The Traitor's Wife: A Novel of the Reign of Edward II

by Susan Higginbotham
Publisher: iUniverse
Publication date: July 2005

In fourteenth-century England, Eleanor de Clare, favorite niece of King Edward II and lady-in-waiting to Queen Isabella, experiences the tumult of her beloved uncle's reign firsthand, beginning with the death of her brother-in-law, Piers Gaveston, at the hands of the kingdom's great earls.

The ill-fated Battle of Bannockburn leaves Eleanor a wealthy woman, fueling the unbridled ambition of her unscrupulous husband, Hugh le Despenser. But Hugh makes a powerful enemy-the queen herself. When tragedy results, shattering Eleanor's comfortable world, Eleanor must rebuild her life amid a regime that is as corrupt as the one it has replaced-and far more vicious.

Available at online booksellers and on order from your favorite bookstore. ISBN: 0595359590