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Unforgettable characters, sizzling romance, and riveting suspense: These are the trademarks of beloved author Judith McNaught. With millions of devoted fans and ten New York Times bestsellers to date, McNaught is a writer whose work just gets better with each new novel–and Every Breath You...

How do you find love where love does not exist? From out of a barefoot boyhood among endless rows of olive trees, and a forbidden passion for a courageous Moroccan beauty, to a horrific struggle against tyranny in the war-torn streets of 1936 Granada, comes a story where love cannot exist without mercy . . . mercy one carries for one’s whole life as a badge of honor . . . mercy and compassion passed down from generation to generation.

Lydia is a delicate British lady. Sam is a dusty Texan. When they are stranded together on bleak and dangerous Dartmoor, they must stay close to each other to survive. But this closeness creates more than safety: it leads to an indiscretion that could destroy them both.

The beautiful courtesan Coco Wilde is famous for her ability to keep the wealthiest men in 19th-century London hanging on her every smile. But she maintains a careful emotional detachment from all admirers. When she meets Sir James Stoker, however, the raven-haired Coco is attracted by his radiant smile and dangerous eyes. Determined to capture her, James must find a wat to break the spell of indifference Coco has cast around herself.

Unforgettable characters, sizzling romance, and riveting suspense: These are the trademarks of beloved author Judith McNaught. With millions of devoted fans and ten New York Times bestsellers to date, McNaught is a writer whose work just gets better with each new novel–and Every Breath You...

Newly born Judith is found in by eccentric Squire Gauntry in the chilled sombre ruin of a house on a bitter winter's night, her parents having died at her birth. With such a tenuous start, the child grows up to have an intense lust for life and curiosity for every new experience. She is the natural heir to both her parents' temperaments. With the wilfulness of her mother and the stubbornness of her father, she is redeemed by a compulsion to tell the truth and a willingness to help anyone she loves in time of trouble or distress.

Lena está al borde del despido. La agencia inmobiliaria donde realiza las prácticas le ha encomendado una casa imposible de vender: la Monster House, un despropósito arquitectónico que solo merece que la derrumben antes de que alguien salga herido... otra vez. Leo no piensa lo mismo. El heredero de la dichosa mansión está convencido de que la Monster House es un espacio ideal para entrar a vivir. Cuando Lena le reta a pasar juntos un fin de semana allí, no imagina que lo que empieza como una apuesta absurda terminará poniendo patas arriba su vida, su trabajo… y su corazón.

In the grandfathers' time, when few yet living had been born, the People worshipped the horse, and served him, and took the gifts that he gave them: his meat, his hide, the milk of his mares. But he had not yet granted to men the greatest gift of all: the gift of riding on his back, and racing the wind. Sparrow is a shaman's daughter in a tribe that forbids women to be kings, to be shamans, to be anything but silent and tractable servants to the all-powerful men.

Long years after the White Mare came to the people of the Mothers, bringing the wild horsemen from the sea of grass and changing the world forever, the world is changing again. The Mother of Lir is dead, her heir cast out amid dire omens. War is coming - such a war as the people have never seen, fought with a new and terrible weapon: the chariot. Rhian, potter's child and White Mare's chosen, ventures with Emry the prince of Lir into the sea of grass and undertakes to steal the enemy's weapon.

For a long, brutal century, the Kingdom of Lower Egypt has been occupied by the "Vile Asiatics", the conquerors called the Shepherd Kings. With their horses and chariots, they overwhelmed the armies of Egypt and swept over the Delta and the sacred cities. Iry, daughter of an old noble house, the Sun Ascendant, has been enslaved by the bearded conquerors. But her new master is born of a different blood, son of the priestess of an ancient rite, the cult of the Horse Goddess and her avatar, the White Mare.

Nachdem Hailey die Wahrheit über Nate herausgefunden hat, versteckt sie sich bei den Rebellen. Nate versucht inzwischen, Thronfolger Alexander vor den Intrigen seines Onkels zu bewahren. Erst recht, als Alexander verlangt, dass Hailey und Nate zusammenarbeiten. Kann Hailey ihre Gefühle aus der Mission heraushalten? Und vor allem: Gelingt es ihr, Nate wieder zu vertrauen?

An odyssey of the heart begins the moment theater director Lucas Cameron discovers a box of letters written to his now-deceased grandmother by her protégé, Jessica Fontaine. Jessica disappeared from the stage years before, following a tragic accident. Through her letters, Lucas comes to fall in love with this passionate, talented woman.

In the dawn of time, women ruled, and the people had no word for war. Then the horsemen came. Sarama is the last of the White Mare's servants, descended from an ancient line conquered long ago by warrior tribes. Her father is the king of one such tribe. Her twin brother Agni is the king's heir. But she is heir to an older world, and a different way.

Als Catharina Cat Archer ans Redhill College wechselt, hofft sie, die letzten zwei Jahre ihres Lebens endlich hinter sich lassen zu können. Als wäre das nicht bereits schlimm genug, trifft die junge Studentin erneut auf Liam Rogers, seines Zeichens Mitglied des College-Fußballteams, unverschämt gutaussehend, äußerst beliebt und mit einem in ihren Augen viel zu großen Ego. Als Liam ihr überraschenderweise, nicht ganz uneigennützig, das Angebot unterbreitet, seine Freundin zu spielen, lehnt Cat zunächst ab.

In ancient Egypt, a woman might be king - but the price she paid would bind her soul for eternity. Hatshepsut, the Great Royal Wife, is bound in marriage to her brother, Thutmose, whom she despises. When the king dies while his son is yet a child, Hatshepsut raises herself from queen regent to ruling king. And all the while, the royal heir, the son of the concubine, watches and waits.

Surrey, 1970: Rose Martineau führt mit ihrem Mann und ihren zwei Töchtern in Walton-on-Thames ein beschauliches Leben. Doch die Idylle wird durch zwei unerwartete Ereignisse jäh bedroht. Zum einen erbt sie ein Haus in den dichten Wäldern von Sussex, das ursprünglich ihrer bislang vollkommen unbekannten Großtante Sadie gehört hatte - einer Künstlerin, die eines Tages spurlos verschwand. Wer war diese Frau, und warum wurde nie von ihr erzählt? Zum anderen bringt ein Medienskandal Roses Bilderbuchehe ins Wanken.

Hörst du auf dein Herz oder deine Magie. Die junge Gamedesign-Studentin Hailey hat ihr Leben lang gelernt, Berührungen zu vermeiden. Sie fürchtet die Visionen, die durch Körperkontakt ausgelöst werden können. In die Zukunft sehen zu können, gilt selbst in der magischen Parallelwelt als besondere Gabe, für Hailey ist es aber eher Fluch als Segen. Doch an ihrem Abschlussabend ändert sich alles: In einer Bar trifft sie auf den charismatischen Nate.

Margaret of Ashbury wants to write her life story. However, like most women in 14th-century England, she is illiterate. Three clerics contemptuously decline to be Margaret’s scribe, and only the threat of starvation persuades Brother Gregory, a Carthusian friar with a mysterious past, to take on the task. As she narrates her life, we discover a woman of startling resourcefulness.

It is 1900, and Adeline Warburton and Arnold Haslington have fallen deeply in love. But though both are from wealthy families, their social status is too far apart for their families to approve of the match. And when Arnold marries another, Adeline’s reaction is immediate and altogether unexpected, as she travels to make a new life in China. But although they are separated by thousands of miles, the consequences of their youthful passion continue to haunt them and their children - Addy’s daughter, Nala, and Arnold’s son, Philip. As the years pass and the children grow, violent forces are set to bring them together, unaware of the secrets from the past that bind them.

Susanna Dallet is the daughter of a Flemish painter and wife to a philandering husband, living in the court of Henry VIII. When her husband is murdered, Susanna is suddenly left with a household to provide for and nothing to her name. Her days of anonymity are over when Susanna finds that guild rules preventing women from working do not apply at the king’s court, and she manages to secure a position as a miniature-portrait painter. Before long, she has not only made a name for herself, she is close to those who surround Princess Mary. But even in this lofty company, Susanna is not safe....