This book is one of many of Bertrice Small's that I have read. Her use of real life historical characters makes her books even more interesting. I love that the women in her books are strong and independant given the historical period that she uses as her backdrop.
In this novel, the Lady Adair Radcliffe Countess of Stanton, loses her parents at a young age, but not before finding out that her true father was King Edward IV. She is sent off to live at King Edward's court and is educated along side his other children. When she learns that he is arranging for her to be married she heads back home...