The author of exciting bestsellers, Gérald Messadier, is famous throughout the world not only as a writer, but also as a scientist who does not allow himself to sin against historical facts in his novels. The amazing epic of the Norman peasant woman Jeanne, to whom Messadier dedicated an entire trilogy under the general title "Jeanne de l'Etoile", unfolds in France in the mid- and late 15th century: from the last battles of the Hundred Years' War to the first expeditions to the newly discovered America. "The Court of Wolves" is the second volume of the trilogy after "The Rose and the Lily". Having fled from war-ravaged Normandy to Paris and having gone through many trials, Joan becomes a baroness at the court of Charles VII, once crowned by her great namesake, Joan of Arc. The next turn of her path falls on the reign of Charles's son, Louis XI, whose throne is shaking under the blows of the rebellious dukes. Hungry wolves, including in human form, prowl throughout tormented France, and Jeanne wages a life-and-death war with them. New vicissitudes of love and politics await the Baroness de l'Estoile, accused of witchcraft, whose fate, by the will of the author, will always end up where the history of modern times is decided.