The story of Macbeth from a woman's point of view.Elen of Laggan is cousin to both King Duncan and Macbeth. When her father dies, she is escorted to court by Duncan's man, Patric. They fall in love and Duncan favors the match, but he's killed in battle. Patric, honoring the oath he made to his late king, must take Duncan's three young sons to safety in England. Macbeth and his wife convince Elen to marry the Pictish nobleman, Talcoran. She has no real choice, (noblewomen seldom did...

Chesapeake City, MD, the present. After discovering her husband in bed with a dear friend, Clary drives away during an ice storm. At the top of a very high bridge she skids and crashes into the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal.She regains consciousness in Bohemia Village, the old name for Chesapeake City, on a hot July day in 1829. Utterly confused, she thinks she has wandered into a historical park. But the men around her are working on the canal, which is nearing completion. The lea...

Halys and Simon are betrothed, but when a riding accident seriously injures Halys, Simon's father calls off the wedding. Furious at his father's attitude the 18-year-old Simon departs for the Holy Land and the First Crusade. Ten years later, Simon returns.Halys' Uncle Richard, her guardian since her parents died, insists she must travel to London with him and there undertake the fostering of his naughty daughter, Melisande. The girl's twin brother, Jasper, has been given to a famou...

England, A.D. 1155Elisa has always loved her husband, Lord Robert, who leaves her at Menton Castle during his frequent visits at the royal court. Now Rob has sent word he'll be home in two days, bringing close to a hundred people for the Twelve Days of Christmas – noble guests, squires, servants. Of course, he expects Elisa to see to everyone's comfort, plan delicious menus, and arrange entertainment. Then Elisa learns one of the guests is the woman she has long suspected is Rob's ...

England, winter, A.D.1121. After fleeing Sutton Castle, where her ruthless father, Lord Phelan, drunken brother, Eustace, and an elderly suitor are all determined to see her married off for a second time, Lady Margaret and her best friend, Catherine of Wortham, travel through a blizzard to reach isolated Bowen Manor, owned by Catherine's brother, Arden, who has long been absent from England. There they hope to be safe. They don't know that Arden has returned to England and is heading for B...

Baghdad, AD 1138. When his teacher vanishes during a magical spell gone awry, Warrick appeals to the dying astronomer John of Cornwall for help in finding him. He's promptly blackmailed into escorting John's sharp-tongued daughter, Sophia, and a priceless crystal ball to Byzantium. Forced to flee from the sultan who is determined to possess both Sophia and the crystal ball, Warrick, his best friend Robin, Sophia, and the gorgeous genie that Sophia's father has conjured as her chaperone all...

Mourning the death of her beloved grandfather, Aline visits the library to which he donated a medieval Book of Hours. While gazing at the December illustration, she suddenly finds herself on a muddy road, buffeted by wind and snow, about to be run down by a troop of armored horsemen. When the leader demands to know what she's doing on his land, all Aline can say is that she's lost.Assuming from her accent and her clothing that she must be a noblewoman, Lord Adam takes her to his ho...

Royce, the baron of Wortham cherishes the memory of this first wife, to whom he was famously faithful. But King Henry I wants him to wed Julianna in order to keep her vast properties out of the hands of King Louis VI of France. Henry is uncertain of Julianna's loyalty and he trusts Royce, his long-time spymaster, to keep the lady out of trouble.Julianna, twice forced to marry men who cared nothing for her, is even less eager to wed than Royce. When the two meet they agree they must ...

On December 31, 1999, Gina is sent to make a last-minute repair to an old computer before the machine shuts down as the calendar turns to the year 2000. The next thing she knows, she's falling through the air, watching mountains and forests go by and headed for a large stone building with a red tile roof.She lands on a man who's lying in a bed – and there is no hole in the roof. The very surprised man, who says he's Lord Dominick, asks if she's a spy sent by Queen Fastrada. Gina ob...

The Great Emerald of the East has been stolen. King Henryk of Sapaudia has assigned Garit and Durand to find and return it. The trail leads.north.to Chandelar, so Garit stops to visit his grandmother, the still feisty Lady Elgida. He meets Elgida's companion, Calia, and for the first time in years he finds a woman interesting. Upon learning from Garit that his widowed stepmother, Fenella, has married again, Elgida decides to travel overseas to visit Fenella and her two sons, Garit's half-b...

Normans invaded Wales in A.D. 1085. To escape their ravages and a forced marriage to a brutal man, Branwen fled from her conquered family home of Afoncaer into England. She returned years later with Meredith, the Saxon girl she had raised as her own.Through the years Reynaud, the architect of Afoncaer, kept a detailed record of the passions, the quarrels, the dark secrets, and the lasting loves of the people who inhabited the great river fortress.Guy was sent to Afoncaer in...

The plan is simple: Magnus is to abduct the French spy, Count Erland, and transport him to England to be traded for a English spy who's being held by the French. But the captive Englishman is Magnus' estranged twin brother, Desmond. And no sooner have Magnus and his companions, Braedon and William, arrived at Manoir St Inge than Magnus is confronted by Erland's niece, Lilianne. The lady is willing to help, for a price – Magnus must extract from Erland information as to where her little bro...