Sentenced to death for conspiring against his king, Lord Bothwell escaped - trading a prison cell for the perilous life of an outlaw. With his enemies as dedicated to his destruction as he was to his vindication, the hunted nobleman hardly had time f...
An epic of the sea in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. An epic of the sea - of violent men and fiery passions....of tender love and brutal battles, fought for loot and greed and Queen and country....
The great Scot's hero Patrick Hepburn was known simply as The Hepburn. Strong, hot-tempered, and reckless, he is the chief supporter of James IV of Scotland and finds himself locked in the dangerous schemes and plots of his new king as he fights to k...
Captain Barney, daring privateer and officer in the infant United States Navy, was a man who could have walked in the footsteps of John Paul Jones. Great hero in the victories over the British Navy that turned the tide finally in favor of the America...
During a time when Queen Elizabeth faced some of the most demanding challenges of her reign ― the threat of Spanish invasion, conflict in Ireland, and destructive battles for political power within her inner circle ― this formidable monarch was a...
THE QUEEN WAS MARKED FOR DEATH -- But there was still one chance for survival. Bracing herself, Kathryn let out a terrifying cry. Her shrieks echoed through the palace. “A chair, a chair!” Henry roared. A moment later he was carried i...
Bartolomeo Colleoni was born to battle and the sword in the early 15th century during an incredible age of war and unrest in the Italian states. He was a man of overpowering virility, and he prowled the corridors of his times like the lion whose name...
During the years 1455 " 1485, England was shaken by a series of dynastic civil wars fought between the House of Lancaster and the House of York, each side claiming the right to the English throne and willing to bathe the country in murder and mayhe...
Anne Neville was born into the wealthiest and most politically powerful family of England. Devoid of rights and yet loyal to the family into which she was born, Anne became the pawn of three men who were determined to make her queen.When she was just...
Bess of Hardwick, also known as Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury (c. 1527-1608), was the fourth daughter of a relatively minor gentry family who rose to the highest levels of English nobility through four advantageous marriages to become one ...
When a beautiful young aristocrat living in Amsterdam chooses to marry Nicolas Theros, a man born on an island in Greece with a lust for life and the power of the ancients in his blood, the city is rocked by scandal. Twenty years later, Nico Theros ...