Novedades

For years, Lady Bancroft’s Valentine’s Ball at Bancroft Hall had been a glittering gathering of high society’s most eligible men and women. Countless happy couples owe their love stories to her matchmaking, their gratitude keeping Lady Bancroft in the genteel comfort of her grand Cotswolds estate. But this year tragedy strikes. A murder threatens to ruin everything. Desperate, Lady Bancroft turns to her neighbour, the dashing Major Heathcliff Lennox. A decorated war hero and now a consultant to Scotland Yard, Lennox would much rather be fishing.

The only thing hotter than their animosity is their attraction. Lady Gigi Harrington has a plan: save her sleepy village from ruin and prove she's more than just a pretty debutante. The arrival of ruthless industrialist Conrad Godwin jeopardizes everything. A powerful man with a secret agenda—and identity—Conrad is flummoxed when the spirited miss dares to get in his way.

When Mary Russell was a child, she adored her black sheep Uncle Jake. But she hasn’t heard from him in many years, and she assumed that his ne’er-do-well ways had brought him to a bad end somewhere—until he presents himself at her Sussex door. Yes, Jake is back, and with a load of problems for his clever niece. Not the least of which is the reason the family rejected him in the first place: He was involved—somehow—in the infamous disappearance of the Irish Crown Jewels from an impregnable safe in Dublin Castle.

The unshakeable Amelia Peabody embarks on an Egyptian adventure armed with self-confidence, a journal to record her thoughts, and, of course–a sturdy umbrella. On her way to Cairo, Amelia rescues young Evelyn Barton-Forbes, who has been abandoned by her scoundrel lover. Together the two women sail up the Nile to an archeological site run a pair of handsome brothers.

The British Museum gets one more corpse than they bargained for as doors open for their new Egyptian exhibit.

Saffron Everleigh returns to Ellington Manor after her grandfather suffers a heart attack. Back in her childhood home for the first time in years, Saffron faces tense family relationships made worse by the presence of the enigmatic Bill Wyatt, hired on as a doctor to the ailing Lord Easting. But the man is no doctor—in reality, he is a mysterious figure involved in the trafficking of dangerous government secrets, and his presence at Ellington can only mean trouble.

What would it be like to speak with someone who is nearly 2,000 years old?Or at least someone who thinks they are. What would you talk about? What would they say? Would they even bother speaking with you? Eternal Patience takes place in a psychiatric hospital and reveals a conversation between psychiatrist Dr. Samantha Engelbrecht and her patient, Sebastian Cartwright. Together, they take you on a 2,000-year worldwide journey through human history of what may be the patient’s personal memories and recollections, or just the incredible storytelling of a brilliant but disturbed psychiatric ...

She was in on the game but a reluctant player The game started right after Nero’s suicide in AD 68, and his death was part of the game. He’d been tricked by the other players into taking his own life, opening the race, the free-for-all to seize power in Rome. What ensued went down in History as the ‘Year of the Four Emperors’. But from the start the rivals vying for the top prize discovered that Nero had a half-sister, eighteen-year-old Antonia, the daughter of Claudius and Agrippina, and using her as a pawn became part of the game. Only, she didn’t want to be used—or eliminated...

L'ultima indagine del commissario Maugeri, il coinvolgente ed emozionante commiato letterario di Fulvio Capezzuoli. Estate del 1947. Per le vacanze, Maugeri ha scelto di trascorrere le vacanze in Val Brembana, dove solo pochi anni prima aveva combattuto da partigiano. Ma il ritrovamento di un cadavere, insieme alle oscure parole di una vedova di guerra, presto lo trascineranno in un'indagine complessa, tra osterie mal frequentate, ragazze misteriose e ricordi del recente passato di guerra.

Amidst this chaos lies the allure of The Beasts of the City, a mystifying tome of alchemy and prophecy. This elusive book promises immense wealth, power, and eternal life to those who can unearth it’s secrets. Yet to do so comes with perilous consequences.

When a wooden box filled with old newspaper clippings is found in Sophie Dawson’s attic of fifty years, no one is prepared for the family secrets they discover. With their grandmother’s unwillingness to answer questions about the findings, the family is left to guess at answers which will forever haunt them.

Phillip Brown wakes up one bitter November morning to find a woman near frozen on the stoop of the Baltimore home he shares with his sister and uncle. The unconscious woman eventually awakens, unwilling to share who has terrified her while she makes a recovery in the Brown home. He continues his work at the Wiest Oyster Cannery and pouring beer on occasion at his neighborhood brewery while guarding his family from dangerous criminals’ intent of silencing his discoveries about the woman.

Ellie McDonnell is about to embark on her most perilous mission yet: go to Lisbon, Portugal to save her beloved cousin Toby who has reportedly escaped from a German prisoner of war camp. Toby has been missing since the Battle of Dunkirk and Ellie had all but lost hope in ever seeing him again until Major Ramsey, the British military intelligence officer she had been working closely with over the past few months, shared the news he’d intercepted.

London 1600. When an attempt is made on Queen Elizabeth’s life, Serjeant Noah Ames races to her rescue, then sets out to identify the culprit among a band of foreigners who’ve newly arrived from the Continent to join with the seditious Lord Essex. In the course of his investigation, Noah uncloaks an unmitigated reign of evil that has resulted in the murders of kings, queens, and religious minorities ... and which now threatens Noah’s life for reasons no one would ever suspect. Will he pay the ultimate price for forgetting that the past is never past?

Der Hexenmörder aus dem Nebelwald Ein düsteres Mysterium, das den Atem raubt. Im dichten Nebelwald tauchen immer wieder die Leichen junger, rothaariger Frauen mit grünen Augen auf. Alle tragen dieselbe seltsame Hexenkleidung und eine mysteriöse Kette mit Hexagrammanhänger. In der Hand – ein rätselhafter Briefumschlag, dessen Inhalt viele Fragen aufwirft. Die Leichen hängen an Bäumen, um den Hals geschlungen ein Henkerstrick - aber das ist nicht die Todesursache. Unter den Opfern: ein zerbrochener Hexenbesen – und doch war keine dieser Frauen eine Hexe.

Time Travel Romance. If you were offered a dream cottage in an English country village and it was dirt cheap, would you go ahead without viewing it? Perhaps you would if you had walked out on a no-good two-timing whatsit and had nowhere else to go. Even the neighbours are great, bit strange perhaps. And the dishy local vicar declares himself willing to help day or night. Night? And what’s this talk about a mysterious Midnight Train…are you sure you’re doing the right thing? It's the 1970s and Ellie attempts to make a new life for herself ignoring the gossip about ghosts and ...

In 1856, a group of frontier ruffians murdered Jacob Friend and his family. A year later, Addy Furlough discovers that though the culprits got their just rewards, they had not acted alone, and the mastermind is hot on her trail. What’s a young lady to do? Calling in her dashing beau might help, but most importantly, she’s going to need all the wit, repartee, and subterfuge she can muster to stay alive. A graduate of Oberlin College, Addy moved out west to the frontier river town of Brownville, Nebraska Territory, to establish herself as a businesswoman, promote abolition, and find her ...

In the 1790's, English minor aristocrat, Kate, inherits the title Countess of Transylvania and travels with her sister, Frederika (Freddie), and two servants to that land where everyone is evasive as to the cause of the death of her predecessor. She discovers two former countesses, one of whom was thought to have died and a neighbouring viscount with an appetite for women, among other things. There are rumours of monsters, natural and supernatural, in the forests and of French plots to wrest the land from the Holy Roman Empire, Britain's ally against Napoleon. While trying to discover the ...

Not since the days of Adam and Eve has anyone read stories this strange or weird. Strange facts and unusual forms of spiritualistic phenomena steep these pages in an atmosphere of terror and expectancy. Unforgettable scary stories, real or imagined, were told to people, by the people, as they sat around campfires at night. Stories that will make your skin crawl. The Haunted Mansion of Ashton Hall …… And Island Getaway …… Eavesdropping. The Barn Ghost…… A House of Demons……An Unwelcome Gift…. Fred Cunningham’s Narrow Escape…… Saddleback Lake…… A Promise Kept.

Im Jahre 1902 legen Strandpiraten zwischen Sagres und dem Cap São Vicente immer wieder falsche Leuchtfeuer, überwältigen die Überlebenden, nehmen diese als Geiseln und erbeuten, was an Bord ist. Bis eines Nachts die "Europa" gegen die Klippen schlägt und die Piraten es mit einem Gegner zu tun bekommen, der ihnen weit überlegen ist ... die Tochter Draculas.