Roberta Gellis, acclaimed author of The Roselynde Chronicles, brings medieval London to life--and death--with her latest tale of splendor and squalor. Magdalene la Bâtarde is the madam of the Old Priory Guesthouse in Southwark. She a...

Medieval madam Magdalene la Batarde is particularly fond of one of her ex-prostitutes, a blind girl named Sabine who is now the mistress of a nobleman named Mainard. When Sabine visits Magdalene and reports that Mainard is under suspi...

Fleeing Rome in the wake of dark rumors of incest, lust, and murder, Lucrezia Borgia finds refuge in a loveless marriage to Alfonso, duke of Ferrara, only to be accused of the poisoning death of Bianca Tedaldo, one of her ladies in wa...