All the books in The Red Cross of Gold
series are now marked down to $1.59. The author mentioned that this is a Memorial Day sale, so I would not expect the prices to last much beyond the weekend. If you sample the first one and it catches your fancy, be sure to grab the entire series (which all together will be less $15). In order, they are: I: The Knight of Death, II: The King of Terrors
, III: The Head of the Crow
, IV: The Hesperian Dragon, 
V: the Quinta Essentia
, VI: the Dragonslayer
, VII: The Wisdom of Solomon
, VIII: The Silver Caduceus
and IX: The Queen of the Abyss
.Here's what the author has to say about the series:
The Red Cross of Gold series is a sort of new twist on some old, but very interesting subjects, including immortality, the Philosopher's Stone, Templar Knights, the Holy Grail, Rosslyn Chapel, the crusades and all those magickal, mystical things.
As fate would have it, I wrote mine long before anyone ever heard of Dan Brown. Let me just say that Dan's book was great, but the ending was a bit disappointing. My books end up as well as they start out.
The main character is one of twelve Council members for the internal circle of the secret Templar Order that has survived the crusades, the Inquisition and banishment over the centuries. They are the ones who know where everything is hidden. The Chevalier Ramsay is a hair-triggered Scotsman from the lowlands who ran away from home back in... oh, about 1180 AD (pardon the use of an old term. I prefer Anno Domine to Common Era because I believe that there is absolutely nothing common about our current era).
Anyway, Mark Ramsay, is called to serve in one of his mystical capacities as Assassin for the Order and sent off to America (known as Merica to those in the know) to fetch back the Grand Master's apprentice who has decided to leave the Order and take up with a rival order. Our fellows, being both ancient and arrogant have little regard for this silly modern order of pretenders and vastly underestimate their high priestess's motivations, means and madness.
He falls prey to her immediately and loses his memory temporarily after a close encounter with her body guard. While under the influence of a debilitating drug, he forgets who he is and what he's doing in America in the first place. One of his captor's, the leading lady as it turns out, has things on her mind other than the secrets of the philosopher's stone and immortality. After a while, he finds himself falling in love only to learn that he is actually 837 years old and supposed to be a celibate monk.
Eventually his Brothers of the Order come after him, thinking him to be a deserter as well. The action heats up as he has to fight his captors and his own Brothers for his life. There's lots of action, love and blood. The best combination for a good yarn. Happy reading.
