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A sweeping, tragic portrait of a legendary royal family tearing itself apart from the inside. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Devil's brood.

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01
The queen's man
Sharon Kay Penman · 1996
Step into a tense 12th-century world where a single murder investigation unravels the shadowy political schemes of a royal court.
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- tense
- loyalty and betrayal
02
The Greatest Knight
Elizabeth Chadwick · 2006
An immersive, meticulously researched journey into the perilous courts and heroic loyalties of the Middle Ages.
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- tense
- immersive
- authoritative
03
The Plantagenets
Dan Jones
A cinematic, blood-soaked ride through the reigns of England's most ruthless and charismatic royal dynasty.
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- authoritative
04
The Devil on Horseback
Eleanor Burford
A sweeping, perilous romance that trades the quiet constraints of an English manor for the blood-soaked streets of revolutionary France.
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- sweeping
05
A knight's passion
Kohl, Candice.
A sweeping medieval romance fueled by the delicious, forbidden tension of falling for the one person you are sworn to deliver to someone else.
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- sweeping
- loyalty and betrayal
06
My Cherished Enemy
Samantha James
A sweeping, high-stakes medieval romance where bitter enmity slowly burns into undeniable passion.
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- sweeping
- tense
07
The Champion
Elizabeth Chadwick · 1998
A sweeping medieval tapestry of courtly intrigue, past betrayals, and the enduring pull of a second chance.
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- sweeping
- tense
08
The White Queen
Philippa Gregory
A sweeping, treacherous plunge into the velvet-draped cutthroat politics of a royal court, where romance and ambition are equally dangerous.
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- tense
09
The Red Queen
Philippa Gregory
A fiercely intimate portrait of ruthless maternal ambition and religious zealotry set against the treacherous backdrop of a warring kingdom.
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- tense
10
Heretic
Bernard Cornwell · 2003
A visceral plunge into a plague-ravaged medieval Europe, where the clash of steel and the twang of longbows drown out the prayers of the desperate.
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- tense
11
The Brides Trilogy
Catherine Coulter
A dramatic historical romance experience that weaves upper-class marriage scandals together with eerie supernatural mysteries and passionate secrets.
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- sweeping
12
Agincourt
Bernard Cornwell · 2009
A visceral, mud-splattered plunge into the deafening chaos and desperate brotherhood of medieval warfare.
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- tense

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