The Paris Architect
by Charles Belfoure | 
Mademoiselle Chanel
by C. W. Gortner | 
The Confessions of Catherine de Medici
by C. W. Gortner | 
Little
by Edward Carey | 
The Devil's Laughter
by Frank Yerby | 
The French Mistress
by Susan Holloway Scott | 
Segu
by Maryse Conde | 
The Breaking of Eggs
by Jim Powell | 
The Queen's Lover
by Vanora Bennett | 
Madame Bovary's Daughter
by Linda Urbach | 
Watermark
by Vanitha Sankaran | 
The Dream Lover
by Elizabeth Berg | 
The House I Loved
by Tatiana de Rosnay | 
In the Fabled East
by Adam Lewis Schroeder | 
The Help
by Kathryn Stockett | 
A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini | 
Beneath a Scarlet Sky
by Mark Sullivan | 
A Gentleman in Moscow
by Amor Towles | 
The Great Alone
by Kristin Hannah | 
The Secret Life of Bees
by Sue Monk Kidd |
France in the Middle Ages, is a country driven by power struggles and menaced by the might of England??'s King Henry V. At the country??'s head stood a frightened youth, the Dauphin Charles, who is destined to become the most victorious king of all ??? the one who will drive the English from French soil. The epic story of the great King Charles VII of France and the women who inspired and loved him, is vividly recreated in this spellbinding novel. Taking her impeccable research and adding to it her trademark vibrancy, Deryn Lake weaves an exciting tale of intrigue, lust, power and mystery as she takes the reader to the famous French court at the time of Agnes Sorel, Nicolas Flamel, Joan of Arc and the Knights Templar.