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Married off by their silk merchant father on the eve of England’s late-fifteenth-century War of the Roses, two sisters find their subsequent lives marked by a scandalous affair with Edward IV and the inner workings of a powerful silk dynasty.

The infamous love of King Henry VIII and the mother of Queen Elizabeth I, Anne Boleyn undertook a rocky journey from innocent courtier to powerful Queen of England. Margaret Campbell Barnes immerses readers in this intrigue and in the lush, glittery world of the Tudor Court.

A novel based on long-standing rumors that Elizabeth I had given birth to an illegitimate child follows young Elinor de Lacy—the purported daughter of Elizabeth and her married guardian, Thomas Seymour—who is sent to become a lady-in-waiting to the queen, unprepared for the glitter or the viciousness of the court.

A fictionalized biography of Joan of England, the youngest child of King Henry II of England and his queen consort, Eleanor of Aquitaine, chronicling her complicated relationships with her warring parents and many siblings, particularly with her favorite brother Richard the Lionheart, her years as Queen consort of Sicily, and her second marriage to Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse.

Grace Plantagenet, the illegitimate daughter of Edward IV, investigates a young man’s claim that he is one of the princes who presumably died in the Tower at the hands of Richard III and now wants Henry VII’s throne.

When a dashing French prisoner of war, cousin to the king of France, is brought to London, and Jane Popyncourt finds she cannot help giving her heart – and more – to a man she can never marry.

A novel about the bitter rivalry between Queen Elizabeth I and her fascinating cousin, Lettice Knollys, for the love of one extraordinary man—Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester.

In sixteenth-century England, Brendan Prescott enters a world of danger and lies when he reluctantly agrees to work as a double agent for Princess Elizabeth’s protector, William Cecil.

Determined to see her son Henry on the throne of England, pious Margaret Beaufort arranges politically advantageous marriages, sends her son out of the country for his safety, and lays secret plans for a battle between the houses of York and Lancaster.

A tale based on the life of seventeenth-century horsewoman Louise de la Valliere finds a eccentric young woman’s love for a wild white stallion tempting her into using an ancient magic that overshadows her subsequent life and leads to her affair with Louis XIV.

Elizabeth “Gera” Fitzgerald, born into the first family of Ireland, takes refuge in England, navigates ever-shifting alliances and nurtures her secret plot for revenge after Henry VIII imprisons her father and destroys her family and the home she loved.

A fictional account of the life of the eleventh-century Queen Gruadh of Scotland describes how this female descendant of the country’s royal line is widowed and forced to wed her husband’s murderer, the warlord Macbeth.

While the tensions rise between the royalty and the people, Madame Tussaud is requested to tutor the King’s sister in wax sculpting and must find a way for her family to survive the coming revolution.

In 17th-century England, Ellen “Nell” Gwyn becomes an established stage actress, but finds her life becoming more complicated once she becomes the mistress of King Charles II.

Abandoning her marriage to the king of France in favor of a partnership with the equally ambitious Henry II of England, Eleanor of Aquitaine shares a tumultuous and influential reign marked by their children and her long-term imprisonment.

Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, is trapped in an unhappy marital triangle with her husband and his mistress, but when she falls passionately in love with another the affair causes bitter conflict.

An electrifying yet intimate retelling of the turbulent life of history’s favorite villainess, Marie Antoinette, who married France’s young and indifferent King Louis XVI.