The Troubadours
Jean Gill
Genre: Historical fiction, Romance
Four book series box set
Like Game of Thrones with real history. Set in the 1150s, following the Second Crusade, these spellbinding romantic thrillers evoke medieval France with breathtaking accuracy. The characters include amazing women who shaped history in battles and in bedchambers. award-winning author Jean Gill captures the soul of the age and the characters who lived in it.
‘A Journey full of treachery, adventure and romance.’ (Deborah Swift)
From 1150: Provence, where making love and making paper are crimes against the Church to 1153: Hispania and the Isles of Albion, where the wise traveller carries a knife in her under-skirt.
Death on her heels, Estela runs towards a new identity. Her life depends on her golden voice and the patronage of Eleanor of Aquitaine but her heart cares more for the judgement of her tutor, Dragonetz, a cynical ex-crusader. He knows he must not love this troublesome student but their duet makes its own demands.
Will their secrets kill them both? The troubadours, Dragonetz and Estela are an explosive combination which their powerful enemies intend to blast into smithereens.
Set in the period following the Second Crusade, Jean Gill’s spellbinding romantic thrillers evoke medieval France with breathtaking accuracy. The characters leap off the page and include amazing women like Eleanor of Aquitaine and Ermengarda of Narbonne, who shaped history in battles and in bedchambers.
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Shortlisted for The Chaucer Award, 2018 and 2022 (yet to be judged)
Global Ebooks Award for Best Historical Fiction
Historical Novel Society Editor’s Choice
Finalist in the Wishing Shelf Awards and the Kindle Book Awards
Four Discovered Diamond Awards
