Constance Heaven Books in Order

An abandoned thirteen-year-old boy in London becomes involved with the struggling Globe Theatre. As he finds a chance to help its performers, he also searches for clues to his own origins, linking his uncertain identity with the fortunes of the theatrical world around him.

Sir Walter Raleigh rises in Queen Elizabeth's favor while his ambition and pride shape a dangerous life at court. His relationship with one of her maids of honor threatens the queen's trust, drawing private desire into a conflict with royal power and jealousy.

Anne Oldfield rises from the poverty of Queen Anne’s London to become a celebrated actress. Her love for aristocrat Arthur Maynwaring faces a society hostile to their relationship and political intrigues that place his convictions and safety at risk.

After Roundhead forces execute his older brother, blacksmith's son Rob Tanner longs to serve the imprisoned king. Sent away to avoid trouble, he instead finds fellow royalist sympathizers and opportunities to resist Cromwell's supporters in an England unsettled by civil war.

Francesca Tremayne leaves London for the Cornish manor of Trevarrock as England is divided between king and Parliament. There she falls for disinherited Piers Carlyon, whose determination to reclaim his birthright draws their love into a dangerous struggle over loyalty and possession.

This biographical portrait introduces Ellen Terry, the English performer who became one of Britain's leading Shakespearean actresses. It follows her life and theatrical achievements, presenting the career of a prominent stage figure whose work helped shape the history of English performance.

In seventeenth-century London, young Tom faces the prospect of his uncle being executed. His efforts to save him reveal that the villain responsible for the imprisonment is also the one person capable of stopping the hanging, placing Tom in a perilous dilemma.

Young Amaryllis enters a world of desire and betrayal in imperial Russia. From the gambling halls of St. Petersburg to aristocratic country estates, her future becomes entangled with the passions and dangers surrounding the Kuragin family.

This portrait of Sir Walter Raleigh examines his life and achievements within the world of Elizabethan England. By placing its subject against the background of his era, the biography connects an individual career with the society and historical circumstances in which it unfolded.

Sophie Weston travels into the aristocratic world of imperial Russia, where her sister has already formed ties with the Kuragin family. Romance draws her into a society shaped by family loyalties, luxurious privilege, and unresolved conflicts beneath its glittering surface.

Arriving in Vienna in 1847, Lisa Heron enters a society of music and elegance divided by revolutionary tensions. Her involvement with Julian von Falkenburg draws her toward the secrets surrounding his past and his home, Castle of Eagles, where an unexpected discovery changes everything.

Christina Dering falls for Prince Alexis Suvarin in St. Petersburg before Napoleon’s victories drive her to England. Her uncle’s Devon home offers little refuge from family secrets and political intrigue, making Alexis’s unexpected return both tempting and difficult to trust.

Marietta Gilmour returns from France to her ancestral Scottish castle hoping to heal her divided family. Love for the compelling Coll initially seems to promise happiness, but violence and intrigue transform her home into a prison and make the man she trusts appear increasingly threatening.

Emma Tremayne's Paris holiday becomes dangerous as the peace between England and Napoleon's France collapses. Her father's secret mission and her love for Lucien de Fontenay carry her into a troubled household in Provence, where revolutionary memories and political conspiracies threaten their future.

Abandoned in St. Petersburg by the nobleman she rashly married, Anna Crispin receives a strange letter urging her to follow him. A troubled journey brings help from Paul Kuragin and questions about both men that threaten her understanding of love.

Oliver, heir to Ravensley, and Alyne, a foundling raised alongside him, grow from childhood companions into lovers. The return of Oliver's formidable uncle Justin strips him of both his estate and his beloved, beginning a struggle over inheritance, desire, and concealed family truths.

Left penniless after her father’s death, Juliet finds employment with the Chartley family. Her attraction to Richard, who is struggling to preserve the family pottery business, develops amid domestic intrigue and the pressures of industrial unrest.

A Roman artifact sold cheaply in a London antique shop opens the way to an extraordinary archaeological discovery. Its hidden importance also draws those around it into a modern world of crime, drugs, and murder.

Jethro Alysham helps Laurel Rutland travel from Rome to her family in London, then realizes he has fallen in love with her. Their attachment is complicated by the hostility between their families, turning a journey home into a test of loyalties and desire.

Louise du Vallon faces conflicting attachments and competing loyalties in Europe during the reign of Napoleon III. Her personal struggle unfolds within a historical world in which romantic desire and allegiance pull her toward incompatible choices.

Traveling to Spain in 1833 with her cousin and his wife, Charlotte falls in love with the enigmatic Don Lorenzo, Marques de Merenda. The journey introduces a powerful attraction to a man whose mystery complicates the romantic future she begins to imagine.

In nineteenth-century Yorkshire, Delphine Craven investigates the crime that destroyed her family's fortunes. A mysterious skull charm and discoveries about the past draw her into a struggle involving revenge, while an unexpected love offers the possibility of a different future.

A Russian village girl and an English doctor from a privileged background fall in love across a considerable social divide. Revolution and war put their relationship under pressure, testing whether their attachment can survive the historical upheavals reshaping their lives.

Isabelle de Sauvigny escapes revolutionary Paris for England, hoping to leave danger behind. New romantic difficulties await her there, while her brother Guy becomes involved in hazardous smuggling journeys across the Channel, keeping the family's future tied to events on both shores.

Christine Warrinder feels confined by the expectations of her privileged Victorian family. Meeting Daniel Hunter, whose background differs sharply from her own, opens the possibility of a freer life, but their growing attachment threatens the family's established order.

Raised comfortably in Russia as the daughter of a British diplomat and a dancer, Louise Defour loses everything when her parents die. Traveling to England to meet an unsuspecting half-sister, she enters Daniel and Christine Hunter's household, where her arrival threatens existing relationships.

A chance encounter brings Welsh campaigner Luke Llewellyn Jones into Tanya's unconventional Anglo-Russian family and leads him to fall in love. Her attraction to another man carries her toward a Europe approaching war, while Luke later risks a dangerous journey to see her again.