16th Century
Breaking Ties
England, 1587: Rose Payne, recently escaped from a disastrous betrothal, has been accepted into the post of ship’s clerk on…
Beatrice and Benedick
Written as a prequel to Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, this book tells what might have happened prior to the…
Captain Cobbler: The Lincolnshire Uprising, 1536
Melton’s thumpingly good debut novel finds as its focus the massive 1536 uprising against Henry VIII’s dissolving of the monasteries…
A Stitch in Air
In 16th-century Granada, the convent of Saint Margaret’s houses a community of sisters renowned for their fine lace making. This…
The Royal Mile
The death of Dallas Cameron’s father comes the very night that Queen Mary of Scotland returns to Edinburgh in 1561.…
God’s Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England
This book follows the history of England’s Catholics between the accession of Elizabeth I and the Gunpowder Plot, through the…
Her Last Assassin
This is the third novel featuring Lucy Morgan, lady-in-waiting to a now aging Queen Elizabeth I, Lucy’s guardian Faithful Goodluck,…
The Red Lily Crown: A Novel of Medici Florence
April 1574. Daughter of an anti-Medici bookseller and secret alchemist, Chiara Nerini is driven by her family’s hunger and poverty…
The House of Bathory
House of Bathory is a thrilling read that takes readers back and forth from the early 17th century Cachtice Castle…
Dead Man’s Hill
This is the sequel to Algar’s first novel, The Shepherd Lord, and continues the story of Lord Henry Clifford. Clifford,…
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