Behind the Queen's Face, a woman. Behind the throne, a war.In the realm of Ash, women rule absolutely. The Queen's Face is law - a mask worn at all times, concealing the woman beneath from every eye, even that of her Consort. His sole purpose: to ensure she bears a daughter and heir. Failure is not merely disgrace. It is oblivion.When Queen Cecily sets her sights on a Consort, she does not know she has chosen her own sister's lover. Now ambition and jealo...

The Last King Series Box Set includes Books 1-3, The Last King, The Last Warrior, and The Last Horse. This box set includes the books with much of the very strong language removed, although the graphic battle scene violence remains.From author MJ Porter comes a thrilling new hero.The Last KingThey sent three hundred warriors to kill one man. It wasn’t enough.The Saxon kingdom of Mercia lies broken but not be...

The Long Night is ending. The dragon is waking.Sereh is finally free — but the frozen wilds are just as deadly as the life she left behind. When she saves a mysterious stranger, she binds herself to a fate she doesn’t understand.Erann has secrets. About the cold. About the land. About why the world is changing.As the Long Night lingers and something ancient stirs beneath the frozen land, survival means staying together. And their fragile alliance tu...

Before Anne Boleyn stole the heart of a king and demanded marriage, another woman strove to wed an already married king of England. This is the story of Elfrida, who would become the first crowned Queen of England.England is united under Edgar, but twenty years of uncertainty and a dwindling royal nursery have left the royal family vulnerable to extinction.Edgar, a king at only 15 years old, has an acknowledged daughter and wife, but the dying ealdorman, Æt...

The start of a new historical 4-part series from MJ Porter focusing on events around the great battle of Brunanburh** In the battle for power, there can be only one ruler.**AD925Athelstan is the king of the English, uniting the petty kingdoms of Wessex, Mercia, the Danish-held Five Boroughs and York following the sudden death of his father, King Edward.His vision is to unite the realms of the Scots and the Welsh in a peace accord t...

The next in the BRAND NEW thrilling, action-packed House of Mercia series from BESTSELLER MJ Porter. Perfect for fans of Bernard Cornwell and Matthew HarffyThis is Mercia.The year is 758.In the space of just a few months, two kings have fallen.Now the royal helm stands unclaimed, and ambitious men across the kingdom believe it should be theirs.King Æthelbald is dead. So too is the man chosen to succeed him. Though Off...

From the author of The Erdington Mysteries, a classic 1930s murder mystery house party.Lady Merryweather has had a shocking year. Apprehended for the murder of her husband the year before, and only recently released, she hopes a trip away from London will allow her to grieve. The isolated, but much loved, Cragside Estate in North Northumberland, home of her friends, Lord and Lady Bradbury, holds special memories for her.But, no sooner has she arrived than t...

Read all about the royal women who were powerful in their own right, as well as through their husbands, sons, and grandsons. Throughout the tenth century, England, as it would be recognized today, formed. No longer many Saxon kingdoms, but rather, just England. Yet, this development masks much in the century in which the Viking raiders were seemingly driven from England's shores by Alfred, his children and grandchildren, only to return during the reign of his great, great-grandson, the muc...

Mercia: A Companion Guide to the Tales of Mercia brings together, for the first time, the short stories, alternative scenes, deleted scenes, and blog posts written about the eight series by MJ Porter set in the ancient Saxon kingdom of Mercia, (The Dark Age Chronicles, The Gods and Kings Trilogy, The House of Mercia, The Eagle of Mercia Chronicles, The Mercian Ninth Century, The Sundered Kingdom, The Lady of Mercia's Daughter and the Earls of Mercia Series.)Many of...

A delicious 1940s mystery.Birmingham, England, 1943.While the whine of the air raid sirens might no longer be rousing him from bed every night, a two-decade-old unsolved murder case will ensure that Chief Inspector Mason of Erdington Police Station is about to suffer more sleepless nights.Young Robert McFarlane’s body was found outside the local church hall on 30th September 1923. But, his cause of death was drowning, and he’d been ...

Behind the Queen's Face, a woman. Behind the throne, a war.In the realm of Ash, women rule absolutely. The Queen's Face is law — a mask worn at all times, concealing the woman beneath from every eye, even that of her Consort. His sole purpose: to ensure she bears a daughter and heir. Failure is not merely disgrace. It is oblivion.When Queen Cecily sets her sights on a Consort, she does not know she has chosen her own sister's lover. Now ambition and jealous...

She watched kings rise and fall. No one thought to watch her.Lady Eadgifu is seventeen when she is given in marriage to Edward, King of Wessex — a man old enough to be her grandfather, already father to ten children, and hungry for her family's wealth and lands. She knows little of him except his name, his ambition, and the shadow of his famous father, Alfred the Great.But England is changing. The Viking Age is grinding to a bloody close. Jorvik is falling....