The year is 1498. Anne, Duchess of Brittany and widow of the late Charles VIII, is deeply in love with Louis, the married king of France. While Louis is tied up in annulment proceedings, Anne returns to the duchy she inherited from her father but...

One of the most challenging aspects of writing a historical fiction novel is to bring history to life. A writer already has a plot and has only to decide (as if this is an easy choice) what sources are the most reliable. However, presenting the...

The year is 1508. Anne of Brittany and King Louis XII of France have been married for a nearly a decade but still have no son. Numerous pregnancies and miscarriages have taken their toll, and Anne is no longer young. But her failure to produce...

It might be difficult to imagine a thirteen-year-old girl as having the maturity to fit into a powerful political regime. Certainly not a girl in this era. But in 1513, young Anne Boleyn entered the Burgundian court of Margaret of Austria and settled in as...

Anne Boleyn is off on another adventure. Having left her training at Margaret of Austria’s court, Anne is now entering the French court as one of Mary Tudor’s most trusted ladies’ maids. In Rozsa Gaston’s The Queen’s Maid, Anne, with her fluency in French, is...