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Keira thought her dreams had come true when her father promised her to a prestigious Laird of a neighboring clan. Little did she know that her fiancé was a wanted man. Keira Sinclair has lived a life of peace and simplicity until now. With her clan on the verge of losing everything, she is forced to wed a Laird from a neighboring clan to ensure that hers survives. During her travels to her new home, her carriage is attacked and Keira is taken hostage by a ruthless man known as the Beast of the Highlands. Ian MacKay has one mission; to defend the crown no matter the cost.

Connie ist Bauingenieurin und entwirft im Chicago von 1981 Sanitärsysteme. Ihr Leben hat sie genauso sorgfältig geplant wie ihre Systeme, bis hin zu dem Mann, den sie zu ehelichen hofft. Doch als Mr. Right ihr einen Heiratsantrag macht, gelingt es ihr nicht, ja zu sagen. Um ihre Gedanken zu klären reist sie in die schottischen Highlands, wo ihre freigeistige Zwillingsschwester den Wunsch ausspricht, Connie möge wahre Liebe finden. Die beiden Schwestern hatten nicht damit gerechnet, dass dieser Wunsch Connie fünfhundert Jahre in die Vergangenheit transportieren würde.

Bloomsbury presents The Land of the Living and the Dead by Shauna Lawless, read by Aoife McMahon, Aidan Kelly, Clara Harte, Frank Laverty and Breffni Holahan. With war on the horizon, everything is at stake in this scintillating new novel from Shauna Lawless, the next volume in the critically...

Ceana Montgomery had notions of marrying for love after her first disastrous marriage ended in widowhood. But now Robert the Bruce has ordered her to marry a stranger, securing a strong alliance and ending a decades-old feud. Already used as a pawn once in marriage, she is devastated that she will once more have to give up her happiness in order to please the edicts of men. And while the braw warrior standing before her might incite feelings inside her she thought long since buried, desire is a far cry from love.

The Balkans, 1371. After conquering the Serbian army in battle, bands of Ottoman warriors terrorize the land, leaving a trail of death and destruction in their wake. As one of the few survivors of a deadly attack on her village, Magdalena is determined to protect her newly orphaned niece. When a group of battle-weary Serb warriors offers to lead Magdalena and her charge to safety, a flame of hope flickers to life for the desperate woman, burning brighter when she spots a familiar face among the group: Miladin, the man she once loved—and lost.

The Balkans, 1383. A sudden conflict between Serbs and Greeks has forced Ivan to join his brother and fight with the Serbian army. On the battlefield, Ivan is wounded and captured by the hostile Greeks, and he soon becomes a hostage to be used as a pawn in a deadly bid for power. Helena, a Greek midwife, is tasked to care for Ivan, a request that will test not only her healing abilities but also her loyalty. Though war has made her reluctant patient an enemy, she can’t help but forge a connection with him, yet falling in love with him could turn her world upside down and brand her a traitor.

Laird Alistair Sinclair has been fighting alongside Robert the Bruce for the last few years in the War of Independence for Scotland. Nursing an injury, he makes the journey home from battle, with the intent to put his own lands to rights while he recovers—only Alistair nearly tramples a beguiling lass on his lands before he arrives. She begs him for help, and dangles before him a secret he can’t ignore, just as he can’t shake the desire that thrums in his veins at the sight of her.

Mit Luthers Thesen verändert sich die Welt. Im Land gärt es – der Reichstag in Worms 1521 soll Klarheit bringen. Inmitten dieser turbulenten Zeit begegnen sich in Worms zwei junge Frauen: Mara, eine Christin von ungeklärter Herkunft, welche Speyer verlassen hat, nachdem sie zur heimlichen Mitwisserin eines geplanten Mordanschlages auf Luther wird und Nahel, eine Jüdin, die nach einem Pogrom gegen die Juden in Regensburg fliehen musste und nun ihre jüdische Identität aus Angst vor neuer Verfolgung leugnet.

Madelina is the youngest daughter of a Norman conqueror and a woman of power. Her own power is insignificant enough in her eyes that she trains to be a healer under the expert tutelage of her mother. When a child is brought to the castle where she lives, she knows she doesn’t have the skills to heal him, and her mother’s powers—and her own—will need to be revealed to a handsome knight.

Marina has spent her entire life knowing that her power to heal would someday be required to save the world. When England is invaded by William the Conqueror, and her entire life changes, the other threat is still there and waiting for her. As her sisters find love amidst their own private battle with evil, Marina knows love that overwhelms her for the brother of her eldest sister, but he's made it clear that he will not marry her.

One night is all it took. Passion ignites when a laird who has sworn off love meets a chambermaid in disguise at a masquerade ball. But can there be a happy ending for two people from such different worlds? A heartwarming rags-to-riches romance set in Medieval Scotland.

Siglo I a.C. Tras amotinarse en el barco en el que los trasladaban los romanos, un grupo de prisioneros de guerra africanos y sus mujeres son arrastrados por las corrientes a la isla de Tenerife. Durante mil quinientos años, sus descendientes crean allí una civilización aislada del resto del mundo, hasta que los nueve reinos que componen el territorio guanche se convierten en objetivo de los Reyes Católicos.

Ein neuer historischer Roman aus der erfolgreichen Rhein-Trilogie von Bestsellerautorin Marion Johanning. Köln, 1215: Die junge, wissbegierige Novizin Tryngen hat sich ganz der Heilkunst verschrieben. Nach einem folgenschweren Ereignis wird sie an den Hof des mächtigen Dompropstes Engelbert von Berg gerufen. Dort muss sie sich bewähren, sonst droht ihr die Vermählung mit einem ungeliebten Mann. Engelbert ist im Begriff zum Erzbischof von Köln gewählt zu werden. Tryngen ist nicht die einzige Heilerin in seiner Nähe.

Frank Schätzings neuer großer Mittelalter-Roman. In seinem neuen epochalen Roman Helden, der den Weltbestseller Tod und Teufel kongenial fortsetzt, zeichnet Frank Schätzing das Bild einer abendländischen Gesellschaft im Umbruch. Vor dem Hintergrund gewaltiger Umwälzungen, in denen bereits die Renaissance und die Neuzeit aufscheinen, im ewigen Spannungsfeld von Macht und Moral, schickt Schätzing seinen Helden Jacop auf einen Höllenritt durch die Geschichte.

Eine verbotene Liebe im Mittelalter. Anno 1428: Auf dem Augsburger Faschingsturnier lernt Prinz Albrecht III. die lebensfrohe Agnes Bernauer kennen. Verzaubert von ihrer außergewöhnlichen Schönheit nimmt er die Baderstochter mit nach München. Albrechts Vater ist die nicht standesgemäße Liebschaft seines Sohnes ein Dorn im Auge, denn Albrecht weigert sich, eine adlige Braut zu nehmen. Die Zukunft des Herzogtums ist in Gefahr. Als sich die Konflikte zwischen Vater und Sohn zuspitzen und Albrecht seine Agnes heimlich heiratet, nimmt das Schicksal seinen Lauf.

Thea loves the adventure of riding patrols through the Scottish Highlands and Borderlands, protecting her people from the English. But she knows that someday she'll have to find her true place within the Ramsay clan. If only she knew what that might be.

Oberschwaben, im Jahre 1415: Emmas Leben beginnt auf den Stufen eines Klosters. Als sich die Burgherrin Magdalena des Findelkindes annimmt und es als ihr eigenes ausgibt, scheint ihre Zukunft gesichert. Doch das Schicksal ist unberechenbar. Emma wächst bei ihrem Vater und ihrem Stiefbruder Ekart auf. Sorgenfrei verlebt sie eine unbeschwerte Kindheit, und als sie sich unsterblich in den Ritter Wolfram verliebt, glaubt Emma, ihr Glück gefunden zu haben.

Born into a war almost as old as Sol and Lune themselves, Lumen, Lady of Fenn Manor has watched her family sacrifice for years at the altar of her country's ambitions. Alone and unprotected when the enemy army arrives on her doorstep, she faces two impossible choices: run north to her countrymen, or protect her home and bear the company of the temperamental General Westbrook. As the army’s stay stretches on, Lumen learns what she’s willing to sacrifice and what cannot be surrendered.

It is the end of the sixth century AD when the Sasanian ruler King Shahryar discovers his wife’s unfaithfulness and betrayal. Consumed by rage and bitterness, the king has his wife executed, and then exacts bloody vengeance on all the women in his harem. The rampage continues when he takes a new bride each evening, and has her executed the following day so that no one else will have a chance to betray him.

young life full of promise. She bore three strong sons and delivered the kingdom of Orkney to her brother by way of her marriage. She did as she was asked, invisible and useful—for her name, her dowry, and her womb. Now, twenty years after she left her home, Anna is summoned back to Carelon with the crown of her now-dead husband, to face the demons of her childhood: her sisters Morgen, Elaine, and Morgause; Merlin and his scheming priests; and Bedevere, the man she once loved.