Blood Royal-Vanora Bennett, 9780007281923

Name: Blood Royal-Vanora Bennett, 9780007281923
Brand: HarperCollins

HarperCollins

Blood RoyalAuthor(s): Vanora Bennett\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom\nImprint: HarperCollins\nISBN-13: 9780007281923, 978-0007281923\nSynopsis\nThe story of a great queen, a woman of enormous courage who made her own rules, and a true survivor. This is the first in a series of late medieval novels by Vanora Bennett, the author of Portrait of an Unknown Woman.\n1420, and a young princess is offered in marriage to her country's enemy, her nation's conqueror. She is Catherine of Valois, he is Henry V. She is a princess of the French blood royal, he is the son of the usurper of the English throne. Fresh from battle he claims his bride and the right to the throne of France.\nNow Catherine must live as queen to a man more comfortable with war than anything else and as the wife of a man determined to destroy her people. Alone and friendless, she finds the only man who can understand what she feels: a young Welshman, Owain Tudor, who is as much adrift e