Christopher CW Gortner Books in Order

Juana of Castile is sent from Spain to Flanders for a political marriage and finds herself caught between passion and power. As tragedy and betrayal mount, she fights to claim her crown against the people determined to silence her.

Catherine de Medici arrives in France as a young outsider and rises, slowly and painfully, to power. Told in her voice, the novel follows her marriage, her children, and the brutal religious conflicts that shape her reign.

In the last days of Edward VI, orphan Brendan Prescott is drawn into a hidden mission involving Princess Elizabeth. Court politics, double agents, and the mystery of his own birth turn his first step at court into a dangerous education.

Young Isabella of Castile is pushed into captivity, dynastic struggle, and a marriage that could reshape Spain. As war, faith, and ambition close in, she fights to secure her crown without losing herself.

In Queen Mary’s England, Brendan Prescott returns to danger when rumors swirl around Princess Elizabeth. Forced into London’s underworld and back into court intrigue, he must recover compromising secrets before a conspiracy sends Elizabeth to the block.

With Mary Tudor dead and Elizabeth on the throne, Brendan Prescott is called back to court for one more dangerous mission. Old enemies, private loyalties, and a secret that could wreck the new reign keep the pressure high.

Gabrielle Chanel rises from poverty and a convent orphanage to reshape modern fashion. Gortner follows her hunger for freedom, her complicated loves, and the hard choices that shadow her success before and during World War II.

From Weimar Berlin cabarets to Hollywood stardom, Marlene Dietrich reinvents herself again and again. The novel follows her ambition, affairs, and wartime choices as fame grows larger and the world around her turns darker.

Lucrezia Borgia comes of age inside her father’s papal court, where power and danger move together. As marriage alliances, rumors, and family ambition close around her, she has to choose between obedience, survival, and the life she wants.

Maria Feodorovna leaves Denmark for imperial Russia and becomes a Romanov empress at the center of a fragile dynasty. Through palace intrigue, family conflict, and revolution, she struggles to hold together a world already starting to break apart.

Sarah Bernhardt refuses the life expected of her and fights for the stage instead. From Paris theaters to wartime upheaval, this novel tracks her rise, her scandals, and her fierce determination to become a star on her own terms.

At the Cannes Film Festival, jewelry designer Ania loses her new collection to the elusive Leopard. Insurance investigator Jerome Curtis joins the hunt, and their pursuit from Cannes to Paris becomes a stylish mix of danger, desire, and deception.

Jennie Jerome grows up amid money, scandal, and social ambition, then storms into British high society through her marriage to Randolph Churchill. The novel follows her bold, restless life as she navigates love, widowhood, and the rise of her son Winston.

A year after the Cannes theft, Ania and Jerome set a trap during Venice’s Carnival to draw out the Leopard. Their revenge plot turns personal fast, and one wrong move could cost them more than stolen jewels.

Hiding in late 1950s Hollywood, Ania plans one last move against the Leopard. When Jerome Curtis crosses her path again, passion and danger collide as they race to finish a very personal game of cat and mouse.