Priscilla Royal

The summer of 1276 at Tyndal Priory is peaceful - until Kenelm’s corpse is found floating in the millpond....

As the autumn storms of 1271 ravage the East Anglian coast, Crowner Ralf finds the corpse of a brutally murdered soldier in the woods near Tyndal Priory....

Although the Simon de Montfort rebellion is over, the smell of death still hangs over the land. In the small priory of Tyndal, the monks and nuns of the Order of Fontevraud long for a return to routine....

When one of her company falls ill on a return journey to Tyndal, Prioress Eleanor accepts lodging at a nearby manor....

Baron Herbert’s return from crusade should have been a joyous occasion. Instead, he grows increasingly morose, withdraws from his family, and refuses to share his wife’s bed....

The summer of 1273 is peaceful for most of England, except in the village of Tyndal....

In the late summer of 1274, King Edward has finally been anointed England’s ruler, and his queen contemplates a pilgrimage in gratitude for their safe return....

In the spring of 1277, Prioress Eleanor goes on a pilgrimage to a famous East Anglian shrine....

It is May 1272, and Prioress Eleanor of Tyndal, recovering from a near-fatal winter fever, journeys to Amesbury Priory to visit her aunt in time for the Feast of Saint Melor....

In March 1279, Edward I takes a break from hammering the Welsh and bearing down on England's Jews to vacation in Gloucestershire....

In the winter of 1271, death stalks the corridors of Wynethorpe Castle on the Welsh border....