Lynn Guest
The Agincourt Bride
Catherine de Valois, the youngest daughter of the insane Charles VI, became the bride of Henry V five years after…
Francesca Pascal
Francesca Pascal, an artist, is caught in Paris during the German occupation. In a shocking accident, her daughter is shot…
Royalist Rebel
Elizabeth Murray, an actual historic person, was the eldest daughter of a fiercely Royalist Scottish family. Her father was a…
The Secret Children
1925. When James MacDonald, a lonely Scots tea planter in Assam, took a beautiful Indian girl as a concubine, he…
Almodis, The Peaceweaver
11th-century Occitania is a collection of counties and walled cities ruled by families continually fighting and marrying among themselves to…
Home for Christmas
The second of the No. 13 Article Row (a street address) series continues with the lives of three girls lodging…
Blossoms and Shadows
The arrival of the Western powers in Japan in the 1850s forced decades of simmering unrest into the open: a…
Secret of the Sands
In 1833, Lieutenant James Wellsted is an officer in the British Navy surveying the coast of the Arabian Peninsula as…
Kill-Grief
‘Kill-grief’ is 18th-century cant for gin, and this novel certainly is awash with the stuff. Mary arrives in Chester in…
Libertas
Southern Spain in the 1st century BC. Melqart and his family live in the prosperous town of Munda under a…
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