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V.E.H. Masters

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Historical Fiction, History, Romance

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Would you like three free historical short stories which build on the Seton Chronicles? Visit my website https://vehmasters.com and pick up your copies of A Bonny Lass, The Sound of Silence and A Long Wait. Each tell the reader secrets which Bethia and Will do not know.

Keeping Distance is my most recent book. It's a departure from my historical fiction series and is a contemporary romantic suspense novel set in Scotland.

All my books are based on real events and follow the history closely.

I grew up on a farm near St. Andrews on the east coast of Scotland. St Andrews is famous as the home of golf but it also was a great religious centre and place of pilgrimage prior to the Reformation in 1560 – all largely disregarded when we were at school. Would you like three free historical short stories which build on the Seton Chronicles? Visit my website https://vehmasters.com and pick up your copies of A Bonny Lass, The Sound of Silence and A Long Wait. Each tell the reader secrets which Bethia and Will do not know.

Keeping Distance is my most recent book. It's a departure from my historical fiction series and is a contemporary romantic suspense novel set in Scotland.

All my books are based on real events and follow the history closely.

I grew up on a farm near St. Andrews on the east coast of Scotland. St Andrews is famous as the home of golf but it also was a great religious centre and place of pilgrimage prior to the Reformation in 1560 – all largely disregarded when we were at school. The first time I was in the castle was aged twelve when our teacher took us on a rare visit to it. There was a famous siege there in 1546 and I was captivated when we went down the siege tunnel dug out of rock then and peered into the bottle dungeon where the murdered Cardinal's body is said to have been kept, pickled in salt, for over a year.

The group who took the castle and held it for over 14 months, resisting the many attempts to re-take it, called themselves the Castilians and I remember thinking even then it was the perfect title for a book. I just didn't realise how long it would take me to write it!

Once I'd finished the first book I continued the story of Bethia and Will as they are caught up in the religious turmoil of the Reformation. How does a family of different faiths hold together and survive when your safety depended on both where you were and what faith you adhered to?

Regular posts on my research and the wonderful nuggets of detail I find are on my website and I'd be honoured if you signed up for my monthly newsletter which often offers giveaways.

The Castilians, The Conversos and The Apostates are available as audiobooks, narrated by the talented actor and voice artist Beverley Wright.

To find out more please go to her website https://vehmasters.com/. A short story telling more about the characters is free to all newsletter subscribers. ...more

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	The Castilians (The Seton Chronicles #1) 4.09 avg rating — 1,463 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Conversos (The Seton Chronicles #2) 4.36 avg rating — 754 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Apostates (The Seton Chronicles #3) 4.36 avg rating — 646 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Familists (The Seton Chronicles #4) 4.38 avg rating — 383 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Pittenweemers: Outstanding 16th Century Historical Fiction based on real events (The Seton Chronicles Book 5) 4.55 avg rating — 283 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Keeping Distance: A Romantic Suspense Novel Set in Scotland 4.75 avg rating — 12 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Die schottischen Burgherren: Historischer Roman über Macht, Glauben und Verrat im Schottland des 16. Jahrhunderts (The Seton Chronicles – Band 1) (German Edition) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Culross is a very pretty village set on the opposite of the Firth of Forth to Edinburgh and one of the locations used to film the Outlander series. Sitting in a café there I got chatting to a lovely American who was on an Outlander tour.

‘We did Edinburgh yesterday,’ she said, ‘and we’re doing the Highlands today.’

‘Wow that’s a long way in a day,’ I said.

After a rather confusing chat, I suspect fo

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