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Rome, AD 403. As a loyal daughter of the Visigoth tribe, Adelgard followed her father to war, hoping to win back her family’s approval. But after a clash with the Roman army, Adel is captured and sold to a gladiator school. Now she is the most famous gladiatrix in Rome, determined to keep the fickle love of the crowd and never again rely on anyone but herself for her own security. But beneath the fame lies a darkness and pain that holds her captive.

Mika Waltari transports you once more to the turbulent 16th century in this gripping continuation of his saga, The Adventurer. In its sequel, The Wanderer, our hero, Michael, now seasoned by battles and betrayals, leaves the ashes of Rome for the exotic and perilous lands of the Ottoman Empire.

1515 A.D. - The Lady Micheline le Bec was pledged in marriage to Edmund de Cleveley, Baron Bowland, in payment for her father's gambling debt. When de Cleveley's big Irish captain, Sir Kirk Connaught, arrives to escort Micheline to her marriage, Micheline is apprehensive but submissive. In fact, she's not the real problem; the real issue is her sister, the Lady Mara.

Highborn and privileged, Valeria has never known life outside her father's Roman fortress. But when Hadrian's Wall falls, Valeria's world shatters. Ripped from her bed, she's captured by savages. Terrified, she prays her betrothed will mount a rescue. But it is the enemy, a Pict with Celtic tattoos and hair of fire who wields his sword and fights for her freedom.

Dominus is a plot-packed, high heat, high angst MM historical fantasy saga that transports listeners back to ancient Rome during the reign of Emperor Trajan (98-117). These four books follow the unlikely love story of two main characters and lifelong enemies: Gaius Fabius Rufus, a bisexual Roman general and candidate for the imperial throne, and Allerix, a gay Dacian royal prince captured and enslaved at the end of the Second Dacian War.

It’s the winter season of 1746, and the Highlands are snowy. In the village of Calvine, north of Tay Forest along a road that leads straight into Inverness, the only tavern in town is packed to the rafters with travelers. Eight months after the disastrous defeat at Culloden, the people haven’t recovered, nor has the land, and it’s a bad winter. When James de Lohr, Earl of Worcester, shows up looking for clues to his brother’s fate on the Culloden Moor, he gets more than he bargained for.

"A hugely entertaining Roman world Romantasy—with a hilarious heroine and smoldering hero.”—ELODIE HARPER, bestselling author of The Wolf Den In the last days of the Roman Empire, a desperate princess and a brutal Gothic warlord forge a dangerous alliance. Julia, only daughter of the...

An ancient highlander who’s never been allowed to love. A modern woman who keeps men at arm’s length. Can their passion overcome their pasts? Althea Jarden’s botanical fieldwork keeps her happily busy, but it has kept her from relationships as well - by design. But all the self-reliance in the world can’t prepare her for being taken to ancient Scotland and what she finds there.

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.

She saves lives. He ends them. A clash of worlds is just the beginning. Dr. Imani Cole is a surgeon, a woman of science and unbreakable will, commanding life and death in a modern Atlanta ER. Her world is one of sterile logic and calculated risks. A single, defiant touch of an ancient stone shatters that reality. Ripped from everything she knows, Imani is thrown into the blood-soaked sands of a brutal, mythic Greece. She is found by a being of impossible power and chilling purpose: Ares, the God of War. He isn't her savior. He's her captor. Bored by millennia of pointless slaughter, the ...

On his deathbed, the 400-year-old emperor of Atlantis has reason to worry. Signar, the savage ruler of a powerful outlying state, is scheming to seize control of the empire, and not even its advanced technology can save it. Signar will halt his invasion if he can take the emperor’s daughter, the beautiful Empress Salustra, as his bride. Such a marriage contradicts the deepest feelings of Salustra’s heart, the secret wisdom of her lineage, and her sacred trust as Atlantis’s queen. But the emperor has a plan: Salustra will seduce Signar and then sentence him to death.

Un hombre marcado por la crueldad deberá enfrentarse a un destino que nunca eligió. Ella es la mujer a la que juró odiar... y ahora sería su esposa. Clyde Campbell es un guerrero temido por todos, dueño de una reputación marcada por la crueldad y la frialdad. Pero ni siquiera él controla su propio destino: desde los quince años quedó atado a una promesa que su padre selló en su nombre, un matrimonio con la hija mayor del laird Fergus Cameron. Una mujer a la que jamás deseó, pues su carácter dulce y complaciente chocaba con la dureza de su alma. Años después, cuando llega la ...

Esta serie clásica ha inspirado a millones de lectores. Sin duda alguna, tanto los fieles seguidores como los nuevos lectores desearán poseer la edición más reciente de esta serie clásica. Esta edición incluye un prólogo de la casa editorial, un prefacio por Francine Rivers y una guía de discusión para uso personal o grupal. El tercer libro de la serie La marca del León, "Tan cierto como el amanecer", continúa la historia de Atretes.

Certain she will never wed for love, sworn to let no man possess her for her beauty alone, Jacqueline de Crevy has vowed to become a bride of God. But en route to the convent of Inveresbeinn, her party is ambushed by a knight, who snatches Jacqueline from her saddle and spirits her away with him. He is Angus MacGillivray—not the blackhearted ravisher she fears but a valiant man of honor who has returned to Scotland seeking justice...and revenge. Angus has come home from the Crusades to find his family murdered and his birthright seized. Sworn to reclaim his rightful lands, he has ...

When famine forces Ruth to choose between safety and loyalty, she follows her widowed mother-in-law to a foreign land with nothing but courage. In the fields of Bethlehem, a wealthy landowner named Boaz notices this determined Moabite widow gleaning grain to survive. As their paths intertwine, both discover that love can bloom in the most unexpected circumstances. Tim Sawyer's intimate retelling brings ancient Israel to life in this timeless story of loyalty, redemption, and second chances. Get your copy today and discover why Ruth's journey from outsider to beloved still resonates ...

Un hombre que huye del compromiso. Una mujer que escapa de su hogar para salvarse. El destino los une, pero ellos se odian... Lachlan Mackintosh es un divertido guerrero, famoso por sus incontables bromas y su potente carisma. Decidido a permanecer soltero por temor al amor, vive tranquilo su vida como segundo al mando del clan Mackintosh, centrado únicamente en sus labores del clan. Morrigan Chattan es una guerrera que se ve obligada a escapar de sus tierras para evitar casarse con Benjamin Barclay, un hombre salvaje que mató al abuelo de la joven. Ocultando su verdadera identidad como ...

An English heiress in the Scottish Highlands is an unexpected occurrence, but there might be more to this situation than initially apparent. Calum Shaw, the local sheriff, has a straightforward mission: to maintain order in his area. He's reluctant to enforce the constraining Tartan and Dress Act of 1746 and is equally unenthusiastic about dealing with the defiant Highlanders who continuously oppose the laws, regardless of their perceived injustice. The last thing he wants is complications. Enter Lorna Sutherland, who embodies complication. This determined Englishwoman has unexpectedly ...

Primus Centurion Titus Augustus Romulus has fought tirelessly to reclaim Hadrian's Wall from the clutches of the barbarians. Once his goal is achieved, he sets his sights on a long-awaited advancement to lead the entire Roman province of Britannia. But when Elspeth stows away in his chamber, things begin to go awry. As time passes, he uncovers the mysterious warrior woman's talents...until she's exposed as a Pict spy.

WINNER OF THE RONE AWARD FOR BEST MEDIEVAL ROMANCE! “...an exciting tale and a passionate love story that brings to life England after the Conquest—medieval romance at its best!" ~ Virginia Henley New York Times Bestselling Author HE WOULD NOT BE DENIED HIS PRIZE Sir Renaud de Pierrepont, the Norman knight known as the Red Wolf for the beast he slayed with his bare hands, hoped to gain lands with his sword. A year after the Conquest, King William rewards his favored knight with Talisand, the lands of an English thegn slain at Hastings, and orders him to wed Lady Serena, the heiress that...

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.