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Roma, 1503. Torna Ezio Auditore, l'eroe solitario che in Assassin's Creed - Rinascimento ha raccolto l'eredità del Credo degli Assassini per battersi contro il malvagio Ordine dei Templari, controllato dalle famiglie dei Borgia e dei Pazzi. Dopo l'incontro nella Cripta, Ezio ha abbandonato alla sua sorte il capo dell'Ordine, papa Alessandro VI, credendolo destinato a morte certa. Il pontefice, però, non solo è sopravvissuto, ma ha anche passato il testimone ai figli Cesare e Lucrezia: un avido condottiero e un'avvelenatrice. E ora Cesare sta trascinando Roma alla rovina. Solo Ezio può fermarlo.

In this New York Times bestseller that inspired the critically acclaimed Starz miniseries The White Queen, Philippa Gregory tells the tale of Anne Neville, a beautiful young woman who must navigate the treachery of the English court as her father, known as the Kingmaker, uses her and her sister as pawns in his political game. The Kingmaker’s Daughter—Philippa Gregory’s first sister story since The Other Boleyn Girl—is the gripping tale of the daughters of the man known as the Kingmaker, Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick: the most powerful magnate in fifteenth-century England. Without a son and heir, he uses his daughters, Anne and Isabel, as pawns in his political games, and they grow up to be influential players in their own right. At the court of Edward IV and his beautiful queen, Elizabeth Woodville, Anne grows from a delightful child to become ever more fearful and desperate when her father makes war on his former friends. Married at age fourteen, she is soon left widowed and fatherless, her mother in sanctuary and her sister married to the enemy. Anne manages her own escape by marrying Richard, Duke of Gloucester, but her choice will set her on a collision course with the overwhelming power of the royal family.

Philippa Gregory je britská spisovateľka, jedna z najlepších autoriek historických románov. Večná princezná je prvý diel knižného cyklu o osudoch žien tudorovskej dynastie. Katarínu Aragonskú ako trojročnú zasnúbia s princom Arthurom, synom a dedičom anglického kráľa Henricha VII., a na španielskom dvore ju vychovávajú ako princeznú z Walesu. Keď vyrastie, má vládnuť v ďalekej vlhkej a chladnej krajine. V novom domove ju budúci svokor privíta urážlivo a jej budúci manžel Arthur je vlastne ešte chlapec. V novom prostredí sa cíti ako cudzinka. Pomaly sa však prispôsobuje a život s Arthurom je čoraz znesiteľnejší. No osud pre ňu napísal celkom iný príbeh.

Píše sa rok 1539 a kráľ Henrich VIII. sa znova žení. Tentoraz sa jeho manželkou stane Anna z Cleves, ktorú si vybral podľa portrétu. V manželstve im to od začiatku škrípe a z Anny sa stáva iba šachovnicová figúrka v manželovom boji proti rímskokatolíckej cirkvi. Nová kráľovná cíti, že sa okolo nej zviera pasca. V kráľovstve čoraz tyranskejšieho Henricha VIII. vládne neistota a intrigy. Karty miešajú Annine dvorné dámy Jane Boleynová a Katarína Howardová. V hre sú osudy troch žien a dve skončia na popravisku.

Edge of Danger was "hugely entertaining," said the Los Angeles Times. "The publisher describes it as a powerful thriller, and it's no lie." At its end, the murderous Arab/English Rashid family lay decimated- but not extinct. And that may have been Sean Dillon's fatal error. After her brothers are killed one by one, Kate Rashid swears vengeance on all who have harmed her family. Never mind that they tried to assassinate the President of the United States or that villainy ran in their veins. They were her brothers, and her enemies would pay. British agent Sean Dillon . . . White House operative Blake Johnson . . . and the President himself. . . . Their time was coming, and only she knew how-or when.Masterfully suspenseful, Midnight Runner is further proof that, in the words of the Associated Press, "when it comes to thriller writers, one name stands well above the crowd-Jack Higgins."