Harow, mistaken as a duke, has spirited the High Queen Reginee and her daughter Desiree-Rose to safety in the mountainous land ruled by bold Duke Owaine. Now Owaine and Reginee are scheduled to be wed and the queen wants Harow to stand up for her at the ceremony. With marriage on their minds, and a short supply of eligible men, Harow finds himself the target of several young ladies and a jealous Desiree-Rose who is already planning their wedding. But Harow has other things on his mind as the queen’s brother and leader of the rebellion that overthrew the kingdom continues to plot with his allies close by just across the border. They want to stop the royal wedding at all cost, including murdering or kidnapping the queen and her daughter.
They found Luke's serjeant Wat arguing heatedly with a portly, red-faced man who turned out to be the Durngate miller. He seemed to be taking the death of his hired man in stride, but he was furious that he'd not be able to open his ...
John Medina is a living legend with the CIA, a shadowy specialist in Black Ops, those operations that are never openly funded, and the details of which never see the light of day.
A swashbuckling mystery set in England in the year 1193 traces the investigation of Justin de Quincy, the trusted confidant of Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, into the disappearance of Eleanor's son Richard Lionheart and the rumors concerning a ...
"The Agents of the Crown returns with this riveting novel following the original MI6 agent as he is assigned a dangerous mission to recreate a weapon from antiquity.
“Sheer entertainment… Bennett infuses wit and an arch sensibility into her prose… This is not mere froth, it is pure confection.” — New York Times Book Review on The Windsor Knot Amateur detective Queen Elizabeth II is back in ...
The Queen's Man
He stopped in front of him, peered down into his eyes, and then started to lick his face. At the same time he crooned high and then ... THORNDYKE'S DIARY: ENTRY 16 I took it like a spike between the eyes. My anger was enough to carry me ...
The 12th Century sleuth, Justin de Quincy, investigates a murder which could shed light on a plot to usurp the crown of England.
The Queen's Man: Large Print Edition
Foster was a pale blond in his twenties; he made his moves with a prissy carefulness that was maddening. ... Benny Watts couldn't beat her, and some prissy graduate student from Louisville wasn't about to drive her.