In Horace Bell's viewpoint, L.A. beckoned with love and police work. Also, he could study for the Bar. Violence brought his rapid retribution. For Paulette Bovierre, with a lost love in France, Horace Bell had a promising future. She was pure strength in adversity. In Don Tomas Sanchez's viewpoint, L ... more »

Im Jahr 1032 ist das Leben im Kloster von Farfa von Kargheit geprägt. Nur die reich bestückte Bibliothek ist der ganze Stolz des jungen Mönches Vilderico da Sutri. Mit meisterhafter Feder kopiert er dort die alten Schriften, bis er eines Tages als neuer Chronist des Papstes nach Rom berufen wird. Die ... more »

Skilled in passion, artful in deception, and driven by betrayal, she is the glittering center of the royal court-but the most desired woman of Renaissance France will draw the wrath of a dangerous adversary. Paris, 1575. The consort of some of Europe's most influential men, Gabrielle Cheney is determined ... more »

Boudicca--Queen, Priestess, mother, woman ... Emerging from her recent widowhood, Boudicca (Boadicea) is unwillingly plunged into a maelstrom of intrigue between the Celtoi tribes and the conquering Romani. Victim of her own still raw emotions and Romani greed, Boudicca is approached by an elusive Druid ... more »

Etheldreda, Princess of East Anglia, Queen of Northumbria and Abbess of Ely, was a remarkable woman who lived in restless, violent times when old beliefs were dying and new ones were struggling to emerge. Pagan clashed with Christian as the seven kingdoms of the Germanic tribes warred against each other ... more »

Thirty years after Amelia Earhart vanishes in the Pacific, Vincent Carlson, designer of her spy plane, now ex-CIA, still searches for the answer to her disappearance. His obsession with A.E. changes when Amelia Adams, a young, mysterious Amerasian, linked to A.E. by more than name, walks into his life ... more »

 In 1973 maakt Anton Haakman tijdens de voorbereiding van een televisiefilm over Athanasius Kircher kennis met volgelingen van deze geleerde zeventiende-eeuwse jezuïet, die de wereld deed geloven dat hij de hiërogliefen kon ontcijferen. Eind 1989, tijdens de omwenteling in de DDR, gaat hij op­nieuw ... more »

Anlässlich des Ablebens seines Großvaters entdeckt Gideon, ein Ägyptologe wie auch sein Großvater, ein abgegriffenes Manuskript mit vergilbten Seiten. Was folgt, ist nicht nur die Schilderung einer abenteuerlichen Expedition in Ägypten mit allen Hochs und Tiefs, bedingt durch Hoffnung, Enttäuschung, ... more »

For Jason Locke, the ranch on the Green River is the realization of a dream, a chance to hang up his guns and build a new life. For Wiley Carr, it is the home he never had. For Avram and Sarah Kleinfeld, escaping the atrocities of Eastern Europe, it is a sanctuary and a place of renewed hope. For Wes ... more »

In 1942 Hitler led the world's most savage military machine. Stalin ruled Russia while America was just beginning to show its strength in World War II. Then, in Harry Turtledove's brilliantly imagined Worldwar saga, an alien assault changed everything. Nuclear destruction engulfed major cities, and the ... more »

She lived and breathed history, but when Margaux finds herself a hundred years into the past, she knows it's more than an episode of Deja Vu.  First it was days, then weeks, then decades. And it's getting worse the more she thinks about it. Somehow, Margaux Pennington is reliving pieces of time ... more »

Set in post-war England, this is the story of the square-rigger Bonnie Clyde .   She was a grand vessel in her time, but now the sea-weary sailing ship awaits scuttling in the cold waters of the English Channel.       Before this great lady meets her fate, a group of rogue sailors ... more »