Crusader -Two Historical Fiction Series

The Crusader by John Cleve

A rousing, steamy adult tale of war and women that storms the senses with its violent depiction of the age of chivalry.

Book 1: The Accursed Tower

Meet the handsome and legendary, young Crusader, renowned for his courage and virility. Get swept up in the Crusader’s unforgettable adventures alongside Richard the Lionheart, as he sets out on his quest to free the Holy City, Jerusalem, from the clutches of the Moslem leader Saladin. Their journey will be long and perilous, crossing foreign and dangerous lands. Who can they trust and who will make it out alive? 

Book 2: The Passionate Princess

Against the violent backdrop of one of history's most turbulent eras, The Passionate Princess tells a rousing tale of war and women: of savage battles in the scorching desert, of sinister plots in the tents of the Christian squires, and of frenzied nights of passion with the beautiful ladies of the crown.

Book 3: Julanar the Lioness

Guy Kingsaver returns in another unblushing saga of war and women. This time, the mighty Crusader is held captive atop a North Egyptian mesa by a band of armored warrior women led by the beautiful Julanar, who engages Guy Kingsaver in a duel in which the weapons are wanton lust and sensuous abandon as well as the scymitar and crossbow.

Book 4: My Lady Queen

The Crusader is summoned to the city of Tyre, which is threatened with siege. The fearless hero is pitted against the wiles of the beautiful and notoriously vicious Luisa de Vermandois, and is called upon to employ his sensual art to charm Saracen secrets from a desperate lady spy.

Book 5: Saladin's Spy

Guy’s heroic exploits continue on battlefield and in bedchamber as he fights alongside Richard the Lionheart to subdue the important Palestinian city of Darum. Thanks to Saladin’s Spy, sadistic Turks capture a crucial castle, murdering every knight within its hilltop walls. A helpless prisoner there is the brutally captured young woman who came from France to the Holy Land as nurse . . . but is destined to become the slave of her dusky captors. One man is the obvious choice to try to free her . . .

Crusader: The Complete Campaigns by Paul Bannister

Set across the reigns of three Plantagenet Kings: Richard I, John, Henry III.

Crusader 1165AD

The Third Crusade is on the horizon, and Henry II is on the throne. And now young Frederick Banastre is being sent to court to become a steward to the young prince Richard, readying him for his own chance at glory.

Treason 1190 AD

Frederick Banastre has taken the cross, to fight alongside Europe’s finest warrior, Richard the Lionheart, in the Holy Land. To manage England in his absence, Richard appointed three regents: a chancellor and two others who shared the duties of Justiciar.

Templar 1216 AD

King John has died and his young son, Henry, a boy of only nine years has been left to rule. A new regent must be found before internal strife tears the country apart once more. Count Ramon of Toulouse seems to be the perfect choice; he is powerful enough to bring the barons to heel until Henry is ready to fully assume the throne.

Siege 1215

King John Signs the Magna Carta in an unconditional submission to a group of rebel barons. The Pope declares it illegal. During the ensuing First Baron War, King John dies and nine-year-old Henry inherits the crown. Treachery and rebellion blight the years that follow. 

Kingmaker

Thurstan de Banastre, Baron of Waleton, Lancastershire, is living in dangerous times. He and his fellow barons are desperate to oust their tyrannical king, Henry of Winchester, who imposes harsh tax burdens, and ignores the terms of Magna Carta that his father had pledged to uphold.