This fifteen-year writing project draws on the latest scholarly research. Beaulieu’s historical fiction significantly updates earlier historical fictions and gives us Eleanor of Aquitaine, the multifaceted medieval queen. Born as Alienor, she twice becomes a queen, once for France with King Louis 7th, then for England with King Henri 2nd. Find out how she transforms into one of the most enigmatic women of the middle ages and becomes the grandmother of empires and kingdoms.