In a wonderful new work of historical fiction by author Helena P. Schrader, Envoy of Jerusalem: Balian D'Ibelin and the Third Crusade (Balian D'Ibelin and the Kingdom of Jerusalem) has a story line that kept me obsessively turning the pages from the very first all...

The Tale of the English Templar by Helena P. Schrader is a gripping historical novel that is rooted in real events surrounding the suppression of the Knights Templar in 1307. After being arrested, tortured, and forced to confess under duress, one English Templar disappears, only...