Jeanne Kalogridis

Vivacious Sancha of Aragon arrives in Rome newly wed to a member of the notorious Borgia dynasty. Surrounded by the city's opulence and political corruption, she befriends her glamorous and deceitful sister-in-law, Lucrezia, whose jealousy is as legendary as her beauty. Some say Lucrezia has poisoned her rivals, particularly those to whom her handsome brother, Cesare, has given his heart. So when Sancha falls under Cesare's irresistible spell, she must hide her secret or lose her life. Caught in the Borgias' sinister web, she summons her courage and uses her cunning to outwit them at their own game. Vividly interweaving historical detail with fiction, The Borgia Bride is a richly compelling tale of conspiracy, sexual intrigue, loyalty, and drama.

A Novel

The Borgia Bride

Catherine de Midici, a wealthy heiress after the death of her parents, is married off by her family to Henry II of France, as she learns to cope with her husband's conniving mistress and, in later life, becomes determined to keep her sons on the throne.

A Novel of Catherine de Medici

The Devil's Queen

In a novel set fifty years before the opening of the classic "Dracula," Dracula's great-nephew, Arkady, must provide his evil great-uncle with victims or lose his own loved ones

Covenant with the Vampire

"My name is Lisa di Antonio Gherardini Giocondo, though to acquaintances, I am known simply as Madonna Lisa. My story begins not with my birth but a murder, committed the year before I was born..." Florence, April 1478: The handsome Giuliano de' Medici is brutally assassinated in Florence's magnificent Duomo. The shock of the murder ripples throughout the great city, from the most renowned artists like Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, to a wealthy wool merchant and his extraordinarily beautiful daughter, Madonna Lisa. More than a decade later, Florence falls under the dark spell of the preacher Savonarola, a fanatic who burns paintings and books as easily as he sends men to their deaths. Lisa, now grown into an alluring woman, captures the heart of Giuliano's nephew and namesake. But when Guiliano, her love, meets a tragic end, Lisa must gather all her courage and cunning to untangle a sinister web of illicit love, treachery, and dangerous secrets that threatens her life. Set against the drama of 15th Century Florence, I, Mona Lisa is painted in many layers of fact and fiction, with each intricately drawn twist told through the captivating voice of Mona Lisa herself.

I, Mona Lisa

What Philippa Gregory has done for Tudor England, Jeanne Kalogridis does for Renaissance Italy. Her latest irresistible historical novel is about a countess whose passion and willfulness knew no bounds—Caterina Sforza Daughter of the Duke of Milan and wife of the conniving Count Girolamo Riario, Caterina Sforza was the bravest warrior Renaissance Italy ever knew. She ruled her own lands, fought her own battles, and openly took lovers whenever she pleased. Her remarkable tale is told by her lady-in-waiting, Dea, a woman knowledgeable in reading the "triumph cards," the predecessor of modern-day Tarot. As Dea tries to unravel the truth about her husband's murder, Caterina single-handedly holds off invaders who would steal her title and lands. However, Dea's reading of the cards reveals that Caterina cannot withstand a third and final invader—none other than Cesare Borgia, son of the corrupt Pope Alexander VI, who has an old score to settle with Caterina. Trapped inside the Fortress at Ravaldino as Borgia's cannons pound the walls, Dea reviews Caterina's scandalous past and struggles to understand their joint destiny, while Caterina valiantly tries to fight off Borgia's unconquerable army.

A Novel of the Italian Renaissance

The Scarlet Contessa

In this irresistible historical novel set in the turbulent world of the Medicis, a young woman finds herself driven from pick-pocketing to espionage when she meets a mysterious man. Giulia has been an orphan all her life. Raised in Florence's famous Ospedale degli Innocenti, her probing questions and insubordinate behavior made her an unwelcome presence, and at the age of fifteen, she was given an awful choice: become a nun, or be married off to a man she didn't love. She chose neither, and after refusing an elderly suitor, Giulia escaped onto the streets of Florence. Now, after spending two years as a successful pickpocket, an old man catches her about to make off with his purse, and rather than having her carted off to prison he offers her a business proposition. The man claims to be a cabalist, a student of Jewish mysticism and ritual magic, who works for the most powerful families in Florence. But his identity is secret—he is known only as "the Magician of Florence"—and he is in need of an assistant. She accepts the job and begins smuggling his talismans throughout the city. But the talismans are not what they seem, and neither is the Magician. When Giulia's involvement with him ends with his murder, she's drawn into a treacherous web of espionage and deceit involving the forces of Rome, Naples, and a man known as Lorenzo the Magnificent. Accused of the Magician's murder, Giulia is pursued by the handsome policeman Niccolo, Lorenzo's henchmen, and foreign spies, and in order to survive, she must not only solve the mystery of the mystery of the Magician's murder, but that of her own past.

The Orphan of Florence

The Inquisition begins in Spain and Marisol, a young conversa, a Christian of Jewish descent, marries a lawyer working for the Inquisition hoping to protect herself, but an old love and palace intrigue put Marisol's life in danger.

A Novel of Renaissance Spain

The Inquisitor's Wife

The Burning Times

Daughter of the Duke of Milan and wife of the conniving Count Girolamo Riario, Caterina Sforza was the bravest warrior Renaissance Italy ever knew. She ruled her own lands, fought her own battles, and openly took lovers whenever she pleased. Her remarkable tale is told by her lady-in-waiting, Dea. Dea reviews Caterina's scandalous past and struggles to understand their joint destiny, while Caterina valiantly tries to fight off Cesare Borgia's unconquerable army.

a novel of the Italian Renaissance

The scarlet contessa

Hoping to save his human son from the family duty of serving the evil Prince Vlad, vampire Arkady Tsepesh comes out of hiding, but his arrival is too late to save the young man from being kidnapped by Dracula

The Diaries of the Family Dracul

Children of the Vampire

La oscura y sensual historia jamás revelada en ‘Drácula’ de Bram Stoker. Esos ojos me recorrieron con una intensidad depredadora que me hizo temblar, sentí frío, como si una repentina corriente de aire hubiera entrado en la sala, y pensé: está hambriento, terriblemente hambriento...Sobre un montículo cubierto de hierba en los Cárpatos, un joven recién llegado de Londres se encuentra junto al panteón familiar. Lo que ve es una profanación indescriptible, un crimen contra su padre y la familia Dracul. Un periodista inglés desaparece en un antiguo castillo; mientras, una joven aguarda el ilícito abrazo de su tío abuelo, el príncipe Vlad.En una tierra de supersticiones y fe se ha mantenido un pacto maligno durante años. Ahora el joven Arkady Tsepesh ha regresado para heredar ese pacto, para conocer las oscuras verdades que se apoderarán de su alma y de todo lo que ama...

Pacto con el vampiro

Bajo las titilantes lámparas de gas de Viena, un hombre observa mientras su hermana, con una belleza de porcelana, toma a dos amantes a la vez para después volcar su pasión en el más prohibido acto de... En las calles de Ámsterdam, a un joven, el amante secreto de su propia cuñada, lo meten precipitadamente en un carruaje para emprender un largo viaje hacia las tinieblas durante el cual se reunirá con su padre... Hay una familia condenada a una vieja maldición, generaciones enfren-tadas las unas a las otras, tabúes rotos, y sangre de primogénitos que se bebe de un cáliz de plata. En su fortaleza de piedra aguarda Vlad el Empalador, mientras su heredero, Arkady, les grita a sus hijos: «¡Dejad que la maldición termine conmigo!».

Hijos del vampiro / Children of the Vampire

Durante medio siglo, una hermosa mujer ha sido prisionera de la crueldad de un hombre. Se trata de Zsuzsanna, la otrora exquisita sobrina de Vlad Tsepesh, también conocido como Drácula. Ahora, a través de una ceremonia de sangre y pasión, Zsuzsanna está a punto de ser liberada por la caricia de una mujer, Elisabeth de Bathory, la hermosa y sensual condesa decidida a destruir a Vlad. Pero cuando Zsuzsanna viaja a Inglaterra con Elisabeth, recibirá una amarga sorpresa, pues mientras las amantes acechan a Abraham Van Helsing, Zsuzsanna descubre que Elisabeth tiene una vida secreta... un pacto con un ser más poderoso y peligroso que Drácula: el mítico Señor Oscuro.

El señor de los vampiros

Daughter of the Duke of Milan and wife of the conniving Count Girolamo Riario, Caterina Sforza was the bravest warrior Renaissance Italy ever knew. She ruled her own lands, fought her own battles, and openly took lovers whenever she pleased. Her remarkable tale is told by her lady-in-waiting, Dea, a woman knowledgeable in reading the 'triumph cards' - the predecessor of modern-day Tarot.

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La lettrice di tarocchi

Il labirinto delle streghe

Firenze orb

Painting Mona Lisa explores mysteries surrounding da Vinci's famous portrait – why did Leonardo keep the Mona Lisa with him until his death?

Painting Mona Lisa

Abraham Van Helsing refuses to rest until he has killed Dracula himself, but now he risks his very soul as he confronts an even more evil force, the Lord of the Vampires

Lord of the Vampires

Isabel C. Penteado

Rosa Maria Vilaça

Transportando o leitor para a França do séc. XIV, terra fértil em hereges - cátaros, gnósticos e templários -, Jeanne Kalogridis conta-nos a história de Sybille, uma rapariga com estranhos e inexplicáveis poderes.Como se não bastasse a Guerra dos Cem Anos e a terrível Peste Negra, a Inquisição acende dezenas de milhares de fogueiras para queimar hereges. E quando a avó de Sybille é torturada e queimada, só lhe resta fugir para um convento. Os seus dons de cura e premonição permitem-lhe subir na hierarquia da Igreja e na admiração do povo que a adora como uma santa.

NO TEMPO DAS FOGUEIRAS

After the death of his half brother, Stefan, at the hands of Vlad Tsepesh--also known as Dracula--and after the destruction of his vampire father, Arkady, also at the hands of Vlad, Abraham van Helsing has traveled the world slaying many vampires. With every vampire he destroys, Bram becomes stronger and Vlad weaker, and soon Bram hopes he will be able to finally kill the fearsome vampire who has kept the Tsepesh family enslaved through a centuries-old blood ritual.

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