Anya Seton Livres

This classic romance novel tells the true story of the love affair that changed history—that of Katherine Swynford and John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, the ancestors of most of the British royal family. Set in the vibrant 14th century of Chaucer and the Black Death, the story features knights fighting in battle, serfs struggling in poverty, and the magnificent Plantagenets—Edward III, the Black Prince, and Richard II—who ruled despotically over a court rotten with intrigue. Within this era of danger and romance, John of Gaunt, the king’s son, falls passionately in love with the already married Katherine. Their well-documented affair and love persist through decades of war, adultery, murder, loneliness, and redemption. This epic novel of conflict, cruelty, and untamable love has become a classic since its first publication in 1954.

A richly detailed historical saga from the bestselling author of Katherine and Green Darkness, first published in 1948

It is the story of a beautiful, gifted woman who leaves the magic mountains of her native New Mexico for the piratical, opulent, gaslit New York of the 1870s—only to end her search for happiness back in the high, thin air of Santa Fe. Santa Fe Cameron, named for the place of her birth, was the child of a Spanish mother and a Scotch father and inherited from both a high degree of psychic perceptivity. Natanay, an American Indian, saw this and gave the little orphan a turquoise amulet as a keepsake; this turquoise, the Indian symbol of the spirit, dominates her life. For Santa Fe Cameron, life is made up of violent contrasts: the rough wagon of the gay young Irish medicine vendor who brings her East and the scented hansom cabs and carriages waiting before her own Fifth Avenue mansion; the glittering world of the Astors and a dreary cell in the Tombs. All the color, excitement, and rich period detail which distinguish Anya Seton’s novels are here, together with one of her most unusual heroines.

A New York socialite finds herself out of her element when she accompanies her new husband to Arizona, where he is overseeing a mining project in the desert.

Anya Seton's classic gothic romance set in New York's Hudson River Valley, following the tradition of Rebecca and Jane Eyre. It was on an afternoon in May 1844 when the letter came from Dragonwyck. Tired of life on her father's farm in Connecticut, Miranda Wells happily accepts the invitation to the luxurious estate of her distant relative, the dashing and mysterious Nicholas Van Ryn. Introduced to a way of life she has only ever dreamed of, the innocent farm girl becomes a great lady. But soon the dark secrets of Dragonwyck begin to unfold. A classic gothic romance set against a richly detailed historical backdrop, Dragonwyck is Anya Seton's bestselling second novel. First published in 1944, it was adapted for cinema in 1946 starring Gene Tierney and Vincent Price.

From the author of the all-time classic romance Katherine, MY THEODOSIA tells the other side of the Hamilton story, as seen through the eyes of the defiant daughter of Aaron Burr...

Set against the backdrop of tenth-century England, the narrative intertwines the lives of Prince Rumon of France and Merewyn, a girl from Cornwall with aspirations tied to King Arthur. Their fateful meeting occurs after a shipwreck, leading Rumon to promise Merewyn's dying mother to protect her. As Rumon navigates court intrigue and the manipulative Queen Alfrida, he ultimately seeks Merewyn, embarking on a journey that takes him across the Atlantic in search of redemption and fulfillment. Themes of exploration, love, and destiny shape their intertwined fates.

Story is set in England during the last quarter of the 10th century, when Saxons and Danes warred and Viking raids ravaged its outposts. Proceeding to King Edgar's court, Romieux de Provence, noble born with the blood of King Alfred and Charlemagne in his veins, is shipwrecked on the Cornish coast, where he meets Merewyn, who believes she is descended from King Arthur. It is Rumon's burden to maintain this fiction when he knows she is the product of a Viking foray; he promises' her dying mother to take her to Glastonbury. Merewyn becomes a lady to the wicked Queen Alfrida, who bewitches Rumon, and much of the book is taken up with the bloody proceedings of succession by murder at the English court. By the time Rumon realizes his love for Merewyn, she, who had loved him, is lost to him, borne off by her true father, the Viking Ketil, and married to Sigurd. She lives first in Iceland, then, when Eric the Red proposes to settle Greenland, in that ill fated community. At the last, widowed, she returns to England, where Rumon has taken the vows of a Benedictine monk, remarries, and acknowledges publicly her true parentage.