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Set in Revolution-era America, The Messenger features Hannah Sunderland, a young woman who is devastated when her brother is jailed for joining the Colonial cause. Spy Jeremiah Jones sees in Hannah a way to access the prison to obtain valuable information, but Hannah’s Quaker beliefs stand in the way. Nevertheless, Hannah and Jeremiah develop a mutual fondness, even as they become caught in history’s tumultuous churn.

Liverpool, 1940. Journalist Ruth Holt is struggling in the terror of the Blitz when her young son is suddenly snatched away in broad daylight. Soon after, the kidnappers’ demands arrive. They are working with the Nazis, and she has no choice but to co-operate, or the authorities will learn that she is harbouring secrets of her own. Ruth’s job gives her access to critical information, and if she does not share it with Britain’s enemies, her child will face the consequences. Desperate, she falsifies information, lying to everyone: her employers, her family and her lover.

March 1557. Jack Blackjack is back in London and enjoying a sedentary life. After his treacherous voyage back to his beloved city the previous year, he desires nothing more than women, wine, beer and more women. But his new parish of St Helen's has different ideas for him. A week after first laying eyes on the tempting Miss Rachel Nailor, she turns up dead on the church vestry floor...and someone is trying to frame him for her murder! Rachel was a woman with many secrets. But was she murdered in a fit of lustful rage, or was it part of a wider political play?

For Nicholas Hawthorne, the Catholic heir to Measham Hall in Derbyshire, subterfuge is part of everyday life. But there are deeper and darker secrets even than his family's outlawed religion: why is his father, Sir William, so reclusive? What became of his mother, and his aunt Alethea? And who fatally betrayed his cousin Matthew?

O mundo está em guerra e Stella Jilani, integrante da Resistência italiana, leva uma vida dupla. De dia, trabalha na cova dos leões como datilógrafa para o Reich; à noite, arrisca sua vida como mensageira da Brigada Central da Resistência Veneziana. Contra todas as probabilidades, Stella deve revelar segredos nazistas, contrabandear suprimentos essenciais e produzir um jornal clandestino em sua amada máquina de escrever.

Marie trabaja como mensajera en el centro de Madrid y, entre paquetes y cartas, porta sueños a los destinatarios. Ella también tiene los suyos y necesita realizarlos. Esa fuerza le permite continuar en la ciudad, sin perecer entre las pesadillas que desvelan sus noches y las ausencias a las que todavía no puede decir adiós. Seis meses atrás tuvo que huir de su pueblo natal, en Francia, pero su especial estancia en Madrid toma un giro definitivo cuando Marie fotografía una escena aparentemente intrascendente desde el ático-estudio donde vive.

Escocia, siglo XV. Ante la imposibilidad de concebir hijos con su esposa Meribeth, Alistair Mcleod, jefe de su clan, encarga a un grupo de guerreros, con su sobrino Daimh al frente, la misión de viajar a la isla de Skye para solicitar la ayuda de la famosa hechicera que vive allí.

Ante la imposibilidad de concebir hijos con su esposa Meribeth, Alistair Mcleod, jefe de su clan, encarga a un grupo de guerreros, con su sobrino Daimh al frente, la misión de viajar a la isla de Skye para solicitar la ayuda de la famosa hechicera que vive allí. Aila nunca ha salido de la isla de Skye; la llaman bruja, hechicera, mensajera de Elphame… Posee el don de la adivinación y puede hablar con los espíritus, como con el de su abuela y mentora, Nimue, que le profetiza su destino: «Tu futuro esposo vendrá a buscarte y te llevará lejos de aquí».

Famous, all-encompassing, passionate, but ultimately doomed love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, and how this unresolved passion eventually destroys them and the people around them. Today considered a classic of English literature, Wuthering Heights was met with mixed reviews when it first appeared, mainly because of the narrative's stark depiction of mental and physical cruelty.