Innocent In The Sicilian S Palazzo

A kiss with the most forbidden of women will rock a billionaire’s world in this revenge romance by USA TODAY bestselling author Kim Lawrence. The fault in his retribution… Her innocent beauty! Nothing will keep Soren Steinsson-Vitale from seeking revenge on the man who destroyed his father. But his merciless exposé captures his enemy’s granddaughter in a paparazzi frenzy! Soren trusts no one, yet he can’t let Anna Randall face the chaos alone. Employing her to catalog his vast book collection in Sicily, he intends to keep the beautiful librarian at arm’s length. With their families’ history, she’s wholly forbidden. And yet one kiss promises a wild connection that will lead them straight to Soren’s palazzo bedroom! From Harlequin Presents: Escape to exotic locations where passion knows no bounds. Read all the Jet-Set Billionaires books: Book 1: Penniless and Pregnant in Paradise by Sharon Kendrick Book 2: The Royal Baby He Must Claim by Jadesola James Book 3: Innocent in the Sicilian's Palazzo by Kim Lawrence Book 4: Revealing Her Nine-Month Secret by Natalie Anderson Book 5: Cinderella for the Miami Playboy by Dani Collins Book 6: Their One-Night Rio Reunion by Abby Green Book 7: Snowbound with His Forbidden Princess by Pippa Roscoe Book 8: Return of the Outback Billionaire by Kelly Hunter

A winter storm and a white-hot reunion! Princess Freya is dreading facing Kjell Bergqvist again. He's nothing like the man who broke her heart eight years ago. But memories of what they once shared enflame new desires when a snowstorm leaves them scandalously, irresistibly stranded... Tempted by the most forbidden innocent

A winter storm and a white-hot reunion! Princess Freya is dreading facing Kjell Bergqvist again. He’s nothing like the man who broke her heart eight years ago. But memories of what they once shared enflame new desires when a snowstorm leaves them scandalously, irresistibly stranded...

"A brilliant book on a number of different levels. Lascelles has an engaging prose style and an amazing eye for detail and apposite anecdote. Surely only purblind Catholic zelanti will object to this outstanding analysis.” – Frank McLynn, author of Genghis Khan, Napoleon and 1066 “Lascelles has achieved the seemingly impossible: a concise and highly readable history of Catholic Popes that manages to be extremely entertaining and informative at the same time.” – Gerald Posner, author of God’s Bankers “Lascelles has taken an overwhelming subject, and not been overwhelmed by it in any way. A highly enjoyable read. ” – Paul Strathern, author of The Medici For many people, the popes are an irrelevance: if they consider them at all, it may be as harmless old men who preach obscure sermons in Latin. But the history of the popes is far from bland. On the contrary, it is occasionally so bizarre as to stretch credulity. Popes have led papal armies, fled in disguise, fathered children (including future popes), and authorised torture. They have been captured, assaulted and murdered. While many have been admired, others have been hated to such a degree that their funeral processions have been disrupted and statues of them torn down after their deaths. Many have been the enemies of freedom and progress – divisive rather than unifying figures. In a fascinating and engaging read, best-selling author Christopher Lascelles examines the history of the popes through the ages, laying bare the extent to which many of them fell so very short of the Christian ideals they supposedly represented. He explains how it was that, professing to follow a man who said ‘My kingdom is not of this world’ and 'Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth’, they nevertheless became the heads of a rich state that owned more land in Europe than any king, relying on foreign military aid to keep power; and how pride, greed and corruption became commonplace in an institution founded on love, faith and forgiveness. This book is aimed at the general reader who is short on time and seeks an accessible overview unencumbered by ecclesiastical jargon and scholarly controversies.

The interdict was an important and frequent event in medieval society. It was an ecclesiastical sanction which had the effect of closing churches and suspending religious services. Often imposed on an entire community because its leaders had violated the rights and laws of the Church, popes exploited it as a political weapon in their conflicts with secular rulers during the thirteenth century. In this book, Peter Clarke examines this significant but neglected subject, presenting a wealth of new evidence drawn from manuscripts and archival sources. He begins by exploring the basic legal and moral problem raised by the interdict: how could a sanction that punished many for the sins of the few be justified? From the twelfth-century, jurists and theologians argued that those who consented to the crimes of others shared in the responsibility and punishment for them. Hence important questions are raised about medieval ideas of community, especially about the relationship between its head and members. The book goes on to explore how the interdict was meant to work according to the medieval canonists, and how it actually worked in practice. In particular it examines princely and popular reactions to interdicts and how these encouraged the papacy to reform the sanction in order to make it more effective. Evidence including detailed case-studies of the interdict in action, is drawn from across thirteenth-century Europe - a time when the papacy's legislative activity and interference in the affairs of secular rulers were at their height.