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¿Qué haces para enamorar a una mujer si eres parte de un cuerpo de élite militar? Fácil, te la llevas a una misión en tu país natal, Cuba, y le enseñas lo maravilloso que sería estar contigo. Y todo sería perfecto si no tuvieras que casarte con ella para protegerla, tu madre y tu abuela se empeñaran en que no sea solo un matrimonio falso y que además tengas que ayudar en un golpe de estado por parte de disidentes.

1901. En el idílico pueblo vasco de Ea, Dylan y Ulises Morgan contemplan en el horizonte cómo se hunde el Annabelle, el vapor de su abuelo, tras la terrible tempestad de la noche anterior. Después, el cuerpo de una joven aparece flotando en la orilla. Extrañamente, es idéntica a otra...

A soldier raised as heir to an empire, Zarrah is motivated by two truths. The first is that the Veliant family murdered her mother. And the second is that her pursuit of vengeance will put every last one of them in their graves. The Endless War between Maridrina and Valcotta has raged for generations, leaving thousands of Zarrah’s people dead and countless more orphaned. So when she’s given command of the contested city of Nerastis, Zarrah is prepared to do whatever it takes to destroy the Maridrinian forces who oppose her. And to kill the Veliant prince who leads them.

Candela guarda secretos que, veinticinco años más tarde, se ve obligada a desvelar. Nadie imagina que esa mujer de 1970 tiene un pasado turbulento. Debe dar respuestas a sus hijos. En 1934 dejó su Málaga natal rumbo a Nueva York. Una niña que maduró de golpe, con cualidades que la hacían especial y unas amistades que marcaron su destino y la llevaron a cometer errores. Después de la Guerra Civil, la Segunda Guerra Mundial la trajo de vuelta como agente de los servicios secretos norteamericanos, pero una incontrolable relación pasional puso en peligro su misión.

Lara has only one thought for her husband on their wedding day: I will bring your kingdom to its knees. A princess trained from childhood to be a lethal spy, Lara knows that the Bridge Kingdom represents both legendary evil - and legendary promise. The only route through a storm-ravaged world, the Bridge Kingdom controls all trade and travel between lands, allowing its ruler to enrich himself and deprive his enemies, including Lara’s homeland. So when she is sent as a bride under the guise of fulfilling a treaty of peace, Lara is prepared to do whatever it takes....

A queen now in exile as a traitor, Lara has watched Ithicana be conquered by her own father, helpless to do anything to stop the destruction. But when she learns her husband, Aren, has been captured in battle, Lara knows there is only one reason her father is keeping him alive: as bait for his traitorous daughter. And it is bait she fully intends to take. Risking her life to the Tempest Seas, Lara returns to Ithicana with a plan not only to free its king, but for liberating the Bridge Kingdom from her father’s clutches using his own weapons: the sisters whose lives she spared.

In a small town on the mid-Atlantic coast, Jake, a small-time smuggler happens into an alliance with an Englishman, Alistair James. Alistair and team of gifted scientists have developed a fusion device they hope can deliver a new ecological power source that the world has not seen. The device has immense possibilities and Alistair’s team hold the secrets.

The Imperium executors are incensed. They thought to expel the empire’s invaders in a massive onslaught of powerful battleship fleets, the peacekeepers, but the attack failed miserably. Blame is tossed among the assembly.

They stole my throne and stood by while I was taken captive. To reclaim my crown, I must trust my worst enemy. When I wake up in a coffin after the worst Clan wedding in Malhaven’s history, vengeance is the only thing keeping me alive. But the world I claw back into is colder than death. My father, the leader of the Protectorate Clan, is dead. My uncle sits on the throne meant for me. I’ve been taken to a brutal, frozen land ruled by the ruthless Commander, a man as terrifying as he is magnetic. 

In the first of an extraordinary series from bestseller S.J.A. Turney, the fate of Empire hangs in the balance… Istanbul, 1481: The once great city of Constantine, a strange mix of Christians, Turks and Jews, now forms the heart of the Ottoman empire. The conquest, still a recent memory, means...

Im Haus des Flüsterns und der Schatten zählt nur eins: Überleben. Abgeschottet im Dschungel durchläuft Saya eine Ausbildung zur skrupellosen Assassine des Gottkaisers. Um eines Tages frei sein zu können, muss sie sieben tödliche Prüfungen bestehen. Und das mit dem Mann, den sie...

When a scientist working for the Gomez Organization is found dead in a remote Antarctica station, Jake Adams is called back to work for the billionaire. The problem is Sirena is away visiting a friend in Europe, and he is tethered to his Utah ranch with his eighteen-year-old daughter, Emma. So...

A high-stakes espionage thriller with political intrigue and Hollywood glamour, secrets, and twists. Thrown from a glitzy, creative Hollywood life into a sphere of corruption and espionage by those she loves most, those bound by loyalty and passion where these worlds collide, Alouette Strauss must save them all. But whom can she trust most? Her best friend, hip-hop superstar and composer Manuel Luis Burnett? His boyfriend, cold but kind and strong makeup artist Yuri "York" Sokolov? Secret Balkan spy and her dad's ex-wife, Astrid Lubovich?

Schweig! Oder du musst sterben. Was zunächst wie ein tragischer Unfall aussieht, entpuppt sich während der Obduktion schnell als brutaler Mord. Denn der Frau, die aus einem Fluss gezogen wurde, fehlt die Zunge, und ihre Arme wurden zerschnitten – eine Warnung? Aber an wen? Der Ehemann wird...

The Hood is the second book in Lavie Tidhar's ambitious Anti-Matter of Britain Quartet – a viscerally entertaining, ominously subversive and poetically profane remixing of the myths and legends that shaped our nation. God bless you, England, on this glorious Year of Our Lord, 1145. Don't cross...

New York Times bestselling author Kate Elliott brings us a thrilling new science fiction adventure set in a rich universe full of political intrigue with Unconquerable Sun. GENDER-SWAPPED ALEXANDER THE GREAT ON AN INTERSTELLAR SCALE Princess Sun has finally come of age. Growing up in the shadow...

e's never going to stop... Stalking the streets of Prague, James Ryker is on the hunt for justice when he hears a news report of a murder in rural England. Big problem. He knows the victim. Ten years ago, in Qatar, Ryker led a team of assassins to kill him. He thought they had. So how has a man...

Atticus Perennis, prefect of the Roman fleet, waits restlessly in Carthage. His crew is agitated, as they wait on edge for news from Rome, hoping the powers-that-be send more ships to help his Carthaginian forces put down a rebel mercenary army. When word reaches them that a fleet is on their...

Political troubles on a remote tropical island threaten a valuable mine owned by a powerful multi-national corporation. The company plans to dispatch its toughest and most experienced troubleshooter to protect its interests, but a bureaucratic snafu drops a mild-mannered cost accountant into a steaming cauldron of beguiling women, rugged mercenaries, jihadi warriors, a biological weapons expert, and a legendary assassin.

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, the Mistborn series is a heist story of political intrigue and magical, martial-arts action. For a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed. For a thousand years the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. For a thousand...