courts and courtiers

Chronicles the life and career of Sir Francis Walsingham, who was intrumental in setting up a network of spies throughout England during the reign of Elizabeth I.

Frances has learned to use flowers and herbs to become a healer, but the King's court sees witchcraft punishable by death. Forcibly brought to the castle, Francis is surrounded by danger with a dark campaign gathering to destroy Parliament. She finds happiness only with the King's daughter and a mysterious courtier, who may not be what he seems.

In 1836, eunuch sleuth Yashim investigates a series of killings in the sultan's court, honing in on the Janissaries, the marginalized former imperial guards who have become ruthless mercenaries and may have committed the murders in an attempt to regain power.

Unveils new facts behind Gregory Rasputin's life, controversial relationships, and much-discussed death. Fuhrmann unearths previously unknown details from Rasputin's childhood and his early years as a farmer and itinerant preacher and his decade-long relationship with the Romanovs.

Biography of Siberian-born mystic Grigori Rasputin, discussing his religious visions and conversion, disagreements with the Russian Orthodox church, relationships and influence upon the Romanovs, and murder at the hands of a nobleman.

Biography of the African princess saved from execution and taken to England where Queen Victoria oversaw her upbringing and where she lived for a time before marrying an African missionary.

Lord Meren, counselor to the Pharaoh, must discover the identity of the person responsible for killing the court scribe while protecting the Pharaoh from potential danger.

Yashim Togalu, nineteenth-century eunuch and imperial investigator, inquires into a wave of murders in Istanbul, Turkey, and uncovers the revival of the Janissaries, the Ottoman military force abolished ten years earlier, who are planning to overthrow the government.

Pursuing a friendship and then a passionate romance with the young Marie Antoinette, dashing Swedish nobleman Count Axel von Fersen becomes a devoted companion to the entire royal family before attempting to help them escape in the wake of the French Revolution.