Blanche d'Alpuget- The Young Lion

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Book 1 in the House of Plantagenet series

To seize England's throne, he had to marry the most dangerous woman in Europe.

Returning from the Crusades with her pious husband, Louis of France, the beautiful French Queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine, starts a dangerous affair with Geoffrey, Duke of Normandy. Geoffrey’s secret intent is to make her his spy in the French court where the struggle for dominance between Normandy, France and England plays out. But what begins in
cool calculation becomes a passionate affair. Despite this, Geoffrey remains committed to a covert goal: to see his young warrior son, Henry, seize the English throne.

Saving his father from discovery and execution by the French, Henry falls foul of Eleanor – and madly in love with her Byzantine maid. Should he become King of England, this dazzling girl will never be acceptable as his consort. These intertwined relationships – heated, forbidden and perilous – are the heart of a vivid story of ambition, vengeance and dynastic intrigue.and political intrigue set in the glorious flowering of troubadour culture, mysticism and learning that is 12th century France.