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At the age of fourteen, Catherine de Medici, last legitimate descendant of the Medici blood, finds herself betrothed to the King Francois I’s son, Henri. Sent from her native Florence to France, humiliated and overshadowed by her husband’s life-long devotion to his mistress, when tragedy strikes her family Catherine rises from obscurity to become one of 16th century Europe’s most powerful women.

Patroness of Nostradamus and a seer in her own right, accused of witchcraft and murder by her foes, Catherine fights to save France and her children from savage religious conflict, unaware that her own fate looms before her — a fate that will demand the sacrifice of her ideals, her reputation, and passion of her own embattled heart.

From the splendors of the Loire palaces to the blood-soaked battles of the Wars of Religion and haunted halls of the Louvre, this is the story of Catherine’s dramatic life, told by the queen herself.

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Ah what perfect timing for this book to arrive on my doorstep. As I’ve decided to read one historical fiction book for every book I read in another genre The Confessions of Catherine de Medici showed up today right as I was finishing a police procedural. I really hadn’t decided which historical to read next but Confessions solved that little problem. I’ll probably have it read by the time my Mailbox Monday posts pops up on Sunday. And for those of you possibly coveting my copy it already has a new home, sorry.