Médicis Daughter is historical fiction at its finest, weaving a unique coming-of-age story and a forbidden love with one of the most dramatic and violent events in French history. From the arms of the charismatic Duke of Guise to the blood-soaked streets of Paris, Princess Marguerite runs a dangerous gauntlet, taking the reader with her. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, she will be forced to choose between her family and her soul. Praise for Médicis Daughter: In Médicis Daughter, Sophie Perinot tells the riveting story of a 16th century French princess caught in the throes of royal intrigue and religious war. When Margot's wedding devolves into the bloodshed of the St. : Mdicis Daughter: A Novel of Marguerite de Valois (9781250072092) by Perinot, Sophie and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. But the promised peace is a mirage: her mother's schemes are endless, and her brothers plot vengeance in the streets of Paris.

Though Margot's heart belongs to Guise, her hand will be offered to Henri of Navarre, a Huguenot leader and a notorious heretic looking to seal a tenuous truce. Among the crafty nobility of the royal court, Margot learns the intriguing and unspoken rules she must live by to please her poisonous family.Įager to be an obedient daughter, Margot accepts her role as a marriage pawn, even as she is charmed by the powerful, charismatic Duc de Guise. At a court seething with intrigue and riven by religious war, beautiful Princess Margot walks the knife edge between the demands of her dangerous family, and the demands of her own conscience. 16th Century France twists under the serpentine rule of Catherine de Mdicis. Known across Europe as Madame la Serpente, Margot's intimidating mother, Queen Catherine de Médicis, is a powerful force in a country devastated by religious war. So, Margot, it seems you are a daughter of the Mdicis as well the Valois. Martin) is set three- Her debut novel, The Sister Queens, (NAL/Penguin) was set in 13th century France and England.

Beautiful young Princess Margot is summoned to the court of France, where nothing is what it seems and a wrong word can lead to ruin. Perinots novel, Medicis Daughter, (Thomas Dunne/St.

Médicis Daughter by Sophie Perinot