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Au sein d’une Écosse gouvernée par une monarchie soutenue par les clans et le parlement, le roi Aédan Stuart Ier est à un tournant de son règne. Confronté à l’un des plus grands défis de sa vie, se marier et engendrer un héritier, Aédan cherche une distraction pour alléger le poids de ses responsabilités. C’est alors que Halley, une jeune pâtissière ambitieuse, est recrutée pour rejoindre la brigade culinaire du palais royal. Bien qu’ayant grandi à Los Angeles, ses racines écossaises sont profondes.

Two sisters. One brutal murder. A quest for vengeance that will unleash Hell itself . . . Kingdom of the Wicked is the first in an addictive, intoxicating and darkly romantic fantasy series from a Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author. Emilia and her twin sister Vittoria are witches...

After years of voyaging around the world, the Wolves of Odin are going home. Far from the green crew led by an unblooded, wily lad that departed Sigtun, they return a renowned, feared war-band, led by Jarl Halfdan Loki-Born. They have come back to hunt down the last man responsible for the death of Halfdan’s father, the wicked Christian priest Hjalmvigi.

This monumental work made the Arthurian cycle available for the first time in English. Arthur is conceived and taken away in secret, returning as a young man to claim the throne by pulling the sword Excalibur from the stone. In retelling the story of Arthur's rule of Britain, Malory intertwines the romances of Guinevere and Launcelot, Tristram and Isolde, and Launcelot and Elaine. Sir Galahad's appearance at Camelot begins the quest for the Holy Grail.