"When her sister seizes the throne, Queen Eleanor of Albion is banished to a tiny island off the coast of her kingdom, where the nuns of the convent spend their days peacefully praying, sewing, and gardening. But the island is also home to Margaret, a mysterious young orphan girl whose life is upturned when the cold, regal stranger arrives. As Margaret grows closer to Eleanor, she grapples with the revelation of the island's sinister true purpose...

"When Henry Tudor picks up the crown of England from the mud of Bosworth field, he knows he must marry the princess of the enemy house -- Elizabeth of York -- to unify a country divided by years of war. But his bride is still in love with his slain enemy, Richard III -- and her mother and half of England dream of a missing heir, sent into the unknown by the White Queen. While the new monarchy can win power, it cannot win hearts in an England that...

"This is the story of a young man who placed himself on the ivory throne of Russia with the aid of a handful of Poles, a band of Cossacks, and the love of the Russian people. At the death of Ivan the Terrible -- or, as Mr. Barbour more appropriately calls him, Ivan the Dread -- in 1584, his seventh wife and two of his sons survived him. Fyodor, son of Ivan's first wife, succeeded to the throne although he was said to be 'more fit to be a priest than...

Describes the efforts of Perkin Warbeck, the son of a Flanders boatman, to persuade some of the most powerful monarchs of the era that he was the rightful king of England and the repercussions of his masquerade.