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The Sixth Surrender: A Novel, August 2010
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The Sixth Surrender: A Novel
Hana Samek Norton

Plume
August 2010
On Sale: July 27, 2010
480 pages
ISBN: 0452296234
EAN: 9780452296237
Paperback
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Fiction

A transporting debut novel set in thirteenth century France-a time when chivalry reigned and treachery ruled. In the last years of her eventful life, queen-duchess Aliénor of Aquitaine launches a deadly dynastic chess game to safeguard the crowns of Normandy and England for John Plantagenet, her last surviving son. To that end, Aliénor coerces into matrimony two pawns-Juliana de Charnais, a plain and pious novice determined to regain her inheritance, and Guérin de lasalle, a cynical, war-worn mercenary equally resolved to renounce his. The womanizing Lasalle and the proud Juliana are perfectly matched for battle not love-until spies and assassins conspire to reverse their romantic fortunes. Populated by spirited and intelligent women and executed in flawless period detail, The Sixth Surrender is a compelling love story that heralds the arrival of a major new talent in historical fiction.

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