Murdoch Wroth will stop at nothing to claim Daniela the Ice Maiden, the delicate Valkyrie who makes his heart beat for the first time in three hundred years. Yet the exquisite Danii is part ice fey and her freezing skin can't be touched by anyone...
A classic Sharpe adventure: Richard Sharpe and the Defence of Portugal, Christmas 1812 Newly promoted, Major Richard Sharpe leads his small force into the biting cold of the winter mountains. His task is to rescue a group of well-born women held...
UNUSUAL AND UNEXPECTED TALES BY CAPTAIN FREDERICK MARRYAT, HERMAN MELVILLE, JACK LONDON, W. CLARK RUSSELL, JOSEPH CONRAD, JOHN MASEFIELD, C. S. FORESTER, RUDYARD KIPLING, ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, RICHARD SALE, WILLIAM HOPE HODGSON, H. G. WELLS, EDGAR...
The meaning that any event has depends upon the «frame» in which we perceive it. When we change the frame, we change the meaning. Having two wild horses is a good thing until it is seen in the context of the son's broken leg. The broken leg seems...