Set in the French courts during the 16 th century, the reader meets a young and eager Princess Margot who wants nothing more than to return to court with her mother, Catherine de Medicis, Queen of France. Medicis Daughter is a historical novel filled with passion, greed, murder and deceit.
Médicis Daughter is historical fiction at its finest, weaving a unique coming-of-age story and a forbidden love with one of the most dramatic and violent events in French history. Forced to choose between her family and what’s right, Margot at last finds the strength within herself to forge her own destiny. Yet Queen Catherine’s schemes are endless, and Margot’s brother plots vengeance in the streets of Paris. Finally setting aside her happiness for duty, Margot leaves the man she loves for Henri of Navarre, a Huguenot leader and a notorious heretic. Despite her loyalty, Margot finds herself charmed by the powerful and charismatic Duc de Guise and falls for him even as she is promised to another. Among the crafty nobility of Queen Catherine’s royal court, Margot learns the intriguing and unspoken rules she must live by to please her manipulative family.Įager to be an obedient daughter, Margot embraces her role as a pawn to be married off to the most convenient bidder. Known across Europe as Madame la Serpente, Queen Catherine is an intimidating and unmoving presence in France, even as her country recovers from the first of many devastating religious wars. It’s the winter of 1564 and the beautiful young Princess Margot is summoned to her mother’s household, where her true education begins in earnest.
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