Penman, Sharon Kay

Recommended for Penman’s many fans, and readers seeking out fascinating lesser-known figures not often covered in historical fiction.

Popular historical fiction novelist Penman (The Sunne in Splendour) again gives readers a well-researched and impressively detailed narrative displaying a strong commitment to historical accuracy and richly drawn, sympathetic characters. Penman has a rare gift for making the complicated political world of medieval Europe accessible to today's readers, and her many fans will be well rewarded by this latest offering.[See Prepub Alert, 8/12/13.]

Richard, one of four surviving sons of Henry Plantagenet and Eleanor of Aquitaine, inherits the throne and heads to the Holy Land on the Third Crusade...