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.

Lord’s Learning follows the adventures of Philip Lord, a mercenary commander with a reputation for ruthlessness gained in the wars raging across Europe in the 1620s and 1630s, from his earliest exploits in his teens, to how he earns that reputation on land and at sea. It also tells the story of Kate, Lady Catherine de Bouqulement, a young woman in the service of the exiled Queen of Bohemia who undertakes diplomacy and intregue on her account – and reveals how the lives of these two young people gradually become entwined.

Lord’s Legacy continues the story of Philip Lord, who has returned to England at the opening of what will become the First English Civil War. But he returns with a treason charge hanging over his head and in search of his identity and heritage. The truth about that lies in the hands of a mysterious cabal calling itself the Covenant, and their secret conspiracy which began a century before. The story is largely told through the eyes of Gideon Lennox, a young London lawyer who has some growing up to do. He is honest, and intelligent, struggling with the changing reality as war overthrows the things he values. His worldview is broken apart and remoulded by the extraordinary people he is thrust into contact with and the demands made on him.