What if you had to flee your homeland, abandon your faith, and become the enemy you were sworn to annihilate, just to survive?

William de Scotia’s gentle blood flows with the ancestry of Scottish Kings and the malevolent taint of the murderous Lion of Islam, Sultan Baibars I. Born to an innocent mother, who was stripped of her nobility and dignity, then sold into bondage by a diabolical Genoese slaver, William is the lesser son of the Mameluk Sultanate and fated to be his eldest brother’s elite guard. When his barbarous father is suspiciously poisoned, his eldest brother ascends the throne and William prepares to embrace his destiny. But when one is young, the future is but a mirage in the desert—cruel and deceptive.

Do You Dare Be Transported Into a Historical Adventure That Will Forever Change Your View of the Past?
The Angel Strikes is the first in a series of sweeping, epic novels that make up The Brandt Family Chronicles. Spanning two centuries from the Napoleonic Wars to the Cold War and beyond, these riveting historical fiction novels portray the saga of the Paul Brandt family through the generations. But more than simply giving us a glimpse into rich family dynamics over time, these books challenge our very understanding of why history happened. Much like the highly acclaimed television series Downton Abbey, these novels show the grandeur of the times as well as the ugliness that many would keep hidden. You are about to enter territory that is forbidden to many.

Flavia de Luce–“part Harriet the Spy, part Violet Baudelaire from Lemony Snicket’s “A Series of Unfortunate Events”” (“The New York Times Book Review”)–takes her remarkable sleuthing prowess to the unexpectedly unsavory world of Canadian boarding schools in the captivating new mystery from “New York Times “bestselling author Alan Bradley. “Banished!” is how twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce laments her predicament, when her father and Aunt Felicity ship her off to Miss Bodycote’s Female Academy, the boarding school that her mother, Harriet, once attended across the sea in Canada.