Hostage Queen

Marguerite de Valois is the most beautiful woman in the French Court and the subject of great scandal and intrigue. Margot loves Henri of Guise but is married off to the Huguenot Henry of Navarre. By this means her mother Catherine de Medici hopes to bring peace to the realm. But within days of the wedding the streets of Paris are awash with blood in the Massacre of Saint Bartholomew. Can they ever hope to escape and keep their heads? In a court rife with murder, political intrigue, debauchery, jealousy and the hunger for power, it will not be an easy task. And her royal husband has a passion for mistresses…