Solage of skin

Les tourments d'Annabella - Occasion

Suddenly risen to power and influence, Samuel Fairbrother, manufacturer and retailer of boots, shoes and clogs, decided that his new station in life deserved a more imposing residence.  Accordingly he bought himself a thirty-four-roomed mansion situated on the outskirts of Fellburn.  With the house came the butler, Maitland, who at once made plain his belief that Samuel, far from the gentleman his predecessor had been, was no more than an upstart.So began a clash of wills between master and man, at which Samuel Fairbrother discovered he was at a distinct disadvantage, for Maitland was well skilled in the art of maintaining his indispensability.  Fairbrother, for his part, was only too aware that he dare not dispence with Maitland's services.  And so an uneasy truce was declared between them.As the years went by and the century turned, Samuel Fairbrother saw his children, one by one, leave the big house to make lives for their own--all except his eldest daughter Janet who, by means of a legacy, was enabled to shape the destiny of her father's scattered family and effect the reconciliation that he thought was impossible.

L'héritière

1937. En venant en aide à Élisa, une adolescente d'extraction modeste, agressée dans la campagne anglaise, le lieutenant Geoffrey Fulton n'imaginait pas que sa vie serait bouleversée. Lorsque six années plus tard, en 1943, Geoffrey, défiguré, encore hanté par les combats, rentre au pays, tout lui semble étranger. À commencer par Élisa, qui est devenue une femme. Une femme qui l'aime toujours, mais qui a cédé aux avances d'un autre homme, dont elle attend un enfant.

Jusqu'à la fin du jour

The blind years

Riley

Dissimulé derrière les bottes de foin, Davie, stupéfait, contemplait un spectacle incroyable : à quelques pas de là, le Maître enlaçait passionnément Molly. Et elle souriait, heureuse, abandonnée dans ses bras répondant avec ardeur à son désir. Davie savait que ce qu'il venait de surprendre là bouleverserait sa vie. Plus jamais les choses ne seraient pareilles. Plus jamais il n'accepterait e se plier à l'autorité du Maître. Il lui faudrait quitter cette ferme où il avait grandi, abandonner ce pays qui était le sien et enfouir au plus profond de son cœur son amour secret, à jamais blessé. Car dans la puritaine Angleterre du règne de Victoria, que vaut la parole d'un simple paysan contre celle du Maître tout-puissant.

La maison des flammes

Tilly Trotter isn't like the other girls in the villages of County Durham. Tall and coltish, she's not afraid of taking on 'man's work' to help out the grandparents who raised her. There's an unusual beauty to her too - a beauty that's envied by the local women and lusted after by the men.But for all the attention Tilly only loves one man, farmer Simon Bentwood, and she's heartbroken to discover that he's betrothed to another. But there are even harder times ahead for Tilly. A spurned suitor takes a terrible revenge. Idle gossip brands her a witch. A betrayal forces her into the cruel drudgery of the local mine and puts her life in danger. But Tilly refuses to let her spirit be broken - determined that all this will serve only to make her stronger..

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