pretender", Iona struggles to hold her nerve.

Note de l’auteur : ce roman est la suite directe de Dolce Vita & nouveaux départs : rencontres inattendues. Ne lisez pas celui-ci sans avoir lu le premier. « Dans les histoires de cœur, on ne maîtrise jamais toutes les variables. » En partant en vacances à Venise, Roxane, Lucie, Caroline et Johanna ne s’attendaient pas à faire des rencontres qui modifieraient leur vision de la vie et bouleverseraient le cours de leur existence.

Queen Victoria sends for the Duke of Sherbourne and asks him to undertake a very secret mission on her behalf. It is so secret that only his loyal valet is told. The Duke agrees and it takes him to Greece. He visits King George who is the same age as he is and whom he has known in the past. He has been a great success as King, although he was only eighteen when he took over the throne and he is married to Princess Olga of Russia and they are extremely happy. The Duke envies them and, although he has been pursued by a great number of beautiful women in London, he has never yet fallen in love.

Nina has the most magical job in the world, matching customers with their perfect Christmas tree. Working at Christmas Tree Farm is always fun and full of laughter but the weight of past tragedy bears down on her. Her admirer is a great distraction, but is he the right man for her? Holly is just trying to be a normal teenager, having to deal with the mean girls in her class. But then the most handsome boy at school takes an interest in her. Have all her Christmases come at once?

After the Battle of Waterloo and the subsequent Army of Occupation in France, the Earl of Monthurst returns to his ancestral home in England to find it in a very bad condition. Because labour had not been available during the war, The Hall, which goes back to Tudor times, was badly in need of repair, while the farms on his extensive estate were untenanted and the fields unploughed. The Earl had unwisely brought back with him a French Comtesse who was very beautiful and possessive and was obviously determined that he should marry her.

On a hot summer’s day in 1880 the beautiful Lady Rosella is cutting a basket of blooms in her beloved Rose Garden at her aunt’s house in Hampshire. It is her seventeenth birthday and no one remembers it except for Thomas, the gardener’s boy. Later she is driven to Winchester and has an unpleasant encounter with two raucous gentlemen in the local tavern before going on to fit her first ball gown that her aunt has given her the money for just before she died. But who is the lovely masked woman she glimpses in the mirror at the dressmakers, a glorious vision clad in rose-pink silk?

Grace never thought she'd have to return home to Floral Street. Having spent most of her life building a successful career in London, she's done everything she possibly can to avoid the flower stall that's been in her family for generations. But when tragedy hits, she's got no choice. It's time to face the demons of the past and support her family. Faith has returned home after years travelling the world. She thought that her life would be different after a trip across the globe, but as she settles back into life in her childhood room she has to come to terms with her life.

Princess Zelda of Brienz in Switzerland is being harassed by her father to marry a King or Prince of one of the small countries of Europe. Zelda is very beautiful and determined when she does marry it will be for love and only love and she cannot possibly fall in love with any of her father’s suitors. She runs away from her home to her cousin, Prince Johann II of Liechtenstein, who has always been very fond of her. She tells him that she is determined to find out the truth about a scandal that has been repeated ever since she was born.

Evie Grant is forty-five years old, a widow, and single mum of two children about to leave the nest. Suddenly alone in the family home, Evie realizes she hates her job, hardly goes out and hasn't had a date since who knows when... So it feels like fate when the opportunity arises for a girls trip to New York City. Staying with her sister on the Upper East Side, Evie is enchanted by a snow-covered city consumed by preparing for Christmas. Bobble hat firmly on, Evie is walking through the city one day when she bumps into Daniel Roberts, Hollywood heartthrob and one-time boyfriend of hers.

Un écrivain néerlandais pose ses valises au Grand Hotel Europa, un palace à la splendeur délabrée. Il vient de rompre avec son grand amour, Clio, historienne de l’art passionnée, et souhaite coucher sur le papier leur tumultueuse histoire. Si l’écriture est un remède à sa désolation, les autres clients et le personnel de l’hôtel le sont tout autant.

Beautiful Lady Lucilla Welton is all alone in the world, having lost both her parents in a tragic accident. She has nowhere to go and so she stays with her cruel and distant Aunt Maud, who wants to marry her off as soon as possible. An ardent suitor is at hand – the rich Texan, Harkness Jackson – but his proposal is not one Lucilla could ever contemplate. She has already met the only man who will ever find the key to her heart – but the handsome Marquis of Castlebury is enthralled by another and for him, Lucilla seems to be no more than a casual friend.

As the snowflakes start to fall, Holly Cove welcomes a new tenant to the beautiful old cottage on the beach... For lifestyle magazine journalist Tia Armstrong, relationships, as well as Christmas, have lost all their magic. Yet Tia is up against a Christmas deadline for her latest article 'Love is, actually, all around...' So, Tia heads to Holly Cove where the restorative sea air and rugged stranger, Nic, slowly but surely start mending her broken heart. Tia didn't expect a white Christmas, and she certainly never dared dream that all her Christmas wishes might just come true.

Les Glénan, au large du Finistère. Dans cet archipel paradisiaque, où scintille une mer bleu lagon, on découvre en ce matin de mai trois cadavres, échoués sur le rivage. Le commissaire Dupin tient bon la barre, lui qui n’a pas le pied marin. Tout prête à croire que les victimes se sont noyées. Mais l’une d’elles est un homme d’affaires, impliqué dans la politique locale. Une autre, un navigateur hors pair, propriétaire d’une célèbre école de voile, et qui collectionne les ennemis... Dupin flaire l’embrouille.

Alice et Julien forment un couple en quête de bonheur et de réconciliation avec eux-mêmes. Alice, rongée par le syndrome de l'imposteur, cherche à se trouver à travers le yoga, l'hypnose et bien d'autres expériences. Pendant ce temps, Julien, le calme incarné, fait face à la dépression après avoir perdu son emploi. Leur parcours les mènera à des rencontres inattendues, des magnétiseurs aux monastères tibétains.

Dalma Wickham, having been in Athens to learn Greek, arrives at a British Steamer to return to London to find that they will not allow her dog, Twi-Twi, on board. Because she is turned away from the British ship, she walks round the quay and sees a most magnificent yacht. While she is admiring it, a bomb goes off at the end of the quay and the seamen leave the yacht to see what has happened. On an impulse, because she realises it is her last chance of getting Twi-Twi to England, she slips aboard the yacht and hides in one of the empty cabins.

En esta compilación te traemos los mejores casos de la mente más astuta del Londres victoriano. Ya sea en un callejón oscuro, una taberna de mala muerte, en las elegantes calles de Londres o en las mansiones de campo de la aristocracia inglesa, siempre hay un misterio esperando a Sherlock Holmes y su fiel compañero, el Dr. Watson.

¿Hay algo que nos recuerde más a Edgar Allan Poe que la imagen de un misterioso cuervo en el marco de una ventana? ¿O es tal vez el perturbador latido de un corazón que se niega a morir? En esta selección especial de cuentos, te presentamos las obras más emblemáticas del gran maestro del terror.

Atanasio, un adolescente larguirucho, cree ser el centro de las burlas de sus compañeros en el colegio de curas al que asiste en el Madrid de los años 80. Un alumno muy carismático aparece en este nuevo curso y, sin motivo aparente, busca hacerse un hueco en la vida de Atanasio hasta lograr convertirse en su mejor amigo. Junto a él empieza a relacionarse con jóvenes de su edad, a vivir sus primeras juergas, a experimentar los efectos del alcohol y las drogas y a conocer chicas. Pero las cosas no son siempre lo que parecen y Atanasio acaba sumergido en los secretos que esconde su nuevo amigo.

Vera se ha enamorado. Después de que el capitán de la Guardia Civil, Enzo Duarte, ayude en su rescate, él y la Balay se han ido conociendo y enamorando. ¿El problema? Parece que Duarte no está demasiado interesado en meterse en su cama... ¡Y eso es solo el principio de todo! Pues Vera tendrá que guardar secretos, descubrir misterios y, sobre todo, entender sus propios sentimientos y los de Duarte... ¡En solo nueve semanas y media! ¿Lo conseguirá?

Mit ihrem Collegeabschluss frisch in der Tasche freut sich Emily auf New York – ein bisschen unbeschwerte Zeit genießen und dabei Geld sparen, um anschließend weiter zu studieren. Der einzige Haken: Ihre neue Chefin ist Camila, erfolgreiche Geschäftsführerin eines Fernseh-Imperiums, offen bisexuell und Emilys Idol und Promi-Schwarm. Doch Camilas kleiner Sohn Jaime erobert Emilys Herz im Sturm und schon bald kommen sich die beiden Frauen auch auf privater Ebene sehr viel näher, als gut für Emilys Seelenheil ist.