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Una misión peligrosa. Una traición imperdonable. Un secreto perdido en el tiempo... 1584: Isabel I gobierna Inglaterra, pero un complot peligroso se está gestando en la corte, y la reina María de Escocia no se detendrá ante nada para arrebatarle el trono a su prima. Solo hay una cosa que se interpone en su camino: Tom, el boticario de confianza de la reina, que es el perfecto espía silencioso... 2021: Mathilde viaja por el mundo en su autocaravana, nunca ha pertenecido a ningún lugar. Cuando recibe la noticia de una herencia, se sorprende al descubrir que tiene una familia en Inglaterra.

Florence. Autumn, 1539. Cesare Aldo was once an officer for the city’s most feared criminal court. Following a period of exile, he is back but demoted to night patrol when only the drunk and the dangerous roam the streets. Chasing a suspect in the rain, Aldo discovers a horrifying scene beneath Michelangelo’s statue of David. Lifeless eyes gaze from the face of a man whose body has been posed as if crucified. It’s clear the killer had religious motives. When more bodies appear, Aldo believes an unholy murderer is stalking the citizens of Florence.

Ein geheimnisvolles Manuskript, eine Frau, die dessen Macht spürt – und ein Mann, der vor nichts zurückschreckt, um beide zum Schweigen zu bringen... Italien, zur Zeit der Renaissance: Beatrice, die Bibliothekarin eines Klosters, scheut seit Jahren die Gesellschaft ihrer Schwestern und findet nur in ihren Manuskripten Zuflucht. Sie sehnt sich nach der Außenwelt – einer Welt, die jedoch durch skrupellose Männer beherrscht wird und in der es für Frauen wie sie keinen Platz gibt.

Charlie Jonquil siempre es un joven afable y educado, pero no cuando se topa con Artemisa Lancaster. Brillante en matemáticas, es sin embargo incapaz de resolver un problema: ¿cómo Artemisa puede ser tan encantadora y sacarlo de quicio a la vez? Cuando ambos coinciden en una fiesta en Londres, se nota que sienten un desdén mutuo. Pero un desafortunado incidente hará que deban enfrentarse a una disyuntiva: o se casan o pierden su reputación.

"Die Hexe, sie soll brennen!" Im Jahre 1484 muss Richard, Sohn eines schwäbischen Kaufmanns und einer Sarazenin, hilflos mit ansehen, wie seine Mutter auf dem Scheiterhaufen stirbt; ist damit auch sein Schicksal besiegelt? Als der Junge in den Haushalt seiner Tante aufgenommen wird, wendet sich das Blatt – sie ist die Frau von Jakob Fugger, dem einflussreichsten Kaufmann des Abendlandes.

La mujer más enigmática y fascinante del Siglo de Oro. Esta espléndida novela recrea las memorias de una mujer excepcional: Ana de Mendoza, princesa de Éboli, quien por su belleza e inteligencia provocó la atracción y el rechazo de los hombres más importantes de su tiempo. Implicada en una trama política y sentimental, al lado de Felipe II, la princesa de Éboli luchó por sus derechos con fuerza y decisión inusuales en una mujer de la España del siglo xvi. Postrada en su lecho de muerte después de muchos años de presidio, desvelará cada uno de los secretos que su apasionada vida guardó.

It is 1486 and Venice is a wealthy, opulent center for trade. Orsola Rosso is the eldest daughter in a family of glassblowers on Murano, the island revered for the craft. As a woman, she is not meant to work with glass—but she has the hands for it, the heart, and a vision. When her father dies, she teaches herself to make glass beads in secret, and her work supports the Rosso family fortunes.

March 1557. Jack Blackjack is back in London and enjoying a sedentary life. After his treacherous voyage back to his beloved city the previous year, he desires nothing more than women, wine, beer and more women. But his new parish of St Helen's has different ideas for him. A week after first laying eyes on the tempting Miss Rachel Nailor, she turns up dead on the church vestry floor...and someone is trying to frame him for her murder! Rachel was a woman with many secrets. But was she murdered in a fit of lustful rage, or was it part of a wider political play?

Welcome to Florence, 1517. Sharp-witted seventeen-year-old con-woman Rosa Cellini has plans for the Pope and the Medicis - and, more specifically, the mountain of indulgence money they've been extorting from the people of Tuscany. To pull off the Renaissance's greatest robbery, she'll recruit a team of capable misfits: Sarra the tinkerer, Khalid the fighter, and Giacomo, the irrepressible master of disguise. To top it all off, and to smooth their entrance into the fortress-like Palazzo Medici, Rosa even enlists the reluctant help of famed artist and local misanthrope, Michelangelo.

London, 1608. Three years after the Gunpowder Treason, the King's enemies prepare to strike again. Daniel Pursglove is tasked by royal command with one final mission: he must infiltrate the Serpents - a secret group of Catholics plotting to kill the King - or risk his own execution. But other conspirators are circling, men who would blackmail Daniel for their own dark ends. In the Serpents' den, nothing is quite as it seems. And when Daniel spies a familiar face among their number, the game takes a dangerous turn.

England, 1591. Rose Rushe’s passion for life runs deep—she loves mead and music, meddles with astrology, and laughs at her mother’s warnings to guard her reputation. When Rose’s father dies and a noble accuses her and her dear friend Cecely of witchcraft, they flee to the household of respected alchemists in London. But as their bond deepens, their sanctuary begins to feel more like a cage. To escape, they turn to the occult, secretly casting charms and selling astrological advice in the hopes of building a life together.