Showing results by publisher "Saga Egmont" in Genre Fiction

Nadia, una mujer de 39 años, casada con un empresario de éxito, es traductora del inglés y está especializada en novelas eróticas y románticas; emprende un viaje en solitario a Ibiza para seguir las reformas de una casa antigua situada a escasos metros del mar, que el matrimonio ha comprado a los herederos de un médico que falleció en extrañas circunstancias. El matrimonio de Nadia hace aguas, y su relación se irá deteriorando cuando llega a la convicción de que su marido le engaña con otra mujer.

Escape to the charming, flower-filled landscape of Yokel County, California... Rose Anderson is through with being pitied for her single status at the lively gatherings at her family's flower farm. She's busy arranging stunning bouquets, especially with the fall harvest season in full bloom, and doesn't need a man. Enter Cole McKittrick, a newcomer trying to escape his big-city woes. Yokel County's small-town charm, its crimson fall foliage and cozy atmosphere, is bringing back childhood memories he’d rather forget.

A widow spends weeks haunting a cemetery, desperate to track down an unknown woman who keeps leaving flowers on her husband’s grave; A daughter searches a foreign city for her father, trying to understand why he disappeared forty-five years ago; A former gay lover of Roger Casement stands among the crowds at his state funeral in 1965, paying silent homage to the closeted world they were forced to inhabit at the dawning of the Irish State. A writer at a book launch comes face to face with the person secretly responsible for his success.

Summer is approaching in the market town of Little Woodford, which can only mean one thing: the town fete! But the winds of change are blowing through the sleepy town high street and trouble is on the horizon... Two hot properties have come up for sale: The Talbot, Little Woodford's much-loved local pub and The Reeve House, a beautiful country manor cut off from the rest of the town and closed to the community. A 'for sale' sign means new members of the community, and gossip begins to fly about an offer on the Reeve House.

When old friends return, sparks ignite this Christmas in Springhollow... Tomboy Scarlett thought Devon would be her best friend forever. He was the only person in Springhollow who supported her ambitious artist dreams. But then one winter, Devon and his parents disappear without warning to start a new life in NYC and a devastated Scarlett is left alone to face her high-school bullies and overbearing mother. Fast-forward ten years: Scarlett is playing it safe in her childhood village with a dull PA job and a wardrobe that passes her mother's old-fashioned standards

Your best friend deserves the truth. But it will ruin her life. What would you do? It’s been over twenty years since four very different teenage girls sat on that beach at Goran Haven, and swore to be best friends forever. Their lives went different ways after Emily left. But each remembered that promise. And none truly found friendship like it again. Now, Emily’s back, with a secret she can’t face. She tries to hide away, take time to heal and make some difficult choices, but she runs into one of her old friends, and soon the four are reunited.

He helped you move on... Until you discovered what he did. Louisa Adams has done her best to hold herself together in the years since she lost her husband in a car accident. But each morning she wakes up alone is more painful than the last. She hopes moving into the crumbling seaside guest house her daughter just bought in Devon will help put what’s left of her broken family back together... There, Louisa is offered a final chance to save her career by writing an article on a local sand artist, Isaac.

Monsoon Memories is an unforgettable journey through a mesmerizing, passionate land of contrasts – with a family whose story will touch your heart. Anyone who enjoys the storytelling of Jodi Picoult, Diane Chamberlain, or Dorothy Koomson will love this. Exiled from her family in India for more than a decade, Shirin and her husband lead a comfortable but empty life in London. Memories of her childhood – exotic fragrances, colours, stifling heat and tropical storms – fill Shirin with a familiar and growing ache for the land and the people that she loves.

Nature or nurture? The impact of traumatic childhood experiences reverberates into the grown-up world of Frank, Alice and Henry – children from three families suffering the fall-out from their early life. Frank, a working-class boy abused by his step-father. Alice, physically handicapped and frustrated. Henry, the less clever son of wealthy ambitious parents. From a rundown estate in Eastleigh, a small town in Darlington and an affluent Cotswold home, each character grapples with the life fate has handed them.

Rose Gregory has suffered a devastating blow, a double bereavement from which months later she is still reeling. Sanctuary and rest are prescribed by her doctor. But when she arrives at her refuge, a dank and decaying monastery, she finds it is not the haven promised. Despite the veneer of calm contemplation, the monastery turns out to be a hotbed of intrigue and disharmony. Rose witnesses bullying and cruelty and ultimately in defence of the vulnerable turns to violence herself.

La spiaggia e la collina, la città e la campagna. Amici di vecchia data, amori vuoti, la noia dell'inverno e l'entusiasmo dell'estate, così pura e calda, traboccante di speranza. "La spiaggia" accarezza tutti i temi cardine della poetica pavesiana. Ci sono due amici che si vedono poco, una gita in compagnia, le chiacchiere davanti a una bottiglia di vino, le feste dei santi patroni, le luci della festa che si accendono e poi malinconicamente spengono - un Novecento italiano in bilico tra il vero e l'immaginato.

"Vad ska du bli när du blir stor?" Det är frågan som vuxna ställer allra oftast. Jag var tvungen att hitta ett tillfredsställande svar. Jag var tvungen att hitta ett yrke. Den dagen fattade jag ett beslut. Det enda jobbet jag kunde tänka mig var: Handlare! Fem minuter senare stod jag framför morfar. Det var ingen idé att vänta. Att bli handlare som vuxen var väl ingen sak, men att bli det som barn: då kan vi snacka framgångsrik." "Morfars Livs" är historien om en liten flicka som älskar att vara lärling i sin morfars matvarubutik.

"There’s a gap where my sense of place should be. It’s quite a useful one sometimes. It allows me to sit on the cusp of an opinion." Following a move to the Netherlands, a young woman dissects the developments of her new life: awkward exchanges with the people she meets, days spent alone freelancing in her apartment, her confrontation with boredom and unease. In her newfound isolation, she develops an unusual friendship with Colette, a woman she neither likes nor can keep away from.

Efter att ha bott i olika delar av världen under hela sitt liv har Lisa nu flyttat till Löwekulle, en liten by på Österlen. Hon öppnar en blomsteraffär med fokus på närodlat och ser fram emot att stadga sig och komma närmre sitt ursprung, då hennes släkt har rötter i trakten. Men det visar sig vara svårare än hon trott att skapa sig en gemenskap. Det är inte alla som är glada över hennes ankomst, och även om hon får nya vänner så verkar det också finnas de som inte vill ha henne där. Men varför?

Snehild viene al mondo nel bel mezzo di una sanguinosa guerra. La madre fugge attraverso i boschi e raggiunge la città di Himlinge, dove Snehild cresce. Quando, però, la potente sacerdotessa della città, Ragnfrid, sospetta che Snehild abbia capacità superiori alle sue, decide che è necessario sbarazzarsi di lei. Ispirata alla mitologia nordica, la serie "La veggente di Midgard" è ambientata nella Danimarca dell’età del ferro. Una storia avvincente di donne forti, vendetta, destino e favore degli dèi, in un’epoca in cui la passione e l’onore dominano il campo di battaglia.

Esiste un lembo di terra dove gli uomini sono banditi. Si chiama "Lo Stato delle Terre Vergini", e lì la natura non ha ancora incontrato la mano della civiltà. Nel resto del mondo, invece, la situazione ambientale peggiora di giorno in giorno; nelle metropoli, l’aria sta diventando irrespirabile. Per questo motivo, Bea decide che è arrivato il momento per lei e per sua figlia Agnes di lasciare la città. Con altre diciotto persone aderiscono a un esperimento sociale, e "Lo Stato delle Terre Vergini", finora incontaminato, accoglierà per la prima volta la presenza umana.

Una poderosa novela basada en la vida real de una prostituta a la que la burguesía de Buenos Aires y Barcelona de principios del siglo XX acudía. 1900-2008. Una serie de condiciones conducen a Treseta, una chica de la Lleida rural, a convertirse en novicia primero y en prostituta después, convirtiendo el placer en su nueva forma de vida. Su nombre cambiará a Teresita al llegar a Buenos Aires, para terminar llamándose Teresa de nuevo en España.

Stürmisch zieht einen In meines Vaters Haus sofort in den Bann. Denn nicht nur das Wetter fegt geradezu apokalyptisch über die Algarve in Portugal hinweg. Über Paul, den in Frankfurt lebenden Erben eines internationalen Unternehmens, bricht das Leben herein. Das unbekümmerte Dasein eines Studenten aus reicher Familie liegt hinter ihm und die erbarmungslosen Herausforderungen des Geschäftslebens, die hartherzigen Anforderungen seines patriarchalischen Großvaters Otto, sowie sein verwirrendes Liebesleben holen ihn ein.

Ein Maler, eine verheiratete Frau und ein Nachmittag voller Leidenschaft, der alles verändert! Die Amerikanerin Roberta Collins trifft im Frankreichurlaub auf den Maler Pierre Mondragon – obwohl sie bereits vergeben ist kann sie ihm nicht widerstehen. Auch Jahre später kann Roberta die Erinnerungen an dieses Abenteuer nicht abschütteln; sie kann Pierre einfach nicht vergessen und beschließt an den Ort ihres Glücks zurückzukehren um ihn wiederzusehen.

Die junge Witwe Solfrid verbringt zusammen mit ihrem Sohn Jakob wie immer den Sommer genügsam in einem einsamen Haus im Wald. Doch Solfrid denkt immerzu an ihren Geliebten. Endlich hat sie sich wieder verliebt, doch Kjetil ist rastlos und möchte sich nicht festlegen. Als er sie in dem kleinen Haus besucht, ist Jakob urplötzlich verstört und verschwindet spurlos.