Books by Elizabeth Chadwick
Eleanor of Aquitaine happens to be one of my favorite historical figures. Bold as lightning, smart as copper penny and tough as rawhide, the legends about her sprawl numerously through European history. Elizabeth Chadwick has written three popular novels about Eleanor’s life, and this autumn s ...
Eleanor, or rather Alienor, of Aquitaine had an incredible life. As a young teen, Alienor and her younger sister, Petronella, are orphaned, and she goes on to marry Louis VII of France, who shortly thereafter became King of France. The Summer Queen follows Alienor through those early years, from the ...
I’m a great fan of Elizabeth Chadwick’s early medieval romances, especially The Wild Hunt, and I liked William Marshal a lot when I came across him in Roberta Gellis’s Roselynde Chronicles. (So I do get most of my fascination with history from reading romances. Sue me.) I was delighted to find ...
The year is 1120, and Sabin FitzSimon is in trouble again. The bastard son of a noble English family, Sabin is a wild and reckless young man whose latest escapade has resulted in the death of an innocent. Since his bad reputation is about to affect the fortunes of his legitimate half-siblings, his f ...
The Winter Mantle is by turns fascinating, brutal, and romantic. The writing is consistently top-notch, the historical details are accurate and thorough, and the characters are flawed in an intriguing way. It also reminded me completely of why I started reading much more romance (and much less histo ...
Lords of the White Castle is Elizabeth Chadwick's eleventh book. Set in late twelfth and early thirteenth century England, it recounts the true tale of the outlaw Fulke FitzWarin, a proud man who dared to stand against King John in order to reclaim his family castle. It also follows the life of Maud ...
The Love Knot is a story for readers who really want to sink their teeth into the medieval period and experience everything, almost as if they were there. Although Catrin and Oliver's love story is well told and with a HEA, the reader should be at least inclined to also enjoying historical fiction a ...