Two powerful men—one at the mercy of Bipolar Disorder, the other facing life imprisonment, struggle to regain their freedom. Luke Powers' life has long been punctuated by abrupt changes in fortune, but nothing could prepare him for the possibility of life imprisonment. Facing charges of murdering the forbidden, great, long-lost love of his life, the influential media mogul is powerless to escape his predicament. Is he a murderer? Even he can't say for sure.Diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder and separated from those he loves, entrepreneur and family man Rick Dellich faces confinement to a chemical straightjacket for the rest of his life. Stripped of all rights as a citizen after suffering a mental breakdown, he commits himself to a psychiatric clinic, desperate to recover his mind and rebuild his life.Two women offering the possibility of love weave their way into Luke's destiny. So, too, does Wong Peng, a ruthless business magnate wielding the dark forces of power. All the while, Rick's tortured search for answers about his mental illness leads him to revelations about his own personal relationships that threaten to turn his world upside down.Will each man succeed in his quest for love and freedom? Both will face challenges that will destroy or transform them, eventually placing the two on a collision course with one another. Set against a backdrop of four continents, Betrayal of Love and Freedom is an unforgettable novel of the struggle for power, for true love, and for ultimate freedom.
Edna Pontellier, a young married woman with two small children in this story from 1899, gradually awakens to her individuality and sexuality and experiences love outside of her passionless marriage
It was absurd to be thinking of Browning here on the edge of the grey Atlantic, where even the ridge a hundred yards away had almost disappeared under the rain that caused torrents to form in the choked channels and whipped standing ...
Prospice is Latin for "look ahead," an apt designation for this beautifully wrought debut sure to be embraced by all who love The Memory Keeper's Daughter or the novels of Julia Glass and Ann Patchett.
Я буду следить за тобой: роман
Kratka povijest traktora na Ukrajinskom
Middle-aged professor becomes involved in a triangle when he picks up a female drug addict.
Der gelähmte Detective Lincoln Rhyme und seine Assistentin haben 48 Stunden Zeit, einen psychopathischen Auftragskiller auszuschalten, der darauf angesetzt ist, 3 Zeugen in einem Waffenschieberprozess zu ermorden.
Drowning in the freezing North Atlantic, Christopher Hadley Martin, temporary lieutenant, happens upon a grotesque rock, an island that appears only on weather charts.
本书是陀思妥耶夫斯基文集的一种,描写了资产阶级冒险家瓦尔科夫斯基对“小人物”尤其是两个弱女子的迫害和一手造成的两个家庭的悲剧.
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