Medieval Hearts, Tome 2 : Shadowheart
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- Laura Kinsale (Écrivain)
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Elayne vient de dire à Allegreto, l'assassin excommunié, qu'elle refuse de se confesser, se mettant ainsi en danger de rejoindre l'enfer - terrible destin en ce 15ème siècle.
"I would miss you for eternity," she said. "I would grieve."
He shook his head, all the feeble movement he could summon. If she had held out jeweled cities, riches, towers of gold, all the stars and the sun and the moon offered to him in her hands, he could have spoken. But he could no. She would miss him in Heaven. She would grieve.
She did not know what she was saying. What she risked. He had read every poem and sermon and hymn about it ; he had studied all the ghastly frescoes that portrayed the kingdom of Hell in terrifying and perfect detail. But that she would hazard the chance for an instant, or even think of it, for him...
He feared for a long moment that he would die where he stood, only from confusion. He put his hand on his dagger, for something solid, something he could understand in the roaring flood that engulfed him like water rushing from a broken dam of ice.
"I pray you", he said helplessly. "This is madness. Go and repent. And stay there. Stay away. Don't come back."
She did not turn. She did not flee to safety and grace and the priest still standing in his infinite beckoning patience at the door of the church.
"No," she said. "I will wait for you."
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Elegant yet violent, breathtakingly handsome yet brutal, the assassin Allegreto has returned in this long-awaited sequel to Laura Kinsale's FOR MY LADY'S HEART.
14th-century Europe is a vicious place, awash with murky alliances and political maneuvering. As the bastard son of the Navona family, Allegreto seeks to claim his rightful place in the Italian principality of his birth. When his standard tools of deception and murder prove unable to complete the task, Allegretto must take a bride--the lovely and innocent Lady Elena, the princess of Monteverde--by force. Soon it becomes clear that Fate has brought these two close--but it is a dangerous passion that binds them together. As Allegreto and Elena journey to Italy, will they be safe from her jealous fiancé? Or from their own dangerous desires?
Filled with rich, historical language and period detail, SHADOWHEART lays out a tale of intense passion and shifting power that will leave its readers breathless.
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