![]() ![]() Unexpectedly, he falls in love with her, finding in her quick mind and azure eyes the conqueror of his heart. Now that his father is dead, if Allegreto can make Elayne his wife, it will cleanse his tainted blood, and the country will be his, but she is no mere maiden to be possessed. Trained as an assassin, Allegreto is the bastard son of an ambitious lord who raised him to murder for control of Monteverde. But try as she might, a wanton hunger binds her to his side. ![]() A woman of modesty would flee such a man. Endowed with godlike beauty, his eyes burn bright with sin. On the voyage to meet her future husband, she is captured by Allegreto Navona-the living embodiment of the dark angel she’s seen in dreams. Swept up in political intrigue, an assassin and a princess embrace a passionate love in this fourteenth-century romance by a New York Times–bestselling author.Īs the last unmarried princess of Monteverde, Elayne is trapped in a marital bond when her hand is promised to the land’s ruler. ![]()
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In the 1950s, a young Indianapolis minister named Jim Jones preached a curious blend of the gospel and Marxism. ![]() Description: 2018 Edgar Award Finalist-Best Fact Crime “A thoroughly readable, thoroughly chilling account of a brilliant con man and his all-too vulnerable prey” (The Boston Globe)-the definitive story of preacher Jim Jones, who was responsible for the Jonestown Massacre, the largest murder-suicide in American history, by the New York Times bestselling author of Manson. ![]() ![]() ![]() 9.13 X 6.57 X 1.11 inches 1074 pages "On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester's Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Light creasing of DJ base of spine A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. 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