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The year is 1317, and young squire Benedict Russell has joined the English-held garrison of Berwick-upon-Tweed after the spectacular Scottish victory at Bannockburn three years earlier. Serious and self-doubting, he can't wait for his time there to come to an end. Living on the disputed territory between Scotland and England is a precarious existence, and as the Scots draw ever closer and the English king does nothing to stop them, Benedict finds himself in a race against time to solve the brutal murder of a young girl and find the traitor who lurks within Berwick's walls.

South Africa, 1871. Jack Lark no longer walks alone. With the worldly Anna Baker by his side, he travels to the Cape Colony diamond fields determined to seek their fortune—and an adventurous new life together. The journey north soon turns violent as tensions erupt between other hopeful diggers and a gang of Boer men. Everyone has their eye on the same elusive prize—and some will stop at nothing to get it. For Jack and Anna, unearthing a diamond is only half the battle. Getting out of the mines alive will prove far more difficult—and dangerous.

Part three in the new Roman pirate series of novellas from the Sunday Times bestselling authors Simon Scarrow and T. J. Andrews. AD 25. As Roman naval squadrons patrol the Adriaticum, a young pirate captain hunts for prey. But his most dangerous enemy may be on his own side ... The young pirate...

The A.A. Western Detective Agency takes on a new case in 1894 Wyoming, a land of bandit gangs and rustlers, when a group of scientists come to town in the hopes of rustling up something very different—dinosaur fossils. With Big Red and Old Red Amlingmeyer on protection duty, Old Red’s obsession with Sherlock Holmes is forced to take a back seat. Until a human body is shockingly discovered during an excavation, that is.

In the shadows of forgotten ruins and hidden temples, Mark Lockheed, a government archaeologist, is about to embark on an adventure that will defy the boundaries of history and myth. Tired of his life among the sea of suits, Mark's world is turned upside down when a lifelong obsession with the Holy Grail throws him into the heart of a mystery that has confounded scholars and adventurers for centuries.

With his epic novels of the Jensen family, William W. Johnstone has captured the pioneer spirit of America. Now he reveals the untold story of Smoke Jensen's long-lost brother Luke, thought to have been killed in the fiercest war in our nation's history. Smoke's Brother Luke: The Jensen Legend Continues...

Im Schatten vergessener Ruinen und verborgener Tempel steht Mark Lockheed, ein Archäologe der Regierung, kurz davor, sich in ein Abenteuer zu stürzen, das die Grenzen von Geschichte und Mythos sprengen wird. Marks Welt wird auf den Kopf gestellt, als seine lebenslange Besessenheit vom Heiligen Gral ihn in das Herz eines Geheimnisses stößt, das Gelehrte und Abenteurer seit Jahrhunderten fasziniert.