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A Dashing War Hero Falls in Love with a Penniless Orphan. When Colonel Henry Fitzwilliam arrives at Rosings Park and reconnects with his cousin Anne’s lady companion, Ophelia Hampton, he can hardly believe she is the same person as the unprepossessing eight-year-old he teased as a teenager. Now, despite himself, he is enchanted by the accomplished but penniless orphan. To his dismay, Sir Thomas Wainwright, a landholder in the district, has also shown a marked interest in the young woman.

Paris, 1945. Alors que la guerre vient tout juste de se terminer, un cadavre est découvert dans un hôtel borgne de Pigalle. L’assassin, arrêté sur les lieux, est un vagabond, dont la dernière adresse était le camp d’Auschwitz. L’homme qu’il a tué d’une balle dans la tête était...

In the frozen depths of 1959 Soviet Russia, former OSS operative John Kobczyk is pulled from his quiet life as a baker in Buffalo, NY for one final mission. Posing as a hockey coach in remote Kirov, he finds himself entangled in a deadly game where nothing is as it seems. With the help of a mysterious local baker named Taisiya, John races against time to uncover the truth. But in a world where loyalty can be bought and sold, the price of trust may be higher than he's willing to pay.

The past is gone. Move on or die. The radiation should have killed him. Instead, it gave Alexander Chandler extraordinary abilities—and turned him into the Navy's most valuable asset. For more than eighty years, Alex and his team of "Notables" have fought in every shadow war, every covert mission too dangerous for regular operatives. Now one of their own has gone rogue. Burton Shott is systematically eliminating every Notable on the planet as revenge for decades of personal loss.

One relic. Two global powers. A race against time and in this race, there's no silver medal for second place. Harry Fox doesn’t take sides. He finds relics, sells them, and stays out of trouble. But when Italian agents force him into a search sanctioned by the Pope himself, neutrality is no longer an option. Harry has little choice but to dive headlong into chasing this relic. However, Harry and the Pope are not the only two interested in finding this royal treasure.

For fans of Slewfoot and Between Two Fires comes a riveting new tale of historical horror: a story of love, loss, and the lengths one man will go to protect his own. “A brutal, lyrical frontier saga of blood, inheritance, and survival...transcends its setting and creates a timeless story where...

ENEMIES BY BIRTH. BROTHERS IN BLOOD. 1829. Mahikeng Mission Station. Highveld, southern Africa. The warrior king is dead. Ralph Courtney and Ann Waite have escaped. From the chaos and bloodshed that consumed the Zulu nation after the murder of King Shaka. From Ralph's enemies. From the man who...

Episch verflochtener, brisanter Thriller mit historischen und aktuellen Bezügen, zum Teil nach wahren Geschichten. "Wo es an Mut gebricht" wirft uns mitten hinein in existenzielle Fragen: Wann ist eine Sache so groß, dass sie jedes persönliche Risiko wert ist? Wie weit geht ein Mensch, um für seine Ideale zu kämpfen? Vier Figuren, verwandtschaftlich miteinander verbunden, begehren in verschiedenen Zeitaltern auf gegen unterdrückende Strukturen und zeigen uns, was es heißt, über sich selbst hinauszuwachsen.

When Professor Jack Sullivan is asked to decode a cipher from the war's final days, he expects a historical curiosity. Instead, he uncovers a thread Jefferson Davis died protecting, a secret never meant to resurface. Jack, his fiancée Emma Wilson, and former SEAL Steve Johnson are pulled into a hunt more dangerous than any battlefield. From Washington's archives to the back alleys of New Orleans, from the coast of Mexico to the shadowed ridges of Arkansas, every trail leads deeper into the world of the Knights of the Golden Circle, a brotherhood long believed defunct.

'I absolutely devoured this… One of my favourites… Incredible… I was immersed from the very first page… Completely captivating' NetGalley reviewer, ★★★★★ Four housewives. One quiet street. A Cold War secret that could destroy everything. In a town built around America’s most...

The gripping new historical thriller from the award-winning author of Munich Wolf and Evil in High Places , perfect for fans of Philip Kerr, Robert Harris and Simon Scarrow. ON THE EVE OF WAR, A ROYAL GUEST IS LURED INTO HITLER'S DEADLY WEB . . . Munich, 1937. The Duke and Duchess of Windsor...

From the bestselling author of Waterstones Scottish Book of the Month The Specimens comes a new historic novel set during the Scottish witch trials filled with confessions and betrayal. Rural Scotland, 1629. Amidst the bogs and oat fields, children are going missing, and others seem to have...

Bloomsbury presents The Knife Maker of Venice by David Gilman read by Ben Cura and Davild Gilman, and featuring an exclusive interview between them. A young Englishman captured by slavers must survive the snakepit that is seventeenth-century Venice. 1604. As pirates seeking slaves to sell in the...

Two sacred relics have been stolen—one capable of uniting nations, the other powerful enough to ignite catastrophe. The Church is desperate to recover them. The Templars fear who might use them. When Jonathan Rose is contacted by a ghost from his past, he’s pulled into a deadly hunt across the globe. The warning is clear: the relics are in the hands of enemies who will stop at nothing to unleash their potential.

Unearth a centuries-old conspiracy in this atmospheric historical mystery where ten chilling cold cases collide. Perfect for an immersive commute, this gripping thriller follows a brilliant podcaster who uncovers a trove of classified archives hiding a deadly secret. Escape the daily grind and...

A mysterious artifact. A deadly Soviet obsession. A race against time. Post-war Paris has almost been a honeymoon. Most of the remnants of occupation have been scrubbed from Napoleon's walls, and the romance of the Seine feels stronger than ever. For over a year, we've enjoyed the warmth of...

London, 1850. Maude Horton knows something isn’t right. Her sister Constance embarked on a reckless adventure, running away from the room she shared with Maude, disguising herself as a boy on board a ship going to the Arctic, and then never came home. ‘A tragic accident’, they said, but...

A coming-of-age, historical thriller set in pre-war Germany and France inspired by true events in which a callow, amateur historian must find his courage to carry out a near-impossible quest ordered by SS leader Heinrich Himmler.

Camille and Richard thought they were in for a festive evening out when they were invited to a glamorous Christmas celebration at one of London's most exclusive casinos, The London Ivy Rooms. Invited by the enigmatic Lady Agnes Dunbar whom they had previously met under mysterious circumstances in Cairo, the event promises glittering lights, high-stakes gambling, and a touch of Christmas magic. But when the holiday cheer takes a dark turn, and a dead body is discovered among the revellers, it becomes clear that not everything is as it seems.

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook. Holidaying in the countryside and enjoying a quiet breakfast Hastings, Inspector Japp and Poirot are disturbed by a local police officer who needs their help to solve a case. A man has been found shot...