First Place Winner of the 2015 HOLT Medallion Award.Harvest Festival, 1459 - On a moonless night, the half-Gypsy Stephen Ellingham accidentally kills Lord Faierfield. With her father not yet buried, Nicole Miles marries the man who killed him—without the king's blessing and under the shadow of her family's curse.Nicole doesn't care whether her new husband believes the rumors that her womb is cursed, but Stephen has vowed to protect her younger brother, Alex. Rendered deaf when his mother boxed his ears, Alex has tried diversions over the years to keep people from realizing he's deaf. His efforts have backfired, though, and people believe he's mad, unfit to inherit his title or hold claim to the Faierfield lands.Stephen weds Nicole to make amends for accidentally killing her father and leaving her family vulnerable. He must protect Alex from their ambitious uncle, who plans to kill the young boy to claim the family's holdings.Then the Battle of Blore Heath erupts, the first of many...

Pages tense with the treachery of medieval battle—colorful with the forgotten charms of a living bridge—and perilous when young lovers dare to embrace the forbidden.Luke Bonwyk, Lord Penry is a known traitor, committed to destroying Joya's beloved Queen Margaret so the Duke of York can rule. Joya, like her noble family, is deeply devoted to saving her and keeping King Henry VI on the throne. They're both right, both wrong, both lost in the heat of unbridled passion and growing uncertainties. It's a dance of imperiled love amid the War of the Roses, and time is running out to reveal their true loyalties.——————————————————————————————————————————————————————PRAISE FOR CRIMSON SECRET"A freshly imagined setting filled with intrigue and passion=—loved it!" –USA Today Bestselling Author, Cassie Miles"Romance, intrigue and lush historical details. Crimson Secret has it all." — #1 Amazon Bestselling Author Peggy Waide"...political intrigue with a hard-won romance along for the ride."...

Amazon Bestselling Novel. 2005 IPPY Bronze Medal Winner andNext Generation INDIE Award Finalist.Love proves perilous in this "Pretty Woman/Pride and Prejudice" historical romance tale set in 15th century England.Sold as a slave in Romania for seven pounds and three solidi, the Gypsy girl, Sharai, escapes a slave ship infected with the plague. As an adult, she performs her silky, exotic dances to earn enough to sustain herself and the toddling orphan girl she adopted. She yearns for relief from the grinding poverty, and a secure home. Having been violated by a nobleman posing as her hero, she wants naught of any other man of title, and also scorns the dubious Gypsy king who pursues her. In a tent at the bustling autumn fair in Winchester, she meets the dashing Lord Tabor, and her resolve to avoid all noblemen softens.Though possessed of a stately castle with prosperous lands, the English knight,Tabor, teeters on the brink of losing all his holdings. A powerful noble has attacked...

Vividly drawn characters that leap off the page. I loved this novel!"... NYT Best-selling Author Lara Adrian.EVVY Award winner (Colorado Indep. Publisher Assn.) This fast-paced romantic adventure by an Amazon best-selling author is set in autumn, 1448 at England's famed Applewood horse fair. The midnight peace is shattered when monastic knights invade the camp to reclaim a treasured chalice stolen by a Gypsy. The attack sets in motion a string of deadly pursuits, a mystery murder, and a political crisis involving the most prominent bishop in England.In the center of the chaos, the beautiful half-Gypsy, Kadriya, yearns for true love. Raised by English nobility, she has passed the threshold of womanhood. Spurned for her mixed blood, she is now twenty and longs for acceptance. With one foot planted firmly in each of her ethnic shorelines, Kadriya struggles to find her place in the world. Teraf, an impetuous Gypsy tribal king of surpassing charm, proposes she choose her Romani legacy....