1. A Vain and Indecent Woman
England, 1341. Joan of Kent has secretly married the soldier Thomas Holland, but while he is abroad her royal family compels her into a second union with William Montagu. The arrangement places a young woman between aristocratic obedience, canon law and a private promise that powerful…
2. An Ambush of Tigers
Madras, 1752. Lachlan McKenzie believes the vengeance that drove him across Africa and India has finally ended, but Adelaide Gagnon intends to complete her father's campaign against him. She allies herself with Gerard Kilcannon, a mercenary and arms dealer prepared to profit from the rivalry between…
3. Colossus
Babylon, 323 BC. In an alternate history where Alexander survives the illness that should have killed him, the king turns west toward Carthage. Gajendra, captain of the war elephants, owes his advancement to Alexander and rides beside the elephant Colossus with absolute confidence in the conqueror's…
4. Converso
Seville, 1490. Diego Vásquez is a successful painter and a converso, descended from Jews compelled to adopt Christianity. His commissions bring him into churches and noble households, but one accusation of concealed belief could place his art, family and life within reach of the Inquisition. Diego's…
5. East India
In 1626 Dutch captain Michiel van Texel sails toward the Spice Islands aboard an overloaded Company vessel. After a brutal passage around Cape Horn, the ship is wrecked on remote reefs off the Great Southland, leaving passengers and crew without effective command or any certainty that…
6. Ends of the Earth
In 53 BC, Tribune Valerius survives the Roman disaster at Carrhae only to be captured and carried beyond the eastern frontier. While Caesar, Pompey and their allies move toward civil war, Valerius is isolated in territories Rome cannot control and must rely on people whom his…
7. Feathered Serpent
Mexico, 1519. Hernán Cortés lands with a small Spanish force and ambitions far greater than the authority formally granted to him. Among the women transferred to the expedition is Malinali, or La Malinche, whose knowledge of Indigenous languages and political relationships makes her indispensable as interpreter,…
8. Fever Coast
East Africa, 1750. Lachlan McKenzie's isolated trading post is destroyed by an armed attack that kills his family and leaves him committed to finding the man responsible. His pursuit begins across ports and wilderness shaped by the slave trade, piracy and the rivalry of European commercial…
9. Fury: Book 2
Palestine, 1933. Rishou Hassan's family has farmed its village land for generations, while Sarah Landauer has grown up on the neighbouring Jewish kibbutz. Their friendship becomes a forbidden love as immigration from Europe, British rule and competing national movements steadily alter the world both families considered…
10. Harem
Istanbul, 1520. Suleiman’s accession places the imperial harem at the centre of Ottoman succession politics. Hürrem, an enslaved concubine, understands that security depends on winning the sultan’s confidence and producing sons, but every step upward threatens women, officials and dynastic interests whose futures depend on a…
11. Lord of the Atlas
Marrakesh, 1893. Former officer Harry Delhaze is broke and disgraced when an old comrade offers him paid service helping the Moroccan sultan suppress a rebellion. The expedition appears to provide a route back to honour, but the men employing him are divided by money, influence and…
12. Silk Road
The Holy Land, 1260. Disgraced Templar knight Josseran Sarrazini is ordered to escort a Christian embassy across Central Asia to the court of Kublai Khan. The mission takes him beyond the familiar crusader world into territories linked by Mongol power but divided by rival khans, faiths…
13. Stigmata
France, 1205. Philip of Vercy returns from crusading to find his lands damaged and his son dying. Reports of Fabricia, a young woman believed to bear the wounds of Christ and possess healing power, offer a final hope, but she is hiding among communities condemned as…
14. Venom
Saigon, 1946. Michel grows up abandoned amid poverty and political violence, learning to survive through adaptability and calculated retaliation. Each humiliation becomes part of a private account he intends to settle when he has acquired the education and influence to move between colonial and local worlds.…