Historical

Julia, only daughter of the emperor of Rome, lives a life of excess and freedom. Wine, philosophy, and scandal—she revels in hedonism. But when her father dies and her teenage brother takes the throne, he will stop at nothing to seize control of both the empire and his wayward sister. And now Alaric of the Visigoths, a ferocious warrior who has battled Rome for years, has come to the capital to bargain for his homeland. When Julia rebels against the marriage her brother has ordered her to accept, he responds by publicly punishing her lover in the Colosseum.

À la fin du XIXe siècle, dans une petite ville des Caraïbes, un jeune télégraphiste pauvre et une ravissante écolière jurent de se marier et se promettent un amour éternel. Durant trois ans ils vivent l’un pour l’autre, mais Fermina épouse Juvenal Urbino, un brillant médecin. Alors Florentino, l’amoureux trahi, se mue en séducteur impénitent et s’efforce de se faire un nom et une fortune pour mériter celle qu’il ne cessera d’aimer, en secret, cinquante années durant.

La storia di una giovane trovatella incontra quella dell'imperatrice più famosa e iconica di sempre, tra segreti e amori nascosti, tra verità e finzione. Ungheria, 1874. Sono passati più di vent'anni dal primo incontro tra Sissi e Franz. Dopo la nascita dei figli, i lutti e le guerre che hanno sconvolto la loro vita, il matrimonio sembra giunto al capolinea e l'imperatrice, quando può, trascorre il tempo al palazzo di Gödöllő, l'amata reggia ungherese. È qui che conosce Edith, una trovatella abbandonata nella foresta appena bambina e allevata alla corte con il mito della sovrana.

Entre amours perdues et secrets de famille, de la Seconde Guerre mondiale aux années 1990, Anne Jacobs nous entraîne dans sa nouvelle trilogie phénomène au cœur des tourmentes du XXe siècle, dans une nouvelle saga époustouflante digne de La Villa aux étoffes. Franziska von Dranitz ne peut le croire : elle est enfin de retour chez elle, au Manoir de Dranitz. Dans la tourmente de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, elle et sa mère ont été chassées du domaine familial situé à l'Est de l'Allemagne.

James Bennet is the perfect heir to Longbourn. He is always looking out for his sisters and mother, making sure they have the opportunity to receive proper education, and always making sure they have the guidance and direction they need. He purchased a small cottage to ensure that his mother and sisters had somewhere to live in the event that something happened to him and his father. He works tirelessly on the estate to ensure that Longbourn is profitable.

1715: With the country on the brink of rebellion, Dorothy Forster’s life at Bamburgh Hall is ruled by the men in her life – her feckless brothers stirring up trouble at court, her elderly father with his dangerous secrets and the man she loves who the world seems determined to keep her apart from. As tensions grow, Dorothy finds herself caught between the warring factions, danger everywhere. Then Dorothy discovers her family are the keepers of the legendary Rose, the talisman both sides believe will guarantee them victory in this deadly conflict.

Wolf Lennox, conte di Blackwood e potente magnate della Lennox Industry, è uno scozzese dall’animo arido. Cinico e arrogante, si divide tra Edimburgo, Londra e New York, gestendo la vita privata come gli affari. Solo due cose per lui sono più importanti del titolo e del potere: la famiglia e il castello di Blackwood, la sua casa.Rose McGregor è una giovane donna al servizio dei Lennox. Rimasta presto orfana, vive grazie alla generosità della nobile famiglia, che le ha dato un lavoro e un tetto sulla testa. Diciannovenne pura e ingenua, fin da bambina custodisce un segreto.

At a dinner party in London during the season, Fitzwilliam Darcy meets an enchanting young woman. Though he recognizes her beauty and poise, he is struck by a sense of familiarity and realizes she is someone connected to him. What follows is a whirlwind of events in which the woman's lineage is discovered and her true identity is established. Darcy quickly realizes she is a woman estimable in her own right, and he finds himself besotted. But amid the miraculous events of a lost soul returning home, dark forces conspire against the young woman, for her loss was not an accident.

Miss Phoebe Fairfax dreams of being as free as her four brothers. When she discovers she is to be wed to a repugnant earl who is old enough to be her grandfather, she decides to embark on a real adventure…Enter the insufferable – and insufferably gorgeous – Viscount Damerel.

Years after conspiring men denied his father the inheritance that was his by birthright, Mr. Henry Bennet returns to Longbourn with his three daughters, having received the estate on the death of its previous master. Mr. Bennet has no notion why the man who stole it from his father willed the property to his control, but he is grateful to return to the lands of his forebears. As the Bennets settle into their lives as gentlefolk once again, their new friends welcome them to the neighborhood, and they begin the struggle to turn Longbourn again into a prosperous estate.

Beiste MacDougall has only just found himself as laird of his clan after a brutal attack from Vikings leaves his father slain. On the night of his sire's death, a beautiful woman comes to his castle begging for help, calling upon a vow their clans had made years before. Though he'd rather wallow in his pain, Beiste is tempted by the lass, the secrets she holds, and the chance at retribution she brings.

Eastern Roman Empire, AD 310. In the shadow of Emperor Diocletian’s anti-Christian edicts, Demitria makes a meager living harvesting coral and pearls for a merchant who turns a blind eye to her faith. By night, Demi goes upriver with her brother, Theseus, to obtain provisions for fellow believers in the port city of Myra. While willing to risk her own life to ensure others are safe and fed, Demi lives with a desperate fear for those she loves and carries secret shame over her greatest failure.

Now: Alone in a cottage, Lavinia writes to the woman she loved. Fifteen years ago: Middle-aged Lavinia Whateley escapes her hilly Massachusetts town when the townsfolk decide to sacrifice her on Halloween. After almost dying in the woods, she's saved and housed by the stoic and mysterious Asenath Waite, or Azzie. On the coastal outskirts of East Providence, they start to fall in love. However, things change when Azzie, with her secret past and the strange "scars" on the side of her neck, begins to transform into an eldritch creature of the deep.

Gina en Camden hebben elkaar al twaalf jaar niet meer gezien. Nadat de twee op jonge leeftijd gedwongen werden om te trouwen, vertrok Camden naar Griekenland om zijn droom als kunstenaar na te jagen. Het huwelijk werd daardoor nooit geconsumeerd… Jaren later besluit Camden om tijdelijk terug te keren naar Engeland. Hij wil het huwelijk ontbinden zodat Gina eindelijk kan trouwen met een man die echt van haar houdt. Maar tot zijn grote verbazing is zijn piepjonge echtgenoot ontpopt tot een zeer aantrekkelijke, jonge vrouw.

Jemma, de beruchte gravin van Beaumont, zit vast in een ongelukkig huwelijk. Haar geluk haalt ze uit het geven van schimmige feestjes, schaken en het flirten met andere mannen. Na jaren in Parijs gewoond te hebben, keert ze terug naar Londen. En niet zonder reden. Haar verre achternicht, Lady Roberta, heeft hulp nodig bij het versieren van een aantrekkelijke maar onbereikbare hertog. En wie kan haar daar beter bij helpen dan Jemma? Zij transformeert Roberta in een van de meest aantrekkelijke vrouwen van Londen.

De oudste zus zijn is niet gemakkelijk en daar weet Teresa Essex alles van. Na de dood van haar vader blijkt het gehele familiefortuin te zijn vergokt. Teresa en haar drie jongere zusjes, Imogen, Annabel en Josephine, komen onder gezag te staan van de Engelse hertog van Holbrook. Hij is vriendelijk, maar weet zich totaal geen raad met de meisjes. Teresa voelt zich als oudste zus geroepen om zo snel mogelijk te trouwen om zo haar zusjes te kunnen helpen.

Wat als de man van je dromen de broer van je verloofde is? Gabrielle Jerningham reist van India naar Engeland om te trouwen met Peter Dewland. Maar eenmaal aangekomen ontmoet ze de oudere broer van Peter. De twee zijn direct tot elkaar aangetrokken. Quill Dewland valt voor Gabrielle's vrijgevochten karakter en sensuele uitstraling. Er is echter één probleem. Quill wordt al jaren geplaagd door vreselijke migraine aanvallen, veroorzaakt door schommelbewegingen. Gabrielle denkt een oplossing gevonden te hebben voor Quill’s mysterieuze aandoening.

Cynthia lo ha perdido todo: primero fue Peter, el hombre con quien soñaba casarse, y luego Birch Vale, la majestuosa finca que ha sido el orgullo de su familia durante generaciones. Desesperada por salvar su hogar y honrar el legado de su padre, Cynthia está decidida a luchar hasta el final, aunque las deudas amenacen con destruirlo todo.Cuando el apuesto y enigmático Robert Shelfort aparece como el nuevo comprador de Birch Vale, Cynthia se encuentra atrapada entre su desdén y una atracción innegable.

Elizabeth Bennet has a secret. The finances of Longbourn are more dire than is generally known, and she has been forced by necessity to help keep food on the table of her family home. Her secret is safe. Until the night, the handsome face and kind attentions of Fitzwilliam Darcy lay claim to her affections.

"The Forty-Five Guardsmen" is a historical novel by Alexandre Dumas, a part of his Valois romances series. Set in 16th-century France, during the tumultuous era of the Wars of Religion, the novel follows the aftermath of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre. It weaves a rich tapestry of intrigue, romance, and adventure, centered around the forty-five guardsmen who served under Henry III of France.

After receiving a desperate letter reporting her father to be gravely ill, inveterate matchmaker Melody Merriweather leaves college and rushes back to her small hometown of Merriweather, Wisconsin—only to discover that she’s expected to take over the running of her family’s general store, the Merc, until he recovers.

Raised to despise the Douglas name, Mared outwardly agrees to the marital bargain for the sake of her family; secretly, she concocts a plan to ensure Payton will not wish to marry her. Seeing the handsome, virile laird Payton face-to-face, however, threatens a centuries-long enmity—and awakens Mared's deepest desires. But she will not be swayed. Choosing to repay her family's debt by working as his housekeeper instead of wedding him, she finds herself inexorably drawn to the man she vowed to resist. Then a profound discovery changes everything . . .

Born to a secure, middle-class Polish Jewish family, seventeen-year-old Reuven works alongside his father, an artisan businessman whose shop creates the finest handmade umbrellas in Poland. But the family’s peaceful life shatters when the Nazis invade their homeland, igniting World War II. With terrifying brutality, the Nazis confiscate their business, evict them from their home, and strip away their rights, threatening the lives of the city’s Jewish population, including Reuven and Zelda, the girl he loves.

A great building boom spread across America in the 1920s and the Fawcett Construction Company of New York has many projects in the pipeline. Carol Berkley, private secretary to the company's president, keeps track of them all and is particularly concerned about the lack of progress in a building out west. When two men who appear to have something to do with the project arrive to talk to her boss, she overhears them discussing plans to swindle the company. Their scheme is to share the spoils with the project's engineer, Philip Duskin.

Ostfriesland im 18. Jahrhundert: eine mitreißende Saga um die Frau eines Walfängers und ihre Sehnsucht nach einem besseren Leben Borkum, 1775: Klaglos bewältigt die junge Friesin Sventje das harte Leben auf der Insel, oft monatelang allein, während ihr Ehemann als Walfänger auf See ist. Sie hofft, dass Lian es zur Geburt ihres vierten Kindes diesmal rechtzeitig nach Borkum schafft. Hilfe bekommt sie nur vom Gutsherrn Valentin von Halversberg, der stets im richtigen Augenblick zur Stelle ist.