Society believes the worst of Justin Alastair, the notorious Duke of Avon, who is clearly proud of his sobriquet, ‘Satanas’. It is he who buys Léon body and soul from a scoundrel in a Paris...

So popular is Corbulo with his men that he effectively presides over an Empire within an Empire. Is Corbulo preparing to march against Rome and take the purple? Gaius Valerius Verrens, Hero of...

On 15 June 1215, rebel barons forced King John to meet them at Runnymede. They did not trust the king, so he was not allowed to leave until his seal was attached to the charter in front of him....

London 1792. The Kellaways move from familiar rural Dorset to the tumult of a cramped, unforgiving city.Against the backdrop of a city jittery over the increasingly bloody French Revolution, a...

A tale of two cities Gloucester and London. A tale of two boys Toby, saved from an African slave ship, and Aaron, the illegitimate son of the heir to a great estate. A tale of fathers and sons...

Mad Nicholas to his friends, Scourge of Spain to the enemy, Sir Nicholas Beauvallet has never been known to resist a challenge.When a captured galleon yields the lovely Doña Dominica de Rada y...

The year is 1855, and on the LNWR train to London, a criminal is being escorted to his appointment with the hangman. But the wily Jeremy Oxley, conman, thief and murderer, has one last ace up his...

The warrior queen Boudicca is ready to lead the tribes to war. The Roman grip on Britain is weakening. Emperor Nero has turned his face away from this far-flung outpost. Roman cruelty and...

Four days in June, 1815. Three armies on the fields of Waterloo. A battle for honour, glory, civilisation. And two great leaders, Napoleon and Wellington, fighting directly for the first time to...

Jean Le Viste, a fifteenth-century nobleman close to the King, hires an ambitious artist to design six tapestries celebrating his rising status at Court. A talented miniaturist, Nicolas des...

When Gervase Frant, Seventh Earl of St Erth, returns at last from Waterloo to his family seat at Stanyon, he enjoys a less than welcoming homecoming. Only Theo, a cousin even quieter than himself,...

The year is 43AD. In Southern England, Caratacus, war chief of the Britons, watches from a hilltop as the scarlet cloaks of the Roman legions spread across his lands like blood. In Rome, Emperor...

It's summer 1795 and renowned artist Joshua Pope accepts a commission to paint a wedding portrait of Herbert Bentnick and his betrothed Sabine Mercier at Bentnick's country house in Astley. Whilst...

Paint what you see, Johann; not what you think you see.' This is the advice that Hugo, master portrait painter, gives to his protage, Johann. But young Johann's talent for painting the truth runs...

Dr Sabian Blake astronomer, scientist and master of the Kabbalah possesses the Nemorensis, an ancient, leather-bound book which holds the secrets of the universe.Leafing through it, he reads a...