In fourteenth-century England, Eleanor de Clare, favorite niece of King Edward II and lady-in-waiting to Queen Isabella, experiences the tumult of her beloved uncle's reign firsthand, beginning with the death of her brother-in-law, Piers Gaveston, at the hands of the kingdom's leading earls.
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The ill-fated Battle of Bannockburn leaves Eleanor a wealthy woman, fueling the unbridled ambition of her unscrupulous husband, Hugh le Despenser. But Hugh makes a powerful enemy--the queen herself.