Historical novelEngland, 15th century. Confusion and vacillation reign among the English nobility: the king is weak-minded, the country is ruined, the Hundred Years' War with France is lost. Only a few steps separate Richard, Duke of York, an ambitious and powerful nobleman, from the throne. He and his White Rose party are applauded by all the English, but opposed... Only the fragile young queen, the blue-eyed Frenchwoman Margaret of Anjou, opposes them. It's not so easy to throw off the crown from her head! However, there is a chink in her armor: her marriage to King Henry is barren. The kingdom needs an heir...What kind of man will this Scarlet Rose of Anjou choose to give the state the long-awaited prince? And are those who believe that crowned beauties know no other passion than power really right?...