historical fiction

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The Lady Elizabeth

a novel
2008
A fictionalized account of the early life of Elizabeth Tudor, in which young Elizabeth copes with the tragic loss of her mother, Anne Boleyn, her father's abandonment, imprisonment in the Tower of London, and the private and public scandals that threaten her life and future.

The red queen's daughter

2007
Sixteen-year-old Mary Seymour, a white magician in Queen Elizabeth's court, has vowed never to fall in love, but her attraction to her darkly handsome cousin Edmund, a black magician who seems to understand her better than anyone, cannot be denied, and she finds her beliefs tested when he becomes involved in a plot against the queen.

World without end

2007
In Kingsbridge during the year 1327, four children witness two men being killed in the forest; and years later, even though they have grown apart, they are connected by what they saw.

The double agents

2007
Presents an historical fiction based upon true events that tells a story of OSS agents attempting to convince Adolf Hitler that the Allied invasion will not occur off the coast of France.

Pillars of the earth

2002
The ambitious prior of Kingsbridge, England, dreams of building the greatest Gothic cathedral in the world, and the struggle to construct it leads to a battle between good and evil in twelfth century England.

Angelmonster

2007
Young Mary Godwin falls in love with the poet Percy Shelley, who sweeps her off to Europe despite her family's protests, but she soon realizes Percy's love is more of an obsession, and that obsession is beginning to endanger her life.

Visibility

2006
Scotland Yard Detective Herbert Smith investigates a suspicious death of a young man found in the icy waters of Long Water, and finds himself involved with the CIA, KGB, and MI5 in a race to unravel the secrets the dead biochemist held.

Far traveler

2006
After the death of her mother, Aethelflaed of Mercia, seventeen-year-old Aelfwyn flees imprisonment by her uncle King Edward, and in the guise of a youthful bard, plays her part in the resolution of the tangled political enmities of tenth-century Britain.

The shadow of the wind

2005
In 1945 Spain, the young son of an antique-book dealer searches for more books by Juli?n Carax, an author he has recently discovered, and finds that everything Carax has ever written has been destroyed--and that his search has put his friends and family in danger.

Montmorency: Thief, Liar, Gentleman? #1 The Montmorency Series

2005
In Victorian London, after his life is saved by a young physician, a thief utilizes the knowledge he gains in prison and from the scientific lectures he attends as the physician's case study exhibit to create a new, highly successful, double life for himself.

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