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It is 1918, and London is gathering in its dead. For undertaker Henry Speake, laying to rest the bodies of those sent home from the Front has become a familiar duty. But what he is seeing now, as influenza claims its victims, is something different.

Margaret of Ashbury is ready to settle down; the medieval healer is looking forward to an uneventful life in the country. And, indeed, life with her true love and a brood of rambunctious children is nearly perfect—except for her husband Gregory’s ever-meddling family. Finding himself deep in debt once again, Gregory’s father has plotted to sell Margaret’s daughter off in marriage to save his woodlands from a greedy abbot.

The story is set in the aftermath of World War One. Paul Harris, still frail after shellshock, returns to his father’s home and to the arms of his secret lover, Adam. He discovers that Margot, the fiancée of his dead brother, is pregnant and marries her through a sense of loyalty. Though Adam he finds work as a schoolteacher; while setting up a home with Margot he continues to see Adam. Pat Morgan who was a sergeant in Paul’s platoon, runs a butcher’s shop in town and cares for his twin brother, Mick who lost both legs in the war. Pat yearns for the closeness he experienced with Paul in the trenches.

Pretty, flirtatious, and ambitious. Nan Bassett hopes that an appointment at the court of King Henry VIII will bring her a grand marriage. But soon after she becomes a maid of honor to Queen Jane, the queen dies in childbirth. As the court plunges into mourning, Nan sets her sights on the greatest match in the land...for the king has noticed her. After all, it wouldn't be the first time King Henry has chosen to wed a maid of honor.

Schottland, 1314: In den Highlands tobt ein erbitterter Krieg zwischen den Engländern und den Clans um die schottische Unabhängigkeit. Als die Lage sich zuspitzt, beschließt die mutige Kriegerin Enja, die zur Assassinin ausgebildet wurde, für die Schotten zu kämpfen – an der Seite des Clanführers James Douglas. Am Tag der großen Schlacht fällt der König der Schotten eine schwerwiegende Entscheidung: Enja soll sich als Frau vom Kampfgeschehen fernhalten. Doch als sie in den Reihen ihrer Feinde jemanden erkennt, dem sie vor Jahren Rache geschworen hat, weiß sie: Dies ist ihre einzige Chance.

En las novelas de la saga Outlander, la autora más vendida Diana Gabaldon ha creado un mundo fascinante. Ahora, en Siete piedras para resistir o caer, reúne una fantástica colección de relatos y novelas breves inéditas en español que, a partir de la historia de Forastera, apuntan en direcciones nuevas.

El ex jacobita Jamie Fraser está plenamente inmerso en la Revolución americana, que defiende a capa y espada, hasta que se le presenta un conflicto interior que puede dar al traste con sus ideas, con su felicidad y hasta con su vida: en el bando del ejército inglés que debe sofocar la rebelión se encuentra su hijo ilegítimo, un joven teniente del ejército británico, y el encuentro es inminente.

El apasionado romance entre James Fraser y Claire Randall tuvo lugar cuando ella emprendió un peligroso viaje a través del tiempo desde mediados del siglo xx hasta llegar al siglo xviii. Embarazada de la hija de am­bos, volvió a su tiempo creyendo que él iba a ser ejecu­tado en la cruenta batalla de Culloden en 1746. Tras veinte años y con su hija ya mayor, Claire aún llora en silencio la pérdida del hombre al que amó. Pero cuando algunos indicios la llevan a pensar que Jamie puede es­tar vivo, decide regresar al pasado para reunirse con él.

Ya plenamente asentados en Carolina del Norte, Claire y Jamie deben hacer frente al estallido del conflicto entre la Corona inglesa y las colonias americanas en 1767. Mientras Claire procura salvar a su marido de los acontecimientos históricos próximos que ella conoce, Jamie debe decidir si seguir los requerimientos de los partidarios de la Corona y hacer aquello que es mejor para su familia o seguir sus propias convicciones y arriesgar la estabilidad de sus seres queridos.

The brilliant, scholarly, yet still devilishly desirable fourth son, Drake, takes center stage in The Bed and the Bachelor as he tries to crack the code to a mysterious young lady’s heart.

Webb Calder fought the newcomers who rushed to claim grasslands where Calder cattle grazed. But he could not resist Lilli - a proud and lovely young immigrant, loyal to the homesteader's cause, and to her husband.Still, a Calder kept what he had and got what he wanted. Where a man stands for what he believes, there Stands a Calder Man.

Before taking her vows at a convent to become a young novice, Dominica Kirkland is summoned to an isolated Idaho ranch by Toma Colfax, a friend of her deceased father. Alone and naive as to the ways of the world, Dominica soon finds herself overwhelmed, and reluctantly accepts the help of Luke, a ruggedly handsome cowboy. Drawn in by her beauty and her innocence, Luke makes it clear that he’s interested in Dominica, no matter what vows she’s considering.

Disarmed by the prince's determined pursuit of her, his exuberant joy of living, and the desires he awakens in her, Liv agrees to marry him. But while night is a time for passionate embraces, Liv discovers that her irresistible husband can be as autocratic as he is extravagantly generous. While Alex balks at Liv's independent ways, he refuses to explain his own comings and goings. When Liv learns one of Alex's secrets she only loves him more. But when she learns the other secret, will she feel wickedly betrayed?

A knight from across the sea, a beleaguered kingdom, a spirit of fire with a deadly secret - Judith Tarr's beloved novel of grand romance and high magic in the age of the Crusades appears for the first time in digital form. Join Prince Aidan, son of a mortal king and an immortal enchantress, and the deathless Assassin Morgiana, in a saga of war and truce, betrayal and honor, hate and love.

After escaping the slaughter of her clan at a young age, Scottish noblewoman Sabrina Verrick provides for her siblings by living a double life, until the night she encounters the Duke, and her secret and all she holds dear is threatened.... With his inheritance at stake, Lucien, Duke of Camareigh, sets a trap for the Scottish beauty with the piercing violet eyes, never imagining what will happen when the trap is sprung.... As their lives become irreversibly entangled, Lucien and Sabrina become each other's biggest threat, as well as their only salvation....

Dear Listener: My new story begins on a terror-filled night when two babies - identical twin girls of noble birth - are separated. One grows to womanhood as the frail, manipulative ward of the handsome young earl of Harcourt. The other becomes an enchanting, street-smart urchin who earns her way as a traveling player on the streets of England and France. The two girls' paths might never again have crossed if Harcourt hadn't run into Miranda in the midst of an exuberant performance.

Chastity listens to Dr. Douglas Farrell's distressingly unromantic requirements for a wife: wealth and social status. Her instinct is to refuse service to the tall, muscular, dark-eyed physician, but she can't turn away a paying client. Yet the doctor conceals a secret. He's prepared to sacrifice his bachelorhood for his true passion: caring for the poorest of London's poor. Little does Chastity know that if she ever learned the selfless truth, the handsome doctor just might steal her heart.

Growing up behind the impenetrable walls of an English fortress, young Magdalen does not know that she is the illegitimate daughter of a powerful English prince and his murdered French mistress - or that she has been a pawn in the struggle between England and France ever since she slipped from her dying mother's womb. All she knows is that she longs for excitement. And then one day, as if in answer to her prayers, the splendid figure of Guy de Gervais, a true knight in shining armor, rides into her cloistered world and spirits her away.

1918: the Kaiser's empire is about to fall and Captain Harry Phillips, a prisoner of war in a Romanian hospital, has had a very hard time of it. Then, out of the blue, comes an offer he can't refuse: a ticket home to his beloved England and to the arms of his much missed fiancée Elizabeth.

France, 1918: when Sophia, the rebellious daughter of a distinguished German general, witnesses a dramatic battle in the skies that leaves an English pilot without a plane and under the misapprehension that Sophia is on his side, she finds she has no choice but to agree to assist him in his attempt to avoid capture. He joins her in the family car she has stolen, trailed by both the German Army and a staff officer under strict instructions from Sophia's father to bring her home.