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After the sudden death of her boyfriend, Vera would have been happy to spend the rest of her days curiously unnoticeable, washing bed sheets and cleaning toilets in present day Glastonbury. But when the strange new guest at her hotel reveals himself to be Merlin and drags her back to seventh century Camelot, a place she knows only from legends, only Vera (or Queen Guinevere, as Merlin calls her) can right the course of history and save Arthur's kingdom from the will of a power-hungry mage.

Santo Domingo de la Calzada, 1532. London, 1837. Boston, 2019. Three young women, their bodies planted in the same soil, their stories tangling like roots. One grows high, and one grows deep, and one grows wild. And all of them grow teeth.

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On New Year's Eve, she tumbles 700 years back in time - and into the bed of a darkly handsome knight. Sir Gaston de Varennes wanted a docile bride who would fit into his plans for vengeance and justice, but a trick of time finds him married to a thoroughly modern American lady who turns his castle, his life, and his heart upside down. Will her desperate secret tear them apart after only a few bittersweet weeks of stolen passion - or will they conquer mistrust, treachery, and time itself to discover a love that spans the centuries?

Venice, 1717. Before Maddalena arrived at the Ospedale della Pietà, Venice's most illustrious music school, fifteen-year-old orphan Luisa has only wanted one thing: to be the best at violin. Luisa is good at violin, but she is not the best. She has peers, but she does not have friends. Until Maddalena. Sent to the Pietà until her noble family can find her a husband, Maddalena is cunning, passionate, and unlike anyone Luisa has ever met. Maddalena can promise the world to Luisa, and when she does, their fates intertwine.

When Mercy Maddox makes a spur of the moment decision to pretend she is the fare of a man holding a name card at Savannah Airport, she doesn't suspect she's about to climb into the back seat of a hit man hired to kill his passenger—nor find herself on an Antebellum plantation a hundred and eighty years in the past.

Ao fim da vida, Elias Ein decide se mudar para uma cidade isolada na Áustria, em busca de tranquilidade para aproveitar sua aposentadoria. Um tempo depois de se instalar em sua nova casa, ele descobre uma escada escondida que dá acesso a uma vasta biblioteca com obras incríveis. E entre elas, Elias descobre algo maravilhoso: o Grande Livro da Vida, uma obra sagrada em que Deus escreveu sobre o destino de cada ser humano.

Fesselnd, düster, gewaltig: Die Fortsetzung der großen Vampir-Saga "Vampyria" aus Frankreich. Entgegen ihren Plänen und vor den Augen des ganzen Hofstaats hat die Sterbliche Jeanne den König der Vampire vor der Vernichtung bewahrt und wurde dafür in sein Gefolge aufgenommen. Nun muss sie ihre Tarnung als Adelige am Hof der Finsternis aufrechterhalten.

Fesselnd, düster, gewaltig: Der Auftakt der großen Vampir-Saga Vampyria aus Frankreich. Vor drei Jahrhunderten hat Ludwig der Unwandelbare als Vampir eine Aristokratie des Schreckens in Europa errichtet. Während die Adeligen nichts mehr begehren, als durch die Gunst des einstigen Sonnenkönigs ebenfalls unsterblich zu werden, müssen die einfachen Menschen jeden Monat ihr eigenes Blut als Steuer abgeben. Die junge Sterbliche Jeanne verschlägt es unerwartet nach Versailles an den Hof der Finsternis.