Can a talent become a curse? For Laszlo Spiro the answer is ?yes?. Learning at his father's knees, young Laszlo soon surpasses his father's ability for art forgery. Near the end of World War II in Budapest, Hungary, Laszlo is hidden in the house of the man who markets his forgeries as real works of art. It is there that he meets a beautiful young maid named Magda. Their lives will forever be intertwined even though they become separated. But it is at this point that Laszlo's life begins a downward spiral. Taken to a concentration camp, he is forced to continue his forgeries unwillingly. Although he makes many efforts to achieve happiness, the curse of his talents continually thwarts him from achieving his dream. His life unfolds in the turbulent years of the ?cold war?. Will he ever be reunited with Magda? Only time will tell.
To everyone who meets him, Porter Barrington lives a charmed life. Hes young, handsome and a Princeton graduate who holds a responsible position in his familys lucrative ad agency. Then Susan Ashton appears at his offifi ce door and introduces him to a new world of sexual pleasure. Soon she possesses him body, soul and mind. Although hes deliriously happy, he becomes the eye of a storm and his world soon spins out of control. Through all of this, he is drawn closer and closer to her flfl ame which will either warm or destroy him.
For Hank Weldon, life has gone straight downhill. With the death of his wife and child, he turns to liquor to soothe his sorrow. Now he must pay the price as he is dismissed from the New York City Police Department. He takes on a new life as a private detective, and everything has a mundane routine. All this ends when a Russian gangster asks him to find his missing fiance. In a flash, he finds himself in the middle of a murder mystery in which he becomes the prime suspect.
As a child, Uccello is discovered to have a truly magnificent singing voice. It is decided that he will become a professional singer but at what cost? As the story unfolds, the reader uncovers the heights of a renowned 18th century singer juxtaposed to the seedy, treacherous existence of castrati. The amorous adventure of a young singer begins in Italy and takes him to the court of King George of England. Along the way, Uccello makes love to a bevy of courtly beauties who take him to their bed. In the end, though, he makes enemies of wealthy and powerful men who seek to bring the young singer to his fall.
Maj. Ambrose Rawling, the master of Rosemont Plantation in South Carolina, might be the last person one would expect to fall in love with and marry Sybilla, a gypsy girl. But he's not the only one bewitched by her charms; Matthew Sedwick, the overseer of the slaves at Rosemont, pursues the mistress of the plantation, and their love affair results in a family curse that will last generations. Through the generations, the Rawlings-some of them with good intentions and selfish motives-chase their dreams. Family members include: Monroe Rawling, the son of a slave girl who passes himself off as white and who will do anything to keep his background a secret; Madeline Rawling, who struggles to help the family survive at home while a war rages outside; and Theodore Rawling, whose eagerness to fight with the Confederates leaves him a broken man. Follow the Rawlings in Bound by Blood as they try to undo the sins of the past in a family saga that begins in the years after the American Revolution and spans beyond World War II.
Estella Danzetti lives the idealistic life as the daughter of a rich and powerful merchant in 14th century Venice but all this comes crashing down around her once she realizes that her Uncle Silvestro is responsible for her parents deaths. She is quickly sold into slavery and finds herself part of the harem of the sadistic Amir Shaykhu. She learns to adjust in her new situation but in her heart she burns with a vengeance to kill her uncle for everything he has done to her family. Now known as Huda, she gives birth to two children whom she builds her new world around and slowly the fire of vengeance is forgotten. However, due to a twist of fate, she and her daughter find themselves in the court of the Turkish prince Orhan, who her daughter is promised in marriage. It is while she is there that she is called upon to translate for a Venetian prisoner who she discovers is her cousin, the son of her Uncle Silvestro. It is at that exact moment of discovery that she sees, at last, an opportunity to become an avenging angel but she is torn by the fact that her daughter is pregnant with the princes child and that she has finally found the happiness she once had as a child. Her dilemma tears her apart and she knows that whatever road she chooses to follow, part of her will always second-guessing her decision. Set in the time of the emerging Renaissance in Italy, the friction between Constantinople and the Turks and the Black Death, Scarred is the story of every person who finds him or herself at a crossroad and hopes they choose the correct one.
Deep within the rainforests heart, deep within its unknown part lies a Mayan city lost in the centuries of time. In its golden age, Nakanjo was ruled by a mighty warrior king named Jaguar Claw, who extended the citys domination over other Mayan cities. Later, a Spanish conquistador, Cesar de Leon, hears the fable of the riches of Nakanjo and is determined to make its wealth his own. Finally, Esmie Cummings, an archeologist, follows in her husbands footsteps to at last uncover the city, but as Esmie delves deeper and deeper into the mystery, she does not realize that she is endangering her own life.
For Roland Pennell it is the find of a lifetime. He has acquired a scroll from an ancient Roman writer. However, little does he know this scroll will plunge him into the world of espionage in which his life is threatened by a Soviet chess champ.
Sitting among many of the people he despised at the Displaced Persons Camp, the German American ex-patriot Erich Himmelman attempted to forget about his current situation as he desperately tried to find a way out of his dire circumstances, but he saw no way out of his current predicament. Besides, I’m sick to death of running and constantly looking back over my shoulder. Betrayed and stabbed in the back by a woman! There’s no reason to call them the weaker sex! They use their sexuality to entrap men! He thought back to his aunt and how she had betrayed his cousin. They’re all the same temptresses without a soul! Taking a deep breath, he took a moment to think back on his idyllic life as a child in North Range, Minnesota.
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