Maureen Peters Books in Order

Elizabeth of York grows up amid the Wars of the Roses, her future shaped by rival claims to England's throne. Marriage to Henry Tudor promises stability, but political ambition keeps threatening the family life she wants.

Neglected in her grandmother's household, Katheryn Howard finds affection in relationships that later endanger her. Becoming Henry VIII's queen brings luxury and influence, but her past leaves her vulnerable to the intrigues of the Tudor court.

Anne Boleyn returns from the Continent and attracts Henry VIII's attention while serving Catherine of Aragon. Refusing to become his mistress, she pursues a place beside him as religious upheaval and court rivalries complicate her ambitions.

Serving Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn captures the attention of Henry VIII but refuses the role of royal mistress. Her hopes of becoming queen draw her into a struggle involving marriage, religion and dangerous court politics.

Mary Tudor, Henry VIII's sister, becomes a bargaining piece in Europe's royal marriage negotiations. While powerful men plan her future, her love for Charles Brandon forces her to weigh personal happiness against the demands of her family.

Lady Jane Grey wants no crown, but her ambitious parents see her as a route to power. A politically arranged marriage pulls the young woman into a dangerous struggle over who should inherit England's throne.

This biography examines the life of Jean Ingelow, a Victorian poet and writer of children's books. Drawing partly on unpublished family papers, Peters explores the woman behind a literary career that extended across poetry and fiction.

Born into privilege, Lady Jane Grey faces parents determined to advance their own ambitions through her. As marriage negotiations become part of a plot for the throne, she finds herself caught between family pressure and royal politics.

Elizabeth Woodville seeks a place in the royal world as Lancaster and York struggle for England's throne. Her beauty and ambition bring her close to power, but the Wars of the Roses make every alliance dangerous.

Determined to escape poverty, Elizabeth Woodville wins the love of King Edward Plantagenet. Their marriage brings her into the royal family, where hostility toward her rise and the Wars of the Roses threaten her fragile security.

Leaving the Welsh mountains for London in 1590, Margred falls in love with the married Sir Harry Falcon. When he brings her to his family's Kent estate, their affair introduces a dangerous influence into Kingsmead.

Lord Charles Falcon pursues wealth and status without regard for his family's safety. When he blocks Rosemary's marriage and attacks the man she loves, she must find the courage to resist his greed and cruelty.

Escaping famine in Ireland, sisters Kate and Tansy Malone arrive in Liverpool, where cholera, corruption, and violence threaten their hopes. Tansy struggles to secure a better future as the people they encounter alternately help and obstruct them.

Tansy longs for freedom from her Irish village, but neither the English youth she loves nor her devoted admirer understands her. When the potato crop fails, famine forces her to confront difficult truths about herself.

Regina Falcon flees an arranged marriage meant to settle her grandfather's gambling debts and makes her way to London. Becoming Charles II's mistress offers influence, but her own desires and her family's past threaten her ambitions.

Bess Hardwick leaves her country home for London and builds a place in Tudor society through successive marriages. Her growing wealth and friendship with Elizabeth Tudor draw her into a royal world where political judgment matters.

To escape marriage to a moneylender, Regina Falcon runs away to London and becomes Charles II's mistress. Her rise at court brings opportunities, but romantic desires and the corrupt history of her family complicate her pursuit of power.

As the Falcon men fight in the First World War, Leah and Levanah wield dark powers at Kingsmead. A courageous young girl with unusual abilities becomes the family's hope against the forces threatening to consume it.

Lord Edward Falcon rules Kingsmead through manipulation and cruelty while war reshapes the world beyond his estate. Hiring a travelling artist to paint the family introduces an unexpected challenge to his power and exposes his corrupt nature.

Lord James Falcon champions humane conditions for workers while hiding a jealous, passionate nature. When violence and scandal disrupt Kingsmead, the mysterious Willow faces a corrupt force rooted in the Falcon family's history and desires.

After escaping the people who abducted them as babies, sisters Hagar and Yoni flee through seventeenth-century England. Their search for safety leads to Ladymoon Manor, where the ancient Moon Chalice draws them toward new dangers.

In eighteenth-century Cornwall, fisher boy Petroc Makin longs for an unattainable first love and grows increasingly driven by revenge. His ambitions entangle the young Tamar, whose attempts to sing down the moon put her in danger.

Leah Falcon's intelligence and strength give her power over her siblings until a mysterious stranger enters her life. Unable to resist him, she faces a corrupting influence that threatens to spread through the entire Falcon family.

A woman's attraction to a handsome Falcon heir seems destined, but his family's history of violence and betrayal threatens their love. She must confront the legacy binding him to generations of destructive desire before becoming its next victim.

Young Purity Makin's life changes when cavalier James Rodale seeks refuge at Ladymoon Manor. Their encounter draws her into broken promises, jealousy, and the dangerous powers of a sacred chalice whose secrets can serve good or evil.

Candida, Perpetua, and Grace each use a magical chalice to pursue desire, amusement, or revenge. Across the centuries at Ladymoon Manor, the relic entwines their lives and turns private wishes into dangers its owners cannot easily control.

Young widow Cobweb travels from the American wilderness to England to inherit Ladymoon Manor. Her French and Indigenous heritage and unfamiliar surroundings leave her vulnerable to intrigue, while the ancient Moon Chalice curse threatens her new life.

Diana Maundy grows up believing an aristocratic couple are her parents, then seeks refuge in a convent from worldly intrigue. Her journey to the royal court forces her toward the hidden truth about her birth and inheritance.

Orphaned Gida Falcon enters the service of a powerful lord and his wife, hoping to survive a dangerous world. A forbidden love reveals how her beauty and desires can expose her to the intrigues surrounding them.

Ten-year-old Lucy Bostock is brought from poverty to Yorkshire's Ladymoon Manor, where her future becomes entwined with the wealthy Holdens and mill worker Saul Rowe. Social prejudice, Luddite unrest, and witchcraft threaten her pursuit of happiness.

French captive Pierre de Faucon pledges himself to Joan of Kent, unaware of the sorcery beneath her influence. Centuries later, Dora Meadows risks forbidden love with a German-uniformed Falcon, linking desire and danger across the family's history.

A mysterious power binds men and women across generations, from Druid blood rites through Norman, Georgian, and Victorian worlds to modern England. Their desires and relationships become part of a struggle that reaches beyond individual lives and death.

Anne Neville's life moves from the security of Middleham through war, poverty, and royal marriage. This novel follows Warwick the Kingmaker's daughter as shifting loyalties and fortunes shape her path toward becoming Richard III's queen.

Lucy Mary O'Malley agrees to marry Prince Chang Lee and travels from Lancashire to the Forbidden City. Intrigue at the Dragon Empress's court and the Boxer siege force her to fight for her life and love.

Widowed Isabella de Valois finds a diary belonging to Richard II's first wife, Anne of Bohemia. Reading it draws her into her predecessor's marriage and helps her examine the hidden grief and mysteries surrounding the king she loved.

Henry I's two wives, Editha and Adelicia, experience marriage and queenship amid tensions between Saxon and Norman England. Their intertwined stories follow ambition, love, and changing court life, with the White Ship's tragedy reshaping the royal world.

Tudor-descended Rowan Garth leaves the Welsh mountains to seek her fortune at court, where challenging the king proves dangerous. Marriage to a Spanish nobleman and a shepherd's arrival give her competing routes toward a destiny of her own.

Ellen Farrell inherits a cottage on condition that she remain there for three months and stay unmarried. While settling into Mortcombe, she discovers a scrapbook whose power to grant wishes could also place lives in danger.

At Pen-Tan in seventeenth-century Wales, Rowan Prester's love for her husband's brother becomes entangled with an inherited serpent ring. Her son and Mina threaten her power as family rivalries and old promises link three generations.

Eleanor of Provence becomes Henry III's queen amid the tensions of his reign and hostility from Londoners. Her encounters with Simon de Montfort place personal conflict alongside royal politics in this fictional account of a controversial consort.

Pagan Clough leaves home with Adam Paget for Somerset and becomes caught in the Monmouth Rebellion. Her search for experience exposes her to men who exploit her desires, including a bearkeeper and the formidable Judge Jeffreys.

Philippa of Hainault marries the future Edward III and enters a court troubled by intrigue surrounding Roger Mortimer. Her devotion to husband and children faces fresh uncertainty when Joan arrives and gains influence within the royal family.

Seventeen-year-old Gwendolen enters an arranged marriage at a great house on Mona, where ancient paintings conceal mysteries. Family rivalries and the arrival of Vivien's daughter draw her into a conflict between supernatural forces and forbidden temptations.

Mina and her children inherit Rowan's home in the Welsh mountains as Huguenot refugees arrive in the valley. A love affair turns tragically wrong, and the family's dark legacy shapes the fate of a child named Amethyst.

School friends Anne Sinclair, an heiress, and Anna Sayle, an orphan, agree to exchange roles for a short time. Their experiment exposes them to unfamiliar lives and consequences neither anticipated, turning a temporary masquerade into a complicated deception.

After her grandmother dies, Lilac Mary Morton travels to Yorkshire to uncover the truth about her parents' mysterious deaths. A formidable red-haired man draws her into fresh questions as she searches for answers about her family.

Fanny Sabre Webber expects her daughter Rose to marry the new owner of Sabre Hall, keeping the estate in her descendants' hands. When he chooses another woman, Fanny's determination to control the inheritance takes a murderous turn.

Sent from Spain to marry an English prince, Catalina is left widowed at the Tudor court before finding happiness with Henry VIII. Her inability to provide a surviving son threatens their marriage as Anne Boleyn gains influence.

Sisters Laurie, Dora, and Clarisse expect parties and romance when they enter society. Their anticipated social whirl takes an unsettling turn when a sinister man threatens the orderly lives they have always taken for granted.

Sisters Philippa and Katherine face the gap between respectable marriages and private desires. While Philippa struggles with her marriage to Geoffrey Chaucer, Katherine confronts pressure to accept a passionless union in a society riddled with hypocrisy.

Seeking work to help her struggling family, Sparrow Harvey travels to Scotland to find a woman's missing lover. An unexpected reunion with Simon Adair complicates her investigation into a family with dangerous political ambitions.

Elizabeth's position as queen cannot shield her from jealousy or the weight of her family's violent past. This fictional portrait explores the private dilemmas of a woman whose royal identity is bound up with painful memories.

Sisters Elizabeth and Moira leave Ireland for England in 1861, hoping to improve their lives. When Moira departs for America with the writer Elizabeth loves, Elizabeth pursues her own dream of a house with two front doors.

Charlotte, Emily, Anne, and Branwell Brontë share a secluded existence that gives rise to intense writing. This fictional reconstruction explores the siblings' relationships and the few outsiders whose friendships offer glimpses into their private world.

Cast out by her father, Janet Llewellyn is forced into marriage with a Romani man. Her daughter Anne grows up an outcast in Wales, where family bitterness threatens to shape another generation's life.

A Catholic boy's elopement with a Jewish girl begins a family feud lasting three generations. Their descendants' lives stretch from Italy to Wales and Germany, where Nazi persecution brings new danger to those of Jewish descent.

Growing up in the Windward Islands, Yeyette hears a prophecy about her future. Her path toward becoming Joséphine unfolds against revolutionary upheaval in France, with love and her encounter with Bonaparte shaping the woman she becomes.

Elizabeth remains in England while her sister seeks a new life in America. After rebuilding her own household through a second marriage, she plans a reunion overseas that threatens to unsettle her life and her daughters'.

England's new queen faces pressure to choose a husband while guarding her country's independence. Elizabeth Tudor must navigate European ambitions, the threat from Spain, and Mary Queen of Scots's rival claim to the English throne.

Irish-born sisters Elizabeth and Moira have grown apart on opposite sides of the Atlantic. As another world war approaches, Elizabeth's grandson escorts his aunt to America, offering their estranged families a chance to reconnect.