Barbara Kyle
Blood Between Queens
The Thornleigh series continues with this fifth installment in which Richard Thornleigh’s ward, Justine Grenville, is entrusted with a delicate…
The Queen’s Gamble
Editors' choice
Isabel Valverde, her husband, Carlos, and her son Nicolas travel to England from Peru in the New World in the…
The Queen’s Captive
The third installment of the Thornleigh Saga depicts the many conflicts of Mary Tudor’s reign, illustrated by family ambition as…
The King’s Daughter
While Thomas Wyatt leads a rebellion against Queen Mary Tudor for marrying the Spanish Philip, spunky Isabel Thornleigh and…
The Queen’s Lady
The Queen’s Lady—a reprint of Barbara Kyle’s 1994 novel, A Dangerous Temptation—strides boldly into Philippa Gregory territory, as it chronicles…
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