Three novels by the prize-winning international-bestselling author in one volume —the complete saga of Catherine the Great's passionate rise to power.The Romanov Trilogy brings three of Evelyn Anthony's most successful works together in one collection following the dramatic life of Catherine the Great.Rebel Princess: Augusta Fredericka's fantasy of reigning as Catherine the Great comes true after marrying Grand Duke Peter Romanov. But the r...

Louise de Bernard's long-ago past in Nazi-occupied France comes back to haunt her when a woman shows up on her doorstep demanding paybackOn a tranquil tree-lined street in Paris, a woman exits a taxi. She has come from Bonn, Germany, on a mission of desperation and revenge. And in a house on the Rue de Varenne, a wife and mother is about to relive the past she thought she'd left far behind.In 1944, in Nazi-occupied France, circumstances forced Jean de Berna...

An Englishwoman falls for a Russian wanted by Intelligence on both sides of the Iron Curtain in this classic tale of Cold War espionageAs executive assistant to a senior diplomat at the UN, widow Judith Farrow spends most of her working hours handling classified information. When her boss insists she take some time off in Barbados, she's happy to escape her dead-end love affair with a very prominent, very married British attaché. But from the moment Judith meets Fe...

Drawn from Queen Victoria's diaries and correspondences, Evelyn Anthony's novel reimagines the story of how a sheltered eighteen-year-old girl ascended to the British throne, became a major force in politics, and fell in love with her husbandWhen King William dies, his teenage niece Victoria becomes queen. In spite of her youth and lack of experience, the eighteen-year-old surprises her detractors by taking the reins with poise and grace, vowing to always put the w...

A woman inherits a legacy of greed, guilt, and deadly danger when her father—a former SS Commander—bequeaths a priceless treasureTwenty-five years after fleeing Germany, Paul Weiss lives a quiet life in Spain. Throughout his years of exile, he's kept a single photograph of a three-year-old girl. Now, he will set in motion a series of events that will reunite him with his long-lost daughter.All Paula Stanley knows about her father is that he was killed in Ru...

A historical novel spanning the first thirty years of Elizabeth I's reign, telling the intimate story of England's greatest sovereignThe sickly Catholic fanatic Mary Tudor has reigned for six years when her half-sister Elizabeth ascends to the throne. After enduring years of exile following the execution of her mother, Anne Boleyn, the twenty-five-year-old Elizabeth inherits a realm divided by religious turmoil and financial collapse. She has already survived her o...

The complete series starring the British female operative—from the international bestselling author and "powerful plotter of spy stories" ( The Daily Telegraph).The Defector: MI6 agent Davina Graham knows better. But she's fallen hopelessly in love with the married KGB defector she's been ordered to debrief. In exchange for information, Ivan Sasanov insists his wife and daughter back in the USSR must be brought to England and given asylum. But the...

British history comes to vivid life in these three novels of royal love and intrigue by an international bestselling author.Victoria and Albert: Drawn from Queen Victoria's diaries and correspondences, Evelyn Anthony's novel reimagines the story of how a sheltered eighteen-year-old girl ascended to the British throne, became a major force in politics, and fell in love with her cousin, Prince Albert. Spanning the first twenty-one years of her reign, Vic...

From the bestselling author of Elizabeth: The love story of Henry Tudor and his queen, the mother of one of Britain's greatest monarchs.On a lovely midsummer afternoon, Henry Tudor rides to Hever Castle. There, he feasts his eyes on Anne Boleyn, who caught his roving attention at court a few months earlier. Anne is in no mood to receive her king. He has torn from her the one man she loved: Harry Percy, who was forced to marry another. But King Henry VIII i...

A gripping, inventive thriller about justice and retribution set in Paris thirty years after World War IIAnna Martin is ready to put the past—and her unsuccessful marriage—behind her and start over with Nicholas Yurovsky. A titled aristocrat from a distinguished family that dates back to czarist Russia, Nicholas never talks about his past. Then Anna gets a call from her ex-husband.Left-wing journalist Paul Martin warns Anna about a plot spearheaded by Nicho...

An obscure Prussian princess is transformed into Catherine the Great, the longest-ruling female leader of RussiaThe Prussian-born daughter of a minor princeling, Augusta Fredericka dreams of being a queen. When, one snowy December night in 1743, she's summoned to Russia to wed Grand Duke Peter Romanov, she believes all her fantasies are about to come true. But the heir to the Russian throne is not the man Augusta expects. Stunted and deformed, her husband-to-be is ...

Imperial Russia's Czar Alexander I battles Napoleon for control of EuropeAfter declaring himself Emperor of France following a sweeping victory in Europe, General Napoleon Bonaparte, the son of a poor Corsican lawyer, is ready for his next conquest. He has no doubt that he can defeat Austria, and is confident that Russia will soon follow. After all, he triumphed in revolution and recast an empire. What has he to fear from the twenty-nine-year-old czar of a barbaric...