Ann Chamberlin Books in Order

Brought into King David's household with her priestess mother, Tamar struggles to preserve her devotion to the Goddess. Royal ambitions and competing faiths reshape her world as religious conflict becomes inseparable from family loyalties and survival.

Captured and sold into the Ottoman sultan's harem, Sofia resolves to rise above slavery. Fellow captive Giorgio's love for the sultan's daughter places him in danger, intertwining personal longing with the struggle for power inside the palace.

Unable to bear sons, the sultan's daughter Esmikhan becomes entangled in a scheme devised by former Venetian slave Sofia. A devoted slave tries to protect her as ambitions and vulnerability collide within the Ottoman court.

Within the Ottoman harem, Safiye turns her position as a slave into political influence reaching across Europe and Asia. Determined to secure the throne for her son, she pursues a web of intrigues that crosses imperial borders.

Na'amah, the daughter of Adam and Lilith, witnesses the passing of ancient religious traditions and the rise of a new God. Through her perspective, the familiar Eden story becomes an exploration of independence, belief, and changing power.

Joan of Arc's rise unfolds against ancient prophecies attributed to Merlin and the persistence of pagan beliefs. This historical fantasy reimagines the forces surrounding her destiny, linking a familiar story of faith and warfare to older religious traditions.

In war-torn France, young Jehannette d'Arc hears voices calling her beyond the ordinary life her family expects. An elderly hermit recognizes her place in Merlin's prophecy as the country waits for a maiden who might unite it.

Joan of Arc's extraordinary role is explored through Merlin's ancient prophecies and Europe's older pagan traditions. This historical fantasy connects her spiritual power with the competing beliefs surrounding the woman remembered as both warrior and saint.

Chamberlin examines women's seclusion across Middle Eastern history, drawing on archaeology, architecture, religion, and cultural evidence. She challenges conventional Western interpretations by arguing that some forms of seclusion could offer protection and power as well as restriction.

As Islam takes hold, an aging general recounts his battles while young Rayah explores her faith and emerging power. A secluded woman in Tadmor conceals a past tied to desert tribes, sacred camels, and the jinn.

After the death of their elderly cat, a family keeps postponing the arrival of another pet. The children grow tired of waiting through new babies, travel, and a house move, and insist that the time has finally come.

In the early years of Islam, Rayah confronts the dangers of her faith and abilities while Khalid recalls a lifetime of warfare. An older story of a woman's spell and a deadly sword entwines their changing world.

Brynhild escapes a ritual death intended to save her people and becomes one of Odin's warrior maidens. Charged with selecting the slain in battle, she begins to question whether service to a god leaves room for her own choices.

Rayah faces the risks of her growing power as her mother confronts an identity concealed for thirteen years. Alongside their story, an undefeated general reconsiders his bloody past in the concluding volume of this early Islamic saga.

Hansel and Gretel's familiar fairy tale takes a different turn in this illustrated retelling. Scratch-and-sniff elements introduce pleasant and unpleasant smells, inviting children to experience the witch's world through scent as well as story and pictures.

When Brittany discovers a body in a condominium hot tub, she turns to her aunt Helen for help. Haunted by her daughter's death and troubled marriage, Helen must balance religious expectations with an investigation into the stranger's fate.

Through interviews and family history, Chamberlin follows her grandmother and seven great-aunts from poverty in Yorkshire toward Mormon life in Utah. Factory work, religious conversion, migration, and personal losses test the sisters' enduring bonds and hopes.

Punished for disobedience, Brynhild is expelled from the Valkyries and condemned to enchanted sleep. Awakening before Siegfried, she must weigh the promise of companionship against the loss of her magical strength and Odin's possible revenge.

Odin turns his power against former Valkyries Brynhild and Thora, exploiting their families to divide them. As grief and vengeance threaten their friendship, protecting their children and confronting an invasion force them to consider joining together again.

An Israeli archaeology student balances her first excavation with caring for the Holocaust survivor who raised her. Visions of ancient lives and a vanished Yemeni infant draw questions of identity, motherhood, and power into her own story.