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The boy no one wanted became the man everyone needed. He was a boy with no name worth keeping, no family to claim him, and no home but a weathered crate behind a tree in Ayr. But when Loki watched Clan Grant warriors thunder through the burgh — bold and fierce and belonging to something — he made a vow: someday, he would be one of them.

The Romance of Tristan and Iseult, originally published in France in 1900, is one of Joseph Bédier's most important works. Bédier brings together various medieval Celtic sources and compiles them into one cohesive tale of chivalry and doomed, but transcendent love. The story of Tristan, a...

In der mittelalterlichen Sage Tristan und Isolde, die Thomas Mann literarisch verarbeitet und reflektiert, geraten der Ritter Tristan und die irische Königstochter Isolde durch einen Liebestrank in eine unauflösliche, leidenschaftliche Verbindung. Doch ihre Liebe steht unter einem verhängnisvollen Vorzeichen: Isolde ist dem König Marke versprochen. Zwischen Pflicht und Verlangen entfaltet sich eine tragische Geschichte von Hingabe, Schuld und unausweichlichem Schicksal – ein zeitloses Motiv, das Thomas Mann als Sinnbild für die Macht der Liebe und ihre zerstörerische Kraft deutet.

A spellbinding epic tale of ambition, anarchy and absolute power set against the sprawling medieval canvas of twelfth-century England, The Pillars of the Earth is Ken Follett's classic historical masterpiece. A MASON WITH A DREAM 1135 and civil war, famine and religious strife abound. With his...

From the bestselling author Ken Follett, The Evening and the Morning is a historical epic that ends where The Pillars of the Earth begins. 'Another historical thriller of mighty proportions' – The Times A Time of Conflict It is 997 CE, the end of the Dark Ages. The king’s grip on the country...

"Marry me, and I'll let your father live." Princess Caliane is convinced she'll die. Her castle's gates are torn open, her father, the king, bound and gagged on his throne, and in his throne room stands the tyrant. His skin is gray, his teeth sharp, his hands tipped with black claws. When he smiles like a predator scenting prey, her stomach roils with terror. The monster forces her to choose: her father's life for her hand in marriage.

Tras un desengaño devastador, Cora Bennet huye sin imaginar que el río al que se arroja no la llevará a la muerte, sino a otra época. Cuando emerge, el mundo que conoce ha desaparecido.

The historical saga that has enthralled millions of readers, Ken Follett's Kingsbridge series continues continue with World Without End. Read by the inimitable John Lee On the day after Halloween, in the year 1327, four children slip away from the cathedral city of Kingsbridge. They are a thief...

Twenty years ago, during the reign of Edward I, the last Welsh prince was sentenced to death. All that remained of his family was his six-month-old daughter with dual royal bloodlines, who was arrested and sent to live at Sempringham Priory. She was to become a nun, never to procreate, because prophesy dictated that should she ever marry and rise to power, she would bring about the collapse of England.

It is no act of love that Regan experiences the night she takes her sister's place in the marriage bed, a counterfeit bride to sate the lust of her twin's new husband. Come morning, her sister, carrying another man's child, resumes her place, and Regan is spirited away to a nunnery. But a more exotic fate awaits the fiery Celtic beauty: Regan is sold to a slave trader. It will be her destiny to come under the tutelage of Karim al Malina, master of the erotic arts, who will mold Regan - now renamed Zaynab, the beautiful one - into a love slave fit for a Moorish king.

Spirited, iron-willed Rhonwyn is the bastard child of the Prince of Wales, raised more boy than girl, able to ride and fight with the best. Against her wishes, she is married off to an English lord, Edward de Beaumont, who is stunned to discover that his lovely gilt-haired bride is a fiery wildcat with a mind of her own. Slowly, he wins her trust and her heart, and she accompanies him on the Crusades to North Africa. But when Edward falls ill, Rhonwyn boldly leads his troops, only to become a captive of the sensual Emir of Cinnebar, a man who will teach her the ways of erotic love.

Lisa es una joven dulce, comprensiva y una diseñadora maravillosa. Lisa ama a Reece, su mejor amigo, futuro heredero de la fortuna de su abuelo. Reece es dulce, bueno y leal. Pero Reece no está solo, comparte su cuerpo con un ser oscuro. Un alma cruel e insaciable a la que no puede controlar. El sueño de Reece es abrir Le Colisée, un santuario en París al servicio de la alta costura. En Le Colisée pasarán muchas cosas, algunas a la vista de todos, otras en sótanos apartados. A veces los hijos aborrecen a sus padres. A veces la culpa puede empujarles a construir su propio infierno.

Tras un desgarrador adiós, Catherine se ve arrancada de la Escocia del siglo XVIII, dejando atrás a Iain Macleod, el ardiente laird de la isla de Skye. Pero cuando un poema ancestral señala un camino de regreso, ella no duda en seguirlo, anhelando reencontrarse con su amor perdido. Sin...

Era inevitable. Era nuestro destino. Sin saberlo, nuestros caminos se cruzaron hace mucho tiempo, hasta que por fin nos hemos encontrado Descubre el final de la saga que ha conquistado miles de corazones y déjate seducir por la historia de la última de las Flores de Wadlow. Daisy Wadlow ha...

Declan can kill with a blink of his eye. Jaded and cold, he rules his kingdom the same way he does his heart—with ruthless pragmatism. So why does he risk all to protect a little mortal during a slave-trade uprising? Now stranded in the demon realm, the loss of his powers is the least of his troubles. The woman may have a frustratingly tender heart, but she has enough fire in her soul to thaw the ice in his veins.

I am home, yet it does not feel like home. The chains on my wrists and ankles are gone, but those around my heart tighten. Is the world truly black and white, or is it just my vision failing? Does all food turn to ash, or is it merely my mouth forgetting how to taste? When the crows call, and the moon hangs heavy, does everyone else drown their sorrow in pillows, or am I the only one? Urai is hell. A kingdom of devils. Yet hell is my heaven. My dark devil—through these falling eyes—is my angel. I breathe, but I do not exist. I exist, but I do not live.

Meggie Hope thinks herself quite clever, though she's never once stepped foot outside her home, Muirfield Hall. She is, in fact, no match for the intoxicating charms of Gabriel Jamison, her own betrothed. She cannot ever wed him, of course. She is afflicted with a curse that says that any man who seeks her hand will meet death before he weds her, unless there is love. When suitors begin falling prey to the curse, and Meg's father won't listen to reason and betroths her yet again, this time to Gabriel Jamison, she runs away rather than be held responsible for another's demise.

Julianna Elliot derives no pleasure in wedding a man she's never set eyes upon—save that it will take her away from her heartless stepfather. But then the plans for a wedding are naught but a ruse, as something far more sinister is intended, and Julianna knows she must do whatever she can to save the MacKinnons. Not all of Calum's men escape his would-be bride's home with their lives. His rage is tremendous, and he holds Julianna responsible—and as his hostage.

Orphaned Isabel Fitzhugh is fourteen when she first comes to Wolvesley by the sea, traveling with her cousin to see her wed to the formidable Liam MacTavish. She's unimpressed, with both her current situation and her cousin's husband. She thinks he is aloof and arrogant, well deserving of her cousin. But then Liam intercedes on her behalf against a mean-spirited tormentor and everything changes.

Shakespeare writes about the plight of Romeo and Juliet with a lot of empathy and views their tragedy as a result of bad fate, rather than a problem with their characters. We sense from the very start that their relationship is doomed. Romeo and Juliet are portrayed as sincere and virtuous young people who are madly in love, but because of the feud between their families, their relationship has to end. As they won't even consider a separation, the only way out of the situation they find themselves in is by taking their own lives.