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07 July 2010
NEW Giveaway: The King's Mistress by Emma Campion


Thanks to the generosity of Marcia from The Printed Page, I have 1 copy of The King's Mistress by Emma Campion. All together now: THANK YOU MARCIA!!!!! Marcia has a outstanding blog and is the host of my favorite meme, Mailbox Mondays.


SYNOPSIS: History has not been kind to Alice Perrers, the notorious mistress of King Edward III. Scholars and contemporaries alike have deemed her a manipulative woman who used her great beauty and sensuality to take advantage of an aging and increasingly senile king. But who was the woman behind the scandal? A cold-hearted opportunist or someone fighting for her very survival?

Like most girls of her era Alice is taught obedience in all things. At the age of fourteen she marries the man her father chooses for her, dutifully accepting the cost of being torn from the family she holds so dear and losing the love of her mother forever. Despite these heartbreaks Alice finds that merchant Janyn Perrers is a good and loving husband and the two settle into a happy life together. Their bliss is short-lived, however, unraveled the dark day a messenger appears at Alice's door and notifies her of Janyn's sudden disappearance.