Finally! A book about Alys Capet! Alais in the novel, she is sent at the age of EIGHT (though in the book, for story purposes, she is eleven) to marry Prince Richard, later to become Richard Plantagenet. It is a dark story in some ways, but it was true, and sad but romantically tragic. I liked Ri...
This should have been a better book as the premise is sound, but I really didn't like either character. Anthony at least had sound reasons for acting the way he did, although a quick discussion would have solved that. It was Caroline that I didn't like, never liked and really thought she descer...
She wore a soft green walking dress and pelisse that matched her eyes. Instead of one of her two bonnets that blocked her view of the world, she wore her Sunday hat, which perched on her curls in a becoming fashion but left her eyes free to roam. She wanted all her faculti...
Alix stood behind my chair. When no one else was looking, she leaned down and kissed me. The food was good and the company merry. I swung my legs beneath the table; they did not reach the ground. I watched my father where he sat with Madeline, his hand in hers. Madeline laughed as she leaned clos...
So she rode a gentle mare to her father’s house, as Pembroke rode his warhorse, Triton. The spring seemed to rise up out of the ground to greet her, the air so much gentler than the staid, closed air of London. She had been trapped in the city too long. She was happy to be free of it. ...