The Queen's Secret

From the pen of perhaps Britain's finest historical novelist flows the engrossing love story of Katherine, daughter of Charles VI, wife to another, and mother of a third--who changed the course of history simply by falling in love.

Daughter of France's King Charles VI, Katherine of Valois was forced to marry Henry V of England when he conquered her native land. Within two years she had given birth to the next king of England, only to see him taken away from her to be raised in his own royal household, and had watched her husband die from a sickness acquired in battle.

It was then, alone in a foreign land and forbidden to return to France, that Katherine flouted both convention and the law—by falling in love with Owen Tudor, a former knight in her husband's army.

With Joan of Arc inciting her countrymen to overthrow English rule, and a child king on the British throne, everything Katherine did was suspect. Every act, even love, could be viewed as treason. When their love was discovered, and the inevitable happened, neither Katherine nor Owen had any way of knowing that they had laid the foundations for the great Tudor dynasty to come—the dynasty that would bring England to its highest glory.