History is littered with cases of royal offspring who ascend to the throne totally ill-prepared and personally unsuited for the role of monarch. Christina, briefly Queen of Sweden in the 17th Century, was one such whom fate dealt a very difficult hand. No one seemed to regard her as suited to the throne at all her father would far rather she had been born a boy, her mother rejected her as ugly and her councillors manipulated and conspired against her at every turn. Yet she was a woman of remarkable talents and strong will who was portrayed on film by the great Greta Garbo. Sadly, Veronica Buckley's efforts to uncover her life are undermined by poor writing and bad editing.
Mark Dooher has a successful legal career, a long-lasting marriage, charm, good looks, and money; but when he meets young, beautiful law student Christina Carrera, he wants her, too. The author of A Certain Justice (LJ 7/95) has Mark manage, through a series of devious manipulations, to rid Christina of her fiance, get her a job at his firm, and make her fall in love with him. But there is the troublesome matter of his wife, whom he cannot divorce because of his important professional relationship with the city's archbishop. Then his wife turns up conveniently murdered, and the resulting trial could turn out to be Mark's greatest challenge yet.
Christina Dodds's popular Distinguished Academy of Governesses trilogy (Rules of Surrender, Rules of Engagement, and Rules of Attraction) may be completed, but the romantic adventures of one young woman trained there have just begun. Having received glowing references upon leaving her post in Paris in a diplomatic household, Celeste Milford is delighted to accept a position at Blythe Hall, where her mother was the cook, her father the gardener, and Ellery Throckmorton, the younger son of the family, her idol.
Trouble follows this "Master" of romance-right onto the bestseller lists. Now the New York Times bestselling author Christina Dodd makes her NAL debut When Brandi Michaels discovers her fiance has hopped a flight to Vegas to marry someone else, she spends a sultry night in the arms of a gorgeous Italian stranger named Roberto Bartolini, convinced she's found the perfect revenge, she then goes home to find that her apartment's been ransacked, she's become the mark for a killer, and somehow her new lover is more of a stranger than she thought.
Christina Rossetti: Comprehensive Research and Study Guide (Bloom's Major Poets)
Christina Rossetti, considered to be one of the finest Victorian poets, is perhaps best known for her poem 'Goblin Market'. Other poems discussed in this volume include 'Remember', 'Echo' and 'Passing Away'.
