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Searching for her roots, American CEO Holly visits Scotland. An ancient ash isn't the kind of family tree she had in mind. But when she touches a golden spindle carved into its rough bark, she is sucked through time to the ninth century—and captured in a Viking raid. Warrior Einar Birgirsson rescues the beautiful stranger. But to claim his place as jarl, he must rid the Orkney Islands of outlaws and take a wife within two moons. He will set her free—if she agrees to marry him.

Cora Bennett doesn’t believe for a minute that the woman promising to move her through time is anything but a quack, or possibly only trying to sell her something. But Cora has read enough time-travel romances to have some pretty great expectations about her own storyline, once the promise becomes reality. And when she meets the bold and breathtaking Lucas Thain, she’s even more excited. True, he’s moody and unapproachable, pretty frightening for his sometimes seething fury, but Cora’s not deterred. She’s not leaving the 14th century until she knows at least one kiss from him.

When Aedan Cameron and his men save a frightened and fleeing lass from a band of border reivers, he assumes his responsibility to her is done. His captain has other ideas. And then she lifts a pair of magnificent blue eyes to him, and he is reminded of what one of the nigheanan sgàil, the daughters of shadow, predicted—that a lass with blue eyes would come. It was told she would have the power to pierce the darkness with light, and that she alone would solve the mystery of his brother’s murder.

Someone has made bold promises to the Highland witches in exchange for disposing of Michael MacClellan. But the nigheanan sgàil, the daughters of shadow, do not engage in murder and instead put the fierce warrior into a deep sleep, hidden inside the earth in 14th century Scotland.

Sally Jay Gorce is a woman with a mission. It’s the 1950s, she’s young, and she’s in Paris. Having dyed her hair pink, she wears evening dresses in the daytime and vows to go native in a way not even the natives can manage. Embarking on an educational program that includes an affair with a married man (which fizzles out when she realizes he’s single and wants to marry her); nights in cabarets and jazz clubs in the company of assorted “citizens of the world”; an entanglement with a charming psychopath; and a bit part in a film financed by a famous matador.

Proclaimed as “truly spellbinding,” a “great fable” that “functions as transporting romance” by the Guardian, the runaway #1 international bestseller arrives in America. ""A rich, gothic entertainment that explores what books have trapped inside them and reminds us of the power of...

Amber MacCoinnich's survival depends on her traveling to the twenty first century, or so her mother’s premonition told her. Death taunts Amber and offers peace in her endless pain. Without the mysterious savior her mother spoke of, Amber prepares for death only to wake with a handsome, dark stranger in her bed. Gavin Kincaid spends his life shifting time in order to preserve and protect the MacCoinnich family and their line even though he’s never met one living MacCoinnich.

After the untimely death of her husband Toby, Lady Victoria Howard discovers that she possesses the magical gift of time travelling, using an enchanted mirror in her grandmother's attic. During her foray through the mirror, she travels back in time, meeting people linked to her own aristocratic family, several generations earlier, which opens up some interesting questions for Victoria. In steamy, time-travelling adventures that would rival "Outlander", Lady Victoria Howard travels to a variety of different time periods and countries, enjoying exciting new experiences and pleasures.

Un amor que atraviesa los siglos. El destino de destruir la humanidad. El poder de cambiar el mundo. Para la detective de la policía de Boston Ella O'Connor, tanto el invierno eterno, como las fuerzas míticas y el mundo al borde de la destrucción son cosas típicas en una jornada laboral. Salvar a la humanidad sería mucho más fácil si su novio, el multimillonario Channing Hakonson, no fuera la fuerza detrás del Ragnarök… y un prófugo de la ley.

Browsing an antiques shop in Wiltshire, Alison Bannister stumbles across a delicate old portrait—identified as the doomed Tudor queen, Anne Boleyn. Except Alison knows better. The subject is Mary Seymour, the daughter of Katherine Parr, who was taken to Wolf Hall in 1557 and presumed dead...

Fabienne Beaumont lies bleeding in a filthy alleyway. Desperate to escape the bloody War of Rebellion, she and her siblings had been trying to hustle passage back home to their native France. Instead, she fell victim to a card shark's bullets. As everything fades to black, Fabienne thumbs the hands of her old pocket watch—unaware that she's about to awaken from one nightmare straight into another.

Eine schicksalshafte Begegnung lässt sie ins Mittelalter reisen, wo ein stolzer Wikinger sie rettet. Und verführt. Ihr Weg zurück ist versperrt. Seine Krieger können ihr nicht helfen, die Frauen dürfen es nicht.

In 2014, Marc Wilde—martial artist and actor—finds his life a mess. His latest film, Croc-nami, is being trashed on social media, sending his acting career into a tailspin. His love life isn't doing much better. And then there is the tiny matter of blackmail. Someone knows about the time portal in the cellar of Duir Cottage and is threatening to tell the world unless Marc pays up. So yeah . . . his life is not going so well.

Ellinor lived for adventure, always travelling from one place to the next - until tragedy struck and turned her world upside down. Needing to escape, she accepts an invitation to stay with relatives at their remote Cornish farmhouse. As Ellinor settles on the outskirts of Calstock, it's not long before the land and its history have her itching to explore once more. Her search takes her far and wide when an unexpected encounter with an enigmatic, handsome stranger stops her in her tracks. From the moment they meet, Ellinor knows deep in her soul they share a connection like no other.

Ella es el enemigo, pero no puede dejar de desearla. Cuando una alegre viajera en el tiempo agarra a un vikingo gruñón en un mal día, ¿podrá el enfado transformarse en pasión?

While on a college-sponsored field trip to experience a real archaeology dig, Missouri University student Quinn Cameron is separated from the rest of her class by a heavy fog. A fog that transports her back in time, to 1592. Something that even her 3.8 GPA and sarcastic wit won't be enough to help her survive. Now she's in a primitive world she has only studied in books. History, she learns, is a far cry from the comfort and security of her former life. And her only safe harbor from politics and violence is Duncan MacGregor, a valiant, brooding, and mysterious Scottish warrior.

History set her fate in stone.... Murderer. Mercenary. Temptress. Trickster. Traitor. Thief. But under a hammer that falls like thunder, stone will always shatter. So with her voice she lights the forge. The Voyage of Freydis sings the silenced tale of Freydis Eiriksdottir, the first and only woman to lead a Viking voyage across the Atlantic in this tempestuous retelling of the Vinland Sagas set at the dawn of the 11th century.

Bethany Carter, on the brink of despair following her parents' tragic murder, ardently pursues her dream of becoming a human rights lawyer. But rejected by prospective employers, she questions whether she will ever find the solace—or the closure—she seeks. So when a mysterious old woman presents with the opportunity to alter her fate, Beth steps through an archway in a dilapidated castle and finds herself catapulted back through time—and right into peril.

Occult bookstore owner and practicing witch Delphine Owens arrives on her free vacation to the Isle of Skye embracing the time away from the ultra-conservative protestors harassing her store. Initially shocked and unprepared for her transport back in time, she's pleasantly surprised to catch the attention of an attractive Scotsman. But when a witch is blamed for a mysterious illness, Delphine gets nervous.

It is 1715 and for Duncan Melville, something fundamental is missing from his life. Despite a flourishing legal practice and several close friends, he is lonely, even more so after the recent death of his father. He needs a wife—a companion through life, someone to hold and be held by. What he wasn’t expecting was to be torn away from everything he knew and find said woman in 2016.