The year is 1461, and the winds of war rage across England uprooting Henry VI's court -- including Alix Givet, the daughter of Queen Margaret's physician. Alix's plight becomes bleaker still when a Northumbrian baron gains her hand for his cruel son. Duty to her queen and her father forces Alix into a loveless marriage. But when her husband unexpectedly dies, Alix once again flees -- this time to save herself. (Bestseller)

Dugald Kerr, the laird of Brae Aisir, has lost his male heirs in the raging border wars. His last inheritor is a beautiful headstrong granddaughter known as Mad Maggie. Many are eager to wed Maggie, for with her comes the right to exact tolls at a famous safe passage through the border hills, but the laird announces that any man who can outrun, outride, and outfight Maggie will win her and her inheritance. Young King James II dispatches his cousin...

Florentine silk merchant Giovanni Pietro d'Angelo and his wife want only to marry their daughters to wealthy men of distinction. But when their son's indiscretion implicates him in a tragic accident, their eldest daughter must pay the price. To buy the silence of Sebastiano Rovere, they must give beautiful Bianca to him in marriage. But Bianca flees this cruel union, and then her husband's shocking murder frees Bianca to love at last...

At the court of Scotland's King James I, Lady Cicely Bowen finds herself pursued by two men, only to be kidnapped by one on the eve of a proposal by the other.