From the international bestselling author of The Sunne in Splendour and Lionheart
This novel about the struggle for power in England in the Middle Ages centres on the life of Simon de Montfort, a French nobleman who came to England to lay claim to an earldom, married the King's sister, and eventually mounted a civil war against Henry III. Sharon Kay Penman is the author of seven other historical novels and four medieval mysteries set during the reign of Eleanor of Aquitaine. She lives in Mays Landing, New Jersey. Her most recent novel is Lionheart, about Richard I and the Crusades, and her next book will be A King's Ransom, completing the story of Richard I.
