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Laura Kinsale

    Laura Kinsale, een New York Times-bestsellerauteur, maakte de overstap naar het schrijven van romantische fictie na een zesjarige carrière als geoloog. Deze eerdere ervaring, met lange eenzame ritten naar afgelegen boorlocaties en het navigeren in door mannen gedomineerde omgevingen, gaf haar een uniek perspectief dat haar verhaalbenadering beïnvloedt. Kinsale wijdt nu haar tijd aan het creëren van ingewikkelde plots en het verkennen van karakter-motivaties, waarbij ze de ruige buitenwereld inruilde voor de stille intensiteit van het vertellen van verhalen. Haar werk staat bekend om zijn diepe emotionele resonantie en de boeiende ontwikkeling van de reizen van haar personages.

    The Dream Hunter
    Midsummer Moon
    Shadowheart
    Seize the Fire
    The Shadow and the Star
    Flowers from the storm
    • Lessons in French

      • 458bladzijden
      • 17 uur lezen

      Laura Kinsale's unique and powerfully written love stories transcend the romance genre. In this, her first new book in five years, she delivers a poignant, funny, sexy, Regency romance sure to delight her many fans and attract a whole new readership.Trevelyan and Callie are childhood sweethearts with a taste for adventure, until the fateful day her father discovers them embracing in the carriage house and, in a furious frenzy, drives Trevelyan away in disgrace. Nine long, lonely years later, Trevelyan returns. Callie discovers that he can still make her blood race and fill her life with excitement, but he can't give her the one thing she wants more than anything--himself.For Trevelyan, Callie is a spark of light in a world of darkness and deceit. Before he can bear to say his last goodbyes, he's determined to sweep her into one last, fateful adventure, just for the two of them.

      Lessons in French2010
      3,7
    • Shadowheart

      • 488bladzijden
      • 18 uur lezen

      Dangerous and dashing assassin Allegreto wants to regain his rightful place in the rich Italian principality of Monteverde. Happily, the means to do so is Lady Elena, long-lost Monteverde princess and sole heir to the kingdom. Though she is promised to his rival, Allegreto seizes her ship, takes Elena prisoner, and weds her, thus beginning their battle of wits and passion.

      Shadowheart2005
      3,9
    • A fatally dangerous man—and the woman who stands in the way of all he has ever desired. Beautiful and ruthless, the elegant assassin Allegreto will stop at nothing to regain his rightful place. The perfect instrument has just fallen into his hands, in the lovely form of Lady Elena—the long-lost princess of the land he intends to wrest back from his enemies. But she is no mere maiden to be possessed. Even as he forces her to bend to his will, in the heat of desire and fury Elena finds the hidden power in her own soul, a merciless passion and command that will bring her dark lover to his knees. Her mastery may destroy him—or build an unexpected future from the bitter ashes of his life and dreams.

      Shadow Heart2004
      3,5
    • A young knight will take up his sword for the honor of a beautiful and mysterious princess--and risk his life for the love that burns between them.

      For My Lady's Heart2004
      3,7
    • Flowers from the storm

      • 560bladzijden
      • 20 uur lezen

      The Duke of Jervaulx was brilliant and dangerous. Considered dissolute, reckless, and extravagant, he was transparently referred to as the ′D of J′ in scandal sheets, where he and his various exploits featured with frequency. But sometimes the most womanising rake can be irresistible, and even his most casual attentions fascinated the sheltered Maddy Timms, quiet daughter of a simple mathematician.

      Flowers from the storm2004
      4,1
    • A mysterious lieutenant and a lonely, young widow must face the consequences that arise when their innocent correspondence transforms into a secret love--and a passion strong enough to destroy them both.

      My Sweet Folly1997
      3,6
    • The Dream Hunter

      • 348bladzijden
      • 13 uur lezen

      Cool, reserved Lord Winter has been searching for the legendary horse known as String of Pearls. Instead he discovers Zenia Stanhope, an English adventuress, disguised as a Bedouin boy. Zenia longs to return to a comfortable life in England while Lord Winter wants to continue his dangerous adventures.

      The Dream Hunter1994
      3,6
    • The Shadow and the Star

      • 464bladzijden
      • 17 uur lezen

      THE SHADOWWealthy, powerful and majestically handsome, he is a man of dark secrets--a master of the ancient martial arts of an exotic distant land. Scarred by a childhood of shocking degradation, he has sworn to love chastely... but burns with the fires of unfulfilled passion.THE STARLovely, innocent and nearly destitute, she is drawn to him by a fevered yearning she could never deny -- following her enigmatic "shadow warrior" into a dangerous world of desire and righteous retribution.

      The Shadow and the Star1991
      4,0
    • Seize the Fire

      • 583bladzijden
      • 21 uur lezen

      Readers should be enchanted. -Publishers Weekly An unlikely princess, exiled and innocent, and a war hero with hell to pay...

      Seize the Fire1989
      4,0
    • Midsummer Moon

      • 391bladzijden
      • 14 uur lezen

      All the king's men could not surpass the intellect, nor all the king's ladies the beauty of Merlin Lambourne. As the infamous Napoleon's deadly army grows ever closer, Lord Ransom Falconer frantically searches for an inventor who can create a new way to defeat the advancing forces. He unexpectedly finds that only the lovely Merlin is adequate for the challenge. Drunk from her intoxicating beauty, Falconer whisks Merlin backto his home on a trail of tender kisses, oblivious to mounting whispers ofscandal. His quickly falls under the spell of her magical touch. But as Napoleon draws nearer, Falconer must use Merlin's own inventions to protect her from danger. The magic of love surrounds them as they fall under the spell of undeniable passion.

      Midsummer Moon1987
      3,7
    • Roderica Delamore, cursed with the ability to read minds, offers her entire fortune to marry the Devil Earl, a notorious Irish rake whose thoughts she cannot hear, only to discover the heights of passion and the torment of dark secrets from the past.

      Uncertain Magic1987
      3,6
    • The hidden heart

      • 384bladzijden
      • 14 uur lezen

      Raised by her late father in the jungles and tropical forests, Tess Collier reluctantly agrees to return to England and boards the ship of captain Gryphon Meridon, whose promise to protect her evolves into feelings of passion. Reissue.

      The hidden heart1986
      3,6