The Uncrowned Queen

✍ Scribed by O'Brien, Anne

• Book ID: 108643460
• Publisher: MIRA
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 37 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

[SHORT STORY PRELUDE TO: THE KING'S CONCUBINE] Anne O’Brien has joined the exclusive club of excellent historical novelists.’ - Sunday Express Her path to the throne is paved with treason… 1330. Philippa of Hainault may be married to King Edward III but she’s penniless and powerless. England quivers in the clutches of the Dowager Queen Isabella and her darkly ambitious lover Lord Mortimer while her husband rots in jail, a prisoner at Mortimer’s hand. It will take a courageous young man to emerge from the shadows and rise up against this formidable pair. Philippa won’t sit back and see Edward puppeteered. She is determined to see justice done. It’s her words whispered into the young King Edward’s ear that will see the battle for England’s throne commence. Mightier have fallen. Treason threatens. The victor’s prize is England…failure is death. It’s a powerful union that ties Philippa and Edward in this darkly captivating short story but will it always be so?