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Overview: Eleanor Swift-Hook enjoys the mysteries of history and fell in love with the early Stuart era at university when she re-enacted battles and living history events with the English Civil War Society. Since then, she has had an ongoing fascination with the social, military and political events that unfolded during the Thirty Years’ War and the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. She lives in County Durham and loves writing stories woven into the historical backdrop of those dramatic times.
Genre: Historical Fiction
01 The Mercenary’s Blade
England, September 1642 …. The King has raised his standard in Nottingham to summon those loyal to the crown to fight for him against his own Parliament.
Gideon Lennox, an idealistic young lawyer from London, is in County Durham being paid to find a man and deliver a message. Having failed in the task that originally brought him north, Gideon needs to prove himself.
The man he seeks is the traitor Philip Lord, a notorious mercenary commander, with a reputation for brutality gained in the wars raging across Europe. When Gideon encounters Lord, he is abducted and set to investigate strange happenings in a Weardale village.
As he attempts to uncover the truth behind accusations of witchcraft – and the murder of the witchfinder in Pethridge – the lawyer is faced with more questions than answers.
He is convinced that Lord must somehow be involved until a gory discovery proves to him that whoever might be behind the strange events, it is not the accused women – or Lord.
Just as Gideon begins to realise that more than one shadowy hand is moving the pieces in the dangerous game being played out in Pethridge, he is seized and accused of the murder himself.
The lawyer must somehow escape – or become a victim of the conspiracy he needs to bring to light.
02 The Traitor’s Apprentice
Late September 1642…. A bloody civil war is tearing the kingdoms apart. But, in Yorkshire, some are striving for a countywide Treaty of Neutrality, in the hope of maintaining peace and order.
Gideon Lennox, once a London lawyer, now serves in Philip Lord’s mercenary company. But Lord is a traitor with a mysterious past. As they occupy the manor house of Wrathby in Ryedale, they are confronted with the suspicious death of a servant – and talk of a curse which has afflicted the Belamy family for generations.
Lord’s new captain, Mags, is plotting to gain greater influence within the company and his popularity with the men begins to cause problems.
As tensions increase, a guest of Lady Belamy is poisoned and Gideon is tasked by Lord with investigating both murders, making himself a target for the killer.
When an attempt is made on the life of the infant baron, Zahara, the enigmatic beauty who travels with Lord and has captured Gideon’s heart, is accused.
In order to save the woman he loves, Gideon has to trust an ally of his enemy.
Zahara’s life – and his own – will hang in the balance.
03 The Devil’s Command
England, October 1642…. The war between King Charles and his Parliament reaches a watershed as the clash of ideologies becomes a clash of armies on the battlefield of Edgehill.
Former lawyer, Gideon Lennox, finds himself an unwilling participant fighting in the king’s army alongside Philip Lord, a notorious mercenary commander with a mysterious past.
After enduring the horror and brutality of battle, Gideon is confronted with an even greater challenge. Lady Catherine de Bouquelemont, an accomplished Royalist spy and the woman Lord loves, has been betrayed and captured.
Uncovering the identity of the traitor, Gideon plays a dangerous game as he gains entry to the Parliamentarian held town of Warwick to discover the whereabouts of Lady Catherine.
But not all is as it seems.
Having put his head in the enemy’s noose, Gideon becomes entangled in a web of plots from which he can see no sure way to escape with his life.
04 The Physician’s Fate
Paris, December 1642…. While England is torn apart by civil war, Cardinal Richelieu, the man who has ruled France in all but name for the last quarter of a century, slips quietly into death.
Erstwhile lawyer, Gideon Lennox, is now employed by Sir Philip Lord, a notorious mercenary commander with a mysterious past. When Lord is sent to Paris to present King Charles’ condolences to his brother-in-law, King Louis, Gideon is at his side.
However, Gideon and Lord have reasons of their own to be in Paris. They need to find the physician-surgeon Anders Jensen – and find him quickly. The life of the woman Lord loves depends upon it.
But Anders stands accused of the murder of Demoiselle Geneviève Tasse, maid and companion to Richelieu’s beloved niece, who was drugged with laudanum and raped even as Richelieu was on his death bed elsewhere in the same building.
With the requirements of diplomacy tying Lord’s hands, it falls to Gideon to uncover the killer and deliver Anders from trial and execution.
As he closes in on discovering the identity of the killer, Gideon finds he has poked a hornet’s nest. His own life may soon be forfeit.
A lethal chase through the streets of Paris ends with Gideon fighting for his life beneath the murky waters of the River Seine.
05 The Alchemist’s Plot
England, March 1643…. While the civil war between King Charles and his Parliament continues to tear the nation apart, erstwhile lawyer, Gideon Lennox, returns to England as part of a royal escort and in the employ of Sir Philip Lord, a mercenary commander with a mysterious past.
Accompanied by Gideon and Daniel Bristow – Lord’s second in command who has his own history to confront in London – Lord risks a journey behind enemy lines to Mortlake.
They discover the house that once belonged to the alchemist John Dee has become a tapestry works.
Before they can begin to investigate any secrets the property might hold, they learn two of the weavers have taken their own lives within a few days of each other and in the same locked room.
Gideon sets out to find the truth behind the deaths. In the process, he and Lord discover many carefully concealed secrets.
But they are not the only ones in search of those secrets. Gideon is confronted by an old adversary and the full force of the mysterious organisation known as the Covenant is unleashed against them.
Trapped in the alchemist’s house, Gideon has to fight or die.
06 The Cavalier’s Oath
England, May 1643…. With the country riven by civil war, word reaches Royalist headquarters in Oxford that the Parliamentarian commander Sir William Waller plans to capture the strategic city of Worcester.
Sir Philip Lord, a mercenary commander with a mysterious past, is sent to help prepare Worcester to withstand a siege. With Lord is Gideon Lennox, a young lawyer, who has been helping Lord unravel the secretive conspiracy that has overshadowed his life.
Gideon is seeking clues to that mystery when a young woman is killed, leading him to fear for the safety of his own beloved, the unattainable Zahara.
Tasked to unmask the murderer, Gideon finds his two investigations lead to the same house – that of the puritan preacher Nehemiah Fisher and his wife Joan. But another death results in Gideon himself falling under suspicion.
When one of the women close to Lord is attacked, the killer leaves a clue, but the finger it points leaves Gideon in a bleak place. If he brings the murderer to justice he risks losing the final chance to uncover Lord’s heritage.
But when the confrontation comes, all choice is taken from him. Facing the murderer alone, Gideon has to unleash his own inner darkness if he is to survive.
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