During March of 1248, Adelaide Schumacher-affectionately called Snow White-has lost so much: her mother, her possessions, and now her home.Adelaide hates abandoning her home city, her family's legacy, and her first love-Ivo. More than anything, she hates her father growing closer to her mother's cousin-Galadriel. Adelaide plots to end their tryst before her fate is sealed, and she never sets foot in Cologne again.But good and pious can only get Galadriel so far. Never again will she be destitute. Never again will she be known by the cruel moniker-Cinderella. Never again will someone take what is rightfully hers. No matter what it takes.The Countess' Captive is the much anticipated follow-up to The Fairytale Keeper and is book two in The Fairytale Keeper series. The novel combines Grimm's fairytale characters, key players from the time period, and dynamic characters with real historical settings and events to create a tale that leaves the reader wondering where fact ends and fiction begins.

When a Russian countess on a desperate mission to save her father's life is swept overboard off the rugged coast of northern California, she uses her wits and her cool, aristocratic bearing to convince a stubborn Mountain Man to buy her from her captors and escort her through snow-covered passes.On a secret scouting expedition for the US Army, Lieutenant Josiah Jones has no time violet-eyed beauties with more sass than sense. Yet as he and Tatiana trek through the untamed wilderness, she stirs both his fierce protectiveness and an aching need he thought he'd buried with his lost love.

When Zara Silk flies into Venice to play the lead role in the film CAPTIVE COUNTESS, she is instantly beset with problems. Rick Crane, the director, is openly hostile. Worse still are the threats from Wallis Bond, a fading superstar, who has her sights on playing the Countess herself. Her savage plot, to force Zara to quit, pitches the young star into a nightmare of conflict. Then, amazingly, Rick steps in to beat Wallis at her own game...

Excerpt from A Captive Princess Countess von Dornberg sighed wearily as she turned her eyes away from the gray waste of waters spread out before her. A treacherous leaden mist was now steal ing over from the Esthonian shore, and as yet no gleam of silver sail had rewarded her hour's vigil. The clang of her silver bell then echoed loudly in the great, lonely drawing-room. The Lady of the Isles gazed inquiringly at old Elia, her butler, whose wrinkled face was as yellow as the buff facings of his faded blue livery. You have seen nothing? The mail boat should be even now nearing the island. Nothing as yet, Barina, piped the aged serving man. It is the old thing - the currents, the winds, even the witches and nixies, fight against us here! The young ladies? Calmly continued Marie von Dornberg, ignoring the old Russian's superstitious bab ble, for, like the brook, Elia went on forever. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.