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Judith K. Healey
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Paris, October 1207. There
is nothing that Alais, princess of France,
wants more than to settle down with her
lover, William of Caen, and to reveal to his
ward Francis that she is his mother. But
intrigue is afoot in the palace: two monks
have arrived from Rome on a mission to
compel her brother Phillipe, the King, to
help them battle a dangerous breakaway
Christian sect in the south know as the
Cathars.
Tensions are pushed to the brink when the
St. John Cup, a relic much prized by the
Cathars, is stolen, and then young Francis
goes missing. Frantic for...
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This historical novel opens in the year 1200. Alais
Capet, once
in line for the throne, is a middle-aged spinster, an aging Princess of
France who lives in Paris at the mercy of her brother and his court. Her
youthful betrothal to Richard the Lionheart, King of England, was never
consummated and Alais blames her stepmother, Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine...
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