12th Century
Tuck: The Legend Triumphs
Editors' choice
This is book three in the King Raven trilogy, the final chapter of Stephen Lawhead’s interpretation of the Robin Hood…
The Road to Jerusalem: Book One of the Crusades Trilogy
In the first installment of his Crusades trilogy, Guillou—one of Sweden’s best-selling writers–introduces us to his cast of characters and…
The Blue Wolf: A Novel of Chinggis Khan
Chinggis Khan is obsessed with an ancient Mongolian legend which states that the Mongols are descendants of a mythical blue…
The Treasure
In this sequel to 1996′s Lion’s Bride, two popular side characters get a passionate story of their own. Lady Selene…
Loyalty’s Web
Though they are sisters, Clothilde and Heléne de Laurant are very different. Clothilde is renowned as one of the greatest…
The Joys of my Life
This is the latest and last of the Hawkenlye mysteries, based at the fictitious Hawkenlye Abbey in the Weald of…
The Time of Singing
AD 1173: Roger Bigod knows he must work hard for his rights and his desires. As the eldest son of…
The Youngest Templar: Keeper of the Grail, Book 1
A young boy named Tristan, abandoned as an infant with a note about his innocence and need for safety, is…
Devil’s Brood
With her customary skill in depicting the personalities of medieval England’s most famously dysfunctional family, Penman delineates the…
The Death Maze/The Serpent’s Tale
Fair Rosamund Clifford was Henry II’s mistress, and she was buried in Goldstow Priory, near Oxford. These are established…
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