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A knight, newly-returned from the Crusades, rides out one day to look over his estates. He doesn’t return and nothing is seen or heard of him or his horse again. His grieving lady dies of a broken heart within a year. This is the legend of Elmswood, a mid-Kent village.

1360: Having left her days of rebellion behind, Jeanette of Kent has finally found contentment as a wife and mother. Then, she is delivered a new blow: her beloved husband, Thomas Holland, has died on duty overseas. Though broken, Jeanette readies herself once more to fight to protect what is hers. And when Prince Edward, heir to the throne and her longtime friend, unexpectedly steps forward and offers marriage, she accepts for the sake of her family. As their relationship deepens, love blossoms again for Jeanette, but it comes at a price.

England im Herbst 1013: Um den dänischen Gefangenen Hakon bei Hofe abzuliefern, reist der junge Engländer Ælfric of Helmsby nach London. Die Stadt liegt in Trümmern, denn dem schwachen König Ethelred gelingt es nicht, sein Reich gegen die ständigen Wikingerüberfälle zu schützen. Doch anders als England und Dänemark sind Ælfric und Hakon keine Feinde - während der gefährlichen Reise sind sie zu Freunden geworden. Bald schon gehören sie zum inneren Kreis um die machtbewusste Königin Emma.

Um den dänischen Gefangenen Hakon bei Hofe abzuliefern, reist der junge Engländer Ælfric of Helmsby nach London. Die Stadt liegt in Trümmern, denn dem schwachen König Ethelred gelingt es nicht, sein Reich gegen die ständigen Wikingerüberfälle zu schützen. Doch anders als England und Dänemark sind Ælfric und Hakon keine Feinde - während der gefährlichen Reise sind sie zu Freunden geworden.

Blood Blizzard follows the Redshaws—a small, tight-knit Yorkshire family—caught in the brutal crosscurrents of the Wars of the Roses. As the House of York rises and the road to the Battle of Towton is paved with blood and betrayal, eldest son William Redshaw joins Edward of York’s forces, determined to fight for a future beyond his family’s windswept farmstead. By his side is Elena, his sharp-witted sister, as loyal with a dagger as she is to her kin.

Antioch, 1097. Encamped beneath the mighty walls of Antioch, the crusaders must survive an endless torrent of Saracen armies, a freezing winter none were prepared for, and a year-long siege that will push every man to his limit. Though closer than ever before, the quest to retake Jerusalem faces its toughest challenge yet. Daniel has spoken of his victories. How he fought on rain-covered docks and ended the siege of Nicaea. How he survived a Saracen ambush on the blood-soaked plains of Dorylaeum. Now comes Antioch, and the old knight must speak of loss, of death, of mourning.

Leo the Primus Pilus of the Third Britannorum Cohort under Stillicho receives his retirement papers and land grant to a small farm in Ad Fines Pannonia. He gets more than he bargained for and has to establish himself amid conflicts with the church, Roman officials and warring tribes in a fragmenting Empire in the borderlands between East and West.

France, 1096. Crowds gather in Sens, Northern France, to hear the man known as the Hermit speak. He talks of a great pilgrimage to Jerusalem, a quest filled with promise for those Christian soldiers who march with him. Sybill knows the perils of the road ahead, but follow it she must. Her husband is a reckless gambler, easily swayed by the Hermit's words. For Odo, the pilgrimage provides the chance to demonstrate his unshakeable piety, while his brother Fulk craves adventure and excitement.

Ein Schwergewicht im Wikinger-Genre. Unterhaltung mit Mehrwert, intensiv recherchiert und knallhart erzählt. Der vierte Teil von Tonny Gulløvs erfolgreicher Wikinger-Saga. Ulv Palnatoke ist keiner, der sich vor irgendjemandem beugt – weder vor dem König Dänemarks, Harald Blauzahn, noch vor dem blutrünstigen Otto dem Großen. Den schmerzt noch immer die demütigende Niederlage, die Palnatoke ihm zugefügt hat. Das Jahr ist 960. Otto der Große steht mit seiner enormen Streitmacht am Schutzwall Danewerk. Er will die Dänen zum Christentum zwingen.

As the country recovers from the war with France, and whispers that the pestilence has returned to England grow louder, fear is in the heart of every nobleman and commoner alike. Sir Ralph de Mandeville, ex-solider and newly appointed Justice of the Peace is sent to Langbarugh, just outside York, to investigate the murder of Coroner Sir Boderick de Whitby. More deaths quickly follow, and while these are swiftly dealt with as plague victims, Sir Ralph and his two assistants Merek and Peter soon uncover something altogether more horrifying… A greater evil is at large in the northern wapentakes.

What happens when a king loses his prowess? The day Henry IV could finally declare he had vanquished his enemies, he threw it all away with an infamous deed. No English king had executed an archbishop before. And divine judgment was quick to follow. Many thought he was struck with leprosy—God's greatest punishment for sinners. From that point on, Henry's health was cursed and he fought doggedly on as his body continued to betray him—reducing this once great warrior to an invalid. Fortunately for England, his heir was ready and eager to take over.

Er wird um sein Leben kämpfen müssen. An der Seite seines Sohnes. Norwegen im Jahre 1007. Verbannt ins Exil auf die abgelegenen Orkney-Inseln wird Torstein Knarresmed von Rachegedanken heimgesucht. Als gejagter Mann und vertriebener Herrscher von Vingulmork weiß er, dass er seine Verbündeten nun sorgfältig auswählen muss. Denn noch immer wütet die Schlacht um Großbritannien, und König Æthelred herrscht über den Thron. Von Torstein wird erwartet, im Namen des dänischen Königs zu kämpfen und die Vorherrschaft über die englischen Gebiete zurückzuerlangen.

Kent de Poyer is part of the powerful Norman de Poyer family from Netherworld Castle. Therefore, it's little wonder when Henry sends Kent to the Welsh marches because of some trouble between an English family and a local Welsh warlord that threatens to ignite the entire border into a blaze of battle. Madelaina ferch Bryn is the daughter of the apothecary from the village of Penderyn. When the English sack the castle, it's a valley of apprehension.

The Dutch Stadhouder, William of Orange, has summoned Master Mercurius—and that is never good news. Mercurius has gained a reputation for himself with William for successfully undertaking diplomatic missions. And William is now paranoid that his own subjects—and the English exiles living in the Netherlands—are plotting against him. Mercurius is sent to gather information, but he soon finds himself caught up in another mystery. Three Jewish boys have vanished, and the local magistrates are doing nothing to investigate their disappearances.

After getting Master Mercurius jailed and nearly put to death with one of his schemes, the Stadhouder, William of Orange, has finally left Mercurius in peace. But Mercurius is not able to remain in Leiden for long. A friendly debate on the sin of witchcraft has been proposed between the University of Leiden and the University of Leuven. And the scholars are to meet part-way in the city of Maastricht.

Sullo sfondo degli splendidi paesaggi della Transilvania del tardo sedicesimo secolo, in un alternarsi di realtà storica e fantasia si svolge, tra avventure, amori tormentati, battaglie, congiure e misteri, la catarsi morale di Olivér Abafi, giovane cavaliere di nobile famiglia. La determinazione, la gratitudine e il sacrificio sono le colonne portanti di quest'opera senza tempo, primo esempio di romanzo storico della letteratura ungherese. "Una volta mi imbattei in una novella intitolata Il Figlio Di Aba, una traduzione serba dell'opera di Josika, un famosissimo scrittore ungherese.

Obsession is deadly. Luna Ketz is no stranger to that. A cynical high school senior caught between her parents’ expectations and her own future, she has little time, or patience, for boys. Especially not Chance Welfrey, the odd classmate with an unsettling gaze and a fixation she doesn’t return. Luna doesn’t think twice about him… until girls at their school start disappearing. Girls who crossed her. Girls she secretly wanted gone.

One evening, Gillis—a young Scottish minister who technically doesn't believe in god—falls into a hole left by a recently dug up elm tree and discovers an ancient disembodied hand in the soil. He's about to rebury it when the hand... beckons to him. He spirits it back to his manse and gives it pen and paper, whereupon it begins to doodle scratchy and anarchic visions. Somewhere, in the hand's deep history, there lies a story of the Scottish reformation, of art and violence, and of its owner long since dead.

Anna DeMarco’s creative world shatters when a remorseless stranger tears it apart—no blood spilled, just her spirit broken. He thinks he’s won. He’s wrong. Dragged into a realm where karma wields a jagged edge and magic fuels vengeance, Milton Smith faces a brutal reckoning. How dare he make her cry. This modern-day critic obsessed with medieval lore crossed the wrong writer—and finds himself hurled into a brutal world of his own making.

Amidst the Hundred Years' War, alliances must be brokered. The Duke of Clarence, second son of King Edward III, journeys from Paris to marry the daughter of the powerful Lord of Milan. Little does he know that he is heading into a trap. Luckily the Duke is preceded on the road to Milan by Sir Thomas Blackstone, Master of War, on an urgent mission of his own. Blackstone must get his hands on the gold the Prince of Wales needs to wage successful war in France. But there is a price on Blackstone's head, and assassins willing to risk everything to claim it before he even gets to Milan.