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Ballantine
March 2005
Featuring: Justice Deauville, Compte de Renard; Ariane Cheney, Lady of Faire Isle
544 pages
ISBN: 0345437969
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From Brittany’s misty shores to the decadent splendor of
Paris’s royal court, one woman must fulfill her destiny–
while facing the treacherous designs of Catherine de
Medici, the dark queen.

She is Ariane, the Lady of Faire Isle, one of the Cheney
sisters, renowned for their mystical skills and for keeping
the isle secure and prosperous. But this is a time when
women of ability are deemed sorceresses, when Renaissance
France is torn by ruthless political intrigues, and all are
held in thrall to the sinister ambitions of Queen Catherine
de Medici. Then a wounded stranger arrives on Faire Isle,
bearing a secret the Dark Queen will do everything in her
power to possess. The only person Ariane can turn to is the
comte de Renard, a nobleman with fiery determination and a
past as mysterious as his own unusual gifts.

Riveting, vibrant, and breathtaking, The Dark Queen follows
Ariane and Renard as they risk everything to prevent the
fulfillment of a dreadful prophecy–even if they must tempt
fate and their own passions.