The cover text below will tell you a little more about the content of the book -- and I'll provide more information about it as the publication date gets closer.
Balian, the
landless son of a local baron, goes to Jerusalem to seek his fortune. Instead
he finds himself trapped into serving a young prince suffering from leprosy. He
appears condemned to obscurity and an early death — until the king dies
unexpectedly making the leper boy King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem.
The Byzantine
princess Maria Comnena was just 13 years old when she arrived in the Kingdom of
Jerusalem to cement the alliance between Latin Jerusalem and Greek Constantinople. Despite her excellent education and
intelligence, she is little more than a pretty doll in the eyes of her husband,
a man almost three times her age. Then
suddenly the King is dead and at just 20 years of age Maria finds herself a
wealthy widow with a vulnerable two-year-old daughter on her hands.
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