Bøger af Anna Markland

An intrepid Caribbean pirate hunted by international navies is marooned on a deserted island with a resentful Danish widow he has taken captive.Maximiliano and Heidi seemingly have nothing in common, except the long-held desire to start life afresh. Is their fate a blessing in disguise?

When swans mate, they mate for life.Doctor Ambrose Pendray finds himself agreeing to travel into the Highlands to treat wounded Jacobite rebels.He ends up having to amputate the arm of a rebel betrothed to Eala Calhoun, a woman he is instantly attracted to.Eala (Gaelic for Swan) has been forced into the betrothal. Ambrose draws her like a lodestone, but his honor demands he do everything he can to save his patient's life.Dr. Pendray must save his patient's life, though it means losing the woman he loves.An abridged version of this story previously appeared in the Twelve Days In A Highlander's Arms collection.

Morgan Pendray is a career soldier, a Welshman serving in the English Parliamentary army sent to invade Scotland. Hannah Kincaid is a Royalist spy who spirits away Scotland's crown jewels from under Cromwell's nose. Is it love that blossoms between them, or a deadly game of cat-and-mouse?

Like his father and brother before him, Julian Hawke is a well-respected London goldsmith-and an informant for Elizabeth Tudor's Spymaster. But he craves the challenge of a more significant role in espionage. As part of a plan to trap the imprisoned Mary of Scotland in treasonous activities, he is sent to France as a double agent. His mission is to deliver false documents to the exiled Thomas Morcant, one of the Scottish queen's stalwart supporters and a suspect in the attempted murder of Julian's brother.Things go awry in Paris when Julian meets Morcant's sister. He is drawn to her but assumes she has come to France as a courier for Mary. Sara Morcant has traveled to Paris in a last-ditch effort to dissuade her older brother from involvement in the plot to put the Scottish queen on the English throne. She finds herself falling for Julian Hawke but, when she discovers he has met with her brother, fears he must be a courier for the traitors plotting Elizabeth's overthrow. Untangling the web of intrigue in which they are mired could implicate them both in the deadly plot to assassinate Elizabeth Tudor and lead to arrest and execution.

Aidan FitzRam joins the monastic community at Lindisfarne to atone for what he perceives as his role in his parents' drowning. But he quickly realizes he cannot ignore the plight of Nolana Kincade, a Highland lass who is fleeing an abusive stepfather. Their growing attraction to each other bears out the reality his sister has always maintained-he's just not cut out for the religious life.

Loyalty, honor, and obligation dictate Keith Starkey's return to his Highland wife and their loveless marriage. He must leave behind a shy English lass who nursed him back to health after he was gravely wounded and left for dead at the battle of Towton. Daughter of a murderous traitor, Aurora de Vennes is abandoned by her domineering father when he switches his allegiance to the Yorkists.She needs a champion, but Keith cannot be that man, despite his attraction to her. The convent offers Aurora's only escape from the desolation of a broken heart and the threat of vengeance from the Lancastrians for her father's treachery.It seems unlikely these two mismatched souls will find the path to happiness-unless fate intervenes.

Blair didn't believe in love at first sight, until he met Susanna. But fate had destined her for his twin. He didn't believe in time travel either, until he came face to face with an uncle who'd drowned thirty years before.

Gray Pendray has worked in Edinburgh as a spy for the Scottish Privy Council for three years. When the Earl of Argyll foments an uprising against the king, Gray returns home to infiltrate the rebel army.Faith Cameron is the daughter of a man executed for treason and a mad mother who took her own life. Fostered into the Pendray family, she has longed for Gray's return, though she realizes she isn't a suitable match for the son of a noble family.Gray is immediately drawn to Faith whom he discovers has grown into a beautiful and courageous young woman-but he has made commitments to the daughter of his mentor in Edinburgh. Can love find a way to overcome the divide between them and triumph over the dangers and betrayals of a rebellion?

Swan FitzRam and Rodrick de Montbryce share a common ancestor four generations in the past. The powers that be in the Church refuse to sanction their marriage. Rodrick must abandon the woman he loves or forfeit his earldom. A poignant love story set against the turmoil of civil strife as King Stephen and Prince Henry Plantagenet fight for the throne of England.