![]() Unmarriageable, and too poor to join a convent, Louise enters the court of the Sun King, where the king is captivated by her. This one desperate action of her youth shadows her throughout her life, changing it in ways she could never imagine. Set against the magnificent decadence of the seventeenth-century French court, Mistress of the Sun begins when an eccentric young Louise falls in love with a wild white stallion and uses ancient magic to tame him. The author of the internationally acclaimed Josephine Bonaparte trilogy returns with another irresistible historical novel, this one based on the life of Louise de la Vallière, who, against all odds, became one of the most mysterious consorts of France's Louis XIV, the charismatic Sun King. ![]()
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