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One man is all that stands between Rome and ruin. AD 429. The Western Roman Empire is crumbling. Barbarian kings ravage its borders, scheming courtiers poison its courts, and civil war bleeds it dry. Against this tide stands Flavius Aetius – the Roman soldier raised by Huns, fighting with the...

Sometimes your sisters won’t talk to you. And sometimes a goddess gives you snakes for hair and a lethal stare. And sometimes the only way you can face your demons is by leaving the cave you call home. . . even if the outside world is filled with idiots. Just another day in the life of a...

A former soldier must investigate a series of grisly murders in Imperial Rome. A thrilling historical mystery-adventure from the author of the Bernicia Chronicles. Marcus Ulpius Bellator survived the brutality of war on the furthest frontiers of the Roman Empire. Now living at its very heart in...

This atmospheric and award-winning historical thriller inspired by the first female serial killer in history explores how far some will go for justice—and how far they may have to fall. In mid-seventeenth-century Rome, Giulia Toffana stands trial for her alleged crimes. Alongside her daughter...

'My name is Nobody.' Ten years ago, Odysseus left home for war. Now, all he wants is to return. But between him and Ithaca stand angry gods, Cyclopes, Sirens, enchantresses and the temptations of immortality. As his wife, Penelope, fights to protect their kingdom from ambitious suitors, Odysseus...

The civil war is building to a climactic conclusion. Pescennius Niger, Emperor Septimius Severus's enemy in the east, is dead, his army slaughtered at the bloody battle of Issus. Severus can now turn to confront his only remaining rival for the throne, Clodius Albinus. Governor of the distant...

In an ancient Indian kingdom, a poison maiden—trained to become the king’s assassin—is sent to stop Alexander the Great who would destroy her homeland. Eka is only a child when she is taken from her mother and brought to the heart of the Magadh Empire. Adopted by the city’s foremost...

Eka is a vishkanya, fed a diet of poison from a young age until she can kill with it, but it cannot kill her. She is commanded to be a weapon for her king, and when Alexander the Great threatens her homeland Eka is sent to stand in the way of his relentless conquest. Hidden within his court, Eka...

Luise Elisabeth von Strauß und Torney wurde am 20. September 1873 in Bückeburg als Tochter des Königlich-Preußischen Generalmajors Lothar von Strauß und Torney (1835–1903) geboren. Mit 25 Jahren veröffentlichte sie erste Gedichte und fand Anschluss an den Göttinger Kreis um Börries von Münchhausen, in dem sie neben anderen die Schriftstellerin Agnes Miegel und Theodor Heuss kennenlernte, mit denen sie eine enge Freundschaft verband.

Cavell is searching for the wife he never wanted. A marriage has been arranged without his consent by his ambitious father, but he cannot locate his wife and he hopes it is because she wants nothing to do with the marriage, though a more likely reason is she doesn't want to be wed to a scarred...

Dramatisations of selected novels and short stories by the acclaimed Robert Graves An acclaimed poet and novelist, Robert Graves is best remembered today for his immensely popular I, Claudius novels. He penned over 140 works in his lifetime, ranging from historical fiction to comic and...

Set during the last days of the Roman empire, Game of Thieves continues the sizzling enemies-to-lovers saga about a Roman Princess and her Goth warlord husband. A dark romance of rebellion, defiance, and lust, Game of Thieves reads like a Romantasy, without the dragons. Julia Augusta, princess...

A young Roman soldier seeking revenge and redemption fights for Julius Caesar in Spain. A disgraced soldier. A brilliant commander. The road to history awaits. Titus Saturninus Sabinus, son of parents disgraced and murdered under the dictator Sulla, joins the Roman Army to escape the dishonour...

Il est temps que les femmes d'Ithaque racontent leur histoire. Le roi Ulysse est parti il y a vingt ans en guerre contre Troie, emmenant tous les hommes en âge de combattre. En son absence, son épouse Pénélope et les femmes d'Ithaque ont protégé l'île des prétendants et des rois rivaux...

A ROMAN SLAVE HAS FURTHER TO FALL THAN MOST . . . AD 46. The Roman Republic has become a true empire, stretching from Egypt to the seacoast of Gaul. Sixty million people live under its rule: slaves, citizens, nobleman and emperors alike...

Her husband returns from war victorious . . . but something about him isn't right. Esme dreads her husband's return. Married only six months, she has already learned to fear Lord Torrance of Clan Glencairn. Cold, calculating, and obsessed with producing an heir, he made it clear she had one...

In his follow-up to Uruk: A Novel of the First City, James Zwerneman continues his stunning, action-packed historical adventure series set in ancient Mesopotamia. Jakka has taken his army and Ki, the genius who helped establish Uruk, north to a rich copper mining village to reestablish Magog's...

CATO AND MACRO ARE ARMED TO THE HILT FOR THE EPIC 25TH ADVENTURE IN THE EAGLES OF THE EMPIRE SERIES FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Twenty years have passed since the raw recruit Cato faced Centurion Macro on the training ground. Now scarred heroes of the Roman army's toughest conflicts...

In the beginning--before Earth, before humanity, before sin--there was Heaven. And it was perfect. This is the story of creation as you've never imagined it. Once united in worship and purpose, the angelic realm is shaken when Lucifer--the most beautiful and exalted of all--questions the...

Julius Caesar ist tot, und das Leben zweier Jungen ändert sich grundlegend. Der eine ist Caesars 17-jähriger Neffe Octavian, den er zu seinem Erben erkoren hat; der andere dessen engster Freund Agrippa. Damit Octavian das Erbe antreten kann, kämpfen sie gegen die Intrigen der Mächtigen im Römischen Reich an – und gegen alle Widrigkeiten sind sie siegreich. Octavian wird zu Kaiser Augustus. Zwanzig Jahre lang regieren sie gemeinsam die Welt. Jetzt ist Agrippa fünfzig. Krank und allein, betrogen von seiner Frau, schreibt er zurückgezogen seine Memoiren.