LONDON 1553 - King Edward Tudor is dead and now begins the bloody fight for the throne.

The divide between Catholic Queen Mary and Anne Boleyn’s Protestant daughter, Princess Elizabeth, is deep, and her very existence is precarious as a direct threat to the queen. Sir Richard Fitzwarren, Princess Elizabeth’s long-time confidant, is the only man she can trust to save her. Yet he faces his own terrible dilemma: save Princess Elizabeth or take his traitorous brother’s life.Can Richard save the princess, or will he lose his life to his brother’s blade?Religion, politics and principles collide in Tudor England in the Mercenary for Hire series. Follow Richard Fitzwarren’s adventures as this rebellious mercenary forges a path for himself while fighting to protect honour and justice.

Includes 'The Tudor Heresy' - a prequel to the Mercenary for Hire Series.

Buy ….. To enter the terrifying realm of Bloody Mary and the duplicitous Tudor court.

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When the American Civil War ended Confederate officer Robert Ambrose left his fellow soldiers to return to the girl who had haunted his thoughts and dreams for the entirety of the war, but upon arriving home he learned that not only was the cause wrong, so was everything he had hoped to return to. The girl he was to marry was now promised to another, and his former mentor had cheated him. Disillusioned he left his home in River Falls, Georgia for something different: The Colorado Territory of the American West.
Ambrose soon learned that the West was wild and untamed, and despite his effort to find peace and to create a normal and stable world, something continued to pull him toward death and ruin. While the former Confederate soldier made his way through the treacherous territory of Colorado the girl he thought had been lost to him chose to follow him to the West while facing hazards of her own. While they fight to survive and to find meaning in a dangerous and new place they both learn about themselves while always thinking of the other. But will they find each other in an unfamiliar world that is as inhospitable to love as it is to law and order?

Inspired by the true story of the author’s ancestors, this enthralling WWII novel tells of the Kisch family’s heart-wrenching struggle against Nazi oppression.

When the Nazis invade the Netherlands in 1940, the Jews of Amsterdam know nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. As the measures imposed by the cruel SS become ever more repressive, sister and brother, Rachael and Hendrik, join the Dutch Resistance. Meanwhile, their parents, Franck and Elizabeth, strive to keep their younger brother, Hannes, safe, but time is against them all, as every day more and more Jews are being deported to unknown camps in Eastern Europe. Will the family be able to stay together and survive?

Readers moved by

Schindler’s List, The Tattooist of Auschwitz

and

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

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"If you want to sit down with an extremely well-researched tale involving heroic battles, first loves, and the making of a legend, this book is for you." - The Historical Novel Society

“For indeed the Frankish nation, which was crushed by the avenger Hasting, was full of filthy uncleanness. Treasonous and oath-breaking, they were deservedly condemned; unbelievers and faithless, they were justly punished.” - Dudo of St. Quentin, Gesta Normannorum

Orphaned as a child by a blood-feud, and sold as a slave to an exiled chieftain in Ireland, the boy Hasting had little hope of surviving to adulthood. The gods had other plans. A ship arrived at his master's longphort carrying a man who would alter the course of his destiny, and take him under his wing to teach him the ways of the Vikings. His is a story of a boy who was a slave, who became a warlord, and who helped topple an empire.A supposed son of Ragnar Lodbrok, and referred to in the

Gesta Normannorum

as the Scourge of the Somme and Loire, his life exemplified the qualities of the ideal Viking. Join author and historian C.J. Adrien on an adventure that explores the coming of age of the Viking Hasting, his first love, his first great trials, and his first betrayal.

"The Lords of the Wind" by C.J. Adrien is a gold medal winner in the 2020 Reader's Favorite annual international book awards.