Books with title The Seductive Impostor

The first in a dazzling duo of romances featuring two sisters from the ruggedly beautiful Maine coast...and the men who sweep them away. Rachel Foster wishes Sub Rosa -- the seaside mansion she helped her father build and the scene of a terrible tragedy -- would crumble into the sea. But Keenan Oakes, Sub Rosa's new owner, is moving in and stirring up the dark secrets of the cliff-perched manor.... Now, in the heat of a sizzling attraction, can Rachel clear her family's name while risking her heart on Keenan...and on a passionate love like nothing she's ever known?

The setting of the Pulichever saga shifts to the capital of the Hapsburg Emperors during the year of 5428 (1668) in Avner Gold's Envoy from Vienna, the seventh volume in the continuing Ruach Ami Series. As the story unfolds, the Jewish community of Vienna prepares to celebrate the wedding of Mendele Pulichever when it suddenly finds itself embroiled in a serious crises that threatens its very existence. The dismayed Jews of Vienna are confronted by a formidable array of adversaries, including Empress Margareta Theresa, her mother Queen Maria Anna of Spain, the Emperor's Jesuit confessor and a fanatical Spanish duke. After a tense confrontation in the imperial palace of Emperor Leopold l of Austria, the Jews of Vienna attempt to enlist the support of some of the most powerful princes in Europe. In the course of the story, the fate of the Jews becomes entangled in a struggle between the Hapsburg Emperor and King Louis XlV of France and with the ambitions of the Elector of Brandenburg, a

(...)" FOREWORDI have endeavored to tell an old story in a modern fashion. Wherein I have failed, I beg indulgence; wherein I have succeeded, even a little, I have to thank the Spirit of the Past, which still lingers in the ancient capital and its environs.To Mrs. Story, the present owner, who graciously permitted me to inspect Whitehall; to Mrs. Dugan, Prudence R.—a direct descendant of Joh(...)".