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Also by Sharon Kay Penman:

The Land Beyond the Sea, March 2021
Trade Size / e-Book
The Land Beyond the Sea, March 2020
Hardcover / e-Book
A King's Ransom, March 2014
Hardcover
Lionheart, October 2011
Hardcover
Devil's Brood, October 2008
Hardcover
The Sunne In Splendour, February 2008
Paperback (reprint)

A King's Ransom
Sharon Kay Penman

Putnam
March 2014
On Sale: March 4, 2014
Featuring: Eleanor of Aquitaine; Richard, Cour de Lion
704 pages
ISBN: 0399159223
EAN: 9780399159220
Hardcover
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Historical

This long-anticipated sequel to the national bestseller Lionheart is a vivid and heart-wrenching story of the last event-filled years in the life of Richard, Coeur de Lion. Taken captive by the Holy Roman Emperor while en route home—in violation of the papal decree protecting all crusaders—he was to spend fifteen months imprisoned, much of it in the notorious fortress at Trefils, from which few men ever left alive, while Eleanor of Aquitaine moved heaven and earth to raise the exorbitant ransom.

For the five years remaining to him, betrayals, intrigues, wars, and illness were ever present. So were his infidelities, perhaps a pattern set by his father’s faithlessness to Eleanor. But the courage, compassion, and intelligence of this warrior king became the stuff of legend, and A King’s Ransom brings the man and his world fully and powerfully alive.

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