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Marcus Aquila and his patron Rutlius Scaurus have fought a superior enemy force to a standstill in Thracia, gaining the favour of the gods but paying a grievous cost in their family's blood. Battle-weary and mourning their losses, they are tasked with rooting out a spy ring operating in the lands into which their imperial master Severus's armies are advancing. Hunting down informers operating under the skilled and ruthless command of their sworn enemy Sartorius, spymaster to the usurper Niger, will not be easy.

When a new empire rises, and old one must fall. After 16 years of bloody war against Rome, Hannibal Barca is on the verge of defeat. On the plains of Zama, Felix and his brother Antonius stand in the formidable Roman legions, ready to deliver the decisive blow. Victory will establish Rome as the pre-eminent power in the ancient world. But in northern Greece, Philip V of Macedon is determined to restore Alexander the Great's kingdom to its former glory.

Raven's secrets have shaped the woman she is: solitary and closed off. After being let down by the one person that should have always been there, Raven has built her walls up so high, nobody could possibly scale them. She takes care of herself. She has her own back. She might live surrounded by her brother's club, the Fallen Lords MC, but the family and brotherhood they preach is a load of crap and she isn't buying any of it.

One empire will rise Flamininus of Rome and Macedonian King Philip's battle-hardened armies are on the march towards their final, climactic encounter. The other must burn. The outcome will decide the fate of Greece. But, on opposite sides, legionary Felix and Phalanx soldier Demetrios have more pressing concerns: staying alive long enough to taste glory....

Millions have died trying to shatter the enemy fortifications, and Private Callahan and his comrades are ordered to try again. But this time they have something new. Lines of heavy tanks, their engines revving, and the sky overhead filled with squadrons of fighter aircraft. Their task is to assault an impregnable fortified hilltop, manned by thousands of battle-hardened German soldiers, determined to contest every yard of ground.

The year is 2038, America’s new President won with a simple, snappy campaign slogan: Kill the Rich. Now in office, his administration kicks off with a televised public hanging of Kim Kardashian, whose lip kits have poisoned a working-class city.

At the stroke of midnight, a devastating explosion at Black Tom Island, an armaments depot, rocks New York City awake; and so begins this story of two patriots in World War I, each willing to put his life on the line in order to achieve a glorious victory for his cause. Serving the Fatherland is Dr. Harold Schwartz, administrator of the prestigious Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital and a German spy. Along with his father, a dealer in lethal weapons and a lifelong friend of Kaiser Wilhelm, Schwartz is hell-bent on distracting the Americans from entering the war.

Elle n’aspire qu’à une vie paisible et anonyme. Il est le parrain de la puissante Joukovskaïa, et il la veut, elle, pour épouse. Serveuse modeste, tout ce à quoi Kira Lyadova aspire c’est retrouver le calme de son appartement après une longue journée. Mais c’est sans compter sur cette réception où elle doit remplacer au pied levé sa collègue malade. Le richissime mafieux Vadim Nazarov doit choisir sa future épouse ce soir-là parmi les invitées triées sur le volet... Contre toute attente, il jette son dévolu sur Kira ! Il l’a décidé : c’est Kira qu’il veut, et ce que Vadim veut, il l’obtient.

Nouvelle édition à deux voix pour une romance encore plus intense ! Ceci n’est pas une dark romance. Ce n’est pas une histoire de maltraitance, ni de gangsters. Encore moins une histoire de sadomasochisme ou de violences conjugales. Il n’y a pas de victimes ici, seulement deux bourreaux : un enfoiré de playboy caractériel dont le riche papa s’échine à étouffer les scandales, et moi, une paumée notoire qui tente de racheter son salut par tous les moyens, quitte à se laisser écraser par tous.