Late Medieval (1338 to 1485)
The Water Devil
Riley completes her Margaret of Ashbury trilogy (A Vision of Light and In Pursuit of the Green Lion being the…
In Pursuit of the Green Lion
The first two novels in Riley’s highly entertaining trilogy about the adventures of Margaret of Ashbury have recently been reissued…
Plague Sorcerer
14th century. Set in the time of the Black Death, the story is about Brind and Aurelie, the two main…
The King’s Women
1403. The middle of the Hundred Years War. The wolves are circling France. We follow the fortunes of the Dauphin…
I, Mona Lisa
In her follow-up to 2005’s The Borgia Bride, Jeanne Kalogridis brings to life the woman behind the enigmatic smile of…
The Beloved
The Beloved is the third in a trilogy, now set in Flanders during the exile of Edward IV. Warwick is…
A Play Of Knaves
A Play of Knaves, the third in the Joliffe Mysteries series (a spin-off of Frazer’s well-known Sister Frevisse mysteries) finds…
The Begotten: A Novel of the Gifted
The seed of the story is sown in Constantinople in the Year of Our Lord 731. A monk is burned…
Incantation
Editors' choice
Encaleflora, a tiny village in Spain, has been home for the deMadrigal family for over five hundred years. Estrella, sixteen…
Warrior Girl
1428 France. This is the story of Joan of Arc. France and England are at war .At this period, France…
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