Like Game of Thrones with real history. Winner of the Global Ebooks Award for Best Historical Fiction, Bk 1 in an award-winning series. 1150: Provence, where making love and making paper are both crimes against the Church. 'Believable, page-turning and memorable.' Lela Michael, S.P. Review Death on her heels, Estela runs towards a new identity. Her life depends on her golden voice and the patronage of Eleanor of Aquitaine but her heart cares more for the judgement of her tutor, Dragonetz, a cynical ex-crusader. He knows he must not love this troublesome student but their duet makes its own demands. Will their secrets kill them both? The troubadours, Dragonetz and Estela, are an explosive combination which their powerful enemies intend to blast into smithereens.
Global Ebooks Award for Best Historical Fiction Historical Novel Society Editor's Choice Finalist in the Wishing Shelf Awards, the Kindle Book Awards and the Chaucer Awards Four Discovered Diamonds Awards
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Book 1 of the multi-award-winning Historical Fiction series The Troubadours Quartet 'Believable, page-turning and memorable.' Lela Michael, S.P. Review 1150: Provence On the run from abuse, Estela wakes in a ditch with only her lute, her amazing voice, and a dagger hidden in her underskirt. Her talent finds a patron in Aliénor of Aquitaine and more than a music tutor in the Queen's finest troubadour and Commander of the Guard, Dragonetz los Pros. Weary of war, Dragonetz uses Jewish money and Moorish expertise to build that most modern of inventions, a papermill, arousing the wrath of the Church. Their enemies gather, ready to light the political and religious powder-keg of medieval Narbonne. Set in the period following the Second Crusade, Jean Gill's spellbinding romantic thrillers evoke medieval France with breathtaking accuracy. The characters leap off the page and include amazing women like Eleanor of Aquitaine and Ermengarda of Narbonne, who shaped history in battles and in bedchambers. 'Historical Fiction at its best.' Karen Charlton, the Detective Lavender Mysteries Historical Novel Society Editor's Choice Winner of the Global Ebooks Award for Best Historical Fiction Finalist in the Wishing Shelf Awards and the Chaucer Awards