Roberta Gellis Books in Order

Roger of Hereford returns to a divided England ready to support Henry of Anjou against King Stephen. His fierce bond with Elizabeth of Chester makes rebellion even more personal and dangerous.

Teenaged Leah of Pembroke is married to Cain, Lord Radnor, to seal a hard political bargain. What begins as alliance becomes a tense struggle through divided loyalties, family plots, and unexpected love.

Set during the civil war between Stephen and Matilda, this novel ties romance to siege, ambition, and shifting loyalties. Gellis keeps the focus on survival in a country that no longer feels secure.

Widowed Alinor of Roselynde knows King John may try to force her future. Ian de Vipont arrives meaning to protect her, but their attraction only complicates an already perilous political situation.

Joanna is an heiress with power, pride, and good reason to fear love. At King John's court, her growing connection to Geoffrey unfolds amid intrigue thick enough to threaten them both.

Young heiress Alinor Devaux is too rich and too independent to be left unguarded. When seasoned knight Simon Lemagne is sent to protect Roselynde, conflict quickly turns into a far more dangerous attachment.

Caught between rival barons, Gilliane is forced into one marriage and then taken by the enemy. Her captivity becomes a fierce education in politics, danger, and the difference between fear and desire.

Henry Tudor grows up hunted and mistrustful, while Elizabeth of York is pushed toward a marriage loaded with politics. Gellis turns their union into a tense, human story behind the Tudor founding myth.

Leonie de Conyers survives the French Revolution only to be swept into plots, escapes, and dangerous loyalties. Roger St. Eyre becomes her ally, but in a broken world love is never simple.

Elizabeth is trapped in a brutal marriage, but her old bond with Sir William of Marlowe has never truly died. Gellis sets their love story inside a harsh medieval world where duty and violence rule.

Rhiannon, a strong-willed Welsh princess, has no interest in being owned by anyone. Her stormy connection with the elusive Simon unfolds against war, betrayal, and divided loyalties.

To save her ruined estates, Meg becomes the smuggler Red Meg after her husband's death. Philip St. Eyre sees a chance to use the smuggling routes for espionage, then falls for the woman running them.

Sabrina's marriage to a charming but faithless diplomat has gone cold long before politics send them to Russia and Portugal. When old friend Perce reappears, desire and danger catch up with them both.

When Robert Moreton rescues shipwrecked Esmeralda in Portugal, a quick marriage seems like the safest answer. Esmeralda has loved him for years, but he still thinks the union should be temporary.

Lady Pamela becomes companion to a difficult countess in Regency Cornwall and soon finds herself drawn to the brooding master of the house. Witchcraft, storms, and murderish tensions close in around them.

The saga moves into a new generation with Sybelle, granddaughter to Alinor and heiress to Roselynde's burdens as well as its privileges. Love and inheritance prove just as dangerous as open politics.

Widowed Abigail arrives in England from America to claim her son's inheritance in the middle of the War of 1812. Threats to the child pull her into a tense alliance with Sir Arthur St. Eyre.

Fenice d'Aix and Aubery of Ilmer both enter their new bond carrying secrets from unhappy first marriages. Those secrets turn love into a risk, especially once an old enemy decides revenge is not finished.

Alys of Marlow loves Raymond d'Aix, but love does little to soften family ambition and court politics. Their marriage is tested by meddling relatives, inheritance pressure, and danger in Provence.

Lady Audris would rather keep Jernaeve than surrender it through marriage. But her prophetic weaving and the arrival of determined Hugh Licorne make it harder and harder to keep heart and fortress separate.

After an injury leaves her vulnerable, rope dancer Carys has little choice but to trust wandering minstrel Telor. Their growing bond plays out across a rough, war-torn medieval England.

Melusine of Ulle loses home and certainty to war, then is bound to Bruno of Jernaeve, a man from the enemy side. Their uneasy marriage grows in a landscape shaped by siege, politics, and cold necessity.

Gellis breaks down the craft of historical fiction in plain, practical terms. She covers research, period detail, plotting, and the challenge of making the past feel convincing on the page.

Widowed goldsmith's daughter Lissa de Flael is caught in a plot tied to King John and a restless London. Her alliance with Sir Justin FitzAilwin mixes romance, danger, and the politics behind Magna Carta.

Barbara Bigod and Alphonse d'Aix are pulled together by desire, pride, and political necessity. Their marriage unfolds against war, divided loyalties, and the long education of learning to trust each other.

Posing as a hired companion, Linda expects a harmless holiday in Corfu. Instead she walks into a string of suspicious accidents, competing heirs, and a dangerous tangle of attraction and deceit.

Persephone's descent into the underworld becomes a richer and stranger story in Gellis's hands. Hades is no cardboard villain, and the struggle between duty and desire feels newly alive.

Psyche's beauty angers a goddess and draws the attention of Eros. Gellis turns the old tale into a grounded, sensual story about trust, curiosity, and the cost of proving love.

Gellis reimagines Eurydice as far more than a passive victim of myth. Her journey with Orpheus turns into a story about power, freedom, and what love asks a gifted woman to give up.

In war-torn 12th century Southwark, Magdalene la Batarde runs a respectable guesthouse with a less respectable reputation. When murder threatens her livelihood and her life, she has to solve the case herself.

Ariadne tells the Minotaur story from inside the house that created it. As priestess, princess, and sister to the cursed child, she sees how family ambition and divine anger can destroy a kingdom.

Cyn Lystris leaves free trading for the supposedly safer life of carrying interstellar mail. Then a strange cargo, six passengers, and a political plot turn a routine run into a lively space mystery.

After Bertrild is murdered, suspicion falls where it is most convenient, not where it is deserved. Magdalene la Batarde and Sir Bellamy must untangle blackmail, hatred, and fear before the wrong man pays.

Set in Gellis's mythic Greece, this novel follows a woman caught between family duty, desire, and the demands of the gods. Love offers escape, but fate keeps tightening the knot.

Magdalene and Bellamy are drawn into murder and high politics when a gathering around King Stephen turns tense. In Oxford, one death could upset far more than a single household.

Freshly married into Ferrara, Lucrezia Borgia finds that gossip about her family is the least of her worries. A poisoning forces her to investigate a court where every kindness may hide a trap.

In an alternate Tudor England, rival Sidhe factions see very different futures for the realm. Young Elizabeth Tudor becomes the prize in a hidden war between court politics and dangerous magic.

Young landholder Desiree needs a castellan to defend her estate while her older husband fades. The arrival of honorable Sir Alexander Baudoin solves one problem and creates a far more dangerous one.

Elizabeth is older, but no safer, as the dark Sidhe renew their effort to keep her from the throne. Court intrigue and hidden magic tighten around her childhood world.

When a protected young woman dies by poison, Magdalene and Bellamy are pulled into a case shaped by pride, secrecy, and rank. The deeper they dig, the more dangerous the household around them becomes.

With Henry VIII gone and Edward VI on the throne, Elizabeth faces a new kind of danger. If her enemies can stain her name, they may not need magic to destroy her future.

As Edward VI dies and Mary rises, Elizabeth's position turns deadly. Human schemers and dark elves alike are determined to make sure she never rules England.

Another Magdalene la Batarde mystery, this novel throws murder, old loyalties, and medieval politics into one knot. Magdalene and Bellamy have to sort truth from guilt before private sins become public disaster.