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Becoming Marie Antoinette: A Novel

by Juliet Grey

This enthralling confection of a novel, the first in a new trilogy, follows the transformation of a coddled Austrian archduchess into the reckless, powerful, beautiful queen Marie Antoinette.

 

Why must it be...


Dangerous Sanctuary

by Michelle Diener

Available as an eBook, Dangerous Sanctuary is a short story set between In a Treacherous Court, the first novel featuring Susanna Horenbout and John Parker, the “King’s Blade,” and Keeper of the King’s...


The Queen and the Courtesan

by Freda Lightfoot

A brand-new historical novel from a well-loved storyteller - Henriette d'Entragues isn't satisfied with simply being the mistress of Henry IV of France; she wants a crown too. Despite his promises to marry her,...


A Ship for The King

by Richard Woodman

A thrilling maritime adventure, the first in a new series set against the backdrop of the English Civil War - Bristol, England, 1618. Kit Faulkner is a young vagrant orphan, but his life changes forever when...


Pawn in Frankincense

The Lymond Chronicles #4

by Dorothy Dunnett

For the first time Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles are available in the United States in quality paperback editions.

Pawn in Frankincense is the fourth in the legendary Lymond Chronicles. Somewhere within the bejeweled...


The Murder in the Tower: The Story of Frances, Countess of Essex

The Stuart Saga #3

by Jean Plaidy

The dashing Robert Carr is a well-known favorite of King James I. After attracting his attention by falling from a horse in the tiltyard, Robert rises quickly through the ranks. But when the cunning and beautiful...


A Favorite of the Queen: The Story of Lord Robert Dudley and Elizabeth I

The Tudor Saga #11

by Jean Plaidy

Torn between her heart’s passion and duty to her kingdom, a young queen makes a dark choice…

 

Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester was the most powerful man in England during the reign of Elizabeth I. Handsome...


The Ringed Castle

The Lymond Chronicles #5

by Dorothy Dunnett

For the first time Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles are available in the United States in quality paperback editions.

Fifth in the legendary Lymond Chronicles, The Ringed Castle leaps from Mary Tudor's England to...


By the King's Design

by Christine Trent

Strong-willed Annabelle Stirling is more than capable of running the family draper shop after the untimely death of her parents. Under her father's tutelage, she became a talented cloth merchant, while her brother...


The Crown

The Crown #1

by Nancy Bilyeau

JOANNA STAFFORD, a Dominican nun, learns that her favorite cousin has been condemned by Henry VIII to be burned at the stake. Defying the rule of enclosure, Joanna leaves the priory to stand at her cousin’s...


The Monsters of Templeton

by Katherine Howe

"A fresh present-day story infused with an original take on popular history. Forget broomsticks and pointy hats; here are witches that could well be walking among us today. This debut novel flows with poetic...


The Quality of Mercy: A Novel

by Barry Unsworth

Barry Unsworth returns to the terrain of his Booker Prize-winning novel Sacred Hunger, this time following Sullivan, the Irish fiddler, and Erasmus Kemp, son of a Liverpool slave ship owner who hanged himself....


Sacred Hunger

Man Booker Prize 1992

by Barry Unsworth

Winner of the Booker Prize

A historical novel set in the eighteenth century, Sacred Hunger is a stunning, engrossing exploration of power, domination, and greed in the British Empire as it entered fully into...


Courting Her Highness: The Story of Queen Anne

The Stuart Saga #9

by Jean Plaidy

A private battle rages at court for the affections of a childless queen, who must soon name her successor--and thus determine the future of the British Empire.

 

It is the beginning of the eighteenth century...


In the Shadow of the Sun King: A Darkness to Light Novel (Book 1)

by Golden Keyes Parsons

Madeleine's shared history with the king holds the key to her family's life...or death.

Seventeenth century France is an unsafe time to be a Huguenot. By order of King Louis XIV, all French Protestants must...


The Thistle and the Rose: The Story of Margaret, Princess of England, Queen of Scotland

The Tudor Saga #8

by Jean Plaidy

From the pen of the legendary historical novelist Jean Plaidy comes the story of Princess Margaret Tudor, whose life of tragedy, bloodshed, and scandal would rival even that of her younger brother, Henry VIII....


Kate Emerson's Secrets of the Tudor Court Boxed Set: The Pleasure Palace, Between Two Queens, and By Royal Decree, with an excerpt from At the King's

by Kate Emerson

The first three titles of Kate Emerson's captivating and well-reviewed historical fiction series, Secrets of the Tudor Court, now available in an eBook box set.

Whether reliving or experiencing for the first...


Queen of This Realm

Queens of England #2

by Jean Plaidy

In this "memoir" by Elizabeth I, legendary historical novelist Jean Plaidy reveals the Virgin Queen as she truly was: the bewildered, motherless child of an all-powerful father; a captive in the Tower of London;...


Mary, Queen of France: The Story of the Youngest Sister of Henry VIII

The Tudor Saga #9

by Jean Plaidy

Legendary historical novelist Jean Plaidy brings to life the story of Princess Mary Tudor, a celebrated beauty and born rebel who would defy the most powerful king in Europe—her older brother.

Princess Mary...


In the Shadow of the Crown

Queens of England #6

by Jean Plaidy

As Henry VIII's only child, the future seemed golden for Princess Mary. She was the daughter of Henry's first queen, Katharine of Aragon, and was heir presumptive to the throne of England. Red-haired like her...