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Bow Street agent Sebastien Wolff, Earl of Mowbray, doesn’t believe in love - until a passionate kiss with a beautiful stranger in a brothel forces him to reconsider. When the mysterious woman is linked to an intrigue involving a missing Russian princess, however, Seb realizes her air of innocence was too good to be true. Princess Anastasia Denisova has been hiding in London as plain "Anna Brown". With a dangerous traitor hot on her trail, her best option is to accept Wolff’s offer of protection - and accommodation - at his gambling hall.

Kali has always dreamed of adventure, but she never expected to find it in the company of a talking cat. Puss definitely has an agenda, but he isn’t sharing it with her. All she knows is that he wants a miller’s child to accompany him across the Great Desert to the mysterious lands beyond. Kali doesn’t mean to let her opportunity go, even if she doesn’t understand the purposes of the mysterious creature at her side. But when she encounters thieves and misadventure, she realizes something bigger is underway.

Princess Delia knows her duty: She must choose a prince to marry in order to secure an alliance and save her failing planet. Yet she secretly dreams of true love and feels there must be a better way. Determined to chart her own course, she steals a spaceship to avoid the marriage, only to discover a handsome stowaway.

Seventeen-year-old Ceres, a beautiful, poor girl from the Empire city of Delos, finds herself forced, by royal decree, to fight in the Stade, the brutal arena where warriors from all corners of the world come to kill each other. Pitted against ferocious opponents, her chances of survival are slim. Her only chance lies in drawing on her innermost powers, and making the transition, once and for all, from slave to warrior. Will Ceres survive the Stade and become the warrior she was meant to be?

Starseer, pilot, and animal lover Jelena Marchenko wants to prove to her parents that she's ready to captain her own freighter and help run the family business. When she finally talks them into getting a second ship and letting her fly it, it doesn't faze her that the craft is decades old and looks like a turtle. This is the chance she's craved for years. But it's not long before the opportunity to rescue mistreated lab animals lures her from her parentally approved cargo run and embroils her in a battle between warring corporations.

Prince Reid, Commander of the Outpost, is happy to live by his father's ways. No woman is safe when he sets his sights to charm her. Reid doesn't want love, he wants a good time. When the opportunity arises to get away on an ambassador's mission, he jumps at the chance - especially when that trip includes exotic destinations with even more exotic women. But there's one woman he hasn't counted on.

Unthinkable. Unbelievable. Inconceivable. I don’t recognize what my life has become. I can’t tell where the lies end and the truth begins anymore. He came into my world and urged me out of my safe little corner. All my dreams are coming true except the one thing I want most - my own happy ending. But I’ll fight for it. For now. For always.

“Brown is excellent.” —San Francisco Chronicle Dale Brown, whose books live on the New York Times bestseller list—alongside the novels of Vince Flynn, Brad Thor, and other superstars of the military adventure genre—triumphs again with Rogue Forces. A riveting and relentlessly exciting...

"La princesa y el granuja" es una de las irrupciones de Benito Pérez Galdós en lo fantástico. Dejando a un lado el humor de otras obras, aunque no una fina ironía, el autor nos ofrece su propia versión de Pigmalión a través de Pacorrito Migajas, un niño pobre que vive en la calle y está perdidamente enamorado de una muñeca que ve en el escaparate de una tienda cercana a la Puerta del Sol de Madrid. A partir de esta sencilla premisa, el cuento nos introduce en un mundo fantástico poblado por juguetes a través de una mirada tierna no exenta de crudeza.

Ceres es una hermosa chica pobre de Delos, una ciudad del Imperio, que se ve obligada por real decreto a luchar en el Stade, la cruel arena donde vienen guerreros de todos los rincones del mundo para matarse los unos a los otros. Se enfrenta a feroces contrincantes y sus probabilidades de sobrevivir son escasas. Su única oportunidad está en recurrir a sus poderes más recónditos y hacer la transición, de una vez por todas, de esclava a guerrera.