That Catskill Summer by Bart Charlow

That catskill summer

By Bart Charlow

Publication Date: April 21st, 2026

Publisher: independently published

Pages: 318

Genre: Historical Romance / Literary Romance

He wrote the book he lived. Now she wants to rewrite the ending.

For fans of the 1960s Catskills era of Dirty Dancing, this is a very different kind of love story.

Author Aaron Ben-Ami’s steamy novel, based on a failed youthful love affair in the "Summer of Love" Borscht Belt, is a sensation. Love was easy to come by in the resort culture of the early sexual revolution, but not so easy to keep. Now, as his story is being made into a movie starring Isobel “Izzy” Sandler, the past and present are about to collide.

Ironically, it was a chance meeting with Izzy that inspired Aaron to write the book in the first place—she was his muse. But as they grow close during filming, Izzy discovers the raw truth behind the fiction. She is the granddaughter of Elyse, the real woman who modeled for the novel’s lead—and Aaron's greatest "what if".

Set against the richly textured backdrop of a disappearing American era, That Catskill Summer is a story of what we miss in the moment and what stays with us long after. It is a journey through the humor, the heat, and the heartbreak of youth, told through the reflective eyes of someone who survived it.

Perfect for readers of emotionally rich, time-layered fiction who value reflection over resolution – and those who believe that a single summer can define a lifetime.

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Bart A. Charlow is an author, consultant, and retired therapist whose writing explores the intricate intersections of memory, legacy, and the human heart. With over 45 years as a visual artist and photographer, Bart brings a painterly eye to his prose, capturing the atmospheric beauty and lingering shadows of the people and places that shape us.

Born into the carnival life of a Borscht Belt Catskills hotel family, he has never let the ordinary constrain him.

His first book, A Catskill Carnival: My Borscht Belt Life Lived, Lost and Loved, is a memoir of his early years in a unique setting, coming to terms with it and cherishing its life lessons. Pickle Barrel Tales: More Borscht Belt BS is the companion book of over 50 wry vignettes from several “mountain rats”.

A true son of the Catskills, Bart’s deep connection to the "Borscht Belt" Dirty Dancing era serves as the foundation for his storytelling. His novels delve into the complex emotional landscapes of mature characters, often focusing on the ways the past refuses to stay buried and how new love must contend with old ghosts. His latest series is “Lived-In LoveTM”, dedicated to telling realistic relationship stories with deep emotional connections, not the usual tropes.

Whether through a camera lens, a paintbrush, or the written word, Bart is dedicated to capturing the "circus of memories" that defines the mature experience.

He writes a regular column, “Bart on Art”, for The San Mateo Daily Journal.

Bart has been a favored speaker on TV, radio and in print media for decades and is recognized for his service in the United States Congressional Record.

Among honors he holds is the Jefferson Award for his community leadership and service.

He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, grown children and grandchildren.

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Five Minute History: One of the Most Dramatic Times in English History, and the Woman Who Lived Through All of It

Lady of Lincoln:
A Novel of Nicola de la Haye,
the Medieval Heroine History Tried to Forget

(The Nicola de la Haye Series, Book 1)

By Rachel Elwiss Joyce

Publication Date: February 27th, 2026

Publisher: Hedgehog Books

Page Length: 462

Genre: Biographical Historical Fiction / Medieval Historical Fiction

A true story. A forgotten heroine. In a time when women were told to stay silent, could she become the saviour her people need?

12th-century England. Nicola de la Haye wants to do her duty. But though she’s taught a female cannot lead alone, the young noblewoman bristles at the marriage her father has arranged to secure her inheritance. And when an unexpected death leaves her unguided, the impetuous girl shuns the king’s blessing and weds a handsome-but-landless knight.

Harshly fined by Henry II for her unsanctioned union, Nicola struggles to salvage her estates while dealing with devastating betrayals from her husband… and his choice to join rebels in a brewing civil war. Yet after averting a tragedy and gaining the castle garrison’s respect, she still must face the might of powerful men determined to crush her under their will.

Can she survive love, threats, and violent ambition to prove she’s worthy of authority?

In this carefully researched and vividly human series debut, Rachel Elwiss Joyce showcases the complex themes of honour, responsibility, and freedom in the story of a remarkable heroine who men tried to erase from history. And as readers dive into a world defined by violence and turmoil, they’ll be stunned by this courageous young woman’s journey toward greatness.

Lady of Lincoln is the gritty first book in the Nicola de la Haye Series historical fiction saga. If you like richly textured female heroes, courtly drama, and fast-paced intrigue, then you’ll adore Rachel Elwiss Joyce’s gripping true-life tale.

Five Minute History: One of the Most Dramatic Times in English History, and the Woman Who Lived Through All of It

A kingdom in turmoil

When I started researching the world of Lady of Lincoln, covering the early life of Nicola de la Haye, and the other books in the series, I knew she would become a woman who helped stop a French invasion in its tracks, but what I didn’t expect was how much she and her husbands and family were right at the heart of the events of one of the most turbulent, violent, and colourful periods in English history. 

The late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries had everything: a murdered archbishop, the Great Rebellion where a king's sons went to war with their own father, the Third Crusade, the imprisonment of Richard the Lionheart and his brother John’s attempt to seize the throne, the loss of Normandy and most of the other French territories, Magna Carta, the Baron’s War, and the French invasion. 

And running through it all, a woman who kept her nerve, kept her castle and her people, and changed the course of a war.

The shadow of the Anarchy

Nicola grew up in the reign of Henry II, but Henry reign was defined by what came before it.

The Anarchy was the civil war between King Stephen and Empress Matilda (Henry II’s mother) that tore England apart for almost twenty years. Towns burned, castles changed hands, and ordinary people suffered the consequences of this lengthy civil war and the ambitions of powerful lords. It ended only when Stephen agreed that Matilda's son Henry would succeed him, which he did in 1154.

The memory of the Anarchy shaped everything, and was the reason Henry II worked so hard to centralise royal power, to bring the barons to heel, and insist the king's law was supreme. And it was why, for people like Nicola's father, a man who had lived through that chaos, loyalty to the Crown was a vital survival tactic.

Lincoln, sitting at the heart of England on the old Roman road north, had been one of the great prizes of the Anarchy, and the lessons were not forgotten.

The king who changed everything

Henry II is one of the most fascinating rulers England has ever had. Brilliant, restless, furious, and visionary, he reformed the law courts, expanded royal authority, and held together a realm that stretched from the Scottish border to the Pyrenees; what historians now call the Angevin Empire. He was a man who never seemed to sleep, who thought faster than anyone around him, and whose temper was both explosive and terrifying.

But he was also, ultimately, a man who destroyed the thing he loved most: his own family.

His relationship with Thomas Becket, his Archbishop of Canterbury, ended in murder. Four of Henry's knights, inflamed by the king's famous outburst of rage, rode to Canterbury Cathedral in December 1170 and killed Becket at the altar. My research suggests that one of Nicola’s husband’s friends may well have been one of those knights. Whether he was or not, the shock of this sacrilege was felt across Christendom and Becket was canonised within three years, forcing Henry to walk barefoot through Canterbury and then be flogged in a very public penance.

Nicola and her husband and family would have been heavily affected by this. Politics in the twelfth century was highly dangerous and difficult to avoid. 

The Great Rebellion

If the Becket affair was dramatic, what followed was more shocking.

In 1173, Henry II's own teenage sons: the ‘Young King’ Henry, Richard (later the Lionheart), and Geoffrey, rose in rebellion against him. Their mother, Eleanor of Aquitaine, one of the most remarkable women of the medieval world, supported them. (Her motivations were never recorded, but there are, of course, countless theories.) The King of France backed the rebellious sons, and barons across England and Normandy seized the chance to settle old scores.

The Great Rebellion of 1173-4 nearly brought Henry down.

And for Nicola, it was not some distant war, but what appears to have been a personal catastrophe. Her first husband, William FitzErneis, was among the very first barons to rebel, and her uncle Ralph de la Haye served as a rebel general. 

But, oddly, her castle, Lincoln, appears to have stayed loyal. She was more than likely married to FitzErneis at the time and based at Lincoln. This raises a question – if he was rebelling, what was she doing, and why was her castle loyal?

The rebellion split families apart. It may well have tested her marriage. 

Her inheritance, titles, and people were in real peril, and from what we can ascertain about Nicola’s personality, she was unlikely to have been a passive observer.

Henry crushed the rebellion with a combination of military force and political dexterity, and the rebel lords were eventually brought back to the fold. The sons who had risen against him would never fully reconcile with their father, and he would die whilst at war with Richard. 

But things were set to become even more dramatic: the turbulent rules of the next generation – the Lionheart and the Crusade, King John, Magna Carta, and the French invasion - were on their way.

Why Nicola’s story matters

Nicola de la Haye spent her life navigating these events - trying to hold her castle, protect her people, and keep the Haye banner flying above Lincoln's walls, while kings raged, archbishops died, and the men around her chose different sides.

History often treats these great crises as the stories of kings and battles. Lady of Lincoln shows what it may have been like to live through all of this as a woman in a man’s world, trying to hold everything together, learning lessons she would be able to draw from later in life.

Those lessons would be vital, because the time would come when the very future of England depended on her being able to hold her nerve. 

Praise for Lady of Lincoln:

"Joyce’s vivid prose and masterful storytelling immerse the reader deeply into the emotional landscapes of her protagonists, making their struggles and triumphs resonate long after the final page has been turned. This debut is not only impressive in its narrative depth but also remarkable in its ability to evoke thought and reflection long after the final page is turned."

~ The Coffee Pot Book Club 5* Editorial Review

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After a rewarding career in the sciences, Rachel returned to her first love—history and the art of storytelling. Fascinated by the women history neglected, or tried to forget, she creates meticulously researched, emotionally resonant fiction that brings her characters’ stories vividly to life.

Her fascination with the past began early. At six years old, she was already inventing tales about medieval women in castles, inspired by her treasured Ladybird books and other picture-rich stories that transported her to another time. By the time she discovered Katherine by Anya Seton as a teenager, she knew the joy and escape that only great historical fiction can bring.

Rachel’s two grown-up children still tease her (fondly) about childhoods spent being “dragged” around castles, archaeological sites, and historical re-enactments. For Rachel, history and imagination have always gone hand in hand.

There was, however, a long gap between the stories of her childhood and her decision to write her own novel. The spark came when she discovered the remarkable true story of Nicola de la Haye—the first female sheriff of England, who defended Lincoln Castle against a French invasion and became known as “the woman who saved England,” Rachel knew she had found her heroine, and a story she was destined to tell.

Rachel lives in the UK, where she continues to explore the lives of women who shaped history but were left out of its pages.

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FIVE MINUTE HISTORY with Nicola Harris

 

Infidel: The Daughters of Aragon 

(Six Tudor Queens)

By Nicola Harris

Publication Date: 5th March 2026

Publisher: ‎Independently Published

Print Length: 268 Pages

Genre: Biographical Historical Fiction | Tudor Fiction | Historical Fiction

Born in the glittering courts of Castile and Aragon and forged in the shadow of war, Catalina de Aragón grows up surrounded by queens, rebels, and explorers. She is her mother’s last daughter, the final jewel of a dynasty built on conquest and faith, and the one child Isabella of Castile cannot bear to lose.

But destiny has already claimed Catalina.

Promised to Prince Arthur of England since childhood, she is raised to bind kingdoms, soothe old wounds, and carry the hopes of an empire across the sea. Yet, Spain fractures under rebellion, grief, and the ruthless zeal of its own rulers.

From the burning streets of Granada to the storm lashed Bay of Biscay, Catalina and her sisters must navigate a treacherous path shaped by ambition, betrayal, and the dangerous love of men who fear the power of queens. She learns to read cyphers, to read hearts, and to stand unbroken even as her childhood is stripped from her piece by piece.

And when she finally sails for England armed with her mother’s lessons, her father’s steel, and the ghosts of the Alhambra at her back, Catalina steps into her fate not as a girl, but as a force.

A princess.

A survivor.

A daughter of Aragon.

Infidel is the story of a young woman raised for greatness and destined to reshape the fate of nations. This is Catalina, as she has never been seen before. She is fierce, vulnerable, and unforgettable.

A sweeping, intimate portrait of sisterhood, survival, and the making of a dynasty, Infidel reveals the hidden lives of a woman whose courage shaped the Tudor world.

FIVE MINUTE HISTORY with Nicola Harris

My research for Infidel began long before I ever
thought of writing a novel about Catherine of Aragón. It began on a beach in Tenerife, years before tourism transformed the island. To a child, it felt like another world. The light, the heat, the colours, the food, the rhythm of life. 

I was fortunate enough to spend a great deal of time with a Spanish family who welcomed me into their home and their culture year after year. They taught me fragments of their language and, more importantly, the stories that shaped their history. Through them, I first encountered the world of Muslim Spain and the Catholic warrior monarchs who fought to reclaim it. It was impossible not to be fascinated.

Catalina’s mother, Isabella of Castile, stood out immediately. She was disciplined, relentless, and utterly convinced of her divine purpose. She was also a mother raising her children in a kingdom defined by conflict.

That tension between power and vulnerability
became the foundation of my interest in Catalina’s early life. Before she was a queen, she was a child shaped by siege warfare, political ambition, and the expectations of a dynasty that demanded strength from its daughters.

As I began to research more deeply, I found myself drawn to the wider world that touched Catalina’s childhood. I have always been captivated by the fall of Constantinople and the Turkish Sultan Mehmed II’s audacious plan to take the city. 

On a trip to Turkey a few years ago, I spoke with a Turkish waiter about his view of the sultan. His pride and respect for Mehmed stayed with me. It reminded me that history is never simple. Every figure we study has another side, another story, another set of loyalties and beliefs. 

That conversation helped me approach the period with a wider lens, aware that the Christian and Muslim worlds were not simply enemies but complex civilisations with their own brilliance and contradictions.

Juana of Castile, Catalina’s older sister, became a vital part of the novel for this reason. She is often reduced to the label Juana the Mad, but she was far more than that. In Infidel, Juana allows me to explore the moral questions surrounding the Muslim wars and the Inquisition. 

She is outspoken, intelligent, and unwilling to accept cruelty as the natural cost of faith. Through her, I could give voice to the discomfort a modern reader might feel when confronted with the punishments and persecutions of the age. Without revealing too much, Juana’s own journey takes her far from home, and the emotional cost of that distance shapes her view of the world.

Her brother Juan was married to Margaret of Austria, who is frequently remembered for educating Anne Boleyn. What is less often acknowledged is that long before Anne ever entered Margaret’s household, Catalina was already connected to Margaret by family.

In Infidel, those family connections matter. It reminds us that Catalina did not exist only in relation to Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. She belonged to a wider European network of women whose lives, loyalties, and alliances shaped the courts that Anne would later enter.

Catalina’s childhood was not soft or sheltered. It was an ordeal. She came face to face with native Americans who were snatched from their land and brought to the palace. I wanted to understand what forged her, what hardened her, and what gave her the strength she carried into England. Her resilience did not appear by magic. It was earned.

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I’ve always been a writer, but it was only when illness forced me to stop everything that I finally had the time to write a novel. After decades of misdiagnosis, I learned I was born with a serious genetic condition, not rare, but profoundly misunderstood. The clues were there from birth, and suddenly, a lifetime of struggle made sense.

Writing became my lifeline: a way to step beyond my pain, to shape my experience into a story, and to find meaning where there had once been only endurance.

I have a lifelong love of children, Counselling, and Psychotherapy Theory and history.

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Five Minute History with Vicky Adin

Sarah’s Destiny

(The Ancestors)

By Vicky Adin

Publication Date: April 9th, 2025

Publisher: AM Publishing New Zealand

Pages: 354

Genre: Historical Fiction / Women's Historical Fiction

Young Sarah Daniels is the heart, soul and future of The White Hart Inn on the Welsh Back. Alongside the quay and wharves on Bristol’s floating harbour, she dreams of finding love, and a destiny where she can escape the drudgery and tragedy that life usually delivers Victorian women. But dreams are free, and few share her ideals. When reality strikes, and Sarah learns the hard way that life is unkind, one man offers her hope.

Through many decades of heart-aching loss, false promises and broken dreams, the young widow clings to that one hope. With six children to care for, she takes risks few others would consider. She breaks conventions and makes sacrifices to keep that hope alive.

Will her wishes come true, or is she destined to be another unfortunate in the sea of many?

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Sarah’s Destiny opens in 1851. At that time, Bristol was already a progressive and productive city with a busy commercial port bringing huge trade opportunities from around the world, as well as a regular coastal trade. It equally had a reputation for standing up against slavery, promoting the advancement of the sciences, the arts, and theatre, and had a zoological park. Over the years, the public transport railway systems expanded, the Crystal Palace Exhibition opened, Bristolians favoured women’s suffrage and Isambard Kingdom Brunel made an enormous impact on the city, especially with the opening of the Bristol Suspension Bridge in 1864.

None of this mattered to Sarah, only in-so-far as such activity supplied customers for their inn, The White Hart on the corner of the Welsh Back and King Street. However, it furnished me with an immense backdrop to incorporate into the everyday life of the characters. Today, the Welsh Back is still a thriving hub for restaurants and bars to feed and entertain the travellers and visitors alike with many of the buildings dating back to Sarah’s time. While I’d be in awe of walking along the same cobblestones that Sarah walked on, few would make the connection.

Even so, Bristol itself was not the drawcard. What drew me to research the history of the city was the real-life Sarah’s story. As a dedicated genealogist who loves digging into the past I was astounded by the facts of Sarah’s life. The more I researched, the more intrigued I became. The more I unearthed, the more determined I became that Sarah’s true-life story needed telling. 

With the results of every census between 1841 and 1901 in my hand and the many birth, baptismal, marriage, and death certificates relating to the immediate and wider family, alongside newspaper reports and notices, Sarah life story lay before me. I have fictionalised the names, and added fictionalised characters as staff, customers and workers, but her story is fact with some literary licence. We can only surmise what was said, or how people felt and behaved but everything else in history that was new, available or common has been built into the story. I had a lovely time.

Sarah is a great-great-aunt, but I only wandered into her branch by accident looking for a lead. If you don’t know anything about genealogy, take it from me, it’s an addictive hobby. Once you find one lead you keep going until you have another and another. After I’d stumbled across some of the facts, I couldn’t let go. 

The real-life Sarah was a Victorian woman who gave birth to eight children and had two husbands, but who was the father of which child? She could read and write. She was a witness at a murder trial. She defied conventions and attended the funerals of three of her children. She held a victualler’s licence in her own name, and her loyalty was rewarded with loyalty from others. 

During her time, Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management was published – surely, it would have been a well-used item in her home offering modern advice and new recipes – and the serialisation of Charles Dickens’ stories provided her with the opportunity to fulfil her earlier youthful dreams of a life beyond the Back.

Without doubt, she was as progressive as the city she lived in. She was a woman with convictions and determination. A strong woman for whom love was the ultimate goal and ultimate reward. I delighted in writing her story to share with the world. 

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Like the characters in her books, Vicky has a passion for family history and a love of old photos, antiques, and treasures from the past. After researching the history of the time and place, and realising the hardships many people suffered, Vicky knew she wanted to write their stories. Tales of love and loss, and triumph over adversity. Her latest release, Sarah’s Destiny, Book 1 of The Ancestors series, is inspired by a true love story set in Bristol.

Vicky particularly enjoys writing inter-generational sagas, inspired by true stories of early immigrants to New Zealand, linked by journals, letters, photographs, and heirlooms.

She’s an avid reader of historical novels, family sagas and women’s stories and loves to travel when she can. She has a MA (Hons) in English and Education. Her story of Gwenna won gold in The Coffee Pot Book Club Women’s Historical Fiction Book of Year in 2022 and several of her books carry the gold B.R.A.G medallion.

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Another Soul Saved by John Anthony Miller

 

Another Soul Saved 
By John Anthony Miller

Publication Date: April 1, 2026

Publisher: Independent

Pages: 415

Genre: Historical Fiction

Vienna, 1941

Monika Graf, the wife of a wealthy Austrian military commander, steals two Jewish girls from the Nazis—a crime often punishable by death. With soldiers in rapid pursuit, a homeless Jew named Janik, a mysterious man who lurks in the shadows, helps her escape.

Unable to have children of her own, she finds a new purpose in life—rescuing Jewish children from the horrendous Nazi regime. She asks the Swiss for help, trading military secrets she gleans from her husband for the lives of Jewish children. With Janik’s continued support, she also enlists Father Christoff, a priest at St. Stephen's Cathedral coping with unexpected emotions and doubting his commitment to God. Monika quickly forms bonds that can’t be broken, feelings exposed she never knew existed. 

Relentlessly pursued by Gestapo Captain Gustav Kramer, Monika combats continuing risk to her clandestine operation. When her husband, a rabid Nazi, returns from the battlefield severely wounded, she gets caught in a cage that she can’t crawl out of.

Wrought with danger, riddled with romance, Another Soul Saved shows humanity at both its best and worst in a classic struggle of good versus evil.

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Another Soul Saved, set in Vienna, Austria during World War II, tells the story of Monika Graf, a wealthy woman married to an Austrian general, who risks everything to rescue Jewish children, betraying both her country and her husband. To fully appreciate the incredible risks that our fictional heroine takes, an overview of the historical backdrop is helpful.

Shortly after Adolf Hitler’s ascension to power in 1933, discrimination and persecution of the Jewish population began, starting with strict laws that impacted their ability to function in society. Throughout the rest of the decade, their plight worsened as laws got harsher, eventually resulting in property confiscation, destruction of Jewish shops and synagogues, and physical attacks. To reduce the Jewish population, the German government strongly encouraged Jews to emigrate. Efforts were organized by different countries—Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands—and various charity organizations, geared specifically to the relocation of Jewish children. When Germany invaded Poland on Sept. 1, 1939, starting the Second World War, emigration was abandoned in favor of forced labor, starvation, and eventually mass murder.

Austria, where our novel is set, was annexed by Germany in 1938. Ninety-nine percent of the Austrian population supported the policies of Adolf Hitler, which made any form of organized resistance almost impossible. Another Soul Saved gives voice to the one percent who didn’t support the Nazis—those risking their lives to save others, knowing that friends, neighbors, and even family members could betray them at any time. 

Monika Graf uses methods based on factual events to rescue Jewish children—and later adults. For example, in other parts of Europe, Hungary in particular, Swiss diplomats discovered that the Nazi regime was fanatical about official documentation. Even the most rapid Nazi would pause when presented with the proper paperwork—or what appeared to be official documents. The Swiss, with Nazi permission, produced a limited number of documents to specify that Jews were emigrating, usually to Palestine, even though it often wasn’t the case. These documents were almost always honored. In Another Soul Saved, Monika works with a Swiss diplomat to get documents for Jewish children, trading military secrets she gleans from her husband for Jewish lives.

The most frequent method used to save Jewish children, especially in Poland, was also referenced in Another Soul Saved. Some pretended to be Catholic, even though preparation was needed—memorizing Catholic prayers, learning a few hymns, and acquiring a basic understanding of the religion. But once able to pose successfully, Jewish children were enrolled in Catholic orphanages, seminaries, and convents.

It was another common practice—used in the novel and throughout Europe—to hide Jewish children, and sometimes entire families, on farms, especially in remote areas. It wasn’t too difficult to blend children with the farmer’s family, or have entire Jewish families pose as relatives, because the rural location had much less exposure to soldiers or the citizens who supported them.

Anyone hiding or rescuing Jews during World War II faced tremendous risks, especially in a location like Vienna, where the population overwhelmingly supported Nazi policies. The notorious Gestapo patrolled city streets, surveilled citizens, used paid informants, and tortured anyone they suspected of wrongdoing, ensuring any threat to the Third Reich was eliminated. Those harboring Jews were hunted aggressively and, if caught, faced arrest, imprisonment, and even death.

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John Anthony Miller writes all things historical—thrillers, mysteries, and romance. He sets his novels in exotic locations spanning all eras of space and time, with complex characters forced to face inner conflicts—fighting demons both real and imagined. He’s published twenty novels and ghostwritten several others, including Another Soul Saved. He lives in southern New Jersey.

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Bride of the Devil: Agnes, Wife of Robert de Belleme by J.P. Reedman

Bride of the Devil:

Agnes, Wife of Robert de Belleme

Medieval Babes

By J.P. Reedman

Publication Date: August 4th, 2025

Publisher: independently published

Pages: 248

Genre: Historical Biographical Fiction / Medieval Fiction

She is a great heiress; he is the wickedest man in Normandy.

Known to men far and wide as 'The Devil,' Robert de Belleme terrorises France alongside his equally fearsome mother, Mabel the Poisoner. But even a Devil needs an heir, and Mabel chooses the wealthy heiress Agnes of Ponthieu to be her son's bride. The marriage is unhappy, though the longed-for son and heir is eventually born...but when Robert is away on one of his military campaigns, Agnes flees back to her father's castle.

She is not safe; her young son William is not safe.

The Devil will seek to claim his own.

BOOK 13 IN THE MEDIEVAL BABES SERIES.

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J.P. Reedman was born in Canada but has lived in the U.K. for over 30 years. Interests include folklore and anthropology, prehistoric archaeology (neolithic/bronze age Europe; ritual,burial & material culture), as well as The Wars of the Roses and the rest of the medieval era. Novels include the popular  I, Richard Plantagenet series about Richard III, The Falcon and the Sun (featuring other members of the House of York), and Medieval Babes, an ongoing series about lesser-known medieval queens and noblewomen.

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