The Flight of the Sorceress by Barry S. Willdorf

As the Roman Empire crumbles, the Catholic Church fills the power vacuum by launching attacks on classical culture. Books are burned. Women are restricted from traditional occupations. The lives of pagans and Jews are imperiled. The Dark Ages loom.

But two women, Glenys, a Celtic herbalist and healer, and Hypatia, teacher, philosopher, mathematician and the last librarian of the great library at Alexandria, resist. Though one is branded a sorceress and the other an idolator, they refuse to submit to the demands of the state-sanctioned religious leaders. Their struggle culminates in the cataclysmic events of Lenten week in 415 A.D.

Can anything be preserved?

To Be Queen Christy English

Duchess at fifteen, Eleanor of Aquitaine marries the King of France. But will she discover that she must pay to high a price to be queen?

Although Louis VII is enamored of his bride, the newly crowned king is easily manipulated by forces in the Church. Trapped in a loveless marriage, Eleanor begins to fight for her freedom and for the right to claim the love of her life. In the arms of Henry of Normandy, Eleanor may finally find the passion she longs for, and the means to fulfill her legacy as Queen.

The Kingmaking by Helen Hollick

What is the truth behind the familiar stories of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table? There is no evidence for “King” Arthur ever existing – but the stories must have come from somewhere – or someone!

The Pentagon’s Banner Trilogy strips away all the made-up Medieval myth and mayhem and delves deeper into history, uncovering the early, more real version of the m,am we know as Arthur.

Here you will find no Merlin, no Lancelot. No holy grail, no round table and no knights in armour.

Instead – a believable Arthur, set in the Dark Ages of the 5th& 6th centuries between the going of the Romans and the coming of the Anglo Saxons.

Here is the story as it might have really happened.

Arthur, the son of a nobleman, who had to fight hard to win his kingdom – and even harder to keep it!

The Sumerton Women by D.L Bogdan

Orphaned at age eight, Lady Cecily Burkhart becomes the ward of Harold Pierce, Earl of Sumerton. The charming Lord Hal and his wife, Lady Grace, immediately welcome sweet-natured Cecily as one of their own. With Brey, their young son, Cecily develops an easy, playful friendship. But their intensely devout daughter, Mirabella, is consumed by her religious vocation—and by her devotion to Father Alec Cahill, the family priest and tutor.

With Father Alec as her closest confidant, Cecily begins to glimpse the painful secrets at the heart of the Pierce family. When tragedy strikes at home, and Henry VIII’s obsession with Anne Boleyn leads to violent upheaval across England, Mirabella is robbed of her calling and the future Cecily dreamed of is ripped away in turn. As Cecily struggles to hold together the fractured household, she and Alec also grapple with a dangerous mutual attraction. Plagued with jealousy, Mirabella unleashes a tumultuous chain of events that threatens to destroy everyone around her. For with treachery and suspicion rampant, desire has the power to shatter a family—and tear a kingdom apart…