В большой крестьянской семье рождается глухонемой мальчик, сирота при живых родителях. Окруженный любовью и заботой родни, он растет в уверенности, что весь мир за него и так будет всегда. Все видят в нем блаженную душу, бескорыстное украшение жизни, забавную и бесполезную дудку… Но когда ее теряют, то становится понятно, что дудка эта вела слепых.
Аннотация: Эта история произошла в далеком 1982 году. Группа ученых выдвинула теорию, что человек, полностью лишенный чувств и стимулов из внешней среды, сможет ощутить присутствие Бога. Они полагали, что пять чувств блокируют наше осознание вечности, и без них человек сможет действительно установить мысленный контакт с Богом. Лишенная возможности общаться и даже ощущать внешний мир Мария остается…
Celebrate the holidays with this magical Swift River Valley novella from New York Times bestselling author Carla NeggersWhen fashion designer Alexandra Rankin Hunt is asked to create the dresses for Olivia Frost's Christmas wedding in tiny Knights Bridge, Massachusetts, she jumps at the chance. She's certain she'll never get to design one for herself–not with her history of falling for the wrong m…
Indulge your fantasies of delicious Regency Rakes, fierce Viking warriors and rugged Highlanders. Be swept away into a world of intense passion, lavish settings and romance that burns brightly through the centuriesPirates, passion and danger on the high seas!Balthazar Grattiano, captain of the infamous ship Calypso and renowned seducer of women, has just walked into the one tavern in all of Hispan…
Former mean girl Dixie Davis is back in town and it's payback time. Literally. Dixie is flat broke and her best–make that only–friend, Landon, is throwing her a lifeline from the Great Beyond. Dixie stands to inherit his business…if she meets a few conditions:She's got to live in Landon's mansion.With her gorgeous ex-fiancé, Caine Donovan.Who could also inherit the business.Which is a phone sex em…
HIS LADY IN WAITING In her long years at the convent, waiting for her betrothed, Lady Isobel de Turenne has built the Comte d’Aveyron into a fantasy – a man who will rescue, protect and love her… But when the Comte finally returns to claim his bride Isobel finds instead a man of contradictions – one who masks dark secrets with desire.Wary of a man’s touch, but desperate to grasp her new freedom, I…
Ottoman Empire, 1565Prince Khadin knows his days are numbered. His death could come at any moment, but even he cannot help but be distracted by the Bedouin princess he sees making a daring bid for freedom from the slave market.Even in captivity, her courage and purity attract Khadin to her as much as her beauty. Unable to resist the temptation, he takes the maiden back to the palace harem—to be br…