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In the Hands of the Gods. Marcus Rutilius Crispus. A loyal man.So reads the inscription on the grave of the man ordered to commit suicide by Rome's leading citizen, Octavian. Now, Octavian rules the empire. Consul for the seventh time, he has the love of the common people and powerful allies. He owns the army. He owns the treasury. He owns the senate.All that remains is to establish a dynasty, and Octavian's pursuit of absolute power will be c...

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Voltaire the dog loves traveling. When his parents decide to move to France, Voltaire is excited. His dream of visiting the City of Light is about to come true!

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In a castle in Yorkshire a baronet with a dark secret has become obsessed with the idea of leaving his castle in a state of perfection for his handsome heir.

It is 1535 and in the tumultuous years of King Henry VIII's break from Rome, the religious houses of England are being seized by force.

Hailes Castle, 1511. Midnight on a doom-laden Hallowe'en and Elisabeth Hepburn, daughter of the Earl of Bothwell, makes a wish - to wed her lover, the poet David Lindsay. But her uncle has other plans. To safeguard the interests of the Hepburn family she is to become a nun and succeed her aunt as Prioress of St. Mary's Abbey, Haddington. However, plunged into the political maelstrom and religious turmoil of the early Scottish Reformation, h...

Halifax, 1876. On the death of her mother and sister, Isabelle Gibson is left to fend for herself and her brother in a privately-run workhouse. After the matron's son attempts to rape her, Isabelle decides to escape him and a life of drudgery by agreeing to marry a moorland farmer she has never met. But this man, Farrell, is a drunkard and a bully in constant feud with his landlord, Ethan Harrington. When Farrell bungles a robbery and deserts ...

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1494 Barcelona. As Torquemada lights the fires of religious fervor throughout the cities of Spain, accused heretics are not the only victims. Thousands of books and manuscripts are lost to the flames as the Black Friars attempt to purge Europe of the ancient secrets of the gods and the bold new ideas that are ushering in the Renaissance. Nadira lives a dreary life as servant to a wealthy spice merchant until the night a dying scholar is brough...

Easter Monday, 1809: Kirkley Hall manor house is mysteriously burgled. When suspicion falls on Jamie Charlton, he and his family face a desperate battle to save him from the gallows.