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St. Martin's Press
August 2009
On Sale: July 21, 2009
480 pages
ISBN: 0312368437
EAN: 9780312368432
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From Jeanne Kalogridis, the bestselling author of I,
Mona Lisa and The Borgia Bride, comes a new
novel that tells the passionate story of a queen who loved
not wisely . . . but all too well. Confidante of
Nostradamus, scheming mother-in-law to Mary, Queen of
Scots, and architect of the bloody St. Bartholomew’s Day
Massacre, Catherine de Medici is one of the most maligned
monarchs in history. In her latest historical fiction,
Jeanne Kalogridis tells Catherine’s story—that of a tender
young girl, destined to be a pawn in Machiavellian games.
Born into one of Florence’s most powerful families,
Catherine was soon left a fabulously rich heiress by the
early deaths of her parents. Violent conflict rent the
city state and she found herself imprisoned and threatened
by her family’s enemies before finally being released and
married off to the handsome Prince Henry of France.
Overshadowed by her husband’s mistress, the
gorgeous, conniving Diane de Poitiers, and unable to bear
children, Catherine resorted to the dark arts of sorcery
to win Henry’s love and enhance her fertility—for which
she would pay a price. Against the lavish and decadent
backdrop of the French court, and Catherine’s blood-soaked
visions of the future, Kalogridis reveals the great love
and desire Catherine bore for her husband, Henry, and her
stark determination to keep her sons on the throne.
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