The House Girl, the historical fiction debut by Tara Conklin, is an unforgettable story of love, history, and a search for justice, set in modern-day New York and 1852 Virginia.Weaving together the story of an escaped slave in the pre...

With the Winter King, the first volume of his magnificent Warlord

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...

She was a child crowned a queen....A sinner hailed as a saint....A lover denounced as a whore...A woman murdered for her dreams...

Young Gustine is a dress lodger, a prostitute who rents a beautiful blue dress from her landlord to attract a higher class of clientele. By day a potter's assistant, by night a courtesan of the streets, Gustine works hard to support h...

Willing to do anything to regain his rightful position in the wealthy Italian principality of Monteverde, Allegreto, a charismatic and dangerous assassin, plans to use the beautiful Lady Elena, a long-lost Monteverde princess, to soli...

Winner of the David J. Langum, Sr., Prize in American Historical Fiction Named one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post and "Required Reading" by the New York PostEdward Rutherfurd celebrates America's great...

The reigning master of grand historical fiction returns with the stirring conclusion to his bestselling Dublin Saga.  The Princes of Ireland, the first volume of Edward Rutherfurd's magisterial epic of Irish history, ended with the ...

In the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves -- including one Jack Shaftoe, aka King of the Vagabonds, aka Half-Cocked Jack -- devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune. A great adventure ensues -- a perilous race for an ...

One woman holds the key to England's most glorious empire in this intimate retelling of the launch of the Tudor dynasty A magnificent portrait of Elizabeth of York, set against the dramatic background of fifteenth century England. Eli...

A powerful journey brimming with color and drama, The Last Runaway is New York Times bestselling author Tracy Chevalier's vivid exploration of an iconic chapter in American history.  Ohio 1850. For a modest English Quaker stranded fa...

Richard Sharpe's plans to leave the army are put on hold when the Honorable John Kavisser convinces him to embark on a secret mission to Copenhagen to deliver a bribe, but when he arrives in Denmark, he is plunged into a world of dang...

Venice, 1681. Glassblowing is the lifeblood of the Republic, and Venetian mirrors are more precious than gold. Jealously guarded by the murderous Council of Ten, the glassblowers of Murano are virtually imprisoned on their island i...

[A]n exciting alternative history of the Civil War....Building on their strong first volume, Gingrich and Forstchen craft an original, dramatic and historically plausible 'what if?' story. Character depictions--of Lincoln, Grant and L...

This book completes the splendid sequence of novels on the struggle between the independent Welsh Princes and the growing English strength which began with 'Here be Dragons', continued with 'Falls the Shadow' and is now completed with...

In this "memoir" by Elizabeth I, legendary historical novelist Jean Plaidy reveals the Virgin Queen as she truly was: the bewildered, motherless child of an all-powerful father; a captive in the Tower of London; a shrewd pol...

A daughter's love. A monarch's duty. On the road to greatness, one young woman must make an unthinkable choice.For Princess Mary, life has never been simple, but through it all the love of her father, the Duke of York, has been a cons...

Katherine of Valois was born a princess, the daughter of King Charles VI of France. But by the time Katherine was old enough to know him, her father had come to be called “Charles the Mad,” given to unpredictable fits of i...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  •  FEATURING AN EXCLUSIVE NEW CHAPTERGoodReads Choice Awards Semifinalist "Moving . . . a plot that surprises and devastates."—New York Times Book Review"A masterful epic.&quo...

Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeWinner of the National Book AwardWinner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionLonglisted for the Man Booker PrizeWinner of the Arthur C. Clarke AwardFinalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Pr...

Interrogated by the provisional government of revolutionary Russia on the details of her father's death, Maria, the daughter of Rasputin, remembers her father's powerful influence over the throne, her struggles over the discovery of h...

Friends since childhood, Anais Darnby and Lindsay Markham have long harbored a secret passion for one another. When they finally confess their love, their future together seems assured, sealed with their searing embrace.But when a deb...

The final book in Ken Follett's #1 New York Times bestselling Century Trilogy—following Winter of the World and Fall of Giants—now in mass market paperback.  Five international families—American, German, Russian, English, and W...

After his brother is murdered by Bulgarian fascists in 1934, Khristo Stoianev is recruited by the Soviet intelligence service, the NKVD, trained in Moscow, and sent to Spain to serve Russian interests in the Spanish Civil War. Reader'...

A historical saga based on the legendary romance between General William T. Sherman and Georgia belle Cecelia Stovallo follows their chance meeting, desperate love and separation on opposing sides during the Civil War, and Sherman's b...

In fourteenth-century England, young Eleanor de Clare, favorite niece of King Edward II, is delighted with her marriage to Hugh le Despenser and her appointment to Queen IsabellaÂ's household as a lady-in-waiting. It soon becomes app...

First published in 1925, The Painted Veil is an affirmation of the human capacity to grow, change, and forgive. Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, it is the story of the beautiful but shallow young Kitty Fane. When her husband...

At the request of King Edward, Lord Charles Sheridan and his American wife, Kate, become embroiled in a sensitive mystery surrounding the murder of a servant at historic Glamis Castle, where they discover that the king's elder brother...

In September 1943, Claudette Blum and her father flee across the Alps into Italy with other Jews seeking refuge, only to find an open battle ground among the Nazis, Allied forces, resistance fighters, and ordinary Italians struggling ...

This Edwardian-era historical novel is a fictional account of murderer Hawley Crippen and his mistress Ethel Le Neve's real-life attempted escape from England via an ocean liner bound for North America. When Crippen's marriage to an e...