After seven member of their family are kidnapped by a organization called the Vespers, Dan and Amy Cahill must race against time to track down an ancient map to pay as ransom to bring the hostages home.
They exited the gatehouse and entered the wide outer bailey between the curtain and inner walls. It looked much like a street in Langford, and indeed shops and inns lined the walls, and a large stable stood against the outer wall to ...
The author of five bestselling novels, including Under Cover of Darkness and The Pardon, James Grippando writes compulsively readable thrillers that could be drawn from today's headlines, only better.
Sharon Kay Penman follows up her acclaimed novel Lionheart with this vivid and heart-wrenching New York Times bestseller about the last event-filled years in the life of Richard I of England, Coeur de Lion.
Reimagines the dangerous final years of Richard I, tracing his captivity by the Holy Roman Emperor in spite of papal decrees protecting crusaders, and Eleanor of Aquitaine's considerable efforts to secure his freedom.
After seven members of their family are kidnapped by an organization called the Vespers, Dan and Amy Cahill must race against time to track down an ancient map to pay as ransom to bring the hostages home.
Told with masterful insight and rich historical detail, A King's Ransom is a striking portrayal of the darker, troubled years of Richard - a man whose courage, compassion and intelligence became the stuff of legend.
King's. Ransom? It took Edward just over the hour to get to Warwick, and he was parked up and around the corner by seven thirty. He checked in with the local commander. There had been no visitors, or visible activity.
If Charles Théveneau de Morande was a character in a novel, he would be considered the ultimate anti-hero.
A King's Ransom
A King's Ransom
A King's Ransom
Praise for Lionheart 'Penman has triumphed' Margaret George 'A sumptuous, powerful read . . . If you enjoy well-researched historical fiction, you will love this. The best historical novel I've read in a long while' Elizabeth Chadwick
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A King's Ransom
But the courage, compassion, and intelligence of this warrior king became the stuff of legend, and A King's Ransom brings the man and his world fully and powerfully alive"--
Travelling home from the crusades, Richard was shipwrecked off the coast of Austria, after an encounter with pirates.