El Dorado

Excerpt from El Rio de la Plata 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...

Welcome. You are hereby invited to compete in a tournament of LifeGame™ Bridge ("LiGa™ Bridge"). LiGa™ Bridge is a tournament of duplicate individual bridge in which eight players gamble with, and for, a portion of their lives. Yes, it is possible to gamble with life! We have the technology. Life-gambling is enabled by a process we call "hand imprinting". The physical manifestation of this is a network of cranberry-hued lines on the palms of the players' left hands. These lines track the natural print of the palm and the effect is akin to a fortune-teller's hand map. For further...

¿Podía pagar el precio que él le pedía y sobrevivir diez días de luna de miel? Con su matrimonio de conveniencia, el multimillonario Dio Ruiz había cumplido dos fines. Por una parte, había logrado venganza y, por otra, se había llevado a la deseable Lucy Bishop. Sin embargo, desde la noche de bodas, su unión solo se había hecho efectiva sobre el papel. Dos años después, su esposa virgen quería el divorcio. Pero la libertad tenía un precio.... Dolida y humillada después de haber descubierto que su boda no había sido más que un trato de negocios para Dio, Lucy había...

Kit, the Marquis of Ashton, is in a bind. He got married young, but he knows he had made a huge mistake from day one. Jess realizes she has put her marriage in jeopardy without trying. She would love to be able to explain things to her husband. She feels the time is now. Will she get the chance?