Medieval Hearts Books in Order

The Medieval Hearts books follow tangled alliances, vendettas, and uneasy faith in a vividly drawn fourteenth century Europe. Both novels center on the tiny but powerful principality of Monteverde, where royal marriages, mercenary knights, and assassins all shape the fate of a kingdom.

In For My Lady's Heart, widowed Princess Melanthe di Monteverde is a political prize whose hand could tip the balance of power. Determined to stay alive and unwed, she cloaks herself in a reputation for witchcraft and travels with a guarded entourage toward safety. At her side rides Ruck d'Angleterre, the Green Knight, a devout English warrior bound by years of penance and an old, complicated loyalty to Melanthe. Their journey turns into a long, dangerous road story filled with ambushes, court intrigue, and the slow burn of two people who do not entirely trust one another but cannot walk away.

It is a romance about faith and duty colliding with desire, told in richly textured, medieval flavored language.

Shadowheart picks up the Monteverde story from a darker angle. Allegreto Navona, the bastard son of a rival house, has been trained since childhood to kill in the service of other men's ambitions. When he seizes Princess Elayne, the last unmarried heir of Monteverde, his plan is brutally simple: marry her, legitimize his claim, and take the country for himself. Elayne is young, well brought up, and at first completely unprepared for the pirate captain who storms her life, yet she proves far more stubborn and clear eyed than Allegreto expects.

Where the first book leans into chivalry and pilgrimage, the second takes readers deep into political conspiracy, moral compromise, and a relationship that begins in captivity and grows into something far more complex. Both protagonists carry heavy spiritual baggage: vows, sins, and questions about redemption that do not have easy answers. Along the way there are richly drawn side characters, dangerous religious orders, and vivid glimpses of Italian city states and English courts.

The two novels are closely linked but stand on their own, so you can read either first, though most readers start with For My Lady's Heart and then move to Shadowheart to see Allegreto and Elayne's story play out. Expect high stakes, intense emotion, and a tone that skews darker than many historical romances, with battles, political violence, and morally gray choices threaded through the love stories.