Once upon a time, there was a villain named Shaw. He needed a queen, and she was perfect.
10 The Forbidden Queen
β Scribed by Anne O'Brien
- Publisher
- MIRA
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 306 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 147201023X
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β¦ Synopsis
An innocent pawn A kingdom without a king A new dynasty will reignβ¦ 1415. The jewel in the French crown, Katherine de Valois, is waiting under lock and key for King Henry V. While heβs been slaughtering her kinsmen in Agincourt, Katherine has been praying for marriage to save her from her misery. But the brutal king wants her crown, not her innocent love. For Katherine, England is a lionβs den of greed, avarice and mistrust. And when she is widowed at twenty-one, she becomes a prize ripe for the takingβher young son the future monarch, her hand in marriage worth a kingdom. This is a deadly political game, one the dowager queen must learn fast. The playersβthe Duke of Gloucester, Edmund Beaufort and Owen Tudorβare circling. Who will have her? Who will ruin her? This is the story of Katherine de Valois.
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