Margriet de Moor

Sixth book in the must-read series from a national bestselling "fresh new voice in fantasy romance."( Robin D. Owens)Eight brothers, born in four sets of twins, two years apart to the day—they fulfill the Curse of Eight Prophecy. Though no longer trapped in exile, their growing family faces new problems. Now Rydan, the tormented sixth-born son, must find a way to trust his Destined bride, Rora, a woman who possesses her own secret power—one that could bring them together or annihilate their world forever.

On the night of January 31, 1953, a mountain of water, literally piled up out of the sea by a freak winter hurricane, swept down onto the Netherlands, demolishing the dikes protecting the country and wiping a quarter of its landmass from the map. It was the worst natural disaster to strike the Netherlands in three hundred years.The morning of the storm, Armanda asks her sister, Lidy, to take her place on a visit to her godchild in the town of Zierikzee. In turn, Armanda will care for Lidy's two-year-old daughter and accompany Lidy's husband to a party. The sisters, both of them young and beautiful, look so alike that no one may even notice. But what Armanda can't know is that her little comedy is a provocation to fate: Lidy is headed for the center of the deadly storm. Margriet de Moor interweaves the stories of these two sisters, deftly alternating between the cataclysm and the long years of its grief-strewn aftermath. While Lidy struggles to survive, surrounded by people she barely knows, Armanda must master the future, trying to live out the life of her missing sister as if it were her own.A brilliant meshing of history and imagination, The Storm is a powerfully dramatic and psychologically gripping novel from one of Europe's most compelling writers.From the Hardcover edition.

In Amsterdam op 3 mei 1664 zal een tekening de levens van een Deens meisje en de schilder Rembrandt voor altijd met elkaar verbinden..

In einem Roman aus vier miteinander verknu˜pften Geschichten erza˜hlt Margriet de Moor von den Spielarten der Liebe: ein alter Mann, der seine Frau u˜ber den Tod hinaus liebt, obwohl er sie betrogen und verraten hat; die wahnsinnige Liebe einer Stalkerin; ein junges Ma˜dchen, das seinen Bruder abgo˜ttisch liebt und in der Folge zwei Tote auf dem Gewissen hat; eine Frau, die seelenruhig zusieht, wie ihr Mann sie betru˜gt. Liebe als Schicksal, Liebe als Obsession, die lebensrettende und die zersto˜rende Liebe - Margriet de Moor zeigt, wozu die Liebe fa˜hig ist und was sie aus scheinbar besonnenen, vernu˜nftigen Menschen machen kann.

A romance in 18th century Naples between a woman opera lover and a castrated opera singer. He is Gasparo, who as a boy underwent an operation to retain his high-pitched vocal range, a custom of the day. She is Carlotta, a married woman who knew him as a child.

"A woman gets up in the middle of a wintry night and starts baking a Bundt cake while her lover sleeps upstairs. When it’s time for her to take the cake out of the oven, we have read a tale of romance and death. The narrator of this novel was widowed years ago and is trying to find new passion. But the memory of her deceased husband and a shameful incident still holds her in its grasp. Why did he do it? Margriet de Moor, master storyteller and one of Europe's foremost novelists, recounts a gripping love story about endings and demise, rage and jealousy, knowledge and ambiguity - and the possibility of a fresh start" --

"Magda in life - no less than Magda in death - was an enigma. A free spirit, alluring but private, loving yet remote. Where did she go during the years of her disappearance? Was it truly to the world of the stars?". "For her husband Robert, who wanted to possess her, body and soul, what Magda gave him was never enough. He murdered her, leaving her lover to discover her body. Now, as friends gather for her funeral, the mystery of Magda's life is slowly, tantalizingly, revealed. Who really knew Magda, and what truths has her death revealed?"--BOOK JACKET.