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Electra d'Apliese e una delle modelle piu famose: bellissima, ricca e desiderata. Ma dietro l'immagine glamour e la fastidiosa attenzione dei paparazzi si cela una donna fragile, che fatica a reggere lo stress e le pressioni di un mondo in cui contano solo le apparenze. Electra e la piu giovane delle sorelle e mentre tutte le altre sembrano aver superato la morte del padre e aver trovato la felicita, lei si sente sempre piu persa e sola. L'unico modo per andare avanti e anestetizzare il dolore, rifugiandosi in alcol e droghe, specialmente da quando e stata mollata dal suo fidanzato. Ma c'e qualcuno che sta cercando di entrare a far parte della sua vita e tenta di contattarla in tutti i modi; si tratta di Stella Jackson, noto avvocato impegnato nella difesa dei diritti umani, che dice di essere sua nonna... Grazie ai suoi racconti, Electra scoprira la storia travagliata della sua famiglia e l'importanza di lottare per coloro che ami. Il sesto capitolo della saga delle Sette Sorelle vi portera dai grattacieli di New York alle magnifiche pianure del Kenya degli anni '40.

To the outside world, Electra DApliese seems to be the woman with everything: as one of the worlds top models, she is beautiful, rich and famous.Yet beneath the veneer, Electras already tenuous control over her state of mind has been rocked by the death of her father, Pa Salt, the elusive billionaire who adopted his six daughters from across the globe. Struggling to cope, she turns to alcohol and drugs. As those around her fear for her health, Electra receives a letter from a complete stranger who claims to be her grandmother . . .In 1939, Cecily Huntley-Morgan arrives in Kenya from New York to nurse a broken heart. Staying with her godmother, a member of the infamous Happy Valley set, on the shores of beautiful Lake Naivasha, she meets Bill Forsythe, a notorious bachelor and cattle farmer with close connections to the proud Maasai tribe. But after a shocking discovery and with war looming, Cecily has few options. Moving up into the Wanjohi Valley, she is isolated and alone. Until she meets a young woman in the woods and makes her a promise that will change the course of her life for ever.Sweeping from Manhattan to the magnificent wide-open plains of Africa, The Sun Sister is the sixth instalment in Lucinda Rileys multi-million selling epic series, The Seven Sisters.

Tiggy d'Aplièse hat sich schon als Kind mit Hingabe um kranke Tiere gekümmert. Auch jetzt, als junge Zoologin, ist die Beschäftigung mit Tieren ihre Erfüllung. Als sie das Angebot erhält, auf einem weitläufigen Anwesen in den schottischen Highlands Wildkatzen zu betreuen, zögert sie nicht lange. Dort trifft sie auf Chilly, einen weisen, alten Zigeuner aus Andalusien. Es ist eine schicksalhafte Begegnung, denn er hilft Tiggy, die ein Adoptivkind ist, das Geheimnis ihrer Herkunft zu lüften. Sie reist nach Granada, wo sie dem ebenso glamourösen wie dramatischen Lebensweg ihrer Großmutter Lucia folgt, der berühmtesten Flamenco-Tänzerin ihrer Zeit. Und Tiggy versteht endlich, welch großes Geschenk ihr zur Stunde ihrer Geburt zuteil wurde ...

Star d'Aplièse ist eine sensible junge Frau, der es nie gelang, aus dem Schatten ihrer Schwester CeCe herauszutreten. Als ihr geliebter Vater Pa Salt stirbt, steht Star plötzlich an einem Wendepunkt. Wie alle Mädchen der Familie ist auch sie ein Adoptivkind mit unbekannter Herkunft, doch der Abschiedsbrief ihres Vaters enthält einen Anhaltspunkt: die Adresse einer Londoner Buchhandlung sowie den Hinweis, dort nach einer gewissen Flora MacNichol zu fragen. Star folgt diesen Spuren, die sie auf ein wunderbares Anwesen in Kent und in die Rosengärten des Lake District im vergangenen Jahrhundert führen. Ganz langsam beginnt sie, ihr eigenes Leben zu entdecken - und ihr Herz zu öffnen für das Wagnis, das man Liebe nennt ...

Lucinda Riley scrive un thriller inquietante dove amore, giornalismo e atrocita si fondono. In La lettera d'amore Joanna viene inviata dal giornale per cui lavora da pochi mesi al funerale di un famoso attore. Il compito della giovane reporter è quello di scrivere un articolo pungente e in cui qualcosa di scottante possa emergere e del resto, tutti lo sanno, Sir James Harris era un uomo di spettacolo pieno di segreti. Proprio mentre l'estrema unzione viene data, un'anziana signora seduta vicino a Joanna si sente male e la ragazza

Der neue Bestseller von der Autorin von "Das Orchideenhaus"Mit elf Jahren begegnet Rosanna Menici zum ersten Mal dem Mann, der ihr Schicksal bestimmen wird. Der junge Tenor Roberto Rossini ist in seiner Heimat Neapel bereits ein umschwarmter Star und schenkt dem schuchternen Madchen, das bei einer Familienfeier singen soll, kaum Beachtung. Doch als die ersten Tone den Raum erfullen, kann er seine Augen nicht mehr von Rosanna losen, so rein und einzigartig ist diese Stimme. Sechs Jahre spater treffen Rosanna und Roberto an der Mailander Scala wieder aufeinander ? und gemeinsam treten sie einen unvergleichlichen Siegeszug durch die Opernhauser der Welt an. Doch ihre leidenschaftliche Liebe wird zu einer Obsession, die sie fur alles um sie herum blind werden lasst ?

Grania regresa a su Irlanda natal dispuesta a empezar una nueva vida, pero un viejo y oscuro secreto familiar se interpone en su camino. Una figura diminuta y descalza al borde del acantilado, una melena pelirroja que se mueve con las rafagas de viento, un vestido blanco hasta los tobillos... Asi es la niña la primera vez que Grania Ryan la ve. "Si le digo algo podria asustarse y caer, pero igualmente la podria arrastrar el viento", piensa. Grania se ha refugiado en casa de sus padres, en Irlanda, despues de que la relacion con su novio en Nueva York haya terminado. Alli entabla una intima amistad con esa niña, Aurora Lisle, y su padre, viudo. Sin embargo, esta inesperada relacion reaviva un profundo resentimiento entre las dos familias de cuyo origen nadie quiere hablar. Reseña:"Una fascinante y romantica novela sobre la recuperacion de las riendas de la vida, la redencion, las nuevas oportunidades y el amor perdido."Booklist

Ally D'Apliese is about to compete in one of the world's most perilous yacht races, when she hears the news of her adoptive father's sudden, mysterious death. Rushing back to meet her five sisters at their family home, she discovers that her father - an elusive billionaire affectionately known to his daughters as Pa Salt - has left each of them a tantalising clue to their true heritage. Ally has also recently embarked on a deeply passionate love affair that will change her destiny forever. But with her life now turned upside down, Ally decides to leave the open seas and follow the trail that her father left her, which leads her to the icy beauty of Norway ...There, Ally begins to discover her roots - and how her story is inextricably bound to that of a young unknown singer, Anna Landvik, who lived there over a hundred years before, and sang in the first performance of Grieg's iconic music set to Ibsen's play 'Peer Gynt'. As Ally learns more about Anna, she also begins to question who her father, Pa Salt, really was. And why is the seventh sister missing? Following the bestselling The Seven Sisters, The Storm Sister is the second book in Lucinda Riley's spellbinding series based loosely on the mythology surrounding the famous star constellation.

Ally nella tempesta, il secondo attesissimo capitolo della fortunata saga bestseller di Lucinda Riley. Un intenso romanzo d'amore pieno di passione, segreti e commoventi colpi di scena.Dopo l'affascinante Maia, la maggiore delle figlie adottive del magnate Pa' Salt, protagonista del primo capitolo della saga Le Sette Sorelle, Ally nella tempesta e il nuovo attesissimo episodio. Struggente romanzo sentimentale che Lucinda Riley dedica alla seconda sorella, Alcyone detta Ally, e a cui tocchera svelare i segreti che il padre le ha lasciato in eredita.La giovane Ally, velista esperta, e distesa al sole di uno yacht in mezzo all'Egeo e sta vivendo uno dei momenti piu emozionanti della sua vita: l'intesa professionale con il famoso skipper Theo Falys-Kings si e da poco trasformata in un amore appassionato. Ma la loro felicita viene bruscamente interrotta dalla notizia della morte di Pa' Salt, il magnate svizzero che ha adottato Ally e le sue cinque sorelle e che ha lasciato a ciascuna una serie di indizi per mettersi sulle tracce del loro passato.Ally e troppo sconvolta per esaudire la volonta di suo padre; vuole solo abbandonarsi nelle braccia di Theo e ritrovare un po' di serenita: non sa pero quello che sta per succederle, ne sa che presto dovra gettarsi nella lettura del volume lasciatole da Pa' Salt, la burrascosa stioria di Anna Landvik, una cantante d'opera norvegese che nella seconda meta dell'Ottocento divenne la musa del compositore Edvard Grieg. Ed e proprio nella gelida e romantica Norvegia che Ally dovra scoprire cosa la lega a questa donna misteriosa.Con Ally nella tempesta, Lucinda Riley ci regala un intenso romanzo d'amore pieno di passione e sentimenti che parla direttamente al cuore dei lettori.

Wie auch ihre Schwestern ist CeCe d'Apliese ein Adoptivkind mit unbekannter Herkunft. Als ihr Vater stirbt, hinterlasst er einen Hinweis auf ihre Vorgeschichte - sie soll in Australien die Spur einer gewissen Kitty Mercer ausfindig machen. Wahrend ihrer Reise dorthin fallt CeCe durch einen geheimnisvollen Mann Kittys Biografie in die Hande, eine Schottin, die vor uber hundert Jahren nach Australien kam und den Perlenhandel zu ungeahnter Blute brachte. CeCe fliegt nach Down Under, um den verschlungenen Pfaden von Kittys Schicksal zu folgen. Und taucht dabei ein in die magische Kunst der Aborigines, die ihr den Weg weist ins Herz ihrer eigenen Geschichte ...

Posy Montague is approaching her seventieth birthday. Still living in her beautiful family home, Admiral House, set in the glorious Suffolk countryside where she spent her own idyllic childhood catching butterflies with her beloved father, and raised her own children, Posy knows she must make an agonising decision. Despite the memories the house holds, and the exquisite garden she has spent twenty-five years creating, the house is crumbling around her, and Posy knows the time has come to sell it.Then a face appears from the past - Freddie, her first love, who abandoned her and left her heartbroken fifty years ago. Already struggling to cope with her son Sams inept business dealings, and the sudden reappearance of her younger son Nick after ten years in Australia, Posy is reluctant to trust in Freddies renewed affection. And unbeknown to Posy, Freddie - and Admiral House - have a devastating secret to reveal . . .Full of her trademark mix of unforgettable characters and heart-breaking secrets, The Butterfly Room is the new spellbinding, multi-generational story from Sunday Times bestseller Lucinda Riley.

La hermana tormenta es el segundo volumen de Las Siete Hermanas, una emocionante saga basada en la mitología griega y en la astrología, por la autora superventas Lucinda Riley.Siete hermanas, siete destinos, un padre con un pasado misterioso...Ally D'Apliese esta a punto de competir en una de las mas peligrosas regatas de yates del mundo cuando recibe la noticia de que su padre acaba de fallecer. Al reunirse en la mansion familiar en Suiza con sus cinco hermanas descubren que su padre, un misterioso multimillonario conocido cariñosamente como Pa Salt, ha dejado a cada una de ellas una carta con informacion sobre sus origenes.Tras leerla Ally decide dejar a un lado tanto el mar como la apasionada relacion que acababa de comenzar para seguir una pista que la lleva hasta la nevada Noruega. Alli descubrira sus raices y como su historia esta unida a la de la joven Anna Landvik, una cantante desconocida que vivio en el pais escandinavo cien años antes y que canto en la primera representacion de Peer Gynt de Ibsen con musica de Grieg.Si quieres saber mas, incluso sobre mitologia griega, las Pleyades, las esferas armilares..., visita la web de Lucinda Riley en español: esp.lucindariley.co.uk. Tambien encontraras documentacion sobrePeer Gynt de Grieg, Henrik Ibsen, el Conservatorio Leipzig, la Orquesta Filarmonica de Bergen y Fastnet Race.La critica ha dicho...La serie "Las Siete Hermanas" es romantica, arrolladora, lujosa y glamurosa.The Daily MailLa segunda entrega de la emocionante serie de Lucinda Riley nos entusiasma. El talento de la autora para mezclar la actualidad con el pasado (aqui salta desde el presente hasta el siglo XIX en Noruega) gustara a las lectoras en busca de ficcion historica. Ademas, las fans de Kristin Hannah, por ejemplo, apreciaran ante todo la historia de amor, de dolor, pero tambien de profundos lazos familiares.BooklistLa segunda entrega de la serie sobre siete hermanas adoptadas y educadas en una mansion a orillas de un lago suizo. El misterioso padre y benefactor, Pa Salt, muere de forma repentina y les deja pistas sobre sus origenes. Una novela que no podras dejar, con mucho amor y drama.The Daily MailEn los blogs...Unas descripciones fantasticas que nos muestran una Noruega real. Es un libro que os recomiendo encarecidamente y que espero que muchos leais, ya que nos trasmite una gran historia.Blog Perdida en un mundo de libros

St Stephen's, ein kleines Internat im idyllischen Norfolk. Eines Tages kommt der 18-jahrige Charlie Cavendish in Fleat House, einem der Wohnheime der traditionsreichen Schule, unter mysteriosen Umstanden ums Leben. Der Direktor beeilt sich zu erklaren, dass es sich um einen tragischen Unfall handelt, aber die Polizei beginnt unter der Leitung von Detective Inspector Jazz Hunter zu ermitteln. Sie versucht, in den verschlossenen Kosmos des Internats vorzudringen, und findet bald heraus, dass Charlie ein machthungriger junger Mann gewesen ist, der seine Mitschuler gequalt hat. War sein Tod ein Racheakt? Jazz taucht tief ein in ein Netz von Beziehungen, emotionalen Abhangigkeiten und offenen Rechnungen und sie erkennt, dass sie weit in die Vergangenheit zuruckgehen muss, wenn sie das Ratsel von Fleat House enthullen will

After the death of her father - Pa Salt, an elusive billionaire who adopted his six daughters from around the globe - Tiggy DApliese, trusting her instincts, moves to the remote wilds of Scotland. There she takes a job doing what she loves: caring for animals on the vast and isolated Kinnaird estate, employed by the enigmatic and troubled Laird, Charlie Kinnaird. Her decision alters her future irrevocably when Chilly, an ancient gypsy who has lived for years on the estate, tells her that not only does she possess a sixth sense, passed down from her ancestors, but it was foretold long ago that he would be the one to send her back home to Granada in Spain. In the shadow of the magnificent Alhambra, Tiggy discovers her connection to the fabled gypsy community of Sacromonte, who were forced to flee their homes during the civil war, and to La Candela, the greatest flamenco dancer of her generation. From the Scottish Highlands and Spain to South America and New York, Tiggy follows the trail back to her own exotic but complex past. And under the watchful eye of a gifted gypsy bruja, she begins to embrace her own talent for healing.

Au sein du prestigieux internat privé de St. Stephen, dans l'idyllique campagne du Norfolk, se dresse une austère bâtisse victorienne assez laide et en manque cruel d'entretien : le dortoir de Fleat House. Lorsque le corps sans vie d'un élève y est découvert, le directeur s'empresse de conclure a un tragique accident. Mais l'enquêtrice londonienne Jazz Hunter n'est pas de cet avis. En tentant de pénétrer le microcosme fermé que constitue le pensionnat, celle-ci apprend que la victime était un jeune homme arrogant qui avait beaucoup d'ennemis...Tandis que les mystères et les mensonges se multiplient, Jazz se retrouve plongée dans un monde fait de jeux de pouvoir, de dépendances émotionnelles et d'affaires inachevées. Bientôt, ce sont des secrets vieux de plus de trente ans qui refont surface, bien plus sombres que ce qu'elle aurait pu imaginer. Lucinda Riley excelle dans le roman policier. Version Femina. Captivant. Le Parisien week-end.

A la mort de leur père, Maia et ses soeurs se retrouvent dans le château de leur enfance, sur les rives du lac de Genève. Toutes ont été adoptées, et chacune a reçu en héritage un indice lui permettant de remonter le fil de ses origines. Maia est ainsi conduite jusqu'a un manoir en ruine, sur les collines de Rio de Janeiro.

L'histoire d'Ally, l'une des sept filles adoptées par le milliardaire Pa Salt. Après le décès de ce dernier, Ally part a la recherche de ses racines en suivant les indices laissés par son père adoptif. Cette quête la mène en Norvège, où elle se découvre des liens avec la chanteuse Anna Landvik, née cent ans plus tôt, et qui fut la première interprète de Peer Gynt.

Star D'Aplièse is at a crossroads in her life after the sudden death of her beloved father - the elusive billionaire, named Pa Salt by his six daughters, all adopted by him from the four corners of the world. He has left each of them a clue to their true heritage, but Star - the most enigmatic of the sisters - is hesitant to step out of the safety of the close relationship she shares with her sister CeCe. In desperation, she decides to follow the first clue she has been left, which leads her to an antiquarian bookshop in London, and the start of a whole new world . . .A hundred years earlier, headstrong and independent Flora MacNichol vows she will never marry. She is happy and secure in her home in the Lake District, living close to her idol, Beatrix Potter, when machinations outside of her control lead her to London, and the home of one of Edwardian society's most notorious players, Alice Keppel. Flora is pulled between passionate love and duty to her family, but finds herself a pawn in a game - the rules of which are only known to others, until a meeting with a mysterious gentleman unveils the answers that Flora has been searching for her whole life . . .As Star learns more of Flora's incredible journey, she too goes on a voyage of discovery, finally stepping out of the shadow of her sister and opening herself up to the possibility of love.

Spanning from the 1930s to the present day, from the Wharton Park estate in England to Thailand, this sweeping novel tells the tale of a concert pianist and the aristocratic Crawford family, whose shocking secrets are revealed, leading to devastating consequences. As a child, concert pianist Julia Forrester spent many idyllic hours in the hothouse of Wharton Park, the grand estate where her grandfather tended exotic orchids. Years later, while struggling with overwhelming grief over the death of her husband and young child, she returns to this tranquil place. There she reunites with Kit Crawford, heir to the estate and her possible salvation. When they discover an old diary, Julia seeks out her grandmother to learn the truth behind a love affair that almost destroyed the estate. Their search takes them back to the 1940s when Harry, a former heir to Wharton Park, married his young society bride, Olivia, on the eve of World War II. When the two lovers are cruelly separated, the impact will be felt for generations to come. This atmospheric story alternates between the magical world of Wharton Park and Thailand during World War II. Filled with twists and turns, passions and lies, and ultimately redemption, The Orchid House is a beautiful, romantic, and poignant novel.

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