Penelope Devereux

PENELOPE DEVEREUX,
radiant beauty of her time, is twice betrothed -- first as a child to the rebellious Lord Mountjoy, and later to Sir Philip Sidney, one of England's greatest poets and soldiers. A tumultuous moment in history robs her of one man and claims the life of the other.

Virtually sold at the crest of her youth to the beastly Lord Rich, whose jealousy drives her into the arms of Mountjoy, the only man she ever loved, Penelope is faced with the almost insoluble dilemma of being bound to one man and in love with another....