On average, from 2000 to 2025, Britain will need almost four million additional households. How can these be provided without the endless "development" of the countryside, or stretching already strained urban resources? This work tackles these issues.
LOVE AND LOYALTY Fierce, proud, spoiling for a fight, and going wherever the fortunes of war called him, Kentigern MacNiall was a rebel and son of a rebel. With his family's deposition as chiefs of the clan O'Darrell, and himslef a hunted animal on the run, Kentigern had two burning ambitions: to regain his lost heritage as chieftain, and to marry O'Darrell's beautiful and capricious daughter, Aine. But Kentigern was to be thwarted on both scores by his half brother, handsome Fineen Ban, who wanted both his place in the clan, and Aine. And then King Richard II invaded Ireland, and the rebellion with the clan took second place to survival. But Kentigern and Fineen would meet again and again, dueling over affairs of state, and affairs of the heart. For no matter what happened to Ireland, Aine would still have to make a choice between the two brothers. Ireland in 1389 was a land torn by political intrigue, a time when the Irish clans battled resident Normans, the English, the invading armies of Richard II - and each other. But through it all there were romantic interludes, interwoven with the ruthlessness of war, when brother fought brother, clan fought clan, and love fought side by side with loyalty.
Banished with her father from Imperial Rome, Fausta grew up as wild as a sea nymph on the wind-swept Adriatic coast. She was barely sixteen with handsome young Julian arrived at her country villa to claim her has the bride of his brother Constantine, the all-too-powerful Emperor. Though she and Julian fell immediately, desperate in love, Fausta's fate was sealed - there was no turning back. Fausta's rustic upbringing left her totally unprepared for the intrigue and corruption of the Imperial Court. But as Empress she was forced to learn quickly and feign love for her unscrupulous husband, to protect her children, and above all, to conceal her forbidden passion for Julian that would forever enflame and torment them both...
Liebe oder eine Frage des Nutzens? Von ihrem Liebhaber betrogen, stimmt die schöne und willensstarke Diana einer Ehe zu, die zwischen ihrem Vater und Quintus, einem mutigen und tapferen Offizier Roms, ausgehandelt wurde, der sein Leben für Gerechtigkeit und für Diana geben würde. Es war eine geschäftliche Vereinbarung, ein Handel, den sie einhalten würde – doch was Diana nicht eingeplant hatte, war, dass sie sich in Quintus verlieben würde, gerade in dem Moment, als ihre Ehe durch die Eifersüchteleien, Intrigen und die rücksichtslosen Ambitionen anderer kompliziert wurde. Inmitten der politischen und religiösen Turbulenzen der Zeit findet sich Diana wieder, die mit jeder Faser ihres Seins kämpft, um ihre Ehe und Quintus, den Mann, der ihr nun mehr bedeutet als das Leben selbst, zu bewahren. Vor dem strahlenden Hintergrund des antiken Rom, zur Zeit als Pontius Pilatus die Kreuzigung eines radikalen jungen Predigers aus Nazareth anordnete, ist Das Versprechen und die Leidenschaft eine lebendige und aufregende Geschichte, die Geschichte mit Romantik verbindet.
