Treason

Treachery in Love and War in the Struggle for the English Crown. From the time he sees his parents brutally slain and his home destroyed in a bloody Lancastrian power struggle for the crown, young Martin Robsart's life becomes entwined with that of England's royal Plantagenet family. Through the turbulence of civil war, Martin serves his cousins Yorkist kings Edward IV and Richard III and learns the cost of loyalty and love in battlefields and bedchambers in a time when life is cheap and treachery hides behind a smile. Through Martin s eyes, Meredith Whitford s superbly researched and richly woven novel shows Shakespeare s conniving and perverse Richard III in a realistic new light as a patriot and a lover. Never before has perceived history taken such a surprising turn as Whitford corrects the Shakespearean myth and crowns a new hero, bringing back to life the passion and heat of a breathless historical moment that shaped the world a moment we know as the War of the Roses a time of thorns and treason.