Katherine — Anya Seton

Against the turbulent and glittering backdrop of fourteenth-century England, Anya Seton has spun a lusty, uninhibited novel of a forbidden love affair that set the royal houses of Europe aflame with scandal and intrigue.

It is the story of Katherine, the lovely young commoner whose beauty dazzled the English court and captured the heart of England's greatest nobleman, John of Gaunt. Unfolded here is their life together--passionate outcasts defying the power of kings and queens, bound by a private honor that mocked the pageantry, fanfare, and evils of a corrupt and tumultuous era.