Nicole of Prie Mer: Book One of the Latter Annals of Lystra

One hundred years after the Great Surchatain Roman of Lystra . . . At the spring fair, the beautiful Chataine Renée meets 17-year-old Nicole, daughter of a humble tailor, and insists that she come for a visit to the palace at Westford. Raised in a peasant village on the coast, Nicole is unprepared for the sophistication and treachery of palace life-but her father has decreed that she must acquire a rich or noble husband. Nicole's prospects include Counselor Carmine, handsome but disinterest...