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  • Bibliography:
    41 Books (7 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1964
  • Latest Book:
    April 2006
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Full Series List in Order

Greek Myths

1 - Dazzling Brightness (Jun-1994)
2 - Shimmering Splendor (Jul-1995)
3 - Enchanted Fire (Dec-1996)
4 - Bull God (May-2000)
5 - Thrice Bound (Jul-2001)

Heiress

1 - The English Heiress (Oct-1980)
2 - The Cornish Heiress (Oct-1981)
3 - The Kent Heiress (Nov-1982)
4 - Fortune's Bride (Dec-1983)
5 - A Woman's Estate (Dec-1984)

A Magdalene la Batarde Mystery

1 - A Mortal Bane (Aug-1999)
2 - A Personal Devil (Feb-2001)
3 - Bone of Contention (Sep-2002)
4 - Chains of Folly (Apr-2006)

The Roselynde Chronicles

1 - Roselynde (Feb-1978)
2 - Alinor (1978)
3 - Joanna (1978)
4 - Gilliane (Jun-1979)
5 - Rhiannon (Jan-1982)
6 - Sybelle (Sep-1983)
7 - Desiree (Feb-2005)

The Royal Dynasty

1 - Siren Song (Jan-1981)
2 - Winter Song (Sep-1982)
3 - Fire Song (Apr-1984)
4 - A Silver Mirror (Nov-1989)

Tales of Jernaeve

1 - A Tapestry of Dreams (Jun-1985)
2 - Fires of Winter (Sep-1987)

Turmoil and Peril Trilogy

1 - Bond of Blood (1965)
2 - Knight's Honor (1964)
3 - The Sword and the Swan (1977)

Book List in Order: 41 titles



    • / Historical Romance
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    AN AGE OF PERIL AN AGE OF LOVE Young Roger, Earl of Hereford, had a vision; he saw his England with a new king -- Henry of Anjou. It would take much travail, spilled blood, and an open rebellion against the present king, but Roger was determine...



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    AN AGE OF TURMOIL A PERILOUS ROMANCE Leah, lovely young daughter of the Earl of Pembroke, awoke one morning to find herself betrothed by her father to Cain, Lord of Radnor. He was not the knight of her dreams --twice her age, a huge bear of a m...



  • Her love drew her into a savage struggle Lady Pamela was too forthright to harbor illicit designs on the intense, brooding master of Tremaire. She was paid to be a companion to the Countess St. Just -- not to his lordship. Still, sequestered ...



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    The Dragon Henry had been hunted, betrayed and attacked by his political enemies since the day he was born. He had conquered his fear of the constant danger surrounding him, but ould he conquer the woman he had agreed to wed -- the woman who represe...



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    A Warrior and A Woman... Rannulf was known throughout the land as a bold warrior. Face-to-face with an oncoming army, he could decide matters of life and death. But now, face-to-face with one gentle woman, he was hopelessly confused and uncertain...



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    The Roselynde Chronicles - 2
    Ellora's Cave: Blush

    She Lived In the Sweet, Restless Torture of a Smoldering Love A woman alone, trapped in a maze of treacherous power plays and volatile liaisons, Alinor Lemagne is irresistibly swept into an intoxicating, passion for the darkly sensual man whose l...



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    The Roselynde Chronicles - 3
    Ellora's Cave: Blush

    In A World Of Deceit And Danger, Love Was The Deadliest Risk Of All Beautiful, iron-willed heiress to power, Joanna secretly burns with an explosive inner passion as wild and-- radiant as her flaming red hair. But her deepest emotions are tragical...



  • The Roselynde Chronicles - 1
    Ellora's Cave: Blush

    A Woman Of Passion, A Man Of Honor... A Sweet Burning Love Yearning For Fulfillment In an era made for men, Alinor is at no man's mercy. Beautiful, proud and strong-willed, Alinor is mistress of Roselynde and of her own heart as well--until she me...



  • The Roselynde Chronicles - 4
    Ellora's Cave: Blush

    Fate Made Them Bitter Enemies...Temptation Made Them Passionate Lovers An exquisite beauty trapped in a deadly game of political intrigue, Gilliane is an innocent pawn of the ruthless, power hungry barons swarming around her. Forced to marry a man...






  • Heiress - 1
    Ellora's Cave: Blush

    A PASSION BORN IN REBELLION...A LOVE THAT FLAMED UP FROM THE ASHES OF WAR... LEONIE DE CONYERS - beautiful, aristocratic, her life shattered by a black night of bestiality, she lived in the shadow of the guillotine, stripped of everything she held...



  • The Royal Dynasty - 1
    Ellora's Cave: Blush

    A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN... TRAPPED IN A MAN'S WORLD OF VENGEANCE AND VIOLENCE Once she had tasted the sweetness of tender first love. Then fate cruelly wrenched Lady Elizabeth from her fiance and thrust her into the arms of a man she loathed. Possessio...



  • Heiress - 2
    Ellora's Cave: Blush

    HER TEMPESTUOUS SPIRIT AND WILD BEAUTY HAUNTED THE STORM-SWEPT CORNISH COAST... MEG DEVORAN - Recluse by day, by night the flame-haired smuggler, Red Meg...She would be ruthlessly hunted through moonless nights, swept into a perilous web of intrig...



  • The Roselynde Chronicles - 5
    Ellora's Cave: Blush

    She Was A Fiery Free Spirit Only Love Could Tame. RHIANNON: ravishing raven-haired daughter of a Welsh prince. Half-shy, half-wild, it was said she could cast a spell over any man but was no man's possession. SIMON: the handsome nobleman...



  • The Royal Dynasty - 2
    Ellora's Cave: Blush

    THEY FORGED A BOND OF FORBIDDEN PASSION ALYS -- delicately beautiful daughter of a humble knight, she entered a world of treachery and betrayal when she married into a royal family that vowed to destroy her. RAYMOND -- the handsome nephew of Q...



  • Heiress - 3
    Ellora's Cave: Blush

    FROM WAR-RAVAGED RUSSIA TO ENGLAND'S SHORES, SHE FOLLOWED HER HEART'S MOST URGENT DESIRE. Sabrina de Conyers - Dazzling English beauty, darling of Russian society, she lived discreetly as a diplomat's wife, determined to save her love for a man of...



  • The Roselynde Chronicles - 6
    Ellora's Cave: Blush

    SHE WAS A HEADSTRONG BEAUTY CAUGHT IN THE FLOOD TIDES OF PASSION AND WAR. Tempestuous, amber-eyed heiress to the magnificent Roselynde dynasty, Sybelle knew that her time had come to choose a husband. But she was ruler of her own lands and would b...



  • Heiress - 4
    Ellora's Cave: Blush

    THRUST TOGETHER IN THE HEAT OF BATTLE, PASSION WOULD NEVER LET THEM PART.... ESMERALDA TALBOT -- Born in India, bound for England, she had survived shipwreck only to find herself stranded on alien soil and swept up by the winds of war. ROBERT...



  • The Royal Dynasty - 3
    Ellora's Cave: Blush

    Fenice: Beautiful, sensuous Fenice d'Aix proudly bore her father's noble name, but the dark secret of her mother's lowly birth kept her an outcast in French society. Helpless in the face of the enemies who sought to steal her inheritance,...



  • Heiress - 5
    Ellora's Cave: Blush

    SHE WAS A RAVISHING FIREBRAND, TORN BY PASSION AND POLITICS, LOYALTY AND LOVE. ABIGAIL LYDDEN--A Yankee rebel on England's shores, she was a countess determined to reclaim her dead husband's estate, a headstrong beauty who'd tasted freedom and vow...






  • THEIRS WAS AN AGE OF PASSION AND PAGEANTRY The lovely Lady Audris, whose delicate fingers weave fables of the future unto her tapestries, whose special gifts and radiant beauty set her apart in an enchanted age. And the knight they call Hugh Li...



  • HER HEART DANCED ON THE WIND...AND FLEW ON THE WINGS OF A LOVESONG Theirs was an enchanted age of pride and passion, of color and pageantry--where danger followed in the path of betrayal...where desire flowed untamed...and love knew no adversary.....



  • The windswept plains of medieval England were torn by the raging struggles of royal conquest. Land was seized from passionate men and women whose lives were forever changed ... MELUSINE OF ULLE ... the beautiful, cherished daughter of Scottish nob...



  • In a Grand and Passionate Age... London's colorful marketplaces proclaimed the city's splendor and wealth -- a golden prize disputed between King John's devouring greed ... and the warrior barons who challenged his throne. From the flames of the...



  • The Royal Dynasty - 4
    Ellora's Cave: Blush

    WHEN POWER AND DESIRE RULED MEN'S HEARTS... In the turbulent age when hearts knew no surrender, willful King Henry III waged a scheming war, setting the lords of England and France in bloody opposition. Within this raging conflict, two indomitabl...



  • THE SOCIALITE An heiress posing as a hired companion, Linda wanted a taste of what real life was like, but she got more than she bargained for when she accompanied her wealthy employer to the Greek island of Corfu. THE INVALID Suffering from a ...



  • From the mists of timeless legend... an enchanting, unforgettable tale of passion, intrigue and adventure that brings two mythical lovers magnificently to life... HE was Lord of the Underworld, cast down by the gods into a kingdom of everlasting ...





  • Welcome to an enchanted world of mist and legend ... of age-old dreams and ageless desires . . . where trees have souls, and swords and stones can speak .. . A beautiful warrior named Caer finds a lover to cherish--and to fear--when she meets Prin...



  • EROS, God of Love From the moment he beheld the exquisite Psyche, his heart was no longer his. To win her, he would even battle the powerful Aphrodite herself. PSYCHE, As Beautiful as a Goddess The object of desire, she swore only to wed the man...






  • ORPHEUS...his music was magic. His gifted fingers stroke lyrical enchantment from his lyre, seducing Gods and mortals alike. Until he is seduced by the bewitching Eurydice, a woman with the beauty of a goddess--a woman who tempts and torments him be...



  • Welcome to a world of changelings and enchanted springs, where fairies ride through moonlit nights and music has immortal power...A world of sorcery and spells where even the most forbidden and impossible love can become breathtaking reality... TH...



  • Medieval London comes to life and death in Roberta Gellis' latest tale of splendor and squalor from the author of The Roselynde Chronicles. Magdalene la Bartarde is the madam of the Old Priory Guesthouse in Southwark. People expect her and her women...



  • MOMMA DOESN'T TALK ABOUT THAT PARTY ... ;-) When gods still walked the Earth, a king could pray for a sign and have a white bull rise from the sea to confirm his claim to the throne. But a god's price was high, and when Minos did not keep his prom...




  • When Sabina, the blind whoremistress of the Old PriorityGuesthouse, accepts the offer of Master Mainard to live exclusively with him, everyone expects that Mainards wife Bertrild would be glad to be rid of him since his face is horribly birthmarked, ...



  • KISS ME, HEKATE! Hekate's father is the most powerful mage in Ka'anan, so when he commands her to murder the queen of Byblos and marry the king, she must obey or flee. When she learns from the seer Dionysos, whom she had bound herself to protect whe...



  • Magdalene knew there was trouble brewing in Oxford, with King Stephen bringing to-gether his great council. But she never ex-pected it would be murder, with her patron's men, Niall Arvagh of Murcot, named the murderer. Had Niall killed St. Cyr becaus...



  • "Poisoner!" The bellowed accusation strikes into silence all those in Lucrezia Borgia's audience chamber. Lucrezia has fled Rome to a loveless marriage with Alfonso, heir to the duke of Ferrara, to escape the rumors that she is utterly depraved---...



  • Cyn Lystris leaves Free Trade because he is tired of making deliveries with the goods in one hand and his blaster in the other. Overstars Mail offers him a mail delivery job on a government-approved route. Life as a mailman, however, proves no less e...






  • Marriage saved her from a tyrant. . .and kept her from the man she loved In order to protect herself from a ruthless suitor, Desiree or Exceat married the gentle Frewyn of Polegate--sacrificing passion in favor of platonic companionship. But thre...



  • That Nelda Roundheels had been murdered would have been of little interest to anyone - except that her body turned up in the bishop of Winchester's bedchamber with a letter to the bishop, from the king's most important enemy, rolled up in her breastb...


Award-Winning Books by Roberta Gellis

Bone of Contention
2002 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Historical Mystery
Masques of Gold
1988 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Historical Romantic Mystery
A Silver Mirror
1989 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Medieval Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Roberta Gellis has published 41 books.

Roberta Gellis does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Chains of Folly, was published in April 2006.

The first book by Roberta Gellis, Knight's Honor, was published in January 1964.

Yes. Roberta Gellis has 7 series.