Gellis Bundle

A Medieval Pageant of Honor, Danger and Desire from the Queen of High Romance!

“Exciting and absorbing.”—Book-of-the-Month Club News

“…outstanding historical novels.”—Booklist

Genre-defining medieval romances told in beautifully-realized settings by the legendary master storyteller of the high romance form, Roberta Gellis. Gellis is famed for her ability to create moving and dramatic stories with characters who are spot-on historical and a part and parcel of the stunning milieus they inhabit. She’s an acknowledged master of high romance, and the Queen of Medieval Historicals!

These are the 11th century novels where it all began, the place where Roberta Gellis first brought the pageant of the past alive with her unique power to capture the details perfectly while telling a fascinating, harrowing, and ultimately fulfilling tale. Many have tried; few have succeeded so well as this Mistress of Historical Drama. The sumptuously recreated settings. The conflagration of danger and burning desire.

Here are the four novels of Gellis’s first 11th century blossoming brought together for the first time in a stunning bouquet of story-telling majesty, fully edited and with a new introduction by the author. Included here are Bond of Blood, Knight’s Honor, The Sword and the Swan and The Dragon and the Rose. For a limited time, the package will be available for a swoon-inducing $18. Then, beginning in April 2011, the bundle will separate and each book will be available for a still amazing $5.

Journey back in time and into the lives of the men and women who lived, loved and forged a history that will never be forgotten!

The bundled volume includes:

Bond of Blood

Leah, a terrified fifteen-year-old, is forced into a political match with a rough-hewn, seemingly brutal nobleman Lord Radnor, the clubfooted son of the harsh Duke of Gaunt. But Leah comes to see that the brutality is a necessary mask, and that the man beneath is more than capable of love. If she can find a way to win through the shadows to his deeply-hidden heart, together they might forge a new destiny for their families and themselves.

Knight’s Honor

Roger, Earl of Hereford, has had enough of wars. He has fought bravely for King Henry II in a brutal civil conflict, only to see his lord attempt a union with bitter enemies. Now Roger must turn to the very real task of securing his long-neglected lands and founding a family line with strong and loyal wife Elizabeth, who understands that she may not be married to the most considerate of men, but that she’s made a powerful match, all the same. Now Roger and Elizabeth must fight to master a dangerous world where mortal danger and intrigue constantly lurk and civilization has only the most tenuous of footholds.

The Sword and the Swan

The prequel to Gellis’s famed Roselynde chronicles and set during the tumult of King Stephen’s last days in England. Ranulf is an honorable nobleman who loves his king, yet he knows that king is no longer fit to rule. Ranulf cultivates a façade of brutality in order to survive the harsh and power-mad world in which he must move, but when he finds himself with Catharine, a widow who has lost everything, he learns that she is a woman who is determined to build a new life and never lose her family again to the fires of conflict. She is, in fact, a woman after his own heart, if only he can see it.

Dragon and Rose

The saga of the first Tudor king, Henry VII and his wife Elizabeth of York. It is a time of strife and consolidation. England is far from settled, and the land is in uproar. Henry must battle the upstart Richard and somehow hold together a kingdom. Meanwhile on the home front, Elizabeth must carve a place for herself and the potential heirs she will bear in a castle full of intrigue. Together they forge a legendary line of kings and queens of England who will change the course of history!