The King's Mistress

HISTORY HAS NOT BEEN KIND TO ALICE PERRERS, THE NOTORIOUS MISTRESS OF KING EDWARD III. BUT WHO WAS THE WOMAN BEHIND THE SCANDAL?

From childhood, Alice Salisbury learned obedience in all things. Her arranged marriage at the age of fourteen proves felicitous—until Alice's beloved husband suddenly disappears, and she discovers that he had many dangerous secrets, which have now put a price on her own head and that of her beloved daughter. King Edward III offers her safety and sanctuary, but at a cost—his affections are more than paternal, and she succumbs to his desires in order to save her family.

Emma Campion paints a colorful and thrilling portrait of the fourteenth-century court of Edward III—with all of its extravagance, scandalous love affairs, political machinations, and murder. At the center of the storm is Alice, surviving by her wits in a dangerous world where the choices are not always of her own making.