Judith Tarr Books In Order

Spear of Heaven

Obtaining permission to accompany a powerful mage on a quest to a high mountain kingdom, willful heiress Daruya is horrified when her kingdom is threatened by evil forces on the eve of her departure. PW. AB.

Tides of Darkness

Hailed as a sweeping saga, spiced with exciting, unexpected plot twists Publishers Weekly, Judith Tarrs richly imagined Avaryan fantasy series has gained a broad and devoted following. Now, after more than five years, Tarr offers her many fans a stunning new chapter in this majestic epic.A wave of utter darkness and implacable evil sweeps across a thousand worlds, turning souls without number into mute, blind slaves. Now this dark tide threatens the Golden Empire, and not even the awesome powers of Lady Merian, heir of Avaryan, can halt its advance. Only Daros, a wild and reckless young mage who has captured Merians heart, dares to confront this vast evil, risking his life and his sanity to protect their world from the chill of endless night. Interweaving conflict, intrigue, sorcery and romance, Tides of Darkness is a bold and exciting tale by a modern master of fantasy.

Alamut

A knight from across the sea, a beleaguered kingdom, a spirit of fire with a deadly secret Judith Tarr’s beloved novel of grand romance and high magic in the age of the Crusades appears for the first time in digital form. Join Prince Aidan, son of a mortal king and an immortal enchantress, and the deathless Assassin Morgiana, in a saga of war and truce, betrayal and honor, hate and love.

The Dagger and the Cross

Mass Market Paperback, Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group

Throne of Isis

Passion and politics, Imperial Rome and Ptolemaic Egypt, meet and clash in an epic recreation of the story of Cleopatra, Egypt’s last queen, and her lover, Anthony, as told by Cleopatra’s priestess cousin Dione, who witnesses Cleopatra’s romantic and military alliances.

The Eagle’s Daughter

Here in lush detail is the powerful story of the tenth century Byzantine princess Theophano, who was sent to be the wife and Empress of Otto II, son of Otto the Great, the Holy Roman Emperor. It is a long journey from the surviving Roman Empire in the East to the devastated Empire in the West. Theophano must apply all her Byzantine skills to truly become the Empress of the West, winning first her new husband’s devotion, and then the love of her new people,But when Otto II dies unexpectedly, laving the empire to his four year old son, the Empress Theophano must fight one of the greatest wars of succession of the Dark Ages. For Otto II’s cousin, Henry of Burgandy, would have the Regency for himself and the Throne as well if he can take them.

Queen of Swords

From the Court of Jerusalem to the battlefields of the Crusades to the glorious city of Byzantium, here are the pageantry and the danger of twelfth century Europe’s greatest advantage. Melisende was the oldest daughter of Baldwin of Jerusalem, a princess of the Franks and, since she had no brothers, heir to the Crusader Kingdom. The crown would go to the man who married her, and after to her son. But Melisende was a strong woman; the law that forced her to marry instead of taking the crown in her own name was a thorn in her side. It was she who ruled the City and who juggled the politics of church and court. The knights of Jerusalem fought in her honor, many of the best sworn to her personal service. She would not submit easily to a husband’s rule, nor for long.

Lady of Horses

Journey back into the deep mists of time, enter the lives of a savage people whose rituals include human sacrifice and ritual cannibalism; a superstitious people who fear the magic of the Shamans who live among them; a patriarchal people who forbid women to be hunters, or go among the horse herds, or become shamans. Enter the frightening, powerful life of Sparrow, the daughter of the tribe’s Shaman and a captive woman. She is destined to do all those things, for the Horse Goddess herself has come among the herds of the tribe in the form of a proud mare, and she has chosen Sparrow to be her servant and priestess. Lady of Horses is a passionately romantic book, a historically accurate book, and a wildly adventurous book. It is a love song to the ancient, mysterious bond between women and horses, and, like Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Mists of Avalon, takes the reader back to a time of goddess worship and women’s power.

Daughter of Lir

In this sequel to White Mare’s Daughter, the people of the horse goddess once more face the threat of war. Generations ago, the people of the White Mare migrated westward, until they met the cities of the Mother. From war eventually came peace through alliance and marriage. Now war threatens again. Rhian, a potter’s daughter with the gift of seeing, and Emrys, the King’s son, must find a way to defend the cities from a new invasion. Tarr combines her gift as a storyteller and her training as a historian to create a vividly believable tale of destiny you will never forget.

The Devil’s Bargain

The year is 1191. The place is the Holy Land, where the knights of Christ are embroiled in a war with the armies of Islam. The prize is the holy city of Jerusalem. Led by Richard the Lionheart, the armies of the West are conducting a Crusade against the sultan Saladin. In Cyprus, the king’s mother, Eleanor, has struck a devil’s bargain to grant Richard victory at any cost. Only Sinan the sorcerer knows that victory will cost the king his immortal soul.

House of War

National bestselling author Judith Tarr returns to the world of her critically acclaimed Devil’s Bargain as the sorceress Sioned and her half brother King Richard once again face the Old Man of the Mountain, an evil sorcerer determined to destroy them…

King’s Blood

Red William, the eldest son of William the Conqueror, has inherited the throne and a kingdom free of Saxon Christian influence. But his decision to leave magic out of his rule causes the land to wither and die.

Now the fate of Britain lies in the hands of Edith, princess of Scotland, and Henry, the youngest son of the Conqueror. Both are highly gifted in magic, but only the blood of a king will cleanse the land from the evil and pestilence that infects it.

Queen of the Amazons

Judith Tarr returns to the always fascinating character of Alexander the Great in this fantasy novel that springs from the legend that the Queen of the Amazons came to meet him in Persia, and became his friend. Hippolyta was Penthesilea, or Queen of the Amazons. She ruled as war leader and high priestess of a scattered tribe of women warriors who had dwelt on the high plains to the north and east of Persia for time out of mind. They were not isolated travelers came and went through their territory, bringing news from the west, and carrying tales of the warrior women back home with them. But the Queen had a great grief in her life: her daughter and heir was a strange child. The girl had been born, so the Priestesses said, without a soul. And it was true that she was like no other child alive. She did not speak, and often seemed not to even see the people around her. She could not dress or feed herself, but she could ride and hunt like no other woman of the tribe. Many of the Amazons believed that the child must never be Queen, but that was a problem for a later time Hippolyta was young and strong. Selene, the niece of the tribe’s Seer, was put in charge of the child, to be her nursemaid and guardian. And it was a good, though sometimes difficult, life for many turns of the years. But then one day news came from the West of a new Conqueror, a young man who came out of Macedon with a spirit like flame, intending to rule the whole world. The Queen’s daughter responded to the tale as a woman in the desert would to the sound of falling water. That very night she stole out of the camp and rode west. Selene could not stop her, and so she must follow, praying that the Queen would understand. Hippolyta herself followed the next day, and so they rode together, controlled by the child’s compulsion, until they had crossed the mountains and entered into Alexander’s Empire, and under the sway of Alexander’s powerful personality.

Bring Down the Sun

Alexander the Great ruled the greatest Empire of the ancient world, but he was ruled by his mother, called Olympias. There are as many legends about this powerful Queen as there are of her famous son, and the stories began long before she even met Philip of Macedon. Priestess of the Great Goddess, daughter of ruling house of Epiros, witch, and familiar of Serpents…
she was a figure of mystery, fascination and fear even during her own lifetime. Author Judith Tarr uses the legends to weave an intensely romantic fantasy novel set in ancient Greece and Macedon.

Lord of the Two Lands

When word of the Macedonian king, Alexander, reaches Egypt, the priests of Amon send Meriamon, daughter of Pharaoh, to find Alexander and persuade him to become king of their land. AB. K.

His Majesty’s Elephant

In the eighth century, Rowan, Charlemagne’s youngest daughter, discovers a plot by the Byzantines to steal a powerful magic talisman that has been given to her father, a scheme that could result in Charlemagne’s death and the destruction of his kingdom.

Pillar of Fire

Brought in chains as a slave girl to the court of ancient Egypt, Nofret knew intimately the key players in an extraordinary era: The Pharaoh Akhenaten, who defied the ancient Egyptian deities to worship the One True God, and his beautiful queen Nefertiti. Tutankhamon, the young boy king murdered in a ruthless struggle for power. Johanan, the handsome young Hebrew laborer who captured her heart, and made her a traveler on a miraculous journey. And the legendary prophet and lawgiver who came out of the desert to defy Egypt’s power and lead his people out of captivity. Acclaimed as one of the finest authors of historical novels today, Judith Tarr has crafted a daring and provocative new interpretation of a crucial turning point in human history.

Household Gods

Nicole Gunther Perrin is a modern young professional, proud of her legal skills but weary of the daily grind, of childcare, and of sexist coworkers and her deadbeat ex husband. Then after one exceptionally awful day, she awakens to find herself in a different life, that of a widowed tavernkeeper on the Roman frontier around A.D. 170. Delighted at first, she quickly begins to realize that her new world is as complicated as her old one. Violence, dirt, adn pain are everywhere; slavery is commonplace, gladiators kill for sport, and drunkenness is taken for granted. Yet, somehow, people manage to face life everyday with humor and goodwill. No quitter, Nicole manages to adapt, despite endless worry about the fate of her children ‘back’ in the twentieth century. Then plague sweeps through Carnuntum, followed by brutal war. Amidst pain and loss on a level she had never imagined, Nicole must find reserved of the sort of strength she had never known.

Kingdom of the Grail

Historical fact and fantastic legend clash when Merlin’s descendant Roland takes up the Quest for the Grail against Arthur’s ancient enemy a thrilling new adventure from an extraordinary talent whose appeal is growing fast with each new book…
. Praise for Judith Tarr’s amazing novels of history and legend…
Throne of Isis:’In this carefully researched, well crafted novel about Anthony and Cleopatra, Tarr weaves…
a marvelously entertaining tapestry.’ Booklist’Tarr’s historical outline is unexceptionable, her wealth of cultural detail impeccable.’ Kirkus ReviewsPillar of Fire:’A book that can be savored and enjoyed on many levels perfect for beach reading…
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Pride of Kings

‘Tarr spins an entertaining and often enlightening tale.’ The Washington Post A powerful epic of two kings, two realms, and two wars for England to win or lose. One could weaken the mortal empire. The other could destroy the world…