Venice, 1745, is an age of reckless pleasures, playful artifice, and baroque excess. An accident has reduced Tito Amato's glorious singing voice to a husky croak. But now the male soprano is determined to prove himself as a director. As the Teatro San Marco is losing subscribers to a rival company, the theater's Maestro Torani charges Tito with locating the perfect opera to fill the seats in time for Carnival. Surprisingly, a second-rate composer provides the very thing - an opera so replete with gorgeous melodies the public speculates it was written by the late Antonio Vivaldi. Even more disconcerting are the rumors swirling around Angeletto, a male soprano imported from Naples to sing the lead. Is the singer truly a castrato or a female soprano engaging in a daring but lucrative masquerade? Both matters turn dangerous when Maestro Torani is viciously attacked and killed. And Tito is the prime suspect. His own life as well as the future of Teatro San Marco now... Views: 65
When Jana returns from a mission trip, she discovers that her pastor husband has left with his secretary...along with their bank account. Humiliated, penniless, pregnant, and very much alone, Jana reluctantly turns to her mother, Eleanor, in desperation. Eleanor is haunted by her own guilt and pain, and the arrival of her daughter only serves as a daily reminder of the memories she has long kept hidden away. Will a delightfully eccentric aunt become a catalyst between these two women? Will they allow God's spirit—and God's people—to bring true healing...and a future filled with love? Views: 65
When Cooper's most memorable hero, Leatherstocking, started an American tradition by setting off into the sunset in The Pioneers, one early reader said of his departure, "I longed to go with him." American readers couldn't get enough of the Leatherstocking saga (collected in two Library of America volumes) and, fourteen years after he portrayed the death of Natty Bumppo in The Prairie, Cooper brought him back in The Pathfinder, or The Inland Sea (1841). During the Seven Years War, just after the events narrated in The Last of the Mohicans, Natty brings the daughter of a British sergeant to her father's station on the Great Lakes, where the French and their Indian allies are plotting a treacherous ambush. Here, for the first time, he falls in love with a woman, before Cooper manages bring off Leatherstocking's most poignant, and perhaps his most revealing, escape.The Deerslayer (1842) brings the saga full circle and follows... Views: 65
Maxwell Maitland is willing to travel to Scotland if that's where the next big development project takes him, but when he gets to the site—a majestic Highland castle—nothing goes according to plan. Single mom Jeannie Brodie is on hand to smooth out problems with the locals, but she creates utter chaos in Max's highly organized, schedule-driven heart. Max is has always gone wherever the job takes him, but this time, he'll have to choose between the lady and the castle. Views: 65
With so many obstacles in her path, will Alice Chesterfield find sanctuary in her new life on the Texas frontier—and a chance at love? Views: 65
The third book in the Lords of Night Street series from bestselling romance author Wendy Vella.
Viscount Hatherton has never met anyone like Miss Poppy March. Exquisite, headstrong, and reckless, she's on a dangerous quest to expose the fiend she believes is poisoning her employer. She enlists his help, and Jacob is soon tasked with protecting her when he realizes her life is also under threat. The more time he spends with Poppy, the more he understands that she is what is missing in his life. She’s warmed the cold places in his heart, and brought him into the light. Can he keep her safe and convince her of his love when she is equally determined to keep them apart? Views: 64
The Killmaster tracks the KGB into the jungles of Central America Views: 64
