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With her sapphire eyes and silken dark hair, Princess Eleanor was a bewitching beauty made for a man's pleasure. Once a child bride, but widowed at a tender age, she swore never to marry again and took a vow of eternal chastity...until Simon de Montfort marched into England and set his smoldering dark gaze upon her, King Henry's youngest sister, the royal family's most precious jewel. Bold, arrogant, and invincible, the towering Norman knight inspired awe in the bravest of men...and a show more reckless desire in Eleanor's untried heart. show lessTags
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These EARLY Virginia Henley books cannot be beat for Historical Romance. Sadly her later works do not compare. Her "The ____ and the ____" series are far and away the best Historical Romances I have ever read.
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43+ Works 5,426 Members
Romance novelist Virginia Henley was born in England in 1935. Her novels, many of them set in medieval England, Scotland or Ireland, are often published in hardcover as well as paperback, a rarity in the romance genre. Henley won the Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Award for Historical Fiction in 1996. Her titles "Seduced" & "Desired" were New show more York Times Bestsellers. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- The Dragon and the Jewel
- Original title
- The Dragon and the Jewel
- Original publication date
- 1991-11
- People/Characters
- Simon de Montfort the Younger (The Dragon); Eleanor Plantagenet (Eleanor de Montfort)
- Important places
- England, UK
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- 260
- Popularity
- 124,963
- Reviews
- 2
- Rating
- (3.77)
- Languages
- English, French, German, Spanish
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 9
- ASINs
- 3
