The Queen's Lover

The Queen's Lover takes readers back to Catherine of Valois' world of intrigue, indulgence and madness amid the reign of her father and mother, Charles VI and Isabeau. The French King is mad, the Queen accused of a life of debauchery. Their children are forgotten until Catherine is pegged for a royal marriage to the larger-than-life King of England Henry V. A royal messenger catches her eye, Owain Tudor, displaced member of the royal house of conquered Wales. Love rules Owain's and Catherine's relationship from the first, although it cannot be realized because of her royal marriage. Her son Harry (later Henry VI) inherits the combined kingdom of England and France, the first ruler to do so, but her brother Charles has his own claim on the French throne. When her husband dies an untimely death, does the door to love open after all?