In 1766 Scotland, Angus McTern leads a life of humble respectability--until Edilean Talbot arrives, pleading for his help. Angus can't deny the ache in his heart for the beautiful heiress, so when she tells him how her fortune was...
Inheritance and succession
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Auteur:Deveraux, JudeSommaire: - Auteur:Miranda, MeganSommaire:
Her father was the town detective. Her mother its most notorious criminal. Now the secrets of Mirror Lake are coming to the surface...and changing everything. "[A] stunning psychological thriller from one of the most insightful...
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Auteur:TinneanSommaire:Ashton Laytham giunse a Fayerweather, la tenuta di suo zio, come orfano all’età di sette anni. La famiglia e i servi lo vedevano come un bambino scontroso e lo evitavano; da adulto, a parte qualche scappatella occasionale, Ashton è...
- Auteur:TROLLOPE, AnthonySommaire:
Henry Jones, an insurance clerk, knows that his uncle has disinherited him. The will, made out at the last minute in favour of Henry's charming cousin, lies neatly folded in a volume of sermons in the uncle's book-room. Only...
- Auteur:Kendrick, SharonSommaire:
True, Constantine Karantinos has only the faintest memory of a romantic dalliance with a waitress named Laura. But when he learns she's mothered his heir, he summons her to Greece, where she insists on paying her way as his housekeeper...
- Auteur:Rotenberg, DavidSommaire:
On the Hua Shan (the Holy Mountain) 250 years before Christ, the most powerful man in the world, the First Emperor, bequeaths a talisman - a narwhal tusk with carvings depicting the growth of Shanghai for the next 2500 years - to his...
- Auteur:Couturier, GraciaSommaire:
Deux frères que tout oppose endurent tant bien que mal l’existence de l’autre. La succession du père, qui a fondé une scierie prospère, vient cristalliser leur rivalité. Incapable de prendre la relève, l’aîné camoufle sa jalousie dans...
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Auteur:Osborne, TomSommaire:From the author of Dead Man in the Orchestra Pit and Foozlers comes another tale of madcap human folly. Louella Debra Poule is doing an eighteen-month stint on a weapons charge at a minimum-security institution up the Fraser Valley. Her...
- Auteur:Taylor, William B.Sommaire:
Alex Tinsdill never thought a simple DNA test would lead to a $250 million inheritance and Cove Point Manor, a massive estate built during the Gilded Age on the Gold Coast of Long Island, New York. Alex's inheritance doesn't come...
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Auteur:TinneanSommaire:Ashton Laytham came to Fayerweather, his uncle’s estate, as an orphan at the age of seven. Family and servants alike perceived Ashton as an unlovable child and shunned him; as an adult, the occasional illicit rendezvous aside, Ashton...
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Auteur:Dickens, CharlesSommaire:Bleak House follows the fortunes and relationships of three characters whose fates are tied to the obscure inheritance case of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce, which is tied up in endless litigation. While many deserving and undeserving claim the...
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Auteur:Dickens, CharlesSommaire:Bleak House opens in the twilight of foggy London, where fog grips the city most densely in the Court of Chancery. The obscure case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, in which an inheritance is gradually devoured by legal costs, the romance of...
- Auteur:Miller, Linda LaelSommaire:
The illegitimate son of a wealthy rancher, Sheriff Slade Barlow grew up in a trailer hitched to the Curly-Burly hair salon his mother runs. He was never acknowledged by his father--until now. Suddenly, Slade has inherited half of...
- Auteur:Cook Waldron, KathleenSommaire:
12-year-old Ari inherits his grandfather's unspoiled lakeside land and cabin. But his aunt and father want to sell it all to luxury hotel developers.
It's bittersweet: Ari's beloved grandfather has died, but he's left Ari an...
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Auteur:TinneanSommaire:Ashton Laytham llegó a Fayerweather, el estado de su tío, como un huérfano de siete años. Familia y sirvientes por igual lo perciben como un niño antipático y lo rechazan. Como adulto, salvo algún encuentro ocasional, sigue solo y...
- Auteur:Perry, Carol J.Sommaire:
Maureen Doherty and her golden retriever Finn have taken possession of a charming old inn-only to discover that it's already possessed by tenants whose lease on life already ran out ... Maureen's career as a sportswear buyer hits a snag...
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Auteur:Durreson, Amy RaeSommaire:One snowy evening, wounded WWI veteran Jasper Pritchard arrives at Valentine Nugent’s sweet shop with an unusual request. Jasper’s deceased great-aunt has left him a fortune, along with a box of indiscreet letters she wants returned to...
- Auteur:Myers, TimSommaire:
Upon his Great-Aunt Belle's death, Harrison Black inherits her candle shop. When he begins to suspect foul play in her death, he does a bit of sleuthing. But it looks like he's playing with fire-because somebody wants Harrison to mind...
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Auteur:Hyde, Katherine BolgerSommaire:When Emily Cavanaugh inherits a fortune from her great aunt, she expects her life to change. She doesn't expect to embark on a murder investigation, confront the man who broke her heart thirty-five years before, and nearly lose her own...
- Auteur:Feather, JaneSommaire:
Comely Alexandra Douglas is in London, reeling from news of her father's death--and of her disinheritance. Posing as a librarian, Alex infiltrates her former home, where love awaits in the form of her stepbrother's friend, the Honorable...
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