Marina Oliver - Writer - of Historical Fiction

My favourite period in history is the 17^th century, when so much was happening in England.
I have divided my novels of this time into three groups:
1640s - Civil War
1650s - King in exile - on this page
1660s - Restoration
All these novels are now available as ebooks from:
Smashwords, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Sony, Diesel, Kobo, Apple, and W H Smith.

* = also in large print; + = also on audio tape

Barbara's arranged marriage took place when she was still a child.
Her husband Ludovick was a supporter of King Charles I, fighting in his armies, and comes to claim her only to find Barbara has fallen in love with a neighbour and wants to have her marriage annulled.
Ludovick refuses to free her, and sets about wooing his bride.

As a child, Caroline helped a fugitive Cavalier escaping from the Battle of Worcester in 1651.
When her aunt dies years later and her Puritan uncle remarries and sires a son Caroline is disinherited, and threatened with a hateful marriage.
Escaping to London where she hopes to find help, she once more meets her Cavalier.

Sibylla is in love, but Randolph demands secrecy.
Then she discovers he is plotting against her brother Gerard, a Royalist hoping to restore King Charles II of England to the throne.
Once she learns his secret motive, Randolph means to silence her, but chance and Josselin, the French Privateer intervene.
Together Sibylla and Josselin have to save Gerard from danger and the King from his enemies. Have they time?

Miles Talbot, spy, is sent to England by the exiled Charles II in the mid-1650s, to sound out what support there is for a restoration.
He meets Cherry Weston, a beautiful and wealthy young widow who holds many entertainments for Parliamentarians at the time of the Parliament of the Saints.
Among her frequent guests is Dare-to-be-Faithful-to-God Denham, a man who believes all enjoyment is wicked, but who is drawn to Cherry despite himself.
Miles is soon welcomed to Cherry's bed, but while he fails to learn anything from her, he suspects she is attempting to discover his secrets.
She has at least two other lovers, young Parliamentarians.
He has to leave her while he travels the country, on the pretence of purchasing a small estate, but in reality to visit known Royalists and gauge what support there is for the King.
He is involved in setting up the Sealed Knot, a secret society hoping to coordinate the various plots on behalf of the King, but not all the plotters are willing to be guided by a body they feel is not active enough.

Sanchia is stranded in Limoges when her father is killed and their money stolen.
She is working at an inn to earn money to travel to her uncle in Orleans when she encounters Royalist Sir John Morriss and the arrogant Comte de St Savin.
Rejecting the demands of the Comte and the innkeeper, she flees, and again meets Sir John, who is working for the Restoration of Charles II.
Discovering her uncle has moved to Brussels she accepts Sir John's escort, and becomes involved in the plots surrounding the King as he awaits the call from England.

Marina Oliver - Writer of Fiction and Non-Fiction