Crusades Historical Fiction

The Crusaders, led by Richard I of England, are encamped in the Holy Land, and torn by the dissensions and jealousies of the leaders, including, besides Coeur de Lion himself, Philip of France, the duke of Austria, the Marquis of Montferrat, and the Grand Master of the Templars. The army's impotence is accentuated by the illness of Richard.

The walls of Acre hold the key to Jerusalem. In the sweltering summer of 1191, as Christian armies lay siege to the city, three lives collide in a story that will reshape their understanding of faith, duty, and the true cost of holy war. Sir Alaric of Normandy arrives in the Holy Land, burning with zeal, certain of the Crusader cause’s righteousness. But his convictions begin to waver when he encounters unexpected compassion among those he was taught to hate. As the brutality of siege warfare tests his faith, he must choose between his vows as a knight and the growing truth in his heart. ...

In the wake of the Crusades, Wilfred of Ivanhoe vows to return Richard the Lion Heart to the throne. But the Saxon son’s allegiance to the Norman king, and his forbidden love for Lady Rowena, leave Ivanhoe disinherited from his father. To set his mission on course, he returns to England in disguise and quickly finds himself entrenched in an epic battle for power. As destinies entwine, Ivanhoe fights to restore the crown and marry his queen with help from the healer Rebecca; Robin Hood and his Merry Men; and the Black Knight, the Saxon’s mysterious ally.

Rome 1209. No enemy of the Pope is safe from Gabriel. No one escapes the enforcer of a thousand faces, until one day he spares a heretical Cathar leader. This evokes the wrath of the Church, and the hunter is given one last chance, failing which he must forfeit his life. Gabriel's new target is a dangerous, renegade Templar, whose carefully concealed trail leads him from Palestine to the Baltic Sea. But the fate of the mysterious Templar is ominously intertwined with Gabriel's own past. What he doesn't know is that two warriors from the Order of the Livonian Brothers of the Sword have been ...

1096. The Pope has called for a crusade to free Jerusalem, and half the warriors of Europe have responded. Among them is the Norman, Count Bohemund, one-time enemy of Byzantium. In company with his warrior nephew, Tancred of Lecce, Bohemund must once more cross the Adriatic to the lands of the Byzantine Empire. His first task, pushing back the infidel Turks, calls for an uneasy alliance with old enemy Emperor Alexius. But can the Crusaders trust the wily Emperor?

A short story. A prequel to the Knights of Acre series. In the scorching summer of 1191, as the Third Crusade rages on, Sir Alaric of Normandy finds himself at the heart of a treacherous plot that threatens to unravel everything he holds dear. On the eve of a crucial battle against Saladin's forces near the strategic city of Arsuf, Alaric uncovers a shocking conspiracy led by the ambitious Lord de Marcy and his own mentor, Sir Geoffrey. Torn between loyalty and duty, Alaric must navigate a dangerous web of deceit as he races against time to expose the betrayal and save the Crusader army ...

This is a the sixth book in the exciting saga of an Englishman who rose during the turbulent years following the death King Richard. It is action-packed historical fiction about medieval life and the constant warfare of the Middle Ages during England's feudal times after Richard the lionhearted. More specifically, it is the sixth novel in Martin Archer's epic feudal saga about the English farmer who rose to be the captain of a company of English Archers in Medieval England. Richard has died and John is to be crowned king in his place. There is action and excitement as Pope Innocent III ...

"Life is like leaping flames. Its circumstances change shape so quickly—one moment dancing, the next dwindling into embers. . . " Andreva de Beringer leaves the abbey in Toulouse to care for her grandmother, but she arrives in Lavelanet to find a village gripped by the terror of the Inquisition. While Andreva strives to hold on to her family, her faith, (and the man she loves,) all around her Good Men must fight for the same—as well as for life itself. In the right place, but at a dreadfully wrong time, and under the wrath of the Inquisition, might this faith-filled but naïve girl be ...

A must for lovers of historical fiction, particularly of the Crusading era, and the Byzantine Empire. Stephen Bondar has given us a fictionalized first-person account in the form of a private letter from a member of the Byzantine Emperor Manuel I Comnenus's Varangian Guard, describing the Battle of Myriocephalon (September 17 -18, 1176) in graphic and brutal detail. Although fiction, the author has taken great care to stick close to the real historical sources for this watershed event, which unfortunately, like so much else of Byzantine (Later Roman) history is not well-known to students of...

The year is 1095. Thousands of men, including many of the leaders of the Christian world, have assembled in a meadow in France near Clermont. Pope Urban appeals for the liberation of Jerusalem and the people shout, Deus lo volt! The cry is taken up, echoes forth, is carried on. The crusades have begun. Wave upon wave of Christian pilgrims assault the growing power of the Muslims in the Holy Land, and will do so for the next 200 years.

On the islands of California in 1500, a nation of Amazons welcomes a castaway who recruits them into a great war against their hated enemies - the Greeks. Taking their griffins along, they sail to Constantinople, where the Ottoman Empire and its allies are attempting to retake the great city from French, Russian, and Greek adventurers. As the war progresses, the Amazon queen Califia must guide her people through a complex conflict where nothing is what it seems and the very future of California hangs in the balance.

Centered on a daughter's extraordinary search for her captured father, this novel explores the origins of the conflict between Islam and Christianity, details the drama of the ill-fated children's crusade, reveals the mysteries of the Cathar esoteric sect of southern France as well as those of the Old Man of the Mountain of Mideastern legends, and presents highly researched historical events in an epic adventure of love and sacrifice.

11th century Italy. The domination of the Normans is causing trouble. At their head is the feared Robert de Hauteville, the 'Guiscard', who has colonised much of Italy and commands the triple Dukedom of the extended Norman family. But Robert has made many enemies, including the ever-powerful papacy in Rome. The newly elected Pope Gregory exercises his vendetta against the Normans by encouraging them to sail to Byzantium and fight the Turks. But first he must deal with the Guiscard.

Thanks to the stratagems of Bohemund de Hauteville, leader of the Apulian Normans, the Crusade has taken the city of Antioch, and just in time. Once the besiegers, Bohemund and his men are about to become the besieged - a huge Turkish-led army, commanded by the fearsome General Kerbogha, is fast approaching. Provisions are desperately needed, but the surrounding countryside is near barren and the storerooms of Antioch much depleted. The Crusaders will not hold out for long without falling prey to starvation.

1072: England is firmly under the heel of its new Norman rulers. The few survivors of the English resistance look to Edgar the Atheling to overthrow William the Conqueror. Years of intrigue and vicious civil war follow and in the face of chaos and death, Edgar and his allies form a secret brotherhood, pledging to fight for justice and freedom. But soon they are called to fight for an even greater cause: the plight of the Holy Land.

The Crusades are the prototype and epitome of the Holy War. The fight to take control of the city of Jerusalem, believed to be the most sacred Holy City to two distinct religions of Christianity and Islam, has lasted far longer than the two centuries of the Crusades, and its reach has extended far further than Europe and the Middle East.

Amidst the tempest of the American Revolution, the Siege of Yorktown stands as a fulcrum upon which the fate of a fledgling nation teeters. Within this crucible, “Eternal Patriots: The Crusade for a More Perfect Union” unfurls a saga stitched from the very essence of fate. Among the relentless crescendo of this violent ballet of war, the quest for the stolen Solum Codex, a vestige from a forgotten utopia, contains insights pivotal to forging a more perfect union. Eliza Sinclair stands as a pillar of defiant passion within this maelstrom of history. Her tavern, a haven for the whispers ...

Thirteenth-century England: The nobility is aligning against King John in a struggle for power. The kingdom is embroiled in war and bankrupt, and the Crusades are rampaging through the Middle East. The Dawnings are a once-powerful family of English knights who are facing the bleak prospects of their declining power and imminent destruction at the hands of enemies that surround them both at home and abroad. Join the Dawnings as they feud over power, love, jealousies, and old grudges that threaten to destroy the family from within at the moment they most need to stand united.

Cathar Blood offers a taut recount of one of the bloodiest moments in the Earth's religious history. Dirty dealings by a Pope and a King led to the savage annihilation of an entire culture with the 4th Crusade. Cathar Blood offers a victim's view of the rampant subterfuge that had fathers sending sons and daughters to the pyre. This is a love story framed by knightly virtue and lust. Once begun, Cathar Blood is a fast action-filled romp to an unexpected conclusion.

For years Quinn Gallagher has lived a double life, both as a noble woman and a fierce pirate. The unspeakable things she’s had to do just to survive now lead her to turn her back to the sea as part of a quest to find who she truly is. Her former crew, however, refuses to let her abandon them—not when they need her help now more than ever. If she is to save her sea-faring family, Quinn will need to don her pirate cap once more and stretch her still healing heart to the breaking point as she embarks on her most Cutthroat Crusade yet. But will it be enough to stop the ocean from running ...