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Born the youngest daughter of Charles I, Duke of Bourbon, Constance of Bourbon grows up amidst comfort and splendour on her powerful family's estates in France. A shy child, she prefers her prayers and pearls to the hefty politics her Father and brothers have no choice but to partake in but war will reach into her life quicker than she could ever know....
Across the sea, in England, the Wars of the Roses rages, a bloody battle for the throne between the royal Houses of York and Lancaster where a word weighs as much as the swing of a sword.
Amidst it all, stands Edward of York, the handsome eldest son to the Duke of York, a young knight, eager to fight but forced to flee England in 1459 when the Lancastrian King and Queen overpower his family forces at Ludlow Castle. With his Neville cousins (one being the infamous Earl of Warwick) Edward sails to France where Warwick begins his plots to regain the House of York power.
It is as a result of these plots, Edward and Constance are destined to meet. Worlds apart, they will be matched for the benefit of others but when tragedy strikes at the very heart of the House of York, forcing Edward closer to the throne than ever, they find they are, perhaps, what each other needs.
Amongst the tangled nest of vipers, surrounded by bloodied thorns, will they keep the crowns destiny calls for them to claim?
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In a world of bloody war and misgivings that lead to treason, there is only one thing Catherine Percy can be sure of and that is danger.
Her life had not always been thus, following the cursed rise and fall of fortunes wheel that is as ever turning as the earth. No, she was the daughter of an Earl, the favourite of a beautiful Queen and the prized suitor for the Prince of Wales. But, as ever, where glory leads, misfortune follows....
Stolen from her bed by her family's Neville rivals and carried unwillingly away from all she has ever known, young Catherine suddenly finds herself thrust into a world of war she had only ever heard in stories. As the prized hostage of the powerful Nevilles, lead by the Earl of Warwick and his brothers who despise her family, she must learn to survive in a new way, adapting to circumstances that had not festered even in her worst nightmares.
She has a strong will and an even stronger spirit but even the strongest spirit can be broken when the right whip is used.
Will Catherine survive as she climbs the thorny vines of this world of white and red? Or will she be crushed underfoot like so many unfortunate souls before her....
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