The Royal Consorts — Anne Powers

Passion, love, greed, and brutality shaped the lives of four women. All were caught between the powerful forces of good and evil where their femininity was a strength when they were loved - and a weakness when as queens they were pawns in a savage struggle for the crown of England.

Marguerite d'Anjou
A radiant child-bride, she was forced to lead armies against her own subjects.

Elizabeth Woodville
She bewitched a king, and made history from a faithful and prolific bed.

Anne Neville
Herself the daughter of a kingmaker, she ws ignorant of life, but understood the strength of betrayal.

Elizabeth Plantagenet
Mother of Henry VIII, she put aside her own dreams to reunite an exhausted country

In a brilliant novel that captures the essence of 13th century England, history is only a background for the emotional turmoil and loves of these intensely human and passionate women - the four queens.