Jane Loftus

Historical novels from Winchester

The Herb Knot

The Winchester Hours Book I

A promise to the dead can be a curse to the living...

It is 1361. Flemish Merchant’s apprentice Rafi Dubois, orphaned at the Battle of Crécy fifteen years earlier, is bound by the promise he made to a dying soldier: find the man’s family and return the half seal he holds. His memory blurred by grief, Rafi’s only certainty is that the soldier’s father lives in Winchester.

But the city does not welcome him as warmly as he had hoped, nor offer up its secrets as readily. Caught in a web of powerful forces, surrounded by enemies more adept at intrigue than he, Rafi struggles to know who he can trust. As the threat closes in and Rafi gets nearer to discovering who holds the seal, his mission takes on dimensions he could not have anticipated: uncovering one family’s deadly secrets, discovering a shocking truth about his own, and finding the love that unlocks his future as he tries to lay the past to rest.

From the battlefield of Crécy to the warehouses of Ghent and the ancient city of Winchester, follow Raphael’s journey as he pieces the past together.

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