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Wars of the Roses: Margaret of Anjou

✍ Scribed by Conn Iggulden


Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Year
2016;2015
Tongue
en-US
Weight
759 KB
Category
Fiction

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✦ Synopsis


The brilliant retelling of the Wars of the Roses continues with Margaret of Anjou, the second gripping novel in the new series from historical fiction master Conn Iggulden.

As Traitors Advance...A Queen Defends

It is 1454 and for over a year King Henry VI has remained all but exiled in Windsor Castle, struck down by his illness, his eyes vacant, his mind a blank. His fiercely loyal wife and Queen, Margaret of Anjou, safeguards her husband's interests, hoping that her son Edward will one day come to know his father.

With each month that Henry is all but absent as king, Richard, the Duke of York, Protector of the Realm, extends his influence throughout the kingdom. The Trinityβ€”Richard and the earls of Salisbury and Warwickβ€”are a formidable trio, and together they seek to break the support of those who would raise their colors and their armies in the name of Henry and his Queen.

But when the king unexpectedly...


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