'Jacqueline d'Angleterre heard the summer storm rumbling over the hot roofs of London, felt the soft silk sheets caress her naked body, and though of Armand in the next room...' But Armand is forbidden flesh, and a lot more is denied her: her royal blood, her religion, and her mother country, France. The trouble is her family are Huguenots, devout French Protestants driven into exile following Louis XIV's cruel revocation of the religious tolerance embodied in the Edict of Nantes. Follow 150 years of a family struggling with prejudice, conflicting loyalties and civil war. 'Forgotten...

'Jacqueline d'Angleterre heard the summer storm rumbling over the hot roofs of London, felt the soft silk sheets caress her naked body, and thought of Armand in the next room...' Bur Armand is forbidden flesh, and a lot more is denied her: her royal blood, her religion, and her mother country, France. The trouble is that her family are Hugenots, devout French Protestants driven into exile following Louis XIV's cruel revocation of the religious tolerance embodied in the Edict of Nantes. Follow 150 years of a family struggling with prejudice, conflicting loyalties and civil war. 'Forgotten...