Why not me? Is the biblical study to challenge and encourage women to embrace the calling, gifts and anointing that is upon their life. As it is written, before I formed you in the womb I knew and approved of you as my chosen instrument Jeremiah 1:5 (amp) For we are Gods own handiwork recreated in Christ Jesus that we may do those good works which God predestined for us.Ephesians 2:10(amp) In times past and present there has been the question of women in ministry. What about the message an...

From the incomparable New York Times bestselling author Bertrice Small comes a heroine as breathtaking as she is legendary.Indomitable and bold in an era of royalty and rogues, Skye O’Malley is a woman who embraces her unbridled sensuality as valiantly as she fights for her children, her lovers, her empire. A woman of justice and honor, she will match wits with and challenge the most dangerous and powerful woman of her time: Queen Elizabeth I.Thoug...

To open up a novel by Bertrice Small is to surrender to the deepest longings of the heart. In her sensational bestsellers, she sweeps us to the far corners of the globe and into the most sensual places of desire. In The Innocent, she takes us to the wild Welsh borderlands of England, where a young beauty ready to embrace her religious vows becomes the pawn of desperate men. . . .Deceptively fragile-looking, Eleanore of Ashlin had promised her life to God ....

Flame-haired Mairin of Aelfeah was a ravishing beauty who caught the attention of three extraordinary men—Basil, Prince of Byzantium, who taught her love’s mysterious secrets; Josselin of Combourg, a gallant knight of William the Conquerer; and Eric Longsword, the powerful Viking whose tragic love for Mairin would mark her forever. To these men, Mairin was the Enchantress— and in a world gone mad with savage war and fierce desire, only their love could save her.

“Bertrice Small creates cover-to-cover passion, a keen sense of history and suspense.”—Publishers WeeklyValentina had been admired, married, widowed, yet had never known love . . .Not even at the illustrious court of Queen Elizabeth, where her innocent, violet-eyed beauty fired the hearts of England's most gallant gentry, especially the roguish Earl of Kempe and the irrepressible Lord Padraic Burke.But her innocence shattered when a deathbe...

SHE WAS CALLED BELLE FROM HELL. . . .As fierce and indomitable as any man, Isabelle of Langston rules the family lands with an iron hand after her father's death. But the brazen beauty meets her match in Hugh Fauconier, bold knight and rightful Saxon heir to Langston Keep. By the King's hand, he is made her husband. Hugh's virile prowess reveals to Belle the delicious pleasures of the flesh, as their turbulent days of verbal sparring melt into nights of erotic abandon.But a t...

From the New York Times bestselling "resigning queen of romance" (Literary Times), comes a love story on a grand scale, featuring an innocent country girl who catches the eye of the most powerful man in England-and filled with all the sensuality, drama, and thrilling intrigues of Henry Tudor's glittering sixteenth century court...

New York Times bestselling author Bertrice Small continues the story of extraordinary orphaned beauty Rosamund Bolton in the second novel in the Friarsgate Inheritance series.Rosamund Bolton is determined finally to live her own life. She has claimed her inheritance, rejected her latest suitor—and decided to travel to the court of her dear friend, Queen Margaret of Scotland. It is against this lavish and unpredictable backdrop that she will meet the man wh...

In the third Friarsgate Inheritance novel, New York Times bestselling author Bertrice Small takes us back to the sensuality, drama, and intrigue of King Henry's sixteenth-century court to tell the story of the daughter of one of her most beloved characters.The eldest child of Rosamund Bolton and heiress to the Friarsgate manor, Philippa Meredith is devastated when she discovers that the man she sought to marry has rebuffed her. But it is this sudden change...

In this sweeping historical epic featuring Skye O'Malley's brother, Conn, New York Times bestselling author Bertrice Small chronicles the lives of two lovers separated by the royal deceptions of 16th century Europe...Under the command of Britain's Queen Elizabeth, Irish nobleman Conn O'Malley and heiress Aidan St. Michael are married. Once a carefree rogue who believed his desire for seducing women could never be sated, Conn now finds himself enchanted wit...

Skye O'Malley's magnificent daughter Velvet embarks on her own adventures in this sensuous bestseller.Velvet de Marisco is the daughter of one of fiction's most beloved heroines, the hot-blooded adventuress, Skye O'Malley.Now, in this journey into pure sensual delight by Bertrice Small, Velvet proves she's every inch her mother's daughter.When Alexander Gordon arrives from the Scottish Highlands to claim Velvet as his bride, he must woo her body and...

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Border Chronicles comes a novel of Florentine historical romance—the continuing saga of The Silk Merchant’s Daughters...After her sisters become the scandals of Florence, Lucianna Pietro d’Angelo finds that the only wealthy man who’ll have her for his wife is an aging bookseller whom Lucianna comforts in his final years. When he passes away, she inherits his shop—and a sizable fortune affording Lucianna com...