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Reid Kerr has always known his place. He’s the brother no one can depend on, the rogue who’s determined never to marry. But when he attends a council of border chiefs at Highgate End, he meets the one woman who might change his mind about love - and his own worth.

Written by an anonymous storyteller in the 13th Century, and describing events between 960 and 1020, Njáls saga is one of the great works of medieval literature. The longest and most celebrated of the Icelandic sagas, it deals with family honour, vengeance and a vicious blood feud spanning almost 50 years. Based on the classic translation by Magnus Magnusson and Hermann Pálsson, this gripping dramatisation centres around two friends.

DOS ALMAS ENEMIGAS. DOS ALMAS FUERTES. DOS ALMAS QUE SE HAN ENCONTRADO PARA SALVARSE... Morgan ha odiado a los Campbell desde que tiene uso de razón. Sus clanes siempre han estado en guerra, pero lo peor de todo llega cuando su padre decide su destino: para sellar la paz tendrá que casarse con Duncan Campbell, un hombre cuya fama de salvaje y despiadado lo precede. Sin poder evitar la boda, Morgan jura ante todos que acabará con su esposo en cuanto tenga ocasión, y cuando intentan matarlo de la misma forma que ella juró, la mirada salvaje de Duncan recae sobre Morgan. Acusada de ...

Cleopatra llora el fin de su amor en una barca que remonta el Nilo. Ha sido abandonada por su amante, el romano Marco Antonio. En el corazón de ambos todos los conflictos del amor y la pasión, que llevarán a nuevos encuentros que inevitablemente tendrán un destino fatal. No digas que fue un sueño es una gran novela de amor, enmarcada en un período histórico apasionante: los estertores del Egipto amenazado por el imperialismo de la todopoderosa Roma. Pero es, sobre todo, un intento de reivindicar la figura de una de las mujeres más fascinantes de la historia. Cleopatra aparece en esta novela como un personaje original y contradictorio.

Thessaloniki lived in a time when Alexander the Great was racing across the known world conquering all in his path. She was his half-sister living the privileged life of a Macedonian Princess. Under the protective eye of Olympias she learned to see everyone as an enemy. Then Alexander perishes. Suddenly, she finds herself thrust forward onto the political stage as those around her struggle for power. In a world, where loyalty is for sale, and words are empty promises, she must find a way to survive—even if that means turning to her enemies.

Mucho antes del nacimiento de la Grecia Clásica, hubo otra civilización extraordinaria emplazada en Creta, que alcanzó un alto grado de desarrollo cultural y artístico debido al dominio incontestable que poseía sobre el mar. Desde el fabuloso palacio de Cnosos, el rey Minos gobierna sobre su pueblo centrado en mantener la paz, tras haber promovido el desarrollo del comercio y haber limpiado de piratas las aguas del Egeo. Su hijo, el príncipe Androgeo, sueña con convertirse en un gran héroe....

Nurse Michaela Stephens has led a quiet, ordinary life, limited by restrictions and fear of making mistakes. When she is accused of wrongdoing on the job, escaping to the wilds of Montana seems like the best way to overcome her insecurities. What she thought she left behind is about to come back to haunt her in ways she never expected. As a descendant of the guardians of ancient Yellowstone, Matunaaga has waited a long time to discover his destiny. Content and secure in his life, he is guided by a sense of duty and obligation to help ensure the future preservation of the sacred mountains. He's ready to do just about anything to fulfill his role, except the one thing his vision requires of him.

In Ancient Rome four young slave-gladiators—bred to be the best and nick-named the Wolf Pack—form a forbidden bond with the daughter of their owner. Across the length and breadth of the empire they will find and claim her as their own, letting nothing stand in their way. Ennia is the name her patrician birth assigned her. Cassius is the name her father’s physician gave her when she dressed as a slave boy to train under him. But Accalia, the she-wolf, is the name she gave herself. And it is Accalia who falls in love with not one but four young men society deemed the lowest of the low. ...

Raised a princess in Sparta, Clytemnestra understands that leaders make many sacrifices. But she is shocked when she is forced to marry the murderer of her husband and firstborn child.Though she wields great power as High Queen of Mycenae, and adores her younger children, being Agamemnon’s wife is difficult – and becomes harder after her sister Helen’s departure for Troy ignites the greatest war the world has ever seen. Clytemnestra remains determined to protect her children and her city. But then a long absent prince – her husband’s hated rival – begins to claim her heart…“...

When he was 12, his name was Branan Strickland. He was the heir to the Wardenship of Inglewood, a title to govern a Royal Forest and the land around it. But Branan's father was an abusive sod, beating Branan and his mother for sheer sport. Until the night when his father's fist landed on the side of his mother's head - a wound that would kill her in a few short hours. Devastated, Branan spent those last hours with her. Just when he thought his world couldn't shatter any more, his mother told him the truth of his heritage.

It’s been three thousand years, and he hasn’t quit waiting for her ka to reappear in the world of the living. A cursed God bound to be with the one he loves. When he heard her name as a part of an excavation crew, he immediately sets forth funding with the hope of her remembering.… Will the Sands of Time allow the curse to be broken?

The daughter of a pagan priestess believes Noah's prophecy - especially when she discovers the horrifying secret behind her city's primary export. Belief in the One God is dangerous in Cainlan, a city founded on the worship of the god Cain. But when Eliana meets the son of a religious fanatic she is drawn to Shem's caring manner and deep faith. She believes his assertion that the One God will wipe the earth clean of the corruption that fills it.

Join the lady warrior and the powerful Northman as each tries to outsmart the other, where tall tales mingle with myth and perhaps a grain of truth, and where brute strength does not always win out over all. As a raid goes on around them, the lady warrior and the Northman become so engrossed in their game of cunning and tall tales that neither one realizes when they cease to become mortal enemies and start to become attracted to one another.

A reputation built upon ruthless savagery. A warrior revelling in bloodshed and conquest. A man bent on revenge. Newly wedded to Eirik, now jarl of all Svolvaen, Elswyth carries the baby they both long for. Their happiness seems assured, until Elswyth falls into the hands of Svolvaen's fiercest adversary, sworn to avenge his wife's death. Elswyth must submit as his thrall or forfeit her life. But the true murderer remains in their midst, and his ambition knows no bounds.

Tristan Fisher and his brothers leave their father's fishing boat and return to a life of piracy, longing for the adventure and riches they once knew. With dwindling supplies and a restless crew, fate finally smiles on them when a storm at sea leaves behind flotsam. However, it is more than just boxes and barrels of supplies they find. Tristan and his brothers fish an old woman out of the water who claims to not only know the whereabouts of a treasure map, but who also says she is their long lost grandmother!

While Rome once again prepares for war, Gaius Fabius Rufus confronts treachery and tragedy at home. With his future uncertain and his spirit shattered, Gaius chases the only dream he has left: the imperial throne. When a ghost’s secrets expose a dreadful mistake, will the Lion of the Lucky Fourth give up his destiny and embrace the forbidden love of a vanquished barbarian?

Dieser Roman des polnischen Schriftstellers Henryk Sienkiewicz beschreibt die Anfänge des Christentums in Rom zur Zeit des Cäsars Nero. Er wurde 1895 erstmals veröffentlicht. Inspiriert wurde Sienkiewicz von einer alten Legende über eine visionäre Begegnung des Apostels Petrus mit Jesus. Das Buch erzählt die Liebesgeschichte zwischen dem jungen Patrizier Marcus Vinicius und Lygia, einer Königstochter vom Volk der Lygier, die als Geisel nach Rom kam. Sie ist Christin.

UN GUERRERO QUE ANSÍA LIBERTAD. UNA GUERRERA QUE DESEA CURAR SU ALMA. DOS CORAZONES EN UN MISMO CAMINO, PERO SOLO PODRÁN VIVIR SI CONSIGUEN IR DE LA MANO... Finlay Mackinnon es un pícaro guerrero, famoso por sus incontables amoríos. Se juró a sí mismo no casarse nunca, pero cuando lo obligan a hacerlo por el honor de una mujer que lo acusa de haber mancillado su honra, la rabia lo consume. Kelly Fraser es una mujer intrépida y rebelde que no quiere casarse a pesar de las órdenes de su hermano, el laird Struan Fraser. Por ello, cuando la quiere casar con Magnus Lennox, un familiar ...

Here is a brilliant recounting of the life of Odysseus after his safe return to the island of Ithaca, his wife Penelope, and his son Telemachus. Countless readers and listeners have thrilled to the adventures of Odysseus in The Iliad and The Odyssey, but what further adventures awaited him after his ten years of war and ten years of wandering? Narrated by Telemachus to the bard Phemios, On Wine-Dark Seas speaks of the human drama of a man gone twenty years from home and family, a man who saw Troy on the night of its destruction, a man who lives the special quest which is his destiny.

Quo vadis?, è un romanzo storico pubblicato che frutto all’autore il premio Nobel per la letteratura nel 1905. Il romanzo è allo stesso tempo una storia d’amore, la storia di una conversione, la storia dell’abominio a cui giunse la Roma imperiale sotto la tirannide di Nerone. Avvincente, commovente, il romanzo, all’interno di una dettagliata cornice storica, ha per protagonista l’amore: l’amore terreno e l’amore spirituale. Musica di Kevin Mac Leod.