A Bibliography of the Saint-Germain Series
At the height of Karl-lo-Magne's power, Hiernom Rakoczy, Comes Sant' Germainius is summoned to Sant' Martin at Tours to help the monks there compile their atlases of the world beyond the old Roman Empire. It is there that Rakoczy meets the albino Gynethe Mehaut, who suffers from stigmatic wounds in her hands, and who is regarded as a very spiritually dangerous person. Rakoczy's sympathy for her proscribed life leads them both into danger.
BETTER IN THE DARK (939-940) Published 1993 (#8) Washed ashore after a shipwreck near Lubeck in the tenth century, Saint-Germain owes his survival to the valiant Randegonda, and his near-destruction to her sister-in-law, Pentacoste.
CRUSADERS'S TORCH (1189-1214) Published 1988 (Atta Olivia Clemens #2) Out of Print Caught up in the hysteria of the Crusades, Olivia seeks to leave Tyre and return to Rome; this proves to be far more difficult than she had expected.
PATH OF THE ECLIPSE (1216) Published 1981 (#4) Out of Print Traveling from China to Tibet and India during the rise of Jenghiz Khan, Saint-Germain is driven by circumstances from one place to the next in his search for a safe and tolerant haven.
BLOOD ROSES (1345-1388) Published 1996 (#11) Saint-Germain's pleasant life in Provence in the mid-fourteenth century is ended by the arrival of the Black Plague. Driven north, he is forced to change his identity to that of a troubadour in order to survive.
A FEAST IN EXILE (14th Century India) Published 2002 (#14) In Delhi at the end of the 14th century, Sanat Ji Mani witnesses the horrible sacking of the city by the forces of Timur-i Lenhk and is taken captive by the Turko-Mongol warlord. A providential escape with Tulsi Kil, a female acrobat, puts the two of them on their own in west-central India, struggling to stay alive.
THE PALACE (1490-1498) Published 1978 (#2) Renaissance Florence provides the background for this story of the collapse of the artistic and literary life of the city after the death of San Germano's friend, Lorenzo the Magnificent, followed by the rise of the fanatical Savonarola.
DARKER JEWELS (1533-1586) Published 1993 (#7) Sent by the King of Poland to the Russian court of Ivan the Terrible, Saint-Germain is caught in the complex web of intrigue and the emotional strife of his arranged marriage.
A CANDLE FOR D'ARTAGNAN (1637-1673) Published 1989 (Atta Olivia Clemens #3) Out of Print Sent to Paris as an aide to Cardinal Mazarin, Olivia becomes enmeshed in the machinations of the court, and gains the undying devotion
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