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´´Dein Gestern ist ein dunkler Traum. Blitz und Donner, strömender Regen ? verwirrt erwacht Jessica und starrt in das bleiche Gesicht eines Marmorengels. Sie ist auf dem Friedhof! Wie kommt sie hierher? Ihr Gedächtnis ist wie ausgelöscht. Später wollen weder ihre Eltern noch ihre Freunde sagen, was in letzter Zeit passiert ist. Zu Owen, angeblich ihr Freund, fühlt Jessica sich nicht hingezogen, schon eher zu dem Sunnyboy Sawyer. Es ist, als hätte sie ein anderes Leben geführt ? Dann beginnen die Drohanrufe, und immer derselbe Traum von einer grauenhaften Fratze. Jessica muss sich erinnern, bevor es zu spät ist!´´

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April McBride has suffered a broken engagement once before and fully intends to guard her heart when she travels to Lewistown, Montana, to attend her brothers wedding. One look around the small mining town convinces April that this wont be difficult just a bunch of dusty shops, bad service, and ill-bred cowboys. But a run-in with a horse trainer named Wes Owen opens up vast possibilities for frustration, embarrassment, friendship, and . . . love? Can April and Wes see past their differences in order to envision a future together?

Readers will love going on this adventurous, spark-filled ride through turn-of-the-century Montana.

Praise for Maggie Brendan:

Brendans gentle style of prairie romance is reminiscent of Janette Oke . . . capturing the heart of the old West with romance that will make you sigh. Julie Lessman, author of the Daughters of Boston series

Brendan blends colorful characters, lively dialogue, and intriguing historical details. Amanda Cabot, author of Paper Roses and Scattered Petals´´

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Edited and introduced by Owen Dudley Edwards.

. . . if he has the thickest head he also has the stoutest heart in my army. Thus spake Napoleon of Brigadier Etienne Gerard, and thus was established the formula for the great series of historical short stories which Conan Doyle inaugurated in the Strand magazine.

Brigadier Gerard, an impeccably dressed young hussar, is a figure of fun as well as a soldier of great courage. In the spirit of Don Quixote or the Three Musketeers, he crosses the battlefields of Europe in a series of dashing adventures. Through Gerard, Conan Doyle brings Napoleon within our grasp, and with him the intricacies of a restless Europe under Napoleons shadow.

Gerard is one of Conan Doyles most entertaining characters and surely one that must have influenced the making of George MacDonald Frasers Flashman, so outrageous and fortunate is this farcical character.

The introducer and editor of this edition, historian and critic Owen Dudley Edwards, is also the author of the highly acclaimed biography The Quest for Sherlock Holmes.´´