Judith Tarr

The winter field was planted, the seedstones buried to the depth of a woman's wrist. Any deeper and they might decline to sprout....

Iry, daughter of an old noble house, the Sun Ascendant, has been enslaved by the bearded conquerors. But her new master is born of a different blood....

In ancient Egypt, a woman might be king - but the price she paid would bind her soul for eternity....

Sparrow is a shaman's daughter in a tribe that forbids women to be kings, to be shamans, to be anything but silent and tractable servants to the all-powerful men....

Long years after the White Mare came to the people of the Mothers, bringing the wild horsemen from the sea of grass and changing the world forever, the world is changing again....

Sarama is the last of the White Mare's servants, descended from an ancient line conquered long ago by warrior tribes. Her father is the king of one such tribe. Her twin brother Agni is the king's heir....

The life and times of Melisende, the crusader queen of Jerusalem, regent to her young son, the king, during the 12th century....