nobility

A social history of Regency England that profiles the era's politics, clothing, traditions, and courtesans.

Chronicles the life and musical accomplishments of Joseph Boulogne, an African man and the son of a slave who came to eighteenth-century France to study music, describing the hardships he faced and treatment by his peers, and discussing the realization of his dream to perform in front of the king and queen.

Fairy doctor Lydia Carlton is rescued from kidnappers by Edgar Ashenbert, a descendent of the human ruler of the fairy world, and gets caught up in a dangerous quest to recover the sword of the Blue Knight Earl and help Edgar regain his birthright.

Explores the origins and truths behind various historical rumors and challenges the reader to determine which rumors are true or false.

Examines the history of fourteenth-century Europe as background to the life of Enguerrand de Coucy VII, one of the most prominent French knights of that time.

A biography of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor, the enigmatic American divorc?e who was the subject of widespread gossip and fascination for allegedly ensnaring a British King from his throne.

Sir Percy Blakeney defies the French revolutionaries in order to save innocent men and women from being put to death in the guillotine.

Thirteen-year-old Elske escapes rape and certain death at the hands of the leaders of her barbaric society and later becomes handmaiden to a rebellious noblewoman whose rightful throne together they reclaim.

Chronicles the life of Bess Hardwick, the fifth daughter of an impoverished Derbyshire nobleman who rose from her meager beginnings to become one of the wealthiest and most powerful women in English history.

Nevare Burvelle follows his father into the calvalry, training at the elite King's Cavella Academy in Old Thares, where he begins to realize his life path is not as solid as he was led to believe.