Books like A Personal Devil:(Magdalene La Batarde #2) by Roberta Gellis

A historical novel set in the 12th century, focusing on the building of a cathedral and the surrounding community's fortunes amidst historical events of the time.

A sweeping Arthurian tale set in the mystical realm of Avalon, exploring the intertwined lives of its legends and the ancient traditions that shape them.

In the 12th century, detective Justin de Quincy unravels a murder that may expose Prince John’s plot to seize the English throne while King Richard the Lionheart remains missing after a crusade.

In medieval Oxford, Magdalene la Bâtarde must untangle a web of treason and murder to protect her patron William of Ypres, navigating intrigue among nobles, rival mercenaries, and the city's brigands.

When the vanished Sister Cecely returns to St. Frideswide's priory with her illegitimate son, her presence forces the nuns to confront doubts about faith, repentance and loyalty—raising tension that may culminate in danger.

A demon in my view explores a lone lodger’s fragile world when a young man arrives at Trinity Road, stirring hidden tensions in this psychological thriller.

After a stay in Italy, Lady Julia returns to her Sussex estate, only to discover a murder at a nearby abbey. With private investigator Nicholas Brisbane, she navigates intrigue, family secrets and a snowbound conspiracy to uncover the killer before another tragedy.

Three generations of women trace a family saga spanning the First and Second World Wars, uncovering hidden truths about marriage, fidelity, and the enduring bonds of motherhood.

Dame Frevisse, a nun, leaves her cloister to chase her outlaw cousin Nicholas up the King's Highway, confronting the law, her vows, and a deadly manor where faith and greed collide.

Margaret Lawrence introduces her unforgettable heroine, Hannah Trevor, whose disregard for convention sets her apart from the other women of the small town of Rufford, Maine. Yet as a midwife, Hannah is intimately involved in the lives of people simultaneously capable of great joy and deeply scarred by a bloody war of revolution. Now, in the midst of a merciless winter, an abomination has occurred: a young Rufford wife and mother has been raped and murdered in her home. Few knew the tormented victim well, but she named her three attackers in a horrified letter of accusation written before she died. And one of the accused is Daniel Josselyn - a wealthy man of honor, a wounded war veteran, and Hannah's one-time lover, the father of her illegitimate daughter. A savage crime has touched Hannah's world, impelling her to join her dear, damaged friend, local constable Will Quaid, in his investigation.