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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Lost Queen
Signe Pike · 527 pages
Insurrection
Robyn Young · 586 pages
The Bruce Trilogy: The Steps to the Empty Throne / The Path of the Hero King / The Price of the King's Peace
Nigel Tranter · 1,047 pages
The Crown in the Heather
N. Gemini Sasson · 302 pages
Dragonfly in Amber
Diana Gabaldon · 947 pages
From the author of Outlander... a magnificent epic that once again sweeps us back in time to the drama and passion of 18th-century Scotland...For twenty years Claire Randall has kept her secrets. But now she is returning with her grown daughter to Scotland's majestic mist-shrouded hills. Here Claire plans to reveal a truth as stunning as the events that gave it birth: about the mystery of an anc
Highland Heat
Mary Wine · 347 pages
To outsmart an enemy of the crown, Laird Quinto Cameron and an ostracized laird's daughter with nothing to lose work together and find passion and love in each other's arms while fighting for their country.
Death of Kings
Bernard Cornwell · 400 pages
The Agincourt Bride
Joanna Hickson · 592 pages
Macbeth
A.J. Hartley · 322 pages
A novelized adaptation of Shakespeare's play follows Macbeth and his wife as they develop a plan to keep Scotland united but find themselves entangled in a web of murder and treachery.
Rivals for the Crown
Kathleen Givens · 477 pages
1290: Turmoil erupts when the seven-year-old queen of Scotland perishes en route to claim the crown. Two bitter foes -- John Balliol and Robert Bruce -- emerge as possible successors, but England's Edward I has his own designs on Scotland. In London, Edward has expelled all Jews from his kingdom. Rachel de Anjou is heartbroken to leave behind her best friend, Isabel de Burke, and travel with he
The Forest Laird: A Tale of William Wallace
Jack Whyte · 483 pages
In the pre-dawn hours of August 24, 1305 A.D., in London's Smithfield Prison, the outlaw William Wallace, who is to be executed at dawn, is visited by a Scottish priest who has come to hear his last Confession. So begins The Forest Laird, the first book in Jack Whyte's masterful new trilogy. Wallace's story leads the reader through his many lives - as an outlaw and a fugitive, a hero and a patriot
The Winter Sea
Susanna Kearsley · 527 pages
When novelist Carrie McClelland decides to set her new novel in Slains Castle in Scotland and uses her ancestor, Sophia Paterson, as one of the characters, the novel begins to take on a life of its own and Carrie soon realizes that an unusual bond with her ancestor may be providing her with an immediate window into the past.
The Third Witch
Rebecca Reisert · 336 pages
"For the girl called Gilly, life in the wilds of Birnam Wood is little more than a desperate struggle for survival. Seven long years have passed since she was first taken in and sheltered by Nettle and Mad Helga, the hut-dwelling wise-women whose inscrutable powers of alchemy and prophecy are feared and reviled throughout good King Duncan's kingdom. Living under the threat of deadly persecution b
Macbeth
William Shakespeare · 135 pages
The Queen's Vow: A Novel of Isabella of Castile
C.W. Gortner · 382 pages
"No one believed I was destined for greatness. So begins Isabella's story, in this evocative, vividly imagined novel about one of history's most famous and controversial queens--the warrior who united a fractured country, the champion of the faith whose reign gave rise to the Inquisition, and the visionary who sent Columbus to discover a New World. Acclaimed author C. W. Gortner envisages the tur
Lady Danger
Glynnis Campbell, Sarah McKerrigan · 372 pages
A King Ensnared: A Historical Novel of Scotland
J.R. Tomlin · 288 pages
The Red Queen
Philippa Gregory
Dark Triumph
Robin LaFevers
I lean forward, pushing my body out past the battlements. The wind plucks at my cloak, buffets against me, as if it would carry me off in flight, just like the birds or the knight's soul. Let go, it cries, I will take you far, far away. I want to laugh at the exhilarating feeling, I will catch you, it whistles seductively. The convent has returned Sybella to a life that nearly drove her mad. Her
The Forbidden Queen
Anne O'Brien · 400 pages
An innocent pawn A kingdom without a King A new dynasty will reign... 1415. The jewel in the French crown, Katherine de Valois, is waiting under lock and key for King Henry V. While he's been slaughtering her kinsmen in Agincourt, Katherine has been praying for marriage to save her from her misery. But the brutal King wants her crown, not her innocent love. For Katherine, England is a lion's den o
The Wild Queen: The Days and Nights of Mary Queen of Scots
Carolyn Meyer
Mary Stuart was just five years old when she was sent to France to be raised alongside her future husband. But when the frail young king dies, eighteen-year-old Mary is stripped of her title as Queen of France and set adrift in the harsh world, alone. Determined to reign over what is rightfully hers, Mary returns to Scotland. Hopingthat a husband will help her secure the coveted English throne, sh
Menewood
Nicola Griffith · 720 pages
The Memoirs of Mary Queen of Scots
Carolly Erickson · 309 pages
The courageous, spirited Mary Queen of Scots tells her own story--from her youth as a young girl married to the invalid young King of France to her short reign as Queen of Scotland and her tragic imprisonment by her ruthless, merciless cousin Queen Elizabeth.
The Saint
Monica McCarty · 428 pages
Book Five of the Highland Guard Magnus MacKay is the ultimate Highlander: tough, proud, able to master any terrain, and best even the most ferocious enemy. Called “Saint” for his refusal to discuss women, as well as for his cool and steady leadership, Magnus’s war name hides a far more painful truth. It isn’t virtue or piety that keeps him silent, but a wound of love and loss that cuts so deep

