Epitaph for Three Women — Jean Plaidy

HE WAS A KING FOR ALL HIS LIFE--AND LIKE ANY KING, WAS BOTH HATED AND LOVED...

At the age of nine months, Henry VI became king of a turbulent England. Three women who came into his life were to have a deep and lasting effect not only on him but on history.

Henry's mother Katherine of Valois, the daughter of a mad father and a lascivious mother fell joyously in love with Owen Tudor, a Welshman of humble birth, and together they founded the Tudor dynasty.

Joan of Arc, the peasant girl from Domremy who gave her life for her country, haunted Henry for all of his life.

Eleanor of Gloucester was ambitious, too ambitious, and her scheming plots nearly threatened the life of the young king. But she paid dearly for her actions....

Here is compelling historical fiction at its very best.