Historical Romance Thriller

Cautivadora intriga histórica de parte de uno de los descendientes del linaje de los Medici en Florencia. Unas joyas desaparecidas en 1623, un misterio cifrado que las envuelve y un secreto que se alargará hasta 2010, cuando una profesora de historia se vea atrapada en la historia de amor prohibido entre Maria de Medicis y el pintor Rubens, una historia que podría tener consecuencias letales en el presente.

Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano.

Lorenzo de Medici es un autor italiano nacido en Milán y residente en Portugal...

The Great War is over, and Elizabeth and Gideon are busy planning their wedding. Gideon is happily welcoming home old friends who have been discharged from the army. One of them, Archie Carstens, the son and heir of a wealthy Knickerbocker family, served as a captain in the army and now seems less happy to be home than Gideon had expected. While Archie was in France, he met and fell in love with a beautiful French woman named Noelle. He would have gladly proposed, but he was already engaged to a girl he had known all his life back in America.

A mysterious key left by her murdered sister takes Air Transport Auxiliary pilot Betty Palmer on a journey of discovery and danger. Her estranged parents force themselves back into her life, motivated purely by greed and self-preservation. Penny's life is unexpectedly turned upside down by a potentially life-changing situation that causes her wounded husband to question their marriage.

In 1808, after six years behind enemy lines, only four members of the British elite spy group "Viper", Patrick, Gregory, Anthony, and Theron, were finally heading home. William, the fifth, lost his life in the line of duty. His father gave away his precious daughter Katherine to London's rogue, Quinton Bennett. Before his death, William promised to unearth his father's decision to throw his sister's life away. Patrick swore to keep his friend's promise. Upon returning to England, he immediately delved into the mystery, and soon found that Katherine was caught in a deadly conspiracy.

Only a few months earlier, the young woman now known as Jane Smith had lived a life of luxury and privilege as the ruler of a small Balkan kingdom. She lived a life of glittering balls, the finest furnishings, the most handsome men, the most exquisite of foods. Her only friends were four bearded old men who served as her cabinet, and worshiped the ground she walked on. Then the Germans had marched in, and she and her four councilors barely escaped with their lives.

British private investigator, Thomas Kincaid, thinks he's seen it all...until a gorgeous, soaking-wet American shows up and demands he help her find a stolen family heirloom. Having had his heart crushed once before by a beautiful woman, Kincaid has no intention of tempting fate a second time. But Joanna Thorncroft isn't about to take no for an answer. Joanna has to find her mother's ring and discover the secrets it contains. Secrets that have brought her all the way across the Atlantic and onto the doorstep of a sinfully handsome detective.

After the death of her grandmother, there’s nothing left for Rose in England. She’s sold her house and packed her money and possessions in a single canvas bag, and now a six-week voyage across the Atlantic is all that stands between her and a new life in America. Emily has been accused of a crime she hasn’t committed. Options are scarce, but if she can escape London, she might be able to build a new life somewhere else. On the packet ship Merryweather, drawn to Emily, Rose faces a hard decision. Does she risk everything to help her new friend?

Frühsommer in den Sechzigerjahren. Nach 3 aufregenden Jahren in Indien sehnt sich der Schweizer Ingenieur Walter Ried nach Urlaub, nach seiner Heimat. Seine Jugendliebe Isabelle de Latour, das "schönste Mädchen der Welt", hat er nie vergessen. Tante Hille, bei der er nach dem Tod der Eltern aufgewachsen ist, bringt ihn auf den neuesten Stand: Annabelle ist geschieden und lebt vorübergehend wieder auf dem elterlichen Schloss, das nun ein Luxushotel ist. Ihr Vater, der dem Glück der beiden vor 10 Jahren im Weg stand, lebt nicht mehr.

If Kate Chamberlin can’t reveal her true identity to the world, she must settle for sharing only her talent. Hired as a musician for KDKA radio, Kate plays everything from sponsors’ jingles to complex sonatas. As long as the whispers around the broadcasting room refer to her as “Killjoy Kate” and not “Catarina the crime boss’s daughter,” then her life is safe from danger. Or so she thinks. When anonymous violent threats surface, Kate is wary of accepting protection from the handsome Detective Jennings. No one, especially him, can know the gruesome realities of her birth.

Despite the many demands that come with being a member of the Order of the Crystal Daggers, Eleanora Svobodová has plenty of reasons to celebrate. With Lumiere’s capture and Lady Penelope’s reluctant acceptance of Ferdy, not even Ben’s painful ire can completely diminish her joy. But just as the future begins to look bright, the past catches up to Eleanora and the other members of the Order. Can Eleanora and the Order find a way to save the kingdom? And even if they do, will they be able to survive a new betrayal from among their ranks?

John Barrington (Reflections) told Jeff (Reflections) that the history and wealth of his family were built on a foundation of lies. Some secrets went to the grave of John’s father, Bernard. During John’s childhood, Bernard Barrington, was distant and he never knew why. Even finding the love of his life, Josephine, couldn’t prevent the path that lay before Bernard. In this novel, you find out what lies laid the foundation of the family and how those lies rippled across time to affect the lives of the Barrington clan.

Hay secretos que jamás se han de saber y el de su nacimiento es uno de ellos. Lionel prometió a su madre que nunca aparecería en Londres para que su alma descansara en paz. Sin embargo, romperá la promesa por culpa del engaño de una mujer. Como espía, la primera regla es ocultar tu verdadera identidad. La segunda, jamás caer en una trampa y si lo haces, buscar la manera de morir antes de confesar a tu enemigo la verdad. La tercera, nunca te enamores de la persona a quien debes investigar.

Luglio 1969: il mondo festeggia il primo uomo sulla luna. Probabilmente, gli unici a non rivolgere nemmeno uno sguardo alla tv, in quel buco di posto in Ecuador dove si trovano, sono Fay Fern e suo figlio Wright, nove anni. E probabilmente Wright è l'unico bambino americano a non conoscere il nome di Vincent Kahn, l'astronauta che per primo calca la superficie lunare. Fay, invece, l'ha incontrato quando lei lavorava al bar di una base aerea nel deserto del Mojave dove lui prestava servizio come pilota.

Für Nele Stern wird ein Traum wahr, als sie im Frühjahr 1912 den Luxusliner Titanic besteigt. Nach einem verpatzten Autritt im rennomierten Varieté Berliner Wintergarten kehrt sie dem deutschen Publikum den Rücken und möchte ihr Glück in Amerika suchen. An Bord der Titanic lernt Nele Matheus kennen, einen Pastor aus Berlin, der mit Frau und Kind unterwegs ist. Allerdings krieselt es in Matheus Ehe gewaltig und seine Frau Cäcilie flirtet ungeniert mit einem Engländer, der sich zudem noch höchst verdächtig verhält. Ist es vielleicht ein Spion? Das Desaster nimmt seinen Lauf.

Following the passing of his father and an unforgivable act by a family member ending in near ruin for his family, Simon Montgomery, the new Earl of Cartwright, is forced to return home without finishing his education. However, that doesn't stop Cart from absorbing every morsel of knowledge he can.

New York City's Police Commissioner Rick Bragg has been called upon to investigate a shocking crime. Reluctant to pull Francesca Cahill into a case that could be very dangerous, Rick also knows the beautiful and brilliant heiress has a natural ability for sleuthing that could aid him - even it if means working side by side with a woman who tempts him like no other. And so Francesca and Rick begin a harrowing journey through the squalid underworld of the city that plunges them deeper and deeper in a peril neither could have imagined - and a desire that only continues to grow...

Ruby St. Augustin must find the truth of her past to determine what her future holds. She only has a short time in London to uncover the identity of her real father and the secrets behind her birth. If anyone learns of her mission, she will disgrace everyone she holds dear. What she doesn't expect is to draw the attention of a man who doesn't care about his reputation or her past.

After a duke's betrayal, the resilient Sarah Forrester reinvents herself as the Golden Lady: Society's leading light, the beautiful and witty life of the party. It's all a facade of course - one that protects her from another intimate disloyalty. When her old friend, Lieutenant Jackson Fletcher, returns to London, he is determined to rediscover the true and trusting Sarah he once knew. It'll take more than a kiss and a promise. It might even call for an innocent and necessary deception.

England, 1888. Quiet and scholarly Princess Emilie has always avoided adventure, until she's forced to disguise herself as a tutor in the household of the imposing Duke of Ashland, a former soldier disfigured in battle and abandoned by his wife. When chance draws her into a secret liaison with the duke, Emilie can't resist the opportunity to learn what lies behind his forbidding mask and find out what adventure really means. The duke never imagines that his son's tutor and his mysterious golden-haired beauty are one and the same.

Following a humiliating fourth season in London, Lady Elizabeth Fraser is on her way back to her ancestral country estate when her train careens off the rails and bursts into flames. Though she is injured, she manages to drag herself and her unconscious mother out of the wreckage, and amid the chaos that ensues, a brilliant young railway surgeon saves her mother's life. Elizabeth feels an immediate connection with Paul Wilcox - though society would never deem a medical man eligible for the daughter of an earl.