Queen Jezebel A Catherine de' Medici Novel

Back in print after twenty years, the final novel in the classic Catherine de' Medici trilogy (that includes Madame Serpentand The Italian Woman) from the bestselling grande dame of historical fiction. The aging Catherine de' Medici has arranged the marriage of her beautiful Catholic daughter Margot to Huguenot King Henry of Navarre. Margot, still in love with Henry de Guise, refuses to utter her vows. But even Catherine is unable to anticipate the carnage that this union is to bring about… Margot's marriage to Henry does not result in the peace Catherine and her sickly son King Charles longed for. Realizing her weakening power over Charles, Catherine sets about persuading him of a Huguenot plot against his life. Overcome by fear, Charles agrees to a massacre that will rid France of its "pestilential Huguenots forever." And so the carnival of butchery begins, marking years of terror and upheaval that will end in the demise of kings and finally expose Catherine's lifetime of depraved scheming.

Jean Plaidy, the pen name of the prolific English author Eleanor Hibbert, was one of the preeminent authors of historical fiction for most of the twentieth century. Her novels have been translated into more than twenty languages and have sold more than 100 million copies worldwide. She died in 1993.