Read the full tale of the highwayman Captain Coke, the thief-taker Pitman and the actress Sarah Chalker as they fight the evil Fifth Monarchists – fanatics, killers, fundamentalists – through two of the greatest cataclysms in England’s history: The Great Plague and Great Fire of London!It begins with PLAGUE…Winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel from the Canadian Crime Writers Association.On a dark road out...

You should never fall in love with a flyer. You should only be in love with flight.That’s the rule that Roxy Loewen – aviatrix, and protégé of the great Amelia Earhart – always lives by. Until she falls hard for fellow pilot Jocco Zomack and he leads her into a whole heap of trouble. From African skies to a cellar in Madrid, from the Berlin Olympics to the last flight of the Hindenburg, from gun running to the heist of the century, Roxy is just one step ahead of the Nazis ...

Suave, sexy, and superhuman, Jack is an eighteenth-century James Bond...London: 1759: Jack Absolute is loved by the ladies and envied by his schoolmates. With a place secured at university and a baronetcy at hand, his future seems bright-if he can just stay out of trouble.But when Jack is caught red-handed with a powerful lord's mistress, his good fortune is destroyed, forcing him to seek a new fate in the dangerous New World during the b...

Diana Gabaldon calls Jack Absolute:'An Absolute delight! One of the most appealing military gentlemen ever to wear a sword.'Herein read about the extraordinary circmstances of Jack's birth. Of his mother's peril in the London theatre and of his father's solo cavalry charge in Germany that earned him the title 'Mad Jamie'.'C.C. Humphreys has created the finest series of historical novels since Patrick O'Brian.' Good Book Guide UK

BY BESTSELLING AUTHOR C.C. HUMPHREYS, AND INSPIRED BY HIS PARENTS' TRUE STORY, A DAZZLING NOVEL ABOUT A SPY AND A PILOT WHO FALL IN LOVE BUT ARE WRENCHED APART DURING WORLD WAR TWO, AND MUST FIND THEIR WAY BACK TO EACH OTHER.When Billy Coke steps onto the streets of London one December evening in 1940, he has no idea he is stepping to his fate. As Hitler's bombers come close to burning the city down, Billy meets the woman who will change the course of his life: Ilse Magnusson, a mu...

Vlad: The Last Confession is a novel about the real man behind the Bram Stoker myth. It tells of the Prince, the warrior, the lover, the torturer, the survivor and, ultimately, the hero.Dracula. A name of horror, depravity and the darkest sensuality. Yet the real Dracula was just as alluring, just as terrifying, his tale not one of a monster but of a man…and a contradiction.His tale is told by those who knew him best. The only woman he ever loved…a...

Winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel from the Canadian Crime Writers Association.On a dark road outside London, a highwayman stumbles upon slaughter...As plague grips the city, can the uneasy alliance of a thief, a thief-taker and an actress catch a serial killer?'A rich and addictive read, ideal for fans of historical fiction.' Publisher's Weekly‘With Kings and cripples, rats and rotters, highwaymen and loos...

"If you like Bernard Conwell's Grail Quest series, you'll love The French Executioner and The Curse of Anne Boleyn. To my mind Cornwell is good, but Humphreys is better."—Sally Zigmund, Historical Novels Review (UK)The last thing Jean Rombaud expects upon being summoned to behead Anne Boleyn is to dedicate his life to her. But the ill-fated queen has a mysterious request for her executioner: that after taking her life he also take her infamous six...

"If you like Bernard Conwell's Grail Quest series, you'll love The French Executioner and The Curse of Anne Boleyn. To my mind Cornwell is good, but Humphreys is better."—Sally Zigmund, Historical Novels Review (UK)From the masterful C.C. Humphreys comes the captivating sequel to The French ExecutionerNearly twenty years have passed since Anne Boleyn died at the hands of her slayer and savior, Jean Rombaud. All he...

"C.C. Humphreys is one of the very best historical novelists around." —Simon Scarrow, bestselling author of the EAGLES OF THE EMPIRE seriesPerfect for fans of Bernard Cornwell, A Place Called Armageddon is an epic tale of one of history's greatest battles for one of the world's most extraordinary places.Gregoras had vowed never to return to Constantinople, the cursed home that had betrayed and scarred not only his mind, but his face, for all to see...

"Jack escapes death more often than James Bond... An exciting romp!" Sunday Telegraph (UK)Blooded on the battlefields of Canada, fresh from a winter spent in a voluptuous widow's bed, the dashing Jack Absolute has every reason to feel good. And life only gets better when the ship returning him to England captures a rich prize.But gold is not all the enemy ship holds. Fever nearly kills Jack, his life barely saved by a new comrade, Red Hugh McClu...

"An absolute delight! ...one of the most appealing military gentlemen ever to wear a sword." — Diana Gabaldon, Author of OutlanderThe year is 1777. As the American Revolutionary War rages across the sea, London is swept off its feet by Jack Absolute, the dashing rogue in Richard Sheridan's comedy The Rivals.When the real Jack Absolute, former captain of the 16th Light Dragoons, returns after years abroad he is immediately embroiled in an illegal du...