![]() ![]() Queen Catherine considers herself a collector of unusual people and is fascinated by Pedro…and determined to find him a bride.Ĭatherine Raffelin is a beautiful seventeen-year-old girl whose merchant father has fallen on hard times and offers up his daughter to Queen Catherine. There “Monsieur Sauvage,” as he is known, learns French, literature, and sword fighting, becoming an attendant to the French King Henri II and a particular favorite of his queen, the formidable Catherine de’ Medici. ![]() When he is kidnapped off the beach near his home, he finds himself delivered by a slave broker into the dangerous and glamorous world of France’s royal court. He is mercilessly ridiculed for the hair covering his body from head to toe. This book broke my heart and put it back together again."-Allison Epstein, author of A Tip for the HangmanĪ mesmerizing novel set in the French royal court of Catherine de’ Medici during the Renaissance, which recreates the touching and surprising true story behind the Beauty and the Beast legend, from the acclaimed author of The Clergyman’s Wife and The Heiress.ġ547: Pedro Gonzales, a young boy living on the island of Tenerife, understands that he is different from the other children in his village. Molly Greeley has pulled off a piece of magic to tell a dazzling love story about the outcast's ache to be cared for and belong. ![]()
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