The Troubadours Quartet Boxset

Like Game of Thrones with real history. The complete set of four award-winning books: Historical Fiction series The Troubadours Quartet 'I absolutely loved this series,' Michellle Ryles, The Book Magnet blogger

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. Jean Gill captures the soul of the age and the characters who lived in it.

Book 1 Song at Dawn: 1150 in Provence, where making love and making paper are both crimes against the Church. On the run with death at her heels, Estela wakes in a ditch with only her lute, her amazing voice, and a dagger hidden in her underskirt. Her talent finds a patron in Eleanor of Aquitaine and more than a music tutor in the Queen's finest troubadour and Commander of the Guard, Dragonetz los Pros. Meanwhile, their enemies gather, ready to light the political and religious powder-keg of medieval Narbonne.

Book 2 Bladesong: 1151 in The Holy Land, where one book is worth more than a man's life. Troubadour Estela will do whatever it takes to rescue the knight she loves but will her brave actions seal his fate? She embarks on a perilous journey to the Holy Land in this enthralling historical epic.

Once more, 'the master of historical intrigue' whirls the reader off into medieval mayhem. Jean Gill's details of crusading strategy and riding a camel are as convincing as the pangs of medieval childbirth. She brought medieval France to life in Song at Dawn; now she adds 12th century Damascus and Jerusalem with equal aplomb.

Book 3 Plaint for Provence: 1152 in Les-Baux-de-Provence, where today’s friends are tomorrow’s enemies. As feuding lords gather in Provence, the troubadours, Estela and her lover Dragonetz, are plunged into a power struggle that could destroy the fragile peace. Lady Etiennette des Baux has no intention of ceding to her overlord of Barcelone. Nor does she plan to remain a widow and she sets her sights on Dragonetz, offering him Provence as an incentive. With dear friends on both sides, Dragonetz weaves a precarious path through the rival factions at court while Estela faces her own demons. Behind the chivalry of hunt and tournament, war threatens. ​​​​​​​ Book 4 Song Hereafter: 1153 in Hispania and the Isles of Albion, where the wise traveller carries a knife in her under-skirt. Heart-stopping conclusion to an unforgettable series. Dragonetz failed his liege, Eleanor of Aquitaine and is in exile, branded an oathbreaker. But she plans to be Queen of England and gives him one chance to redeem himself. His mission will take him alone into the hostile court of the Welsh princes, Rhys and Meredith, relying on song and sword to win their trust. Unlikely to survive, he intends to die alone. His lady, however, demands partnership, not protection. Estela and Dragonetz fight their enemies together, on the battlefield and in the courts of Christendom, from the sophistication of Zaragossa to the savage beauty of Wales. Can they win through to song hereafter? Or have they cheated death once too often? An authentic twelfth century road trip with the rock stars of the middle ages. Jean Gill’s spell-binding medieval thrillers write unforgettable women back into real history.

Four Discovered Diamonds Awards; Historical Novel Society Editor’s Choice; Three out of three Readers' Favorite 5* Awards; Winner of the Global Ebooks Award for Best Historical Fiction

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Release date

Ebook: 29 October 2021