Daniel John Roddy Books in Order

Genghis Khan’s daughter Alaqai is married into an unfamiliar tribe and sent to hold a distant frontier. Expected to maintain peace quietly, she must use diplomacy and leadership to protect borderlands threatened by the pressures of an expanding empire.

Alexander’s conquests across Asia unfold alongside ancient scrolls and visions associated with Daniel’s prophecies. As ambition carries him toward an expanding empire, mysterious warnings challenge his understanding of destiny, earthly power, and the kingdom he hopes to build.

Before Temujin becomes Genghis Khan, Börte enters a marriage arranged for alliance and is captured during conflict. Returning to a world shaped by conquest, she must navigate the competing demands of love, loyalty, and leadership among the tribes.

From escape during Sulla’s purges to pirates, campaigns in Gaul, and the crossing of the Rubicon, Caesar pursues power. A copied prophetic scroll runs alongside his rise, exposing questions of betrayal, destiny, and the eventual fall of empires.

Raised secretly after a royal death order, Cyrus emerges from Persia’s mountains to challenge his grandfather and the kingdom of Media. His expanding rule and liberation of captives bring ancient prophecy into conflict with the demands of imperial power.

Taken from Jerusalem into Babylonian captivity, Daniel is renamed and trained to serve foreign kings. Through royal dreams, threats of execution, and visions of future empires, he struggles to preserve his faith amid the pressures of imperial service.

Eleanor of Aquitaine moves through the crowns of France and England, crusades, family betrayals, and years of imprisonment. Her struggle with husbands and sons becomes a lifelong effort to reclaim freedom, authority, and a voice of her own.

Sent to seek an alliance against the Xiongnu, Han officer Zhang Qian is captured before reaching his destination. Years of captivity and a perilous journey through unfamiliar kingdoms test his mission and reveal new connections beyond China.

Fifteen-year-old Basque court servant Iñigo joins Magellan’s voyage into unfamiliar seas, where storms and divided loyalties threaten the expedition. As exploration becomes conquest, he confronts the human costs of empire and the choices demanded by his faith.

Geoffrey Chaucer grows from a wine merchant’s son into an observer of courts, markets, and pilgrimage roads. Amid plague, war, and rebellion, the voices around him shape poetry that seeks to preserve the contradictions and memories of England.

As British forces seize Hong Kong, young healer Mei protects her mother’s medical scroll while runaway sailor James seeks refuge. Their uneasy alliance draws them into pursuit and war, testing whether trust can bridge the forces dividing them.

In fourteenth-century North Africa, Fatima leaves home carrying a scroll and compass, following the routes of Ibn Battuta. Travels through Cairo and India challenge her understanding of faith and freedom as she begins to shape a journey of her own.

In colonial Hong Kong, Indian clerk Ravi and Cantonese healer Lian encounter a coded message tied to hidden resistance. As the Taiping Rebellion gathers force, they must navigate betrayal and conflicting loyalties without losing the histories they carry.

Through Matthew’s eyes, Jesus’s journey moves from Galilee to Jerusalem through healings, storms, forgiveness, and the fulfillment of ancient prophecy. Expectations of royal power meet a different kind of kingship as his followers confront a crown of thorns.

Joan of Kent defies royal and religious expectations by secretly marrying a knight beneath her station. Her later life with the Black Prince unfolds through war, plague, and exile, testing the endurance of love and the meaning of mercy.

Kublai inherits the expectations of Genghis Khan’s legacy alongside a divided empire and conflict between brothers. Moving between Mongolia’s steppes and Chinese palaces, he must decide how to govern across cultures without relying entirely on conquest and fear.

Seventeen-year-old Marco Polo leaves Venice with his father and uncle, traveling the Silk Road toward Kublai Khan’s court. A mysterious scroll and dangerous relationships draw him into betrayals that test the boundaries of truth, loyalty, love, and silence.

Babylon’s conquering king Nebuchadnezzar demands obedience and worship while the captive Daniel interprets disturbing dreams. Their encounters expose the limits of imperial majesty, carrying the ruler from pride and conquest toward madness and a difficult reckoning with humility.

Richard becomes king and pursues glory on crusade, meeting Saladin through warfare and a growing respect for his opponent. Capture and ransom complicate his ambitions, forcing the warrior ruler to confront the uneasy relationship between pride, courage, and mercy.

Widowed Sorghaghtani faces expectations that she withdraw into tradition, but instead raises sons destined for power and builds strategic alliances. In the Mongol world of generals, priests, and khans, her family’s future depends on diplomacy and careful survival.

Married into a foreign court to secure an alliance, Alaqai Beki finds that being Genghis Khan’s daughter offers little protection. Surrounded by spies and political rivals, she must learn to wield authority while weighing the sacrifices her ambitions demand.

In Prague in 1989, sixteen-year-old Lara hopes to avoid the attention of the secret police. An underground circle of students and musicians draws her toward protest, where remaining safe means turning away from the change she wants.

Abandoned by his tribe and pursued by rivals, young Temujin struggles to survive on the Mongol steppe. Brotherhood and betrayal test his ambition to build a community united by loyalty rather than inherited bloodlines or tribal divisions.

Phronime survives Thera’s catastrophic eruption as ash and waves scatter her people across the Aegean. Forced into the uncertainty of refuge, she learns to adapt while preserving knowledge and memories of a home the disaster has transformed.

In Kyoto in 1582, Oda Nobunaga stands near his dream of uniting Japan by force. Through the eyes of his fictional page, his triumphs give way to gathering resentment and betrayal among those closest to him.

When Mongol forces burn Kiev, fourteen-year-old bell maker’s apprentice Daniil escapes carrying a secret message hidden in a bell mold. Traveling toward Novgorod with orphan Ilyana, he must evade pursuers while protecting the fragile hope entrusted to him.

Servant Lycias witnesses Alcibiades rise through Athens’s political world before shifting loyalties take him toward Sparta and Persia. The charismatic leader’s pursuit of glory exposes the destructive relationship between personal ambition, public trust, and the demands of leadership.

Young Enmerkar watches floods and fire unsettle life around Uruk’s rivers while seeking answers from a silent goddess. Experiments with clay and signs lead him toward a new way to preserve memory when familiar forms of understanding fail.

Outcast Chandragupta becomes the pupil of the ruthless strategist Chanakya and challenges the Nanda rulers. Betrayals, assassins, and armies accompany his rise, while a western invasion tests whether the boy who wins an empire can also sustain it.

Sana, a temple scribe’s daughter in ancient Mesopotamia, discovers a forbidden myth that powerful authorities want erased. A wandering poet helps her preserve it, drawing her into a struggle over who may shape memory and belief.

Widowed court attendant Murasaki begins writing The Tale of Genji amid the rivalries of Japan’s Heian court. Her growing reputation attracts admiration and dangerous envy, forcing her to protect a voice that challenges expectations of silence.

Basil II inherits a Byzantine throne surrounded by rebellion, ambitious generals, and enemies on its borders. Forging alliances with soldiers and the Varangian Guard, he pursues imperial survival through campaigns that demand increasingly ruthless choices.

Taken from her village and sold into Sultan Süleyman’s harem, Roxelana must navigate rivals, palace intrigue, and restrictive traditions. Her intelligence and determination offer a path toward influence, but every advance attracts new enemies.

Humbaba guards the ancient Cedar Forest as Gilgamesh and Enkidu approach in search of glory. Told from the guardian’s perspective, their encounter explores the boundaries of ambition and the cost of treating nature as something to conquer.

Stone carver Taren helps build a sanctuary at Göbekli Tepe, shaping pillars into monumental circles. As the work takes on sacred significance, he must choose between obedience to religious authority and loyalty to the people whose labor sustains it.

Young Sultan Mehmed II sets his sights on Constantinople and brings unprecedented artillery against its ancient defenses. Opposing him stands Emperor Constantine XI, whose resistance makes the siege a decisive confrontation between Ottoman ambition and Byzantine survival.

Commissioner Lin Zexu confronts British opium merchants to protect China, but his actions bring warships and political danger. Chinese and British perspectives follow a crisis in which defending principle threatens the people and family he hopes to safeguard.

A boy in Cyprus watches ledgers and shipping routes record the unraveling of a connected trading world. As ports fall silent and copper shipments cease, he discovers how quickly trust can collapse and how survival demands new ways of living.

Caught between an Egyptian upbringing and Hebrew exile, Moses must discover which loyalties will guide his life. Called to lead a people toward freedom, he confronts the responsibilities of leadership and the tension between justice and mercy.

Court dancer Chantara and palace guard Mek notice dangerous secrets as a royal wedding approaches in fourteenth-century Ayutthaya. When an assassin attacks during a performance, they must choose their loyalties amid a struggle hidden behind ceremonial appearances.

Jonas of Lorraine joins the First Crusade seeking honor and adventure, carrying a mysterious inherited scroll. Amid the violence of holy war, he must decide whether his faith calls him to wield a sword or preserve a spiritual flame.

A mysterious pendant transports twelve-year-old Shae from modern Vienna to Maria Theresa’s threatened court in 1740. Disguised as a stable girl, she befriends Jakob and must decide whether helping the empress is worth the danger of changing history.

Meritaten grows up in the city built for Akhenaten’s worship of the Aten, watching her father’s religious project strain Egypt. Hunger and resistance to the new order force her to choose between obedience to her family and speaking against failure.

Neferure grows up as Hatshepsut’s daughter and a priestess of Amun, caught between royal authority and personal conscience. Unrest in Egypt’s temples forces her to question whether loyalty to her mother can coexist with her own sense of justice.

Otto von Bismarck pursues German unity through revolution, political maneuvering, and imperial ambition. Told through his reflective voice, the novel follows a statesman confronting the moral and personal costs of binding divided lands into one nation.

Taken from Jerusalem into captivity in Babylon, Daniel becomes an interpreter of royal dreams while holding to his faith. Visions and service under powerful rulers draw him into a struggle between conscience, imperial demands, and threatened survival.

Fourteen-year-old Ebenezer Fox becomes a militia drummer as British troops and rising resistance transform Boston. Secret meetings and the battles around the city draw him into the Revolution, where keeping his courage matters as much as keeping the beat.

Caught entering a forbidden Lisbon library, Mateo must choose prison or a berth on a fleet bound for the Spice Islands. A mysterious scroll and shifting loyalties turn his voyage into a search for something more consequential than treasure.

Justinian and Theodora seek to rebuild Constantinople and restore Roman power while riots, plague, and war threaten Byzantium. Their partnership faces mounting pressure as military ambition drains the treasury and rebuilding an empire exacts a personal cost.

Young Otto of Saxony inherits a divided kingdom and faces rebellious dukes, family betrayal, and threats to his rule. His struggle to unite the realm forces him to consider how conquest, faith, and responsibility should shape power.

Napoleon rises from an outsider in Corsica to military commander and emperor of France. Victories across Europe feed his ambitions, but the invasion of Russia and mounting opposition test the limits of his power and judgment.

Ashoka fights through rivalry and betrayal to secure a throne, only to be haunted by the devastation of Kalinga. Queen Devi’s compassion and Buddhist teaching challenge the conqueror to imagine a form of rule grounded in peace.

In Angkor, healer Srey’s visions and sculptor Chan’s forbidden coronation mask expose a mystery beneath the Khmer Empire’s rituals. A buried truth threatens the kingdom’s sacred history, forcing them to weigh devotion against the danger of defiance.

Irene arrives in Constantinople to marry the emperor and enters a court divided over religious images. As empress and regent, she confronts plotting generals and a rivalry with her own son while fighting to restore the icons.

Young Al-Biruni dreams of measuring the world until conquest forces him into exile. As a captive scholar traveling through courts and India, he balances survival with curiosity, seeking knowledge that can connect cultures despite the ambitions of rulers.

Fourteen-year-old Yaroslav, son of a pagan warlord, encounters a monk and a mysterious sword that will not kill in anger. Moving through threatened villages and betrayals, he faces choices about faith, loyalty, and the meaning of strength.

Exiled prince Aditya meets shipwright’s daughter Ratna in tenth-century Sumatra, where a hidden star map could alter the balance of kingdoms. Pursued by rival powers, they navigate betrayal and gathering warships across the Srivijaya Empire’s stormy waters.

Builders uncover a scroll in Jerusalem’s Temple, prompting King Josiah to seek the prophetess Huldah’s judgment. As war threatens and reform divides the city, her interpretation places religious conscience against the pressures of royal authority and public fear.

Raised in Sidon’s temples, Jezebel becomes queen of Israel and discovers that religious conviction can sustain authority while feeding intolerance. Divine silence and escalating violence force her to confront the consequences of the beliefs that once gave her certainty.

In Ice Age Europe, young Nara becomes responsible for guarding her wandering community’s last flame. Hunger and winter threaten its survival, while the fire she carries begins to represent the stories and beliefs that bind people together.

Portuguese interpreter Kalim is caught between the Muslim traders who raised him and the European conquerors he serves. Betrayal and a mysterious scroll send him across dangerous seas, pursued by rulers who fear the message he carries.

Disillusioned squire Thomas and Ayyub, the son of a scholar at Saladin’s court, share responsibility for a prophetic scroll. As Richard and Saladin’s armies clash, their unlikely connection tests whether mercy can survive a war for conquest.

On Anatolia’s contested frontier, young Osman receives a banner and a dream of founding something lasting. With loyal companions and unlikely allies, he confronts rival clans, betrayal, and siege as his following begins to grow.

Amara witnesses the Dutch East India Company destroy the peace of her Bandanese home. A scroll recovered from a ruined chapel makes her the keeper of a dangerous legacy, forcing her to choose between protecting herself and preserving hope.

Ratni, a seal carver’s daughter in Harappa, dreams of sailing beyond the dockyards she knows. Drought draws her into a western voyage linking Indus and Sumerian communities, where unfamiliar customs challenge her understanding of trade, memory, and belonging.

Young Ibn Sina pursues medicine and philosophy across Bukhara and Persia, treating patients while challenging established ideas. Rivalries, imprisonment and exile threaten his work, testing whether his determination to understand healing can survive the pressures of courts and illness.

Luke narrates the growth of the early church from Pentecost through journeys toward Rome. Riots, persecution, trials, and shipwrecks test believers carrying their message beyond Jerusalem, as a scattered community learns what its new faith demands.

After civil war, Al-Ma’mun takes power in Baghdad with a vision of gathering and translating the world’s knowledge. Scholars, generals and religious tensions challenge his plans for the House of Wisdom, forcing him to weigh learning against imperial ambition.

In ancient Caral, Rima learns to align sunlight, shadows, and wind with structures rising beside the river. When her measurements challenge the priests’ authority, she must decide whether to remain silent or defend the discoveries changing her world.

Temple apprentice Aya discovers a hidden astronomical alignment in Egypt’s Great Pyramid. Forbidden to study the heavens, she risks the anger of kings and priests as she pursues knowledge with help from her mentor and friend.

Restless King Gilgamesh believes glory will keep his name alive forever. Friendship and loss challenge that certainty, sending him beyond Uruk in search of an answer to death and a deeper understanding of what makes a life meaningful.

Seventeen-year-old Matthias guards a sacred flame in Jerusalem while kings prepare another crusade and Queen Melisende struggles for power. A noblewoman’s secrets and visions from the desert challenge his understanding of the scroll and his calling.

Young monk Aye Min hears memories in Bagan’s temple stones, while dancer Thiri discovers a scroll someone intended to destroy. Their discoveries uncover a concealed truth that could threaten the foundations of an eleventh-century Burmese kingdom.

Washington chooses young officer Benjamin Tallmadge to lead a secret spy network across enemy lines. In occupied New York and along Long Island Sound, coded messages and fragile trust become essential weapons in the struggle for American independence.

After Siptah’s death, Twosret claims Egypt’s throne while famine and rebellion threaten the kingdom. Her struggle to preserve royal authority exposes the fragility of power and challenges her ability to protect a country already burdened by uncertainty.

In Timor’s mountains, oracle Lani struggles with dangerous visions while runaway scribe Tariq carries a stolen map. The arrival of Portuguese ships draws them into looming war, revived legends, and secrets that could decide the island’s survival.

Heraclius seizes the Byzantine throne as the empire approaches collapse, then fights to recover lands lost to Persia. His victories face a new challenge when forces emerging from Arabia threaten the world he has struggled to preserve.

Aging warrior and mariner Meriones navigates the collapse of the Bronze Age, encountering abandoned harbors and broken trading networks. With familiar routes disappearing, he must decide what knowledge, memories, and stories can survive the end of his world.

As the Ottoman Empire collapses, Mustafa Kemal rallies exhausted soldiers and civilians around the possibility of a Turkish republic. War, occupation, and competing loyalties test his resolve to transform imperial defeat into a nation’s beginning.

Young Hammurabi inherits a divided Babylon and turns to a seasoned scribe while seeking justice for his people. Writing a public legal code exposes the gap between fixed rules and mercy, challenging his understanding of what makes a ruler fair.

Enheduanna serves as high priestess in Ur while her father Sargon’s empire faces rebellion. Driven into exile, she turns to hymns addressed to Inanna, struggling to preserve her voice and religious purpose as political authority breaks around her.

A young Mycenaean prince questions the obedience expected of him as preparations for war gather momentum. When restraint is treated as weakness, Idomeneus leaves the world behind the Lion Gate to seek another understanding of leadership, listening, and memory.

After Egypt’s religious upheaval, General Horemheb seeks stability by restoring temples, enforcing laws, and erasing evidence of heresy. His efforts to rebuild order expose the uneasy relationship between truth, political control, and the responsibility of those who govern.

Neferure, daughter of Hatshepsut, prepares for a life shaped by priesthood and royal expectations. Guided by Senenmut, she faces demands for obedience and limits placed on women as questions of succession challenge her sense of purpose and courage.

With Orléans besieged and France’s heir still uncrowned, young Joan claims a divine calling to lead an army. Her efforts to inspire soldiers and secure a coronation place her faith against political distrust and the threat of betrayal.

Young apprentice Niko enters Phidias’s workshop as the sculptor creates a gold-and-ivory Athena for Athens. Art, religious devotion, and civic pride become entangled with envy and political accusations that threaten the survival of a celebrated master’s work.

The immortal Utnapishtim recalls the world before the Flood and the losses that followed his survival. When Gilgamesh arrives seeking eternal life, he must consider what his long endurance can teach a king unwilling to accept mortality.

A young Pythia begins speaking prophecies at Delphi, only to discover that priests control how her words reach the world. As sacred certainty becomes an excuse for human decisions, she struggles to understand the responsibility and cost of her voice.

With Patriot supplies burning in Danbury, sixteen-year-old Sybil Ludington volunteers to carry an urgent warning. Her nighttime ride through rural New York takes her into rain and danger as she works to gather the scattered militia.

An antique mirror takes Shae to Empress Elisabeth’s court in 1854 Vienna, where royal beauty hides loneliness and pressure. With an artist’s apprentice, she uncovers troubling truths and weighs whether revealing them can help a woman trapped by history.

Xuanzang defies an imperial ban to seek Buddhist teachings in India, escaping China under cover of darkness. Pursued by soldiers and facing deserts, mountains, bandits, and hunger, he must decide how much his search for truth is worth.

In 1850s Hong Kong, Isobel’s lost scroll and Zhen’s search for his father’s death draw two families into colonial intrigue. As rebellion approaches and fire reveals a hidden message, they confront divided loyalties and buried secrets.

Prince Hattusili confronts a Hittite kingdom divided by fear, unrest, and circling foreign powers. As civil war threatens, shifting alliances and tested oaths force him to choose between vengeance and the difficult work of creating peace.

Foreign-born Aspasia builds an intellectual circle in Athens while attracting Pericles’s confidence and inspiring Socrates. Through young student Thaleia’s eyes, her influence becomes a source of envy and accusation in a city that sharply limits women’s freedom.

Emperor Charles V commands vast territories but struggles to preserve religious unity as the Protestant Reformation spreads. Looking back near the end of his life, he confronts defiant reformers, unreliable princes, and victories that offer little peace.

In ancient Lagash, Ur-Nanshe rules through temples, ritual, and religious law, expecting obedience to secure the city’s future. When the gods offer no answer, the ruler must confront the boundary between authority, fear, conscience, and human responsibility.

Thirteen-year-old Akbar inherits an unstable empire surrounded by enemies, plots, and religious divisions. As military victories prove insufficient to hold his realm together, he searches for a kind of leadership capable of connecting communities separated by belief.

Educated for imperial life, Anna Komnene dreams of ruling Byzantium but encounters family rivalry and court intrigue. When her ambitions fail, she must find another way to preserve her voice and her father’s legacy through writing.

Young printer Isaiah Thomas discovers that newspapers and broadsides can shape resistance in Revolutionary Boston. Raids, spies and mounting conflict threaten his work, challenging him to keep publishing eyewitness accounts when truthful reporting becomes a dangerous act.

Young prophet Nathan enters King David’s court carrying a message the ruler does not want to hear. A parable about a lamb becomes his means of confronting abuse of power, testing the relationship between loyalty, truth, and repentance.