The Traitor's Wife: A Novel of the Reign of Edward II
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.
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 ...
