2009
Knight of Pleasure
Noblewomen of the early 1400s are accustomed to being political pawns in dynastic struggles. Isobel’s father wed her as a…
The Sonnets
In 1592, young playwright William Shakespeare was forced on hiatus out of London due to threats of the plague. Returning…
Murder for Christ’s Mass
In this fourth of the Templar Knight mysteries, the body of a clerk who worked for the local Lincoln mint…
A Play of Treachery
As an actor with a traveling company, Joliffe has played many roles. But when the Bishop Beaufort asks him to…
Jeanie’s Destiny
Jeanie’s Destiny is set in 1870 on the coast of Galloway in Scotland. The book opens when the heroine is…
Tangled Web
It’s 1816 in Regency London, and sodomy is a hanging offense. This is a world in which gentlemen who prefer…
The Templar Knight
Editors' choice
The story begins in 1177. Exiled to the Holy Land ten years earlier, Arn Magnusson is now serving as Master…
Swords from the West
As a young writer and history buff, I loved Harold Lamb, and this reprinting of the seventeen so-called “Crusader stories”…
The Burning Land
In The Burning Land, the fifth book of Bernard Cornwell’s Saxon Tales saga, our hero Uhtred of Bebbanburg is back…
The Sword of Medina
In 7th-century Arabia, the Prophet Muhammad is dead, and the Muslim umma is left to muddle on as best it…
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