1. The Black Moth
Lord Jack Carstares has lived in disgrace after accepting blame for his younger brother’s cheating at cards. Returning secretly to England under an assumed name, he supports himself as a highwayman while remaining cut off from his title and family. Jack’s attempt to rescue Diana Beauleigh…
2. Simon the Coldheart
In 1400, the illegitimate Simon Beauvallet forces his way into the service of Fulk of Montlice, an enemy of Simon’s natural father. Discipline, military ability and loyalty carry him from page to knight, while his friendship with the future Henry V draws him into the conflicts…
3. The Masqueraders
After the defeat of the Jacobite rising, Prudence and Robin Tremaine hide in London under exchanged identities: Prudence poses as a young gentleman and Robin as his sister. Their disguise protects them from arrest but places both inside a social world where any mistake could expose…
4. Beauvallet
The Elizabethan privateer Sir Nicholas Beauvallet captures a Spanish ship and takes aboard Doña Dominica de Rada y Sylva and her father. Rather than hold them for ransom, he returns them to Spain and promises that he will come back for Dominica despite the price placed…
5. Powder and Patch
Philip Jettan is content with country life and expects to marry his neighbour Cleone Charteris, but she finds his plain manners and indifference to fashion disappointing. Stung by her rejection, Philip travels to Paris to acquire the polish, clothes and social confidence she believes a husband…
6. The Conqueror
The novel follows William of Normandy from his insecure childhood and struggle to control the duchy to his claim to the English crown. His marriage to Matilda of Flanders, rivalry with Harold Godwinson and determination to cross the Channel place dynastic ambition at the centre of…
7. Royal Escape
After defeat at the Battle of Worcester in 1651, the future Charles II must cross a country controlled by the Commonwealth while Parliament’s forces search for him. Disguises, unsafe houses and divided loyalties make every stage of the journey a test of judgement as well as…
8. The Spanish Bride
During the aftermath of the storming of Badajoz in 1812, Brigade-Major Harry Smith meets the young Spanish aristocrat Juana de León and marries her within days. Rather than remain behind, Juana follows him with Wellington’s army through the closing years of the Peninsular War. Drawn from…
9. My Lord John
John of Lancaster grows up among the sons of Henry Bolingbroke during the political upheaval that brings their father to the English throne as Henry IV. Life on the northern marches, family rivalry and rebellion shape John’s education in loyalty and government. The unfinished novel follows…