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Buck, Pearl S.
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Fiction
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2012
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Moyer Bell and its subsidiaries
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en-ca
β 578 KB
β¦ LIBER β¦
Peony
β Scribed by Hall, Traci E
- Book ID
- 108441245
- Publisher
- Medallion Media Group
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- en-GB
- Weight
- 1 MB
- Series
- The Queen's Guard 2
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781605426570
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
In the winter of 1147, the French army makes its way through Asia Minor, with King Louis determined to recapture Edessa, a holy undertaking blessed by the Pope. Mysterious widow Catherine le Rochefort travels with Queen Eleanor and the French army toward Jerusalem, where Catherine hopes to gain absolution for her dark sins. Guarding her secrets as vigilantly as she protects the queen, Catherine has no place in her heart for the desires sparked by the handsome, perceptive Lord Payen de Montfer. Respected advisor to King Louis, Payen is ordered to infiltrate the queen?s private retinue and determine where Queen Eleanor?s loyalties lie, protecting the fragile peace between the crusading army and the Roman Empire. Distrustful of beautiful women, Payen is appalled at his own attraction to Catherine, the loveliest yet most secretive of the queen?s female guards. As the caravan winds through the dangerous mountains and steep valleys, skirmishing with Turks and traitorous Greeks,...
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BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Lisa See's *Shanghai Girls*. "I finally understand what the poets have written. In spring, moved to passion; in autumn only regret." For young Peony, betrothed to a suitor she has never met, these lyrics from The Peony Pavilion mirror her own