Publisher's Synopsis
Robert of Artois, the kingmaker, and his aunt, Mahaut, involve Phillipe VI of France in their vicious, no-holds-barred power struggle. Mahaut dies and Robert is banished. He travels to England where he inspires the new king, Edward III, to start the Hundred Years War. Meanwhile the sorceress Beatrice, Jeanne the Lame, and the mysterious La Divion come forward to play their sinister parts in this tale of conspiracy and murder.