The Summer Queen Author:Alice Walworth Graham UNEASY LAY HER CROWN — Elizabeth Woodville knew the danger she ran in becoming Queen of Edward IV of England. Common blood ran in Elizabeth's veins, and neither her own dazzling beauty and wit, nor the passion of the king, could erase the stigma of her birth in the eyes of a hostile world and bitter, vengeful rivals. — Set against the colorful, vi... more »olent background of the War of the Roses, this is the magnificent story of a gallant, daring woman ringed by enemies and desperately fighting to keep her hold on a man as warm-blooded and inconsistant as he was noble and great...« less