Resultados para "the element" en Novela histórica

¿Será que una mujer moderna podrá escapar al destino de un highlander? Caballos, tiendas de campañas y highlanders… Cuando la agente del servicio de inteligencia británico Danielle Field visita el castillo de Stirling, los preparativos para la recreación de la batalla de Bannockburn están en pleno auge. Allí, una piedra cubierta de runas la envía al pasado, a una batalla que se ve demasiado real. El guerrero de las Tierras Altas Colum MacDonald ha traicionado a su clan para salvar a su reina. Solo logrará restaurar su honor ayudando a Roberto i de Escocia a ganar la batalla que se avecina. Tras confundir a Danielle con un espía inglés.

In pre-war Germany, two boys grow up together inseparable. However, as adulthood approaches and Nazism continues its inexorable march, Dahl and Quantz can no longer reconcile their childhood friendship as one becomes an SS officer and the other a pawn in the intelligence unit. Thirteen years later, their children meet: a woman and a man exposed to the sins of their fathers.

Nazafareen lives for revenge. A girl of the isolated Four-Legs Clan, all she knows about the King's elite Water Dogs is that they bind wicked creatures called daevas to protect the empire from the Undead. But when scouts arrive to recruit young people with the gift, she leaps at the chance to join their ranks. To hunt the monsters that killed her sister. Scarred by grief, she's willing to pay any price, even if it requires linking with a daeva named Darius.

Following the Weavers Enclave Grand Exchange, Feng Yu and his party had decided to venture to the mysterious and renowned Five Element Mirage Zone in hopes of quickly improving their strength to the next level. Of course, their fame from their endeavors had garnered the interest of a few powerful forces and rogue assassin groups, each moving with their own intentions. With their overwhelming power, you would think their quest to be a simple one, but little did they know, the secret of the special zone would lead to an unexpected change and the start of a disaster.

Visionary. Alchemist. Savior. Saint. The Prophet Zarathustra has been called many things. Now he spends his time drawing pictures of weird-looking goats. That's what happens when you've been stuck in a prison cell for 200 years. But the man who might be mad, and is definitely supposed to be dead, has suddenly become very valuable again.

As the dark forces of the Undead sweep across what remains of the empire, Nazafareen must obey the summons of a demon queen to save Darius' father, Victor. Burdened with a power she doesn't understand and can barely control, Nazafareen embarks on a perilous journey through the shadowlands to the House-Behind-the-Veil. But what awaits her there is worse than she ever imagined.... As a final showdown looms between Alexander the Great and Queen Neblis, the truth of the daevas' origins is revealed and three worlds collide.

It is 1795. As war spreads across the globe, Harry Ludlow joins the struggle for the richest trade in the world. When half his crew is illegally pressed into the Royal Navy by the vicious Captain Toner, Harry sets off in pursuit. Toner's ship reaches the West Indies with Harry close behind, and they sail into a maelstrom of piracy, corruption, and murder, stirred up by a French privateer. Soon, the British officer in charge of the station calls upon each man to help as best he can.

During a late-night storm, the abrupt arrival of a distraught client on the doorstep of 221B Baker Street forces Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson to investigate a case that will lead them through the most sinister streets and alleys of London, confronting dangerous and vicious criminals along the way. The consulting detective and his companion are put to the test when a young woman is found brutally murdered in her lodgings. Scotland Yard is at a loss, and time is running out for the two protagonists, with scant evidence and a growing list of suspects.

Iris McTavish always wanted to follow in her father's footsteps. But when his sudden death leaves her household on the brink of ruin, she may have to choose an unwanted marriage over her passion of archaeology. To save her house and prove her worth, she embarks on a mysterious and dangerous expedition....

Sie heilt mit der Kraft der Natur und wird eine Pionierin der Medizin Paris, 1834: Mélanie will Ärztin werden, doch als Frau wird ihr der Zugang zur Universität verwehrt. Heimlich schleicht sie sich trotzdem in den Vorlesungssaal. Als sie krank wird, scheint ihr kein Arzt helfen zu können, ihre letzte Hoffnung ist die Homöopathie. Durch Zufall fällt ihr die heilkundliche Schrift eines Samuel Hahnemann in die Hände. Mélanie ist fasziniert von seinen Erkenntnissen und weiß: Sie muss diesen Mann treffen, von ihm will sie lernen, wie sie ihren Traum verwirklichen und Menschenleben retten kann.