Lion of Mortimer

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She was so beautiful the people of England came to call her Isabella the Fair. But her husband, King Edward II, inheritor of the Plantagenet good looks, had room in his heart only for his friend, Piers Gaveston.

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Slighted and ignored, the proud Isabella first took a lover, the ambitious Roger Mortimer, then, seduced by his treachery, plotted with him to murder her husband. In time, Isabella's son, Edward III, would finally be able to put an end to the intrigue that had so disrupted his father's reign.

THE LION OF MORTIMER

Is the third of THE PLANTAGENETS, a series of historical novels which tell the story of the Plantagenet monarchs through the eyes of the men and women who serviced them, loved them, or betrayed them, and in so doing helped shape the events of English history.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 274 pages

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