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BONUS CONTENT
The Stolen Crown
A Free Short Story
A healer by trade, a sleuth by necessity—can Rebecca save her community from ruin?
When a treasured Torah crown is stolen from a Toledo synagogue in 1193, Rebecca DeToledo, a skilled healer and reluctant sleuth, must untangle a web of lies and deception. With suspicion falling on the cantor and his family, Rebecca races to uncover the truth—before the scandal brings ruin upon the entire Jewish community of Toledo.
BONUS CONTENT
Death at the School of Translators
First Three Chapters
Ivanhoe meets Phryne Fisher in this medieval adventure of a woman sleuth
Toledo’s famed School of Translators is more than a center of learning, it’s a seat of power and secrets. When a royal spy turns up dead, Queen Eleanor sends healer Rebecca DeToledo to uncover what he knew, and why someone wanted him silenced. To protect the mission, she assigns Rebecca a reluctant bodyguard, John of Hampstead, a disgraced knight who knows too much for his own good.
They mistrust each other from the start. But as danger closes in, suspicion must give way to a fragile alliance. Failure could cost them their lives… and shake the crown itself.
BONUS CONTENT Blood in the Parchment
First Two Chapters
Toledo, Spain, 1193
Rebecca DeToledo thought she had made peace with her family’s betrayal—until her estranged cousin begs her to investigate troubling events at their joint vellum business. She refuses to help. She wants nothing to do with the family that shunned her.
Then, a worker at the DeToledo vellum workshop is found dead.
Sir John of Hampstead has seen death before, but the body pulled from a vat is something else entirely. As the city’s Head of Investigations, John knows this was no accident.
Perfect for fans of medieval whodunits, slow-burn partnerships, and strong female leads who challenge the rules of their time.
BONUS CONTENT
Poison in the Season of Peace
First Three Chapters
Toledo, December 1193: For the first time in memory, Christmas, Hanukkah, and Ramadan descend upon Toledo at once.
The Plaza de Zocodover — the city's beating heart — becomes the center of a dangerous experiment: Christians, Jews, and Muslims will share the space for their sacred celebrations.
Sir John of Hampstead, Head of Investigations at the royal alcázar, sees a political catastrophe in the making. Rebecca DeToledo, a sharp-minded Jewish healer with a talent for uncovering truths, dares to hope coexistence might actually work.
Until the body of a young Muslim man is found inside a church.
With suspicion spreading and tempers rising, Rebecca and John are drawn into a mystery far more perilous than holiday mischief. A murderer is carefully orchestrating the unrest — and if they fail to stop it, all Toledo may ignite.
A cozy historical mystery filled with winter celebrations, interfaith partnerships, and slow-burn romance.