13th Century
The Damask Rose
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Eleanor of Castile, queen to Edward I, is better known in death than life. She died near Lincoln in 1290, and her husband caused ...Read Review
Her Banished Knight’s Redemption
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In the year 1218, Isabel de Clancey is accosted as a girl while traveling to her betrothed’s home in France. William Geraint, also ...Read Review
Water Sight (Last of the Gifted)
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Powell’s Last of the Gifted series covers a slice of history already immortalized in Sharon Kay Penman’s Welsh Trilogy and Edith ...Read Review
The Last Crusade (The Knights Templar Book 6)
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Northern Spain, 1212. Following victory at the Battle of Navas, three Templar Knights return to their home preceptory of Rourell. But all is not ...Read Review
Elegy to Murder: A Medieval Mystery
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Elegy to Murder is the latest medieval mystery featuring Prioress Eleanor and Brother Thomas. Royal succeeds in creating sympathy for her characters and ...Read Review
Queens of the Crusades: Eleanor of Aquitaine and her Successors (England’s Medieval Queens)
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Weir’s latest non-fiction offering covers the lives of five English medieval queens, from the best-known Eleanor of Aquitaine, through to another Eleanor, ...Read Review
Cathedral
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Spanning over a century—from 1229 to 1351—Cathedral doesn’t detail the workings of the humongous construction project at its heart. Nor does it ...Read Review
His Castilian Hawk
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As a reward for loyal service, Robert FitzStephan is knighted by King Edward I and given the hand of an heiress in marriage. ...Read Review
Spirit Sight (Last of the Gifted)
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Wales, 1282: Hyw and his sister, Catrin, are gifted. Hyw can control animals, and Catrin is a seer. But neither is prepared for the ...Read Review
Lionhearts (Nottingham 2)
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Nathan Makaryk’s sophomore novel picks up some months after the shocking conclusion of his first, Nottingham. In this Game-of-Thrones-like treatment of the ...Read Review