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Arabella Cameron is filled with dread. But if marrying a man she doesn't love will end the feud between the Cameron and Mackintosh clans, she will do her duty. That is until outlaw Brodie Mackintosh arrives and steals her away. Brodie knows Arabella has every reason to hate him, but a forbidden...

Strong-willed and cunning, Ravyn was taken in as a child by a group of witch Hunters who raised her to be the best of the best. When she receives word that the witch who murdered her mother and ripped apart her world is nearby, Ravyn begins her hunt. In her quest to locate the witch, she finds her hunt impeded again and again by a gorgeous and powerful man. But she won't be denied and intends to do whatever is necessary to complete her assignment. 

Notre Dame de Paris, pubblicato nel 1831, fu il primo grande successo di Victor Hugo. Il romanzo storico, in cui la trama sembra a volte solo un pretesto per accurate descrizioni della Parigi della fine del XV secolo, avvolge il lettore nelle sue prosa immaginifica, ironica,danzante. Dalla storia sono state tratte moltissimi adattamenti di musical, cartoni animati, e film. Il gobbo di Notre Dame è un archetipo del mostro che si annulla nell’amore.Cornice musicale: sinfonia n.7 di Beethowen.

Ivanhoe è considerato come il primo vero esempio di genere storico, e in esso, oltre alla figura di Ivanhoe, vengono presentate figure leggendarie come Robin Hood, frate Tuck, e Riccardo Cuor di Leone. All'inizio della vicenda, Scott dice che essa si colloca "verso la fine del regno di Riccardo I"; poiché Riccardo stesso compare nel romanzo, di ritorno in Inghilterra dalla Terza Crociata dopo la prigionia passata dal duce d'Austria; pertanto i fatti si collocano attorno al 1194. Le tematiche trattate sono molteplici e complesse.

Il capolavoro di Svevo è centrato sulla figura di Zeno, ma è in realtà un gioco di specchi...

Amori, duelli, fantastiche avventure, magie. Il primo canto di uno degli immortali capolavori della letteratura italiana: il poema cavalleresco Orlando Innamorato, scritto da Matteo Maria Boiardo (1441-1494) e pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1495. Loves, fights, fantastic adventures, magic. The first song of one of the immortal masterpieces of Italian literature: the epic poem Orlando Love, written by Matteo Maria Boiardo (1441-1494) and published for the first time in 1495.

Als Unterpfand für einen zerbrechlichen Frieden wird Fiona Sinclair von ihren Brüdern in eine Ehe mit ihrem Erzfeind gezwungen. Der temperamentvollen Fiona bleibt keine andere Wahl, als einzuwilligen, denn andernfalls muss ihre unschuldige kleine Schwester ihren Platz einnehmen. Ähnlich ergeht es ihrem künftigen Gemahl. Myles Campbell, ältester Sohn des Clananführers, ist es gewöhnt, seinen Willen durchzusetzen.

Un cavaliere, "divo" dei tornei, con un passato di idolo ambito dal gentil sesso e di tombeur de femmes, si innamora alfine di vero amore per una dama, sposata, che in pratica egli neppure conosce. Si reca da lei per corteggiarla, ma parlare di vero amore non è così semplice come quando si tenta un'effimera avventura galante. La dama non gli crede, le parole da sole non bastano. Sarà un gesto arguto e gentile del cavaliere, ormai quasi rassegnato, a risolvere la situazione e a ottenere l'amore della dama.

After years spent fighting alongside King Richard in the crusades, Lord Edmund of Hawksford is finally returning to his ancestral home. But far from a joyful reunion, what awaits him is devastation. His elder brother is dead, killed in a tragic fire at Hawksford Castle - and the title of duke now falls to Edmund.

A Determined Highlander . . . Duncan MacConnoway, son of a powerful thane and used to getting his way in life, is desperate to wed the woman of his dreams. Her uncle, the wily Earl of Lochlann, demands that he fulfill three tasks that even Hercules would struggle to finish. Their love is all that lights his way through this dark labyrinth, that if only he can hang onto it long enough . . .  The wise woman . . . Alina du Mas can see things that no one else believes, so she usually keeps her secrets to herself.

It is the year 1152 and a beautiful woman of thirty, attended by only a small armed escort, is riding like the wind southwards through what is now France, leaving behind her crown, her two young daughters and a shattered marriage to Louis of France, who had been more like a monk than a king, and...

Lady Guinevere Mallory has been married four times in 12 years, and each of her husbands has died mysteriously. Adept in the laws of property, she has secured the land of each of her late spouses, vastly increasing her personal wealth. After the death of her fourth husband, this trend raises some eyebrows at the royal court, and Hugh of Beaucaire is sent to investigate these puzzling events.

In 1421, Henry V and his young bride, Catherine de Valois, are blessed with the birth of a son - but their happiness is short-lived. Catherine is widowed, and when her father, the French king, also dies, her son inherits the crowns of France and England.  

England, 1435. Eleanor Cobham has married into the highest ranks of the aristocracy; she is now the Duchess of Gloucester. She and her husband, the Duke Humphrey, set up a court of their own to rival the royal court in London, surrounding themselves with fascinating and influential people. But Eleanor craves the one thing she lacks: a son and heir - and through him a possible route to the throne of England.

An unclaimed land in the Scottish isles is ruled by the male and female victors in a series of war games every five years. Named Chief and Lady of the land, they rule the vast holding and protect the people by divine right until the next game begins. After her brother's death, Ceana is named laird. The only way for her clan to survive the ravages of the Highlands is to join in the war games. Bastard son of a powerful earl, Macrath is placed in the games by his vengeful stepmother.

Figlio di un vassallo fedele al re di Bretagna, Guigemar è un cavaliere coraggioso e saggio. Un giorno, durante una battuta di caccia nel mezzo di un bosco, ferì mortalmente una cerva bianca, ma il caso volle che la freccia ferisse di rimando, sotto la coscia e gravemente, pure lui. Prima di morire la cerva parla al cavaliere e gli predice una possibilità di salvezza: la ferita potrà guarire solo da una donna che soffrirà per amore di lui, e lui soffrirà tanto per lei. Guigemar vagherà per la foresta finché non troverà un fiume e una nave riccamente decorata, ma senza equipaggio.

Duty-bound to seek revenge, Broderick MacConnaway, son of the Thane of Dunkeld, lives haunted by memories of his lost wife, Aisling. Forming an alliance with the Lochlann family presents its own trials, but if the marriage allows him to fulfill his vengeance, then so be it. Even if the guilt over Aisling prevents him from ever loving again.... But when sinister intentions surface and Amabel is captured before she has a chance to reveal them, Broderick is forced to see past the deceptions and begin another campaign of vengeance.

Hannah Schreyber hat den ehemaliger Templer Gero von Breydenbach geheiratet, den es mittels eines Timeservers aus dem Jahr 1307 in die Gegenwart verschlagen hat. Doch den beiden ist keine Ruhe gegönnt. Wissenschaftler finden heraus, dass die beiden ehemaligen Besitzerinnen des Servers im 12. Jahrhundert in Jerusalem festsitzen. Und dass es Hinweise gibt, dass die Vereinigten Staaten und Europa vor dem Untergang stehen. Gero und seine Templer sollen durch die Zeit reisen, um die jungen Frauen zu retten - und herausfinden, wie man die Apokalypse verhindern kann. Ein Himmelfahrtskommando beginnt...

"It was in the first week of October in the year 1391 that I first came face to face with the man who owned me… the man whose lightest word was to us, his villeins, weightier than the King’s law or the edicts of our Holy Father…” So began the story of Martin Reed - a serf whose resentment of the automatic rule of his feudal lord finally flared into open defiance.

Im Jahr 1156 bringt der Großmeister der Templer einen geheimnisvollen Gegenstand aus Jerusalem nach Südfrankreich. Dieses Artefakt sorgt dafür, dass der Orden zu unermesslichem Reichtum gelangt - und dass für die Tempelritter die Grenzen von Raum und Zeit verschwinden. Als 150 Jahre später der Orden vom französischen König verboten und verfolgt wird, soll Gero von Breydenbach, ein Templer aus Trier, zusammen mit seinen Getreuen in die deutschen Lande fliehen, um die dortigen Brüder zu warnen und den Untergang des Ordens zu verhindern. In der Zisterzienserabtei von Heisterbach soll er einem Mittelsmann des hohen Rates der Templer eine geheime Losung überbringen, damit dieser das so genannte "Haupt der Weisheit" zum Leben erwecken kann.