A dramatic recreation of the lives of two of the most famous women in history, Anne Boleyn and Elizabeth I.It is 1560, and the newly crowned Elizabeth I is about to become romantically involved with Robert Dudley when an old woman appears bearing a diary written in the hand of the young queen's mother, Anne Boleyn. Elizabeth has grown up knowing nothing of her notorious mother but what official history put forth: that she was an adulterer and traitor and deserved t...

An enchanting novel on the life and origins of Leonardo da Vinci’s mother, as imagined by the author of the “absolutely superb” (Diane Haeger, author of The Secret Bride) Mademoiselle Boleyn.A young woman named Caterina was only fifteen years old in 1452 when she bore an illegitimate child in the tiny village of Vinci. His name was Leonardo, and he was destined to change the world forever.Caterina suffered much cruelty as an unmarried moth...

From the author of The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn comes a riveting portrait of Anne Boleyn’s youth and her unconventional education in the court of the King of France.When her father is assigned the task of spying on the French Court, the charming and sweetly innocent Anne Boleyn is delighted by the thought of a new adventure. And she is not to be disappointed, for her beautiful sister, Mary, has been handed a mission: to let herself be seduced by the Kin...

"A stellar historical romance and adventure story. . . . [It] has positively reinvented the beloved couple for the modern age." ― The Huffington PostCambridge, England, 1905. Jane Porter is hardly a typical woman of her time. The only female student in Cambridge University's medical program, she is far more comfortable in a lab coat dissecting corpses than she is in a corset and gown sipping afternoon tea. A budding paleoanthropologist, Ja...

In 1483, Edward and Richard of York—Edward, by law, already King of England—were placed, for their protection before Edward's coronation, in the Tower of London by their uncle Richard. Within months the boys disappeared without a trace, and for the next five hundred years the despised Richard III was suspected of their heartless murders.In To the Tower Born, Robin Maxwell ingeniously imagines what might have happened to the missing princes. The great and terrible events th...

Two female titans -- perfectly matched in guts, guile, and political genius.Elizabeth, queen of England, has taken on the mighty Spanish Armada and, in a stunning sea battle, vanquished it. But her troubles are far from over. Just across the western channel, her colony Ireland is embroiled in seething rebellion, with the island's fierce, untamed clan chieftains and their "wild Irish" followers refusing to bow to their English oppressors.Grace O'Malley -- notorious pirate, g...

Egy Vinci nevű itáliai falucskában egy kisfiú születik törvénytelen gyermekként. Nem más ő, mint Leonardo da Vinci, minden idők legzseniálisabb művésze és tudósa. Sokat tudunk arról, mit hozott létre Leonardo. De vajon mit tudunk arról az asszonyról, aki világra hozta őt? A reneszánsz kori Itáliában játszódó regény a géniusz anyját, Caterinát állítja középpontba. Az intellektuális kíváncsisággal és finom női ösztönökkel megáldott Caterinának nehéz sors jutott osztályrész...

The only female student in Cambridge University’s medical program, Jane Porter is far more comfortable in a lab coat dissecting corpses than she is in a corset and gown sipping afternoon tea. A budding paleoanthropologist, Jane dreams of traveling the globe in search of fossils that will prove the evolutionary theories of her scientific hero, Charles Darwin.When dashing American explorer Ral Conrath invites Jane and her father to join an expedition deep into West Africa, she can ha...

Júlia előtt két út áll: szerelem nélküli, elrendezett házasság vagy lázadás. Az éles eszű lány, aki nemcsak rajongója Dante romantikus költészetének, de maga is verseket ír, nem hajlandó fejet hajtani a hagyományok előtt, és beletörődni a szülők akaratába, mint imádott barátnője, Lucrezia. Júlia sorsa örökre megpecsételődik, amikor egy álarcosbálon megismeri a családjával viszálykodó Monticecco család fiát, Rómeót. Robin Maxwell, az angol történelmi regények népszerű szerzője nem kevesebbr...

In 1483, Edward and Richard of York—Edward, by law, already King of England—were placed, for their protection before Edward's coronation, in the Tower of London by their uncle Richard. Within months the boys disappeared without a trace, and for the next five hundred years the despised Richard III was suspected of their heartless murders.In To the Tower Born, Robin Maxwell ingeniously imagines what might have happened to the missing princes. The great and terrible events th...

Caterina was fifteen years old when she fell in love with a man much above her station. The daughter of a humble village apothecary, she was considered unmarriageable by her lover’s wealthy and ambitious family. She had no recourse when they took her child away from her, leaving her bereft and rejected by society as a “fallen woman.”But Caterina had always hidden a part of herself from society. Unlike most women of that time, she had been educated since childhood—not only in her fa...

1588-ban vagyunk. A spanyol Armada megtámadni készül Angliát, a nemrégiben megkoronázott Erzsébet királynő maga mellé veszi kegyencét, Robert Dudleyt, gyerekkori szerelmét, akitől gyermeke fogan. A trónörökös, Arthur Dudley, egy viharos éjszakán, titokban jön a világra, majd egy vadászmajorban nevelkedik, anélkül, hogy sejtelme lenne arról, kicsoda is ô valójában. Nevelőapja csak halálos ágyánál árulja el igazi származását. Arthur Dudley harcol a holland-spanyol háborúban, megismeri az iga...