The Reluctant Queen Author:Jean Plaidy Daughter of the Kingmaker, her future was not her own. — Born into the turbulent years of the reign of Henry VI, it was at her father's castle that Anne Neville first met and befriended Richard, Duke of Gloucester, sent there to learn the arts of chivalry and war. — Anne's father, the great Earl of Warwick, had set Richard's brother Edward IV on t... more »he throne and was his strongest supporter until the King's marriage to a member of the rapacious Woodville family.
Forced into a situation repugnant to her, facing a future with a man whom she already feared, Anne's attempt to escape a life not of own choosing was to draw her into terrible danger...« less