Title: Queen Defiant
Subtitle: A Novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine
Description: Orphaned at a young age, Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine, seeks a strong husband to keep her hold on the vast lands that have made her the most powerful heiress in Europe. But her arranged marriage to Louis VII, King of France, is made disastrous by Louis's weakness of will and fanatical devotion to the Church. Eleanor defies her husband by risking her life on an adventurous Crusade, and even challenges the Pope himself. And in young, brilliant, mercurial Henry d'Anjou, she finds her soul mate-the one man who is audacious enough to claim her for his own and make her Queen of England.
Subjects: Fiction, Queens, History, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, biographical, Great britain, fiction, France, fiction
Places: Great Britain, France
People: Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of England (1122?-1204)
Time periods: Henry II, 1154-1189, Louis VII, 1137-1180