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Isla MacLeod kennt jeden Winkel von Kintallan Castle. Seit zwanzig Jahren sorgt sie dafür, dass Hochzeitspaare hier den schönsten Tag ihres Lebens erleben – während sie selbst vergeblich auf ihre große Liebe wartet. Doch als ihre Mutter ihr ein jahrhundertealtes Familiengeheimnis enthüllt, beginnt sich ihr geordnetes Leben aufzulösen. Plötzlich findet sich Isla in einem Schottland wieder, das wilder und gefährlicher ist als alles, was sie kennt. Hier, wo das Schicksal der Clans an der Klinge eines Schwertes hängt, begegnet sie einem Krieger, der ihr Herz im Sturm erobert.

Cuando su familia es masacrada, Meribeth Colquhoun solo tiene una opción: huir. Con su hermano pequeño a su cuidado y una identidad falsa para mantenerse con vida, atraviesa Escocia aferrándose a una única promesa: protegerlo cueste lo que cueste. Lo que no esperaba era encontrarse con Broc Ross, un highlander de mirada peligrosa y pasado turbulento que amenaza con desbaratar todos sus planes.

Sara Barrett hasn’t been able to stop thinking about the handsome highlander who strode into her life from sixteenth century Scotland. She decides to leave her brother, her home, and her entire life behind to find him, but first she must convince Edna Campbell to send her back in time. The witch sees trouble ahead for the determined lass, and tries to discourage her. But Sara has made up her mind and won’t be deterred.

For four years Maggie Whitlock has been on the run with her brother and young daughter, moving from town to town and never staying in one place long. After her midwife mother was blamed for the death of a noblewoman and her baby, she was executed. Now those same nobles are coming for Maggie! Maggie acts as mother, provider and protector to her brother and daughter, but beneath her tough exterior she is laden with guilt. She can't help but think she is to blame for the loss of her mother, since she birthed her own baby that night and took her mother's attention away from the noble.

Scozia, 2022. La pediatra Jennifer Foster è più che brillante quando, mentre festeggia con degli amici, la barca su cui si trova ha un'avaria nei pressi dell'isola di Achleith. Sbarcata e in attesa della guardia costiera, Jenny scopre una pietra coperta di strani segni. Pensando che sia tutto un gioco, dà il cinque all'impronta scavata nella pietra e precipita attraverso il tempo fino al Medioevo. Scozia, 1313. Il laird delle Highlands Aulay MacDonald sta cercando il tesoro di una nave inglese che potrebbe cambiare il corso della guerra.

For three months, Brynja Nyberg has dreamed of one thing: her blade finding the throat of the man who murdered her mother. Now he's circling the Isle of Mull like a predator, and she'll finally have her chance—if it doesn't kill her first. Hagen Grant, son of the legendary Connor Grant, knows the weight of living up to a hero's name. But when mercenaries attack them on Tiree and cut down his father in battle, Hagen discovers a darker legacy: the burning need for retribution.

Tre anni nella Scozia medievale sono stati più che sufficienti per David Wakeley, che ha viaggiato nel tempo suo malgrado. Non ne vuole sapere niente di cavalleria e valore, ma salvare una principessa delle Highlands potrebbe essere il suo biglietto per tornare nel ventunesimo secolo. Rapita e buttata in una segreta, Anna MacDonald pensa che la lasceranno lì a morire. Finché un affascinante straniero non la salva. Inseguita dai nemici del padre, la figlia vergine di Robert Bruce corre insieme a David per arrivare in tempo al suo matrimonio combinato.

Danu, die Göttin der Wolfsgattung, hat sich in einen Sterblichen verliebt. König Magnus hat fünfzig Jahre lang auf Seona gewartet, eine Menschenfrau, die laut einer Prophezeiung dazu bestimmt ist, seine Königin und die Mutter seines Erben zu werden. Doch jetzt, wo er sie gefunden hat, will sie nichts mit ihm zu tun haben. Bis ein schrecklicher Unfall ihr die Erinnerung stiehlt. Magnus ist in der Vergangenheit so oft hintergangen worden, dass er misstrauisch bleibt.

He thought he’d forget her. He was wrong. When a battle-hardened warrior returns home from years of campaigning, he discovers that the lass he left behind never married—a lass who will be his undoing. Second chance and redemption on Medieval Isle of Mull. After a decade campaigning against the English, Loch Maclean returns to the Isle of Mull to find his father dead and his lands in disarray. Cattle thieving is rife, and the isle’s clans are at each other’s throats. Loch’s got his work cut out for him—but he’s distracted by a woman from his past.

The Thief-taker: Hunter Chase, wants nothing more than to rid himself of the demons in his head regarding his dark and difficult past. Now, as guardian of his unruly thirteen-year-old nephew, he finds his problems quickly mounting. He's never been a father and doesn't know how to keep the boy from going down the wrong path like he did. What he needs is a woman's guiding touch. Unfortunately, the type of women he meets through his line of work are anything but a good example.

Someone has made bold promises to the Highland witches in exchange for disposing of Michael MacClellan. But the nigheanan sgàil, the daughters of shadow, do not engage in murder and instead put the fierce warrior into a deep sleep, hidden inside the earth in 14th century Scotland.

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. 

While magic still glimmered over the lands and people of Scotland and the Vikings ruled the western islands and the north, a woman encounters a powerful Fae prince and could not imagine the consequences that would shape the rest of her life and that of her sons–three brothers who will struggle against their fate to overcome a dreaded curse tied to their own Fae powers. Agneis of Mull betrayed the Fae prince who loved her and lost everything and everyone.

Liebe, Intrigen und Machtspiele am Königshof: Der historische Roman "Die Dichterin von Aquitanien" von Tereza Vanek jetzt als eBook bei dotbooks. Mitte des 12. Jahrhunderts, nahe Paris: Die junge Marie wächst in einfachen Verhältnissen auf. Kurz nach dem Tod ihres trinkfreudigen Vaters erhält sie die Nachricht, sie sei die illegitime Tochter von Geoffrey VI., und damit die Nichte des englischen Königs Henri II. Sie wird nach England an den Hof gebracht, doch der Prunk des Hofes macht es ihr schwer, sich in der neuen Umgebung zurechtzufinden.

Upon the night a knife is plunged into her father's heart, headstrong Flora Dalreagh flees the forbidding Highlander to whom she has been hastily wed. Entering his domain in the guise of a dairymaid, Flora never expects passion to burn as fiercely as her desire for revenge, but she soon...

When widow, Kit Baker's young son is accused of stealing from a royal guard, her son is brought to the castle to receive his sentence. What Kit doesn't expect is the handsome Lord Tolin Blake to include her in the punishment. Now, if she wants to keep her son out of the dungeon, she must work in the castle's kitchen until Twelfth Night. With Christmastide at her door, Kit has orders to fill at her bakery and cannot leave her shop unattended. She also has a pregnant sister and her sister's jobless husband to support as well as her own son.

Byzanz im Jahre 1189: Das Kreuzritterheer Barbarossas plündert und brandschatzt auf seinem Weg nach Jerusalem. Bei der Besetzung von Adrianopol wird Alkmene, eine Köchin aus der Palastküche, Ritter Diethelm als Zeltmagd zugeteilt. Dieser hat schon längst den Glauben an den Kreuzzug verloren und will sich nicht um sie kümmern. Doch sie ringt ihm ein Versprechen ab: Sie wird ihm eine so köstliche Mahlzeit vorsetzen, dass Diethelm Alkmene dem Herzog empfehlen würde. Er schlägt ein, ohne zu wissen, dass Liebe durch den Magen geht.

'Gavin Mac Brodie fürchtet, so zu werden wie sein Vater. In die Einsamkeit getrieben durch Visionen davon, wie er nicht sein will und was er nicht haben kann, schwört er sich, niemals zu heiraten. Aber dieser letzte Junggeselle der Brodies steht kurz davor, die Magie der Highlands kennenzulernen … Catrìona ist die Einsamkeit gewohnt. Ihr Volk wurde so tief in die Highlands getrieben, dass es kaum mehr als eine Legende ist. Aber niemand weiß besser als Cat, dass man sich vor dem Schicksal nicht verstecken kann. Nackt und mit den Farben ihrer Vorfahren bemalt erscheint sie Gavin Mac Brodie …

After spending two years away at culinary school, learning the arts of baking and magic, all Karl wants to do after graduation is return home to the kitchen where he grew up. However, when Karl's adoptive uncle asks him to do a little favor for him along his journey, of course Karl says yes. He needs to find a missing person, one who may have been captured somewhere in Yaroi, a neighboring country to Karl's home in Toval. Finding the missing person is hard enough.

Brimming with romance, adventure and vivid historical detail, Christina Courtenay's gripping dual-time novel travels from the present day to the battles of West Mercia . . . 'Courtenay writes so beautifully, drawing you in to each scene, that time and pages slip by effortlessly' ERIN GREEN...