By Philippa Gregory
Spies, poison, and curses encompass her…. Is there someone she will be able to trust?
In The Kingmaker’s Daughter, bestselling writer Philippa Gregory provides a singular of conspiracy and a struggle to the dying for romance and gear on the courtroom of Edward IV of England.
The Kingmaker’s Daughter is the gripping tale of the daughters of the guy referred to as the “Kingmaker,” Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, the main robust wealthy person in fifteenth-century England. with no son and inheritor, he makes use of his daughters Anne and Isabel as pawns in his political video games, and so they develop as much as be influential gamers of their personal correct. during this novel, her first sister tale when you consider that The different Boleyn woman, Philippa Gregory explores the lives of 2 interesting younger women.
At the courtroom of Edward IV and his attractive queen, Elizabeth Woodville, Anne grows from a pleasant baby to develop into ever extra worried and determined while her father makes battle on his former neighbors. Married at age fourteen, she is quickly left widowed and fatherless, her mom in sanctuary and her sister married to the enemy.
Anne manages her personal get away via marrying Richard, Duke of Gloucester, yet her selection will set her on a collision path with the overpowering strength of the royal relations and may fee the lives of these she loves so much on the earth, together with her valuable in simple terms son, Prince Edward. finally, the kingmaker’s daughter will in achieving her father’s maximum ambition.
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