Enchanting Fate

Love and sacrifice often go hand in hand.Marguerite has learned this the hard way. Despite her dream of becoming an artist, she quickly realizes that fate has more sinister plans for her...After her father's merchant ships are destroyed at sea, Marguerite and her family are forced out of their home to live in a humble cottage by the woods. But there are dangers in the forest, magic forgotten by the ages, and Marguerite is powerless to stop it from luring her in. A cursed life is no life worth living.Count Henri d'Alarie discovered this when an Enchanter cursed him for his selfishness. Now, he must wait for the person who will break the spell and set him free. He believes Marguerite is that person, and she is sure Henri is her way out of this nightmare too.They have four months to put this theory to the test.Are they right, or will their hearts have other plans?

Against a background of the progress of the 1832 reform bill through parliament, Disraeli tells the story of the early life of Harry Coningsby. Born into a privileged background Coningsby goes against the wishes of his grandfather in both his political views and his choice of wife.

In 1947 Leonard and Reva Brooks left for Mexico where Leonard planned to study painting for a year. In Mexico they discovered a vibrant, sometimes even dangerous, society and a dynamic artistic community, unlike the mundane world they had left behind in Canada with its stale and unwelcoming artistic scene. Invigorated by their new environment Leonard and Reva ended up staying for over half a century, playing a key role in establishing San Miguel de Allende as a world-famous art colony. In this new biography, John Virtue chronicles the lives of these two important artists and offers an intimate look at these complex and creative people. Virtue describes how they were caught up in the McCarthy era of Communist witch hunts and blacklisted in the United States. He details their close friendships with luminary figures such as Marshall McLuhan, Earle Birney, and the Mexican art icon David Alfaro Siqueiros, as well as a host of others. As Leonard became a fixture in the Mexican art scene Reva's photography quickly garnered international recognition, applauded by photographers Ansel Adams and Edward Weston. In 1975 the San Francisco Museum of Art selected her as one of the top fifty female photographers of all time. With tales of deportations, shootouts, murder attempts, failures, and triumphs, Leonard and Reva Brooks is a biography of two creative people caught up in interesting times.