A description of the religious controversies of the Renaissance and Reformation with a focus on what life was like for ordinary people, both Catholic and Protestant.

The Awkward Age Henry James - The Awkward Age is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in Harper's Weekly in 1898-1899 and then as a book later in 1899.Making her debut in London society, Nanda Brookenham is being groomed for the marriage market. Thrust suddenly into the superficial circle that surrounds her mother, the innocent but independent-minded young woman even finds herself in competition with Mrs Brookenham for the affection...

A year after helping Rodrigo Borgia to become Pope Alexander VI, court poisoner Francesca is charged with safeguarding his position, an agenda that exposes her to a violent plot to destroy the Borgia family and seize control of the Catholic Church.

A theatre company bring secrets, magic and murder along with them on their 'Plague Tour', in this bewitching historical mystery starring physician-sleuth Dr. Gabriel Taverner. October, 1604. Plague has hit London, and the theatres are closed. But the capital's loss is Plymouth's gain, when a London theatre troupe, the Company, arrive on their 'Plague Tour'. Country physician Gabriel Taverner is both bewitched and unnerved by the Company's sexually...

Mary Gregory and Sir Justin Beaufort hate each other because they are victims of shotgun marriage and as Road agents, Gentleman John and Silver Buckles love each other truly in spite of their engagement to another who happens to be the other one although they don't know Mary thinks he's stark raving mad. Jack thinks she is not the woman he loves he knows she hates him too.

After making a deal with the Goddess of Love never to be with Totec again so her family can be free, can Isabella keep her word?Follow Isabella and her family as they try to save Angel and her mother from Totec's wrath. Will Isabella leave with her family or will she stay, even though staying means heartache.This is the 4th book in the Aztec Gods - Totec series

In the fifteenth century, with religious intolerance spreading like wildfire across Europe, English-born Anna Bookman and her grandfather, Finn, earn a living in Prague by illuminating precious books, including forbidden translations of the Bible. Finn subscribes to the heresy that people ought to be able to read the Word of God for themselves, without having to pay a priest for the privilege, but holding that belief is becoming more and more hazardous....