Showing results for "Das Testament" in Romance

It is the year AD 62. The notorious Roman emperor Nero orders Marco Junio Vitalis, a seasoned military general, to assist him in a most peculiar legal proceeding. Vitalis interrogates an elderly Jewish fisherman named Peter, who many years earlier had been a close friend of a man known as Jesus - the same Jesus condemned to death in Jerusalem by Pontius Pilate.

People often think of Job sitting on the ash heap, his life in shambles. But how did he get there? What was Job's life like before tragedy struck? What did he think as his world came crashing down around him? And what was life like after God restored his wealth, health, and family? Through painstaking research and a writer's creative mind, Mesu Andrews weaves an emotional and stirring account of this well-known story told through the eyes of the women who loved him.

Carrie Preston is used to hard work - oldest of 10, with an incompetent mother and a drunken father, she struggles to find food for her siblings. But nothing could have prepared her for the day fate deals her family the cruellest of hands, rendering them more desperate than ever. In a harsh world, small acts of kindness can bring great hope - Eli Beckett's offer of a job at the Dragon pub promises a better future for Carrie, especially as Eli's uncle has offered his nephew some spare land to build a music room.

Martha Vadeva führt ein geruhsames Leben in Rom. Eines Tages wird die 62-jährige Boutique-Besitzerin von einer schwedischen Anwaltskanzlei kontaktiert. Ihr stünde ein größeres Erbe zu, teilt man ihr mit. Martha kann sich nicht erklären, warum oder von wem dieses Erbe sein soll. Als sie sich auf ein persönliches Treffen mit den Schweden einlässt, wird sie mit einer Vergangenheit konfrontiert, die sie längst hinter sich gelassen zu haben glaubte.

When lonely transgender exorcist, Colin Hart, finds himself challenged by an unruly haunted house in Gideon, Colorado, he’s kept awake by ghosts, demons, ghouls, and the handsome nonbinary owner of the house, Bishop Martínez.

Love for war's victims keeps them apart. Will love for each other see them through? The slightest spark will ignite an explosion. And the tinderbox of broken political and racial relations in 1960s France and Algeria provides plenty of kindling. In the midst of the chaos, Gabriella Madison guards the orphans in her care while battling jealousy with Anne-Marie Duchemin, David’s former flame who has recently arrived in Castelnau, France.

Motherless and raised alongside her brothers, Alanah, a Canaanite, is no stranger to fighting. When her father and brothers are killed in battle with the Hebrews, she disguises herself and sneaks onto the battlefield to avenge her family. The one thing she never counted on was surviving. Tobiah, a Hebrew warrior, is shocked to find an unconscious woman among the casualties. Compelled to bring her to a healer back at the Hebrew camp, he's unprepared for the consequences of what he intended as an act of compassion.

Lizzie Brandt was valedictorian of her high school class, but at Radleigh University, all she's acing are partying and hooking up with the wrong guys. But all that changes when her parents are killed in a tragic accident, making her guardian to her two younger brothers. To keep them out of foster care, she'll have to fix up her image, her life, and her GPA - fast. Too bad the only person on campus she can go to for help is her humorless, pedantic Byzantine history TA, Connor Lawson, who isn't exactly Lizzie's biggest fan.

Her days marked by turmoil and faded dreams, Abigail has resigned herself to a life with a man she does not love. But when circumstances offer her a second chance at happiness with the handsome David, she takes a leap of faith to join his wandering tribe. Still, her struggles are far from over. How can she share his love with the other women he insists on marrying?

Bathsheba is a woman who longs for love. With her devout husband away fighting the king's wars for many months at a time, discontent and loneliness dog her steps - and make it frighteningly easy to succumb to King David's charm and attention. Though she immediately regrets her involvement with the powerful king, the pieces are set in motion that will destroy everything she holds dear. Can she find forgiveness at the feet of the Almighty? Or has her sin separated her from God - and David - forever?

Etrange demeure, en vérité, que cette propriété de la côte normande ! Un vieillard égoïste, Albéric d'Erquoi, y vit seul, en attendant la mort. Et, sous une forme innattendue, dramatique, la mort survient : un matin , on trouve M.d'Erquoy assassiné.

Je m'appelle Agnès, et je suis orpheline. Ah ! Et sorcière, aussi. Mon oncle m'a engagée dans son étude notariale. Ne croyez pas que le job soit ennuyeux, ce serait même plutôt le contraire. En ce moment, tout l'AlterMonde est en émoi à cause d'une épidémie de Roméo et Juliette. Imaginez: des zombies tombant amoureux de licornes, des vampires roucoulant avec des kitsune, des sirènes jurant un amour éternel à des garous.

Je m'appelle Agnès Cleyre et je suis orpheline. De ma mère sorcière, j'ai hérité du don de voir les fantômes. Plutôt une malédiction qui m'a obligée à vivre recluse, à l'abri de la violence des sentiments des morts. Mais depuis le jour où mon oncle notaire m'a prise sous son aile, ma vie a changé. Contrairement aux apparences, le quotidien de l'étude qu'il dirige n'est pas de tout repos : vampires, loups-garous, sirènes... À croire que tout l'AlterMonde a une succession à gérer ! Moi qui voulais de l'action, je ne suis pas déçue.

Je m'appelle Agnès Cleyre et je suis une sorcière. Une vraie cette fois. Ignorée durant toute mon existence par mes consœurs, voilà que la Grande Mère a enfin décidé de m'intégrer dans un convent. Mais pas le temps de m'interroger sur cet étrange revirement de situation. Au même moment, tous les vampires du Cénacle Majeur viennent de périr dans un mystérieux attentat, laissant à l'étude notariale de mon oncle la délicate question de la succession à régler et la garde d'un étrange coffre qui attire bien des convoitises.