Castile For Isabella Av Jean (Novelist) Plaidy

<p><b>_____________________</b><br><b>The first book in the captivating Spanish Trilogy, focusing on the remarkable lives of Spain''s most famous monarchs.</b><br><br>In the 15th Century, Spain is full of intrigue and threatened by civil war. The independent young princess Isabella has become the pawn of her ambitious, half-crazed mother, kept as a virtual prisoner at the sordid court of her half-brother, France''s Henry IV. <br><br>Just sixteen years old, all seems lost: is Isabella fated to be the victim of the Queen''s revenge, the Archbishop''s ambition and the lust of Don Pedro Giron, one of the most notorious womanisers in Castile? <br><br>Numbed with grief and fear, Isabella holds onto one cherished hope: that one day, she will escape her tormentors and marry Ferdinand, the handsome young Prince of Aragon - her only true betrothed. But the forces of Europe are ranged against them, and love''s triumphs are rare...</p>